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Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism (What's New in Anthropology)

Business & Money

Robbins, Richard

Dowty, Rachel

Economics

Pearson

Once upon a time, coal was used almost exclusively to heat America's homes, offices, and factories. Coal lighted its cities and powered its trains. Coal and its derivative coke helped fuel the rise of the mighty American steel industry. For decades, the focal point of the nation's coal and coke trade was western Pennsylvania. Here, a deadly struggle took place. The struggle pitted the managers and owners of coal against the men who worked in the coal mines. This is the story of that struggle. The struggle was often violent; mines accidents took a fearful toll, maiming and killing thousands. And then there were the strikes and attempts to organize the unorganized into the ranks of the trade union, the United Mine workers. The struggle absorbed the energies of a succession of Presidents and Congresses, and of such notable figures as "coke king" H.C. Frick, labor chieftain John L. Lewis, and young spymaster J. Edgar Hoover. Above all, the struggle tested the endurance and courage of thousands of ordinary men and women. The miners and their families are the true heroes of this book - the first of two to chronicle these TROUBLED TIMES.

Troubled Times: The Struggle for Wages, Recognition, and Power in the Age of Coal and Coke

History

Americas

Bowker

Running against Minnesota senator Hubert Humphrey in the 1960 West Virginia Democratic Primary, John F. Kennedy scored a decisive victory that helped to propel him to the White House that fall. Kennrdy, then a senator from Masachusetts, overcame Humphrey, Sen. Lyndon Johnson, and the belief that a Catholic could never be elected president.

JFK Rising: The 1960 West Virginia Primary and the Emergence of John F. Kennedy

Richard Robbins

Sidelines Activist: Charles S. Johnson and the Struggle for Civil Rights

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Univ Pr of Mississippi

The biography of the president of Fisk University and his role as a precursor of racial change in America

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI

Body Turn to Rain brings together work from Robbins five previous collections, plus forty new poemsthat continue his wise meditation upon the American experience in this time, with all its variation, expanse, history, clownishness, beauty, and uncertainty. The book represents a way station in the life work of a thoughtful and finely tuned sensibility such as come among us all too rarely. And it is comprised of poems that walk out to meet you as though you were a friend.

Body Turn to Rain (Northwest Masters)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Lynx House Press

In this collection of poems we indeed meet the famous persons promised in the title: Lon Chaney, Jr. buying eggs and bananas at a Capistrano Beach supermarket; Elvis slipping out / with raccoons and owls to buy pink / Cadillacs for anyone that moved him; Marshal Dillon, his head split by a surfing mishap; even Geronimo, galloping back toward nature, ruined for love. But this books is about more than famous people. From the car and kokanee-chocked waters of Montana to an art gallery in Utah where the narrator doesn't meet a famous poet laureate, Robbins traces his own heritage and ours by connecting past and present, the dead and living. He does so with sly humor, a naturalist's precision, and a potent lyricism. The cumulative effect is that of a building rhythm that echoes our own trembling relationship to the land that somehow sustains us--because, as the narrator says in Bread, the collection's final poem, feeding / the hungry is what it's always all about.

Famous Persons We Have Known

Carnegie-Mellon University Press

Richard Robbins’ The Untested Hand is the kind of book in which birds at a window feeder are seen as “changing all the indoor lives to sky.” That is to say, this collection of poems investigates, celebrates, and practices transformation, particularly that of the quotidian into the marvelous, as if any day were the first. In “The Answering Machine,” for example, the eponymous device, which a lesser poet would treat with smug jokiness, here serves to carry an astonishing weight of pathos, a poetic achievement compounded by expressiveness simultaneously naked and eloquent. In fact, the language throughout the book is consistently arresting, never glib; Robbins seems incapable of a vulgar gesture. When he says of a cliff wall painted by aboriginals, “the paint made our blood move again,” he could be speaking of the effects of his own poems. Indeed, his work, which ranges widely through time and space, resonates with heroic landscapes and those who have peopled them: the American West figures here as both literal place and myth. Such scale tests a writer, and Robbins matches it with a compelling voice at times seemingly less personal than prophetic, that of one who holds together Blakean contraries―those “indoor lives” both disappearing and expanding―by the sheer strength of his vision, which includes the apocalyptic. As a serious poet, Robbins also tests his readers, challenging them to learn, through his poems, a “way of walking, / flying, and drowning all at once.”—Philip Dacey, author of The New York Postcard Sonnets: A Midwesterner Moves to Manhattan

The Untested Hand

THE BACKWATERS PRESS

Becoming The Real Santa had given Robert Fields a meaningful purpose for life. It hadn't seemed particularly difficult for him to become Santa in two short months. To be Santa every day for the rest of his life, however, would be the bigger challenge. And in order to be Santa, Robert would have to understand him completely. Santa would have to be real to himself before he could be real to others. So Robert promised himself that he would study each of Santa's attributes and implement them in his own life. Robert might have conceded that such a lofty goal was much too difficult for one ordinary person to ever hope to achieve. Furthermore, he sincerely wanted to reach the point of actual existence, as anything less than such a reality would not be acceptable. But could it ever be achieved? During his brief experience Robert had already sensed moments when he had actually felt and acted like the real Santa Claus. Such fleeting seconds and minutes led him to believe in his heart that it was possible to stretch those instances into hours and days, months and years-or even ages. After all, Robert has always believed that each person is just one choice away from being suitable to himself and beneficial to others; they just need to know what their choices are.

Being Santa

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Quill Publishing

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Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism (What's New in Anthropology)

Troubled Times: The Struggle for Wages, Recognition, and Power in the Age of Coal and Coke

JFK Rising: The 1960 West Virginia Primary and the Emergence of John F. Kennedy

Sidelines Activist: Charles S. Johnson and the Struggle for Civil Rights

Sidelines Activist: Charles S. Johnson and the Struggle for Civil Rights

Body Turn to Rain (Northwest Masters)

Famous Persons We Have Known

Famous Persons We Have Known

The Untested Hand

Being Santa