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The Gas Factory at Courcelles, 1884 (oil on canvas) by Ernest Jean Delahaye – Mug – Standard Size $14.50 This mug is created using the finest dye sublimation techniques and creates a stunning dishwasher safe finish. Great as a gift, or for promotional items. Each of our mugs come individually boxed for protection in transit…. |
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Heavy Metal: Music From The Motion Picture $7.98 CD, features Various Artists (Composer), Donald Fagen (Performer), Cheap Trick (Performer), Blue Oyster Cult (Performer), Sammy Hagar (Performer), Don Felder (Performer)…. |
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A Compilation of the Reports of the Mining Industry of Illinois from the Earliest Records to 1954 (Yr. 1882-1954) $31.94 Volume: yr. 1882-1954 Publisher: Springfield, Ill. Publication date: 1955 Subjects: Mining laws Coal mines and mining Coal mine accidents Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. |
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A Compilation of the Reports of the Mining Industry of Illinois from the Earliest Records to the Close of the Year 1930 (Yr. 1882-1930) $24.54 Volume: yr. 1882-1930 Publisher: Springfield, Ill Publication date: 1931 Subjects: Coal mines and mining Mining laws Coal mine accidents Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. |
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A Study of Coal Mine Haulage in Illinois $20.43 Publisher: Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Publication date: 1922 Subjects: Mine haulage Coal mines and mining — Illinois Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. |
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A Treatise on Coal, Mine-Gases, and Ventilation: With Copies of Researches on the Gases Enclosed in Coal $34.75 This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR”d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. |
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A Treatise on Coal, Mine-Gases, and Ventilation; With Copies of Researches on the Gases Enclosed in Coal $28.9 A Treatise on Coal, Mine-Gases, and Ventilation; With Copies of Researches on the Gases Enclosed in Coal |
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A Way of Work and a Way of Life: Coal Mining in Thurber, Texas, 1888-1926 $4.83 The coal mine represented much more than a way of making a living to the miners of Thurber, Texas, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries–it represented a way of life. Coal mining dominated Thurber’s work life, and miners dominated its social life. The large immigrant population that filled the mines in Thurber had arrived from more than a dozen nations, which lent a certain distinctiveness to this Texas town. In 1888 Robert D. Hunter and the Texas & Pacific Coal Company founded the town of Thurber on the site of Johnson Mines, a small coalmining village on the western edge of North Central Texas where Palo Pinto, Erath, and Eastland counties converged. William Whipple and Harvey E. Johnson first established a small community there in 1886 as the railroads’ demand for coal enhanced the possibility of financial reward for entrepreneurs willing to risk the effort to tap the thin bituminous coal veins that lay beneath the ground. Where the first comers failed, Hunter and his stockholders prevailed. For almost forty years the company mined coal and owned and operated a town that by 1910 served as home to more than three thousand residents. In some respects, the town mirrored the work and culture of bituminous coal mining communities throughout the United States. Like most, it experienced labor upheaval that reached a dramatic climax in 1903 when the United Mine Workers, emboldened and strengthened by successes in other parts of the Southwest, organized Thurber’s miners. Unlike elsewhere, however, the miners’ success at Thurber was not fraught with violence and loss of life; furthermore, in the strike’s aftermath good relations generally characterized employer/employeenegotiations. Marilyn Rhinehart examines the culture of the miners’ work, the demographics and social life of the community, and the benefits and constraints of life in a company town. Above all she demonstrates the features both at work and after work of a culture shaped by the occupation of |
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A Year in a Coal-Mine $22.75 This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR”d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. |
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Adam Clarke, a Story of the Toilers; Being a Narrative of the Experiences of a Family of British Emigrants to the United States in Cotton Mill, $18.18 Title: Adam Clarke, a Story of the Toilers; Being a Narrative of the Experiences of a Family of British Emigrants to the United States in Cotton Mill, Iron Foundry, Coal Mine, and Other Fields of Labor Publisher: New York, Popular book company Publication date: 1904 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. |
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Alberta: Black Gold $14.95 Black Gold is the story of Peter O”Liam who goes from a farm to a coal mine to a soldier in World War II and then to the oil fields of Alberta to make his fortune. |
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America in Spitsbergen: The Romance of an Arctic Coal-Mine, with an Introduction Relating the History and Describing the Land and the Flora an $41.75 This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. |
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America in Spitsbergen: The Romance of an Arctic Coal-Mine, with an Introduction Relating the History and Describing the Land and the Flora an $42.75 This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR”d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. |
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America in Spitsbergen: The Romance of an Arctic Coal-Mine, with an Introduction Relating the History and Describing the Land and the Flora an $40.75 This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. |
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America in Spitsbergen: The Romance of an Arctic Coal-Mine, with an Introduction Relating the History and Describing the Land and the Flora an $41.75 This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR”d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. |
