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  • Death in the Mines

    Disasters and Rescues in the Anthracite Coal Fields of Pennsylvania

    by John Stuart Richards ...
    Vivid accounts of the dangers that miners faced on a daily basis in the northern, southern, and middle coal fields of eastern Pennsylvania.Since 1870, mining disasters have claimed the lives of over 30,000 men and boys who toiled underground in the anthracite mines of Pennsylvania. Sometimes they survived; many times they did not. The constant threat of fire, explosion, collapsed rock and deadly ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Early Coal Mining in the Anthracite Region

    by John Stuart Richards ...
    Series series Images of America
    Four distinct anthracite coal fields encompass an area of 1,700 square miles in the northeastern portion of Pennsylvania. Early Coal Mining in the Anthracite Region is a journey into a world that was once very familiar. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, underground coal mining was at its zenith and the work of miners was more grueling and dangerous than it is today. Faces ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Red Rising (2 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Red Rising 1

    by Pierce Brown ...
    Narrated by Stewart Crank, John Kielty, Richard Rohan, Jenna Sharpe, Jon Vertullo, Ian Russell, Andrew James Spooner, Alejandro Ruiz, Andrew Colford, Stephanie Németh-Parker, Kay Elúvian ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Red Rising

    Unabridged

    8 hours 19 min

    "Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he toils willingly, trusting that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children.But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Red Rising (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Red Rising 1

    by Pierce Brown ...
    Narrated by Stewart Crank, John Kielty, Richard Rohan, Jenna Sharpe, Jon Vertullo, Ian Russell, Alejandro Ruiz, Andrew Colford, Bradley Foster Smith, Stephanie Németh-Parker, Kay Elúvian ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Red Rising

    Unabridged

    7 hours 31 min

    "NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pierce Brown’s relentlessly entertaining debut channels the excitement of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card.“Red Rising ascends above a crowded dystopian field.”—USA TodayAdapted from the novel and produced with a full cast of actors, immersive sound effects and cinematic music!“I live for the dream that my children will be born ... Read more

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    Utilitarianism (Unabridged)

    by JOHN STUART MILL ...
    Narrated by Richard Zeigler ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 26 min

    John Stuart Mill's book Utilitarianism is one of the most influential and widely-read philosophical defenses of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861; the articles were collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863. It went through four editions during Mill's lifetime with minor additions and revisions. Although ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Linking Population, Resources and the Environment

    Edited by Jenny Goldie, Katharine Betts ...
    Sustainable Futures explores the links between population growth, diminishing resources and environmental challenges, and the implications for Australia's future. Written by leaders in their field, and based on presentations from the 2013 Fenner Conference on 'Population, Resources and Climate Change', this book is a timely insight into the intertwined challenges that we currently face, and what ... Read more

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  • Haunted Catskills

    by Lisa LaMonica ...
    Series series Haunted America
    Discover the ghosts who wander these upstate New York mountains—includes photos!Washington Irving called the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York a "spellbound region"—and the ghosts that linger from more than four hundred years of history provide proof of Irving's intuition.In Hudson, Maggie Houghtaling's ghost haunts the Register-Star building, where she was hanged in 1817 for murdering her ... Read more

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  • Mining Disasters of the Wyoming Valley

    by Bryan Glahn ...
    Ten-year-old Willie Hatton was excited to visit his father at the Avondale Mine on the morning of September 6, 1869. Sadly, Willie would die in his father's arms that day, and so would 108 other miners, all victims of a horrific fire that tore through the shaft, trapping the men and boys and blocking the only exit. The communities of the Wyoming Valley know firsthand the human cost of the ... Read more

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  • Empire of Water

    An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply

    by David Soll ...
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  • Guidelines for Evaluating Water in Pit Slope Stability

    Edited by John Read, Geoff Beale ...
    Guidelines for Evaluating Water in Pit Slope Stability is a comprehensive account of the hydrogeological procedures that should be followed when performing open pit slope stability design studies. Created as an outcome of the Large Open Pit (LOP) project, an international research and technology transfer project on the stability of rock slopes in open pit mines, this book expands on the ... Read more

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