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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

    $12.39 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

  • Australian Queer Screens

    Diversity and Social Change in Film and TV

    by Rob Cover, Whitney Monaghan, Stuart Richards, Scott McKinnon, Tinonee Pym ...
    This is the first book-length study of Australia's rich history of LGBTQ+ film and television, covering histories, production, screen representation and audience identities.Despite a long-standing international field of queer media studies, Australian scholarship has only recently emerged. Screen diversity in Australia is important to cultural policy, education and social harmony. This book ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Agatha Christie and Gothic Horror

    Adaptations and Televisuality

    by Stuart Richards ...
    Series series Horror and Gothic Media Cultures
    Agatha Christie’s work has been adapted extensively resulting in transformations that are both textual and cultural. While many adaptations are best known for being quaint murder mysteries, there are many adaptations of her work that draw on horror aesthetics. This book will look at how the growth of Agatha Christie adaptations have grown increasingly darker. Of key relevance to this study is the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Pennsylvanian Voices of the Great War

    Letters, Stories and Oral Histories of World War I

    Edited by J. Stuart Richards ...
    "I guess you all are wondering where I am May. Well many miles away and settled at last and ready for some hard work. The sooner we get into it the quicker it is going to be over and all admit that it is up to America to finish the job and what I have been able to hear, they think it will be over in two or three months. Well the sooner the better now that we have come this far. Have sure traveled ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies: Confederate Generals Accounts of the Seven Days Battles and Peninsula Campaign

    by Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, JEB Stuart, Richard S. Ewell, and D.H. Hill ...
    In June 1862, Union soldiers could spot the steeples of Richmond off to the distance. About 10 miles away from the capitol of the Confederacy, George B. McClellans Army of the Potomac was within striking distance of ending the year old Civil War. With nowhere to go, Joseph Johnstons army struck out at the Union army at the Battle of Fair Oaks or Seven Pines, which didnt dislodge the Northerners ... Read more

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    Organizing Amazon

    Building Worker Power under Conditions of Fragmentation, Precarity and Regimentation

    by Tom Vickers, Rachel Fagan, Amanda Gearing, Garfield Hylton, Louveza Iqbal, Ceferina Floresca Javier, Paramanathan Pradeep, Stuart Richards, Tom Rigby, Ferdousara Uddin0 ...
    Narrated by Tom Vickers ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 13 min

    Between August 2022 and July 2024, GMB Union membership at Amazon’s BHX4 Coventry warehouse skyrocketed, with 37 days of strike action resulting in a 28.5% pay rise. Yet despite this, the union narrowly lost a ballot that would have forced Amazon to grant formal recognition.Based on ethnographic research and reflective essays from worker-leaders and organizers, this book offers a rich case study ... Read more

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  • Colouring the Rainbow

    Blak Queer and Trans Perspectives

    Edited by Dino Hodge ...
    "Colouring the Rainbow" uncovers the often hidden world of Queer and Trans Blak Australia and tells it like it is. Twenty-two First Nations people reveal their inner reflections and outlooks on family and culture, identity and respect, homophobia, transphobia, racism and decolonisation, activism, art, performance and more, through life stories and essays. The contributors to this ground-breaking ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • What Kind of Creatures Are We?

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy
    The renowned philosopher and political theorist presents a summation of his influential work in this series of Columbia University lectures.A pioneer in the fields of modern linguistics and cognitive science, Noam Chomsky is also one of the most avidly read political theorist of our time. In this series of lectures, Chomsky presents more than half a century of philosophical reflection on all three ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Represent!

    Studies of Diversity and Popular Media Culture

    by Frederik Dhaenens ...
    Represent! offers insights into identity and sociocultural diversity in popular media culture, from Game of Thrones to hip hop. It addresses how popular media texts and practices deal with diversity in Western societies, how this evolved historically, and how it can be critically studied. Many people have an understanding of what 'woke' means, but are not familiar with the historical background of ... Read more

    $21.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Queer Methods and Methodologies

    Intersecting Queer Theories and Social Science Research

    by Catherine J. Nash ...
    Queer Methods and Methodologies provides the first systematic consideration of the implications of a queer perspective in the pursuit of social scientific research. This volume grapples with key contemporary questions regarding the methodological implications for social science research undertaken from diverse queer perspectives, and explores the limitations and potentials of queer engagements ... Read more

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  • Horror

    by Brigid Cherry ...
    Series series Routledge Film Guidebooks
    Horror cinema is a hugely successful, but at the same time culturally illicit genre that spans the history of cinema. It continues to flourish with recent cycles of supernatural horror and torture porn that span the full range of horror styles and aesthetics. It is enjoyed by audiences everywhere, but also seen as a malign influence by others.In this Routledge Film Guidebook, audience researcher ... Read more

    $39.99 USD