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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2018Disability in the Industrial Revolution
Physical impairment in British coalmining, 1780–1880
by David M. Turner, Daniel Blackie, Julie Anderson
An electronic version of this book is also available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) license, thanks to the support of the Wellcome Trust. The Industrial Revolution produced injury, illness and disablement on a large scale and nowhere was this more visible than in coalmining. Disability in the Industrial Revolution sheds new light on the human cost of industrialisation by examining the lives and experiences of those disabled in an industry that was vital to Britain's economic growth. Although it is commonly assumed that industrialisation led to increasing marginalisation of people with impairments from the workforce, disabled mineworkers were expected to return to work wherever possible, and new medical services developed to assist in this endeavour. This book explores the working lives of disabled miners and analyses the medical, welfare and community responses to disablement in the coalfields. It shows how disability affected industrial relations and shaped the class identity of mineworkers. The book will appeal to students and academics interested in disability, occupational health and social history.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2020Disability in industrial Britain
A cultural and literary history of impairment in the coal industry, 1880-1948
by Kirsti Bohata, Alexandra Jones, Mike Mantin, Steven Thompson
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. An electronic version of this book is also available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) license, thanks to the support of the Wellcome Trust. Coalmining was a notoriously dangerous industry and many of its workers experienced injury and disease. However, the experiences of the many disabled people within Britain's most dangerous industry have gone largely unrecognised by historians. This book looks at British coal through the lens of disability, using an interdisciplinary approach to examine the lives of disabled miners and their families. A diverse range of sources are used to examine the economic, social, political and cultural impact of disability in the coal industry, looking beyond formal coal company and union records to include autobiographies, novels and existing oral testimony. It argues that, far from being excluded entirely from British industry, disability and disabled people were central to its development. The book will appeal to students and academics interested in disability history, disability studies, social and cultural history and representations of disability in literature.
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Thriller / suspenseJune 2011CHASING SHADOWS
by CJ Lyons
New York Times Bestseller CJ Lyons has been praised as a "Master of the Genre" (Pittsburgh Magazine) for her romantic thrillers. Join CJ as she starts a sexy, fun-filled, adrenalin rush of a new series: Shadow Ops. Following a group of covert operatives, men and women who risk their lives to protect our country--but are they ready to risk their hearts? CHASING SHADOWS (Shadow Ops Book #1): Going undercover, playing the part of a disgraced former Marine, is easy for Chase Westin--until a Christmas Eve mission takes him back to his hometown and face to face with his estranged brother. When KC, an undercover FBI agent, flies into Chase's life with her Doc Martens, purple, punk-rock hair, and Hollywood-hype leather and chains, Chase realizes that falling in love is more dangerous than catching bullets.
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HistoryMarching Without Knowing
Underground Auschwitz
by JM McNally
MARCHING WITHOUT KNOWING is a non-fiction book and draws on the true account of a British prisoner of war, beginning with his journey to a coalmine at the Sosnowitz works, Auschwitz III, in September 1944, to work alongside forced and slave labourers of different nationalities and ‘categories’, and concluding with his liberation in Bavaria at the end of April 1945 after a foot-march covering nearly 800 miles and in atrocious circumstances and conditions. The book pieces together in an original way the events, conditions and decision-making processes leading up to, and during, the evacuations from Upper Silesia by way of documentary evidence. Using previously unpublished and unknown materials and facts of international and historical significance, the book contextualizes the survivor’s own fate, and the fate of thousands of prisoners of war who were trapped in, and force-marched from German-occupied Poland as Europe began to be divided into two halves during the winter of 1944/1945. The historical material is approached from three perspectives and in three stylistic parts: Part One is a poetic reflection on the events transmitted and discovered across generations (entitled ‘Knowing’); Part Two is a dramatic chronological narration in Five Acts using authentic communications and oral accounts from the time; Part Three is the transcript of over thirty years ago of the survivor’s own narration of his experiences. Thus, the skeleton of war – its bones and joints are clearly visible and starkly contrast with the flesh and blood of the individual lives at the heart of the account. The parts are united by the theme of ‘who knew what when’ and ‘who did not know what when’ on personal, governmental and military levels. Will we ever know, is the question the readers are left with, and one that has a relevant contemporary echo. -------------------- [Knowing] is extremely well written. Juliet Annan, Literary Director at Penguin I have read your piece [Knowing] with great interest for it really is an unknown topic... If the book is written in an accessible and gripping way, it should be suitable for any big publishing company. Bernd Rheinberg, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin I have checked the website and found your really excellent piece under campaigns and news. You write so very well and clearly. Tessa Ransford, President of Scottish PEN, re. J.McNally’s ‘Letter from Berlin’ on historical and contemporary matters Which publishers are you in contact with? Tell them that experts in Germany can’t wait to buy your book! Günther Siedbürger, teacher and expert on European forced labour, Göttingen
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SustainabilityJuly 2019Biogas Technology
by Snehasish Mishra, Tapan K. Adhya & Sanjay K. Ojha
Biogas is a renewable energy resource that can be an alternative solution for the world insatiable energy demands while helping in managing waste and reducing the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It is also regarded as carbon neutral as the carbon in biogas comes from organic matter (feedstock) that captured this carbon from atmospheric CO2 over a relatively short timescale. This book has been written and compiled to collate latest information on biogas technology to help readers, researchers and extension workers alike to understand the fruitful exploitation of the process. It has fourteen chapters, primarily in three major categories: 01. the first category dealing with the basic biomethanation process including its ecology, microbiology, biochemistry and molecular biology. 02. the second category dealing with the evolution of the technology in Indian/global scenario from the lab to the land 03. the last category is dealing with the economics of the technology. All the various known and active names in this field of research and development have put their hearts and minds into their contributed chapters. The additional details provided in the Annexures (viz., Model bankable scheme for biogas commercialisation venture; Frequently asked questions in adopting biogas technology; Common terminologies in biogas research; Glossary of abbreviations and symbols frequently used in biogas research; and Prominent global entities in biogas R&D and commercialisation) double the usefulness of the compilation.