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An Airplane Was My Burro: The Memoirs of a Venturesome Geologist $18.95 The author of this memoir is a retired Economic Geologist who was privileged to work for several mining companies in the fields of metals and energy. He was also employed by the Illinois State Geological Survey and by the Foreign Section of the US Geological Survey and taught one year at The Wisconsin School of Mines between jobs. His first love was minerals exploration and he was very successful as he found a major reserve of zinc in SW Wisconsin, a very good uranium mine in New Mexico and several large strip coal reserves in the Western and Central United States. His ability as an airplane pilot served him well, particularly in his work on western coals. The variety of his work experience makes for numerous interesting stories and many insightful geological observations. He was about to embark on a career as a pitcher in professional baseball when he received a scholarship to the University of Chicago and discovered geology. |
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Back Roads $1.27 With his abusive father dead and his mother in jail, 19-year-old Harley Altmyer has given up on college to care for three needy younger sisters. Can he rise to the occasion? More important, will the sexy mom of his baby sister’s best friend provide a much-needed tumble in the hay? From the Publisher With his Abuse Father Dead (at the hands of his mother), and his mother in jail (for a crime most people seem to regard as a good deed), 19-year-old Harley Altmyer’s family is somewhere beyond dysfunctional. College is out — he’s got three needy younger sisters on his hands. Can he rise to the occasion? More important, will the sexy mom of his baby sister’s best friend provide a much-needed tumble in the hay? Library Journal In a small Pennsylvania town depressed by coal mine closings, a young man of 19 finds himself thrust into the role of parent. Harley has become the guardian of his three younger sisters as the result of their mother going to jail for the shooting death of their father. Each sibling finds his or her own way of coping with this family tragedy. During his regular visits with a psychotherapist Harley finds some comfort while at the same time feeling disdain for this woman. He is able to satisfy his youthful urges by beginning a series of sexual encounters with an older woman whose daughter is a playmate of his youngest sister. The characterizations are vivid, and each family member generates sympathy. Reader Dylan Baker does a satisfactory job of interpreting Harley’s sense of frustration and cynicism |
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Ball, Bat and Bitumen $36.94 They emerged from the mines, shook off the coal dust, and stepped onto the diamond. From the early 1900s to the 1950s, baseball games between mine workers were a small-town phenomenon, each team attracting avid and intensely loyal fans. Talented part-time athletes competed at the amateur, semi-pro and professional levels. Equally competitive were the coal company officials, who often brought in ringers, or players of exceptional ability, giving them easier jobs above ground or a padded pay packet. Based on interviews with surviving players, families of deceased players, and contemporary sources, this thoroughgoing history covers not only teams and leagues but their function within the mining communities of Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia. The book features a special section on African-American mining teams, a coalfield map and many photographs. |
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Best of the Police $19.95 A super collection of 19 of their greatest hits, with all new transcriptions in notes and tab! Includes: Can’t Stand Losing You * Canary in a Coal Mine * De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da * Don’t Stand So Close to Me * Every Breath You Take * Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic * King of Pain * Man in a Suitcase * Message in a Bottle * Omega Man * Roxanne * Spirits in the Material World * Walking on the Moon * more! |
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Beyond Ramps $46.05 The Social Contract — Rousseau’s famous term concerning the bond between a government and it’s people — has been sold to the highest bidder. Freedom is reserved only for markets in a society increasingly strangled by corporate of power .Empowerment is the new definition of destitution.By looking at the struggles of the disabled faced with the end of social services, Ending the Social Contract as We Know It provides a powerful warning: the disabled are as canaries in a coal mine, and their maltreatment is a harbinger of things to come for the rest of us.In a tightly woven argument, Marta Russell shows how the onslaught of corporate power facing the disabled — from issues like genetic screening, to restricted access to health care, to welfare reform — will shortly be faced by a much broader segment of society. |
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Billy Creekmore $17.89 In 1905, ten-year-old Billy is taken from an orphanage to live with an aunt and an uncle of whose existence he was previously unaware. He enjoys his first taste of family life until his work in a coal mine and his involvement with a union bring trouble. He then joins a circus in hopes of finding his father. |
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Bituminous Coal Mine Accounting $20.65 Publisher: New York [etc.] McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. Publication date: 1922 Subjects: Coal mines and mining — Accounting Bituminous coal Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. |
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Bituminous Coal Mine Accounting $26.75 This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR”d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. |
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Bituminous Coal Mine Accounting $25.75 This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. |
