Bringing Down the Mountains
Title | Bringing Down the Mountains PDF eBook |
Author | Shirley Stewart Burns |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
Coal is West Virginia's bread and butter. For more than a century, West Virginia has answered the energy call of the nation--and the world--by mining and exporting its coal. In 2004, West Virginia's coal industry provided almost forty thousand jobs directly related to coal, and it contributed $3.5 billion to the state's gross annual product. And in the same year, West Virginia led the nation in coal exports, shipping over 50 million tons of coal to twenty-three countries. Coal has made millionaires of some and paupers of many. For generations of honest, hard-working West Virginians, coal has put food on tables, built homes, and sent students to college. But coal has also maimed, debilitated, and killed. Bringing Down the Mountains provides insight into how mountaintop removal has affected the people and the land of southern West Virginia. It examines the mechanization of the mining industry and the power relationships between coal interests, politicians, and the average citizen. Shirley Stewart Burns holds a BS in news-editorial journalism, a master's degree in social work, and a PhD in history with an Appalachian focus, from West Virginia University. A native of Wyoming County in the southern West Virginia coalfields and the daughter of an underground coal miner, she has a passionate interest in the communities, environment, and histories of the southern West Virginia coalfields. She lives in Charleston, West Virginia.
Bringing Down the Mountains
Title | Bringing Down the Mountains PDF eBook |
Author | Shirley L. Stewart Burns |
Publisher | |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Coal trade |
ISBN |
Hydronarratives
Title | Hydronarratives PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew S. Henry |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1496227891 |
Focusing on creative responses to intensifying water crises in the United States, Hydronarratives explores how narrative and storytelling support environmental justice advocacy in Black, Indigenous, and low-income communities.
She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain
Title | She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Emmett |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2007-04-10 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1416936521 |
A new version of the traditional American folk song, in which the expected guest will be wearing frilly pink pajamas and juggling with jelly when she comes.
Thunder on the Mountain
Title | Thunder on the Mountain PDF eBook |
Author | Peter A. Galuszka |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2012-09-18 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1250000211 |
The searing true story of the rise, fall, and resurrection of Massey Energy, and the negligence that led to the death of 29 miners, exposing the coal-black motivations that fuel the ongoing war for the world's energy future.
When These Mountains Burn
Title | When These Mountains Burn PDF eBook |
Author | David Joy |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2020-08-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0525536892 |
Winner of the 2020 Dashiell Hammett Award for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing Acclaimed author and "remarkably gifted storyteller" (The Charlotte Observer) David Joy returns with a fierce and tender tale of a father, an addict, a lawman, and the explosive events that come to unite them. When his addict son gets in deep with his dealer, it takes everything Raymond Mathis has to bail him out of trouble one last time. Frustrated by the slow pace and limitations of the law, Raymond decides to take matters into his own hands. After a workplace accident left him out of a job and in pain, Denny Rattler has spent years chasing his next high. He supports his habit through careful theft, following strict rules that keep him under the radar and out of jail. But when faced with opportunities too easy to resist, Denny makes two choices that change everything. For months, the DEA has been chasing the drug supply in the mountains to no avail, when a lead--just one word--sets one agent on a path to crack the case wide open . . . but he'll need help from the most unexpected quarter. As chance brings together these men from different sides of a relentless epidemic, each may come to find that his opportunity for redemption lies with the others.
The Mountains of My Life
Title | The Mountains of My Life PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Bonatti |
Publisher | Random House Digital, Inc. |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Mountaineering |
ISBN | 037575640X |
The legendary mountaineer describes his adventures in such ranges as the Alps and Himalayas, and provides details of what really happened during a controversial 1954 Italian expedition that made the first ascent of K2.