Author : B. L. Andrews
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : pages
File Size : 27,3 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780312953584
The fourth in a series of whimsical parodies offers a new collection of offbeat advice from the author of More Life's Little Destruction Book and Life's Little Frustration Book. Original.
Author : Barbara Ellen Smith
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 34,15 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1642593931
Employment and production in the Appalachian coal industry have plummeted over recent decades. But the lethal black lung disease, once thought to be near-eliminated, affects miners at rates never before recorded. Digging Our Own Graves sets this epidemic in the context of the brutal assault, begun in the 1980s and continued since, on the United Mine Workers of America and the collective power of rank-and-file coal miners in the heart of the Appalachian coalfields. This destruction of militancy and working class power reveals the unacknowledged social and political roots of a health crisis that is still barely acknowledged by the state and coal industry. Barbara Ellen Smith’s essential study, now with an updated introduction and conclusion, charts the struggles of miners and their families from the birth of the Black Lung Movement in 1968 to the present-day importance of demands for environmental justice through proposals like the Green New Deal. Through extensive interviews with participants and her own experiences as an activist, the author provides a vivid portrait of communities struggling for survival against the corporate extraction of labor, mineral wealth, and the very breath of those it sends to dig their own graves.
Author : Gerard Beirne
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 11,2 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Beirne's themes challenge readers to question their (too-often perhaps) easily accepted beliefs. He writes of landscape and the forces creating -- merging the religious with the corporeal, exploring the inherent tensions between spirituality and physicality. His landscape/soulscapes here seek to discover the extent of their boundaries in poems such as "Taking the Man from the Bog" and "Variations on a Crucifix".
Author : Governor Mike Huckabee
Publisher : Center Street
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,9 MB
Release : 2007-10-15
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1599951347
Now available in Spanish, the bestselling book in which a leaner Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee shares his secrets for creating better health habits that last a lifetime.
Author : William W. Johnstone
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,81 MB
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0786043636
Johnstone Country. Keeping the West wild. U.S. Marshal Will Tanner is one hell of a manhunter. But this time, he’s chasing six men across three states with one gun and no backup. This isn’t justice. This is a suicide mission . . . DIG YOUR OWN GRAVE It starts with a prison break in Missouri. When notorious bank robber Ansel McCoy busts out, he teams up with five other outlaws. Then he and his gang rob a bank in Kansas. Now they’re crossing state lines into Oklahoma Indian Territory. And that’s where U.S. Marshal Will Tanner steps in. Other marshals from Kansas and Missouri have already lost the trail. Which means Tanner has to go it alone. Deep in the wilderness. Outnumbered and outgunned. One good man against six blood-crazed killers. Even if he manages to survive the elements and find McCoy’s hideout, it’s not just the end of his search. It’s his funeral . . . Live Free. Read Hard.
Author : Harvey Mackay
Publisher : Crown Currency
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 29,25 MB
Release : 1999-02-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0385485468
Bestselling author Harvey Mackay reveals his techniques for the most essential tool in business--networking, the indispensable art of building contacts. Now in paperback, Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty is Harvey Mackay's last word on how to get what you want from the world through networking. For everyone from the sales rep facing a career-making deal to the entrepreneur in search of capital, Dig Your Well explains how meeting these needs should be no more than a few calls away. This shrewdly practical book distills Mackay's wisdom gleaned from years of "swimming with sharks," including: What kinds of networks exist How to start a network, and how to wring the most from it The smart way to downsize your list--who to keep, who to dump How to keep track of favors done and favors owed--Is it my lunch or yours? What you can do if you are not good at small talk Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty is a must for anyone who wants to get ahead by reaching out.
Author : Rebecca Bischoff
Publisher : Amberjack Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 30,83 MB
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1948705532
In 1875 Ohio, twelve-year-old Cap Cooper is an aspiring inventor—and a reluctant graverobber—enlisted by his father to help pay for his mother's medical expenses. When one of the dead returns to life at his touch, Cap unearths a world of dark secrets that someone at the local medical school wants to keep buried. On the brink of discovery, he'll have to use every ounce of cunning he has to protect those he loves most and save his own skin. The Grave Digger is an eerie mystery set in the aftermath of the Civil War, filled with action, friendship, and a hint of the paranormal, perfect for those who enjoy reading late into the night and long after the lights go out.
Author : Senko K. Maynard
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,40 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027254023
Using theoretical concepts of self, perspective, and voice as an interpretive guide, and based on the Place of Negotiation theory, this volume explores the phenomenon of linguistic creativity in Japanese discourse, i.e., the use of language in specific ways for foregrounding personalized expressive meanings. Personalized expressive meanings include psychological, emotive, interpersonal, and rhetorical aspects of communication, encompassing broad meanings such as feelings of intimacy or distance, emotion, empathy, humor, playfulness, persona, sense of self, identity, rhetorical effects, and so on. Nine analysis chapters explore the meanings, functions, and effects observable in the indices of linguistic creativity, focusing on discourse creativity (style mixture, borrowing others' styles, genre mixture), rhetorical creativity (puns, metaphors, metaphors in multimodal discourse), and grammatical creativity (negatives, demonstratives, first-person references). Based on the analysis of verbal and visual data drawn from multiple genres of contemporary cultural discourse, this work reveals that by creatively expressing in language we share our worlds from multiple perspectives, we speak in self's and others' many voices, and we endlessly create personalized expressive meanings as testimony to our own sense of being.
Author : Willie E Dalton
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,24 MB
Release : 2018-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781643168937
"Life as a gravedigger was tough. Now that I'm dead, it's even worse."
Author : Gilles Fauconnier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 11,77 MB
Release : 1997-06-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521599535
Meaning in everyday thought and language is constructed at lightning speed. We are not conscious of the staggering complexity of the cognitive operations that drive our simplest behavior. This 1997 book examines a central component of meaning construction: the mappings that link mental spaces. A deep result of the research is that the same principles operate at the highest levels of scientific, artistic, and literary thought, and at the lower levels of elementary understanding and sentence meaning. Some key cognitive operations are analogical mappings, conceptual integration and blending, discourse management, induction and recursion. The analyses are based on a rich array of attested data in ordinary language, humor, action and design, science, and narratives. Phenomena that receive attention include counterfactuals; time, tense, and mood; opacity; metaphor; fictive motion; grammatical constructions; quantification over cognitive domains.