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Black Days, Black Dust: The Memories of an African American Coal Miner $37.86 Among those drawn to jobs in the booming West Virginia coal mines during the first part of the twentieth century were thousands of African Americans. They proved successful in this industry — despite low wages and discrimination at the hands of mine operators. This book, the first published memoir by an African American coal miner, is a stirring tale of survival and achievement. Bob Armstead interweaves stories of family and community with a broad history of underground mining to paint an engrossing picture of the work, the dangers, and the drama of that industry.Armstead remembers his childhood, growing up in a segregated coal camp during the Great Depression, and he recalls his family’s efforts to confront economic challenges while also dealing with the reality of racism. His father worked as a horse driver in the mines until machinery put him out of work. Even though, as a youth, Armstead saw how his father had suffered, he himself went to work in the mines in 1947. From his first day on the job, coal mining fascinated him. He initally labored in a timber crew, shoring up mine roofs. Then, in a life peppered with mine closings and layoffs that sent him from one place to another in search of work, he eventually became a mining machine operator, a foreman over predominantly white crews, and finally a safety inspector.Black Days, Black Dust evokes a vivid sense of a coal miner’s life. Armstead’s recollections of his father provide descriptions of primitive mining methods in the 1930s and grueling twelve-hour work days. Armstead’s memories of his own career document his enthusiasm for mining and the work ethic that earned him responsible positions in the mines.Engagingly told,Armstead’s story is both a rich historical document and a moving portrait of one man’s life and how he overcame adversity. |
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Black Lung: Anatomy of a Public Health Disaster $26.71 In the definitive history of a twentieth-century public health disaster, Alan Derickson recounts how for decades after methods of prevention were known hundreds of thousands of American miners suffered and died from black lung, a respiratory illness caused by the inhalation of coal mine dust. The combined failure of government, medicine, and industry to halt the spread of this disease — and even to acknowledge its existence — resulted in a national tragedy, the effects of which are still being felt.The book begins in the late nineteenth century, when the disorders brought on by exposure to coal mine dust were first identified as components of a debilitating and distinctive illness. For several decades thereafter, coal miners’ dust disease was accepted, in both lay and professional circles, as a major industrial disease. Derickson describes how after the turn of the century medical professionals and industry representatives worked to discredit and supplant knowledge about black lung, with such success that the ceased to be recognized. Many authorities maintained that breathing coal mine dust was actually beneficial to health.Derickson shows that activists ultimately forced society to overcome its complacency about this deadly and preventable disease. He chronicles the growth of an unprecedented movement — from the turn-of-the-century miners’ union, to the social medicine activists in the mid-twentieth century, and the black lung insurgents of the late sixties — which eventually won landmark protections and compensation with the enactment: of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act in 1969.An extraordinary work of scholarship, Black Lung exposes the enormous human cost ofproducing the energy source responsible for making the United States the world’s preeminent industrial nation. |
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Blind Shaft $17.79 Two chinese coal miners have found the perfect scam: murder one of their fellow mine workers, make it look like an accident and extort money from the boss to keep the incident quiet. For their latest ‘mark’, they choose a naive teenager from a small village and as they begin to carry out their plan, things get complicated. |
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Busy Dump Truck $111.48 Busy Dump TruckThe TONKA dump truck is on its way to another pick up — why don’t you come along? Visit a coal mine, a lumberyard, a road construction site, and more as the truck arrives on each scene to load up. Put on your hard hat and let’s go! |
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Charley Harper Mystery of the Missing Migrants Puzzle: 1000 pc $17.98 Mystery of the Missing Migrants, 1990, by Charley Harper (American, 1922-2007).The artist’s own words: For centuries, the neotropical migrants in this picture have shuttled between winter homes in the tropical rainforest and nesting sites in our woodlands. Now their populations are plummeting. Why? Habitat destruction. Down There? Up Here? Is your favorite songster in this flock? Each April, I listen anxiously to the dawn chorus for the return of my favorite, that world-class flutist, the Wood Thrush. Are silent springs forthcoming? Remember the canary in the coal mine?Assembled puzzle measures 20 x 29. |
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Climatic Provences and Area of Coal Fields in Alaska $17.75 The Shelf2Life Mines and Mining Collection is a unique set of materials focusing on the operation of mines, the mining industry and mineralogy in the 19th and 20th centuries. From first-hand accounts of life in the mines to descriptions of mine construction, excavation methods and machinery, to mine taxation and determinative mineralogy, this collection reveals the science and culture of the thriving mining industry pre-1923. Illuminating the pages of these intriguing volumes are rock and mineral photographs and mineral classification tables including chemical tests and scientific experiments written during a period of significant expansion in the discipline of mineralogy. The Mines and Mining Collection unearths a period of early historical mining practices and related scientific discoveries of value to enthusiasts, students and mineralogists alike. |
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Coal Mine Fatalities in the United States, 1870-1914, with Statistics of Coal Production, Labor and Mining Methods $27.47 Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off. Publication date: 1916 Subjects: Coal mines and mining Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. |
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Coal Mine Fatalities in the United States, 1914-1918 (1915) $27.95 Coal Mine Fatalities in the United States, 1914-1918 (1915) |
