The Miner

Author : GRETCHEN MORAN LASKAS
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471103587
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miner's Daughter written by GRETCHEN MORAN LASKAS and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backbreaking work, threadbare clothes, and black coal dust choking the air -- this is what a miner's daughter knows. Willa Lowell fears that this dust marks her to be nothing else, that she will never win against the constant struggle to survive. Even the fierce flame of her family's love -- her one bright spot against the darkness -- has begun to dim. Willa yearns for a better life -- enough food to eat, clothes that fit, and a home free of black grit. She also yearns for a special love, the love of a boy who makes her laugh and shares the poetry she carries in her heart. When a much brighter future is suddenly promised to her family, Willa knows it is a miracle . . . until she discovers that every promise has a price. But she also discovers that the real change has burned inside her all along -- if only she is strong enough to mine it. Writing in a style that is as breathtaking and lyrical as it is powerful, Gretchen Moran Laskas draws from her family's past to bring to life the story of a girl struggling against seemingly insurmountable odds. The Miner's Daughterwill touch readers' hearts and stay with them long after they've read the last word.

Author : A. H. Ryan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780935182033
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weekend Gold Miner written by A. H. Ryan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1978 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lani GUINIER
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674038037
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Miner's Canary written by Lani GUINIER and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities. Addressing these issues is essential. Ignoring racial differences--race blindness--has failed. Focusing on individual achievement has diverted us from tackling pervasive inequalities. Now, in a powerful and challenging book, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres propose a radical new way to confront race in the twenty-first century. Given the complex relationship between race and power in America, engaging race means engaging standard winner-take-all hierarchies of power as well. Terming their concept political race, Guinier and Torres call for the building of grass-roots, cross-racial coalitions to remake those structures of power by fostering public participation in politics and reforming the process of democracy. Their illuminating and moving stories of political race in action include the coalition of Hispanic and black leaders who devised the Texas Ten Percent Plan to establish equitable state college admissions criteria, and the struggle of black workers in North Carolina for fair working conditions that drew on the strength and won the support of the entire local community. The aim of political race is not merely to remedy racial injustices, but to create truly participatory democracy, where people of all races feel empowered to effect changes that will improve conditions for everyone. In a book that is ultimately not only aspirational but inspirational, Guinier and Torres envision a social justice movement that could transform the nature of democracy in America.

Author : Harry M. Caudill
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813146275
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mountain, the Miner, and the Lord and Other Tales from a Country Law Office written by Harry M. Caudill and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-02-17 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of stories celebrates people who have a magnetism, a tenacity, a personal vision, an independence, and a self-sufficiency that elude most of us today.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.BL/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Miner's Daughter written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Rickard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Miner's Manual of Arithmetic and Surveying ... written by William Rickard and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W. D. Ryan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Miner's Ounce of Prevention--the Operator's Pound of Cure written by W. D. Ryan and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matilda Mary Pollard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Miner's Son, and Margaret Vernon. [With Plates.] written by Matilda Mary Pollard and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Orton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.3C/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Miner's Guide, and Metallurgist's Directory written by James Orton and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Savery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Miner's Friend; Or, an Engine to Raise Water by Fire, Described written by Thomas Savery and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: