Environmental considerations in energy production

Table of Contents: “…Sustainable Degasification Strategies: A Case Study in the Qinshui Basin of China3.2Public Health and Energy Production; Evaluation of Research Addressing Chronic Health in Coal-Dependent Communities in Central Appalachia; Comparison of Mortality Rates Between Appalachian Coal Mining Counties with Non-Coal Mining; Population and Exposure Characteristics of Coal Mining and Non-Coal Mining Counties in West Virginia; Inventory of Bacterial Impairments in Central Appalachia; Identification of Toxic Agents and Potential Exposure Routes to Appalachian Coal Mining Communities.…”
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Beyond rust : metropolitan Pittsburgh and the fate of industrial America by Dieterich-Ward, Allen

Table of Contents: “…Live on the Hills and Work in the City ; We're Appalachia, But We Don't Need to Be ; The New Metropolis of the Plateau ; No Development Beyond This Point -- Part III. …”
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The food we eat, the stories we tell : contemporary Appalachian tables

Table of Contents: “…Margolies -- Poem chowchow / Jeff Mann -- An education in beans / Abigail Huggins -- My great-grandmother is a Cherokee / Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle -- Poem: Terrain / Crystal Wilkinson -- Eating to go / Courtney Balestier -- What you find and what you lose when you seek a new home / Michael Croley -- Best pal: big on hot dogs, hamburgers, and quick service / Emily Wallace -- Confessions of a spear packer / Robert Gipe -- "Good luck in preserving": canning and the uncanny in appalachia / Danille Elise Christensen -- Cornbread and fabada: savoring a west virginia story / Suronda Gonzalez -- Haute appalachia: wine and wine tourism / Jessie Blackburn and William Schumann -- "The reason we make these deep-fat-fried treats": in conversation with the rosettes of Helvetia, West Virginia / Emily Hilliard -- Poems: How to kill a rooster; How to kill a hen / Rebecca Gayle Howell -- Afterword / Ronni Lundy.…”
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Poverty : a new perspective

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Determinants of Poverty; 3 Poverty Measures as Indicators of Social Welfare; 4 Migration and Poverty; 5 Social Services for Migrants; 6 Appalachian Fertility; 7 Family Planning Services; 8 Modernism and Poverty; 9 Achievement Motivation and Poverty; 10 Communication and Modernization in Appalachia; 11 Poverty: A New Perspective; References; Contributors.…”
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Poverty : a new perspective

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Determinants of Poverty; 3 Poverty Measures as Indicators of Social Welfare; 4 Migration and Poverty; 5 Social Services for Migrants; 6 Appalachian Fertility; 7 Family Planning Services; 8 Modernism and Poverty; 9 Achievement Motivation and Poverty; 10 Communication and Modernization in Appalachia; 11 Poverty: A New Perspective; References; Contributors.…”
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Gender, planning and human rightsv

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; GENDER AND HUMAN RIGHTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT; WOMEN, PLANNING AND LOCAL CENTRAL RELATIONS IN THE UK; CULTURE, HUMAN RIGHTS AND PLANNING (AS CONTROL) FOR MINORITY WOMEN IN ISRAEL; INTERSECTING CLAIMS: POSSIBILITIES FOR PLANNING IN CANADA'S MULTICULTURAL CITIES; THE GENDER INEQUALITIES OF PLANNING IN SINGAPORE; HOUSEHOLDS, VIOLENCE AND WOMEN'S ECONOMIC RIGHTS: A CASE STUDY OF WOMEN AND WORK IN THE APPALACHIA.…”
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Absentee Landowning and Exploitation in West Virginia, 1760-1920. by Rasmussen, Barbara, 1947-

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12 rounds in Lo's Gym : boxing, coal mining, and the contradictions of Appalachian manhood by Snyder, Todd, 1981-

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Model Programs and Their Components. by Auerbach, Stevanne

Table of Contents: “…Organizing Services for Appalachia's Children; 4. Organizing Child Care for Students-"Growing Together"; 5. …”
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Fierce and delicate : essays on dance and illness by Nicholson, Renée K.

Table of Contents: “…Part I, A girl who wanted to fly -- When I was a mouse -- Five positions -- Never famous -- Raked stages : a twelve-step program -- Coda : partnering -- Out of the blue -- Part II, A woman Tethered to the Earth -- Hair : a short history -- In sickness -- A royal in Appalachia -- Certified : dancer becomes a teacher -- Claque -- Fierce and delicate -- Six impossible things before breakfast…”
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Enduring pastoral : recycling the middle landscape ideal in the Tennessee Valley by Larsen, Torben Huus

Table of Contents: “…1. The Museum of Appalachia and the pastoral simulacrum -- 2. Estates, trails, and national parks: early rxamples of the pastoralized space -- 3. …”
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Removing mountains : extracting nature and identity in the Appalachian coalfields by Scott, Rebecca R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the logic of extraction -- Hillbillies and coal miners: representations of a national sacrifice zone -- Men moving mountains: coal mining masculinities and mountaintop removal -- The gendered politics of pro-mountaintop removal discourse -- ATVs in action: transgression, property rights, and tourism on the Hatfield-McCoy trail -- Coal heritage/coal history: Appalachia, America, and mountaintop removal -- Traces of history: "white" people, black coal -- Conclusion: coal facts.…”
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Appalachian Home Cooking : History, Culture, and Recipes. by Sohn, Mark F.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; APPALACHIAN Home Cooking; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Map of Appalachia; Part One: Appalachian Foodways; 1 Food Origins: Regional and Cultural Roots; 2 Breakfast Traditions: Biscuits, Gravy, Apples, and Grits; 3 Vegetable Delights: Green Beans, Cushaw, and Chow Chow; 4 Dinner Side Dishes: Macaroni and Cheese, Cornbread Salad, and Fall Greens; 5 Farm Starches and School Lunches: Soup Beans, Potatoes, and Slick Runner Dumplings; 6 Corn: Gritted Corn, Cornbread, and Custard Corn Pudding; 7 Herbs and Game: Dry Land Fish, Greens, and Wild Game.…”
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Agency : working with uncertain architectures

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustration credits; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Agency: Working with uncertain architectures; Intervene; Activism in Appalachia: Yale architecture students in Kentucky, 1966-69; Environmental and social action in the studio: Three live projects along the Elizabeth River; Secondary agency: Learning from Boris Groys; On consensus, equality, experts and good design: An interview with Roberta Feldman and Henry Sanoff; Sustain; Acting up: Architectural practice as ecological performance; Ethics and aesthetics: Deleuze, diagrams and sustainability.…”
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Modern moonshine : the revival of white whiskey in the twenty-first century

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction: The Revival of Moonshine in Southern Appalachia and the United States / Bruce E. Stewart and Cameron D. …”
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This is our land : grassroots environmentalism in the late twentieth century by Ferguson, Cody

Table of Contents: “…The Fight for Clean Air in Southern Arizona -- 6 Citizen Environmental Activism in Appalachia. Save Our Cumberland Mountains -- 7 Dumping in Tennessee…”
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Appalachian mushrooms : a field guide by Sturgeon, Walt

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Appalachian Tectonics. by Clark, T. H. (Thomas Henry), 1893-1996

Table of Contents: “…Gravity Measurements in Appalachia and their Structural ImplicationsSome Geological and Tectonic Considerations of Eastern Canadian Earthquakes; Some Implications of New Ideas on Ocean-Floor Spreading upon the Geology of the Appalachians.…”
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Reformers to radicals : the Appalachian Volunteers and the war on poverty by Kiffmeyer, Thomas, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a time for change -- On the brink of war : the Council of the Southern Mountains and the origins of the war on poverty in Appalachia -- The shot heard round the world : the battle for Mill Creek, Kentucky, and the culture of poverty -- A splendid little war : helping people help themselves, 1964 -- The war to end all wars : a national quest to end Appalachian poverty, 1965-1966 -- The new model army : the Appalachian Volunteers splits from the Council of the Southern Mountains -- Operation Rolling Thunder : the political education of mountaineers and Appalachian Volunteers -- Peace without victory : three strikes and a red scare in the mountains -- Conclusion : live to fight another day.…”
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When fracking comes to town : governance, planning, and economic impacts of the US shale boom

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: beyond the boom -- The shale boom in historical perspective -- Local jurisdictions and variation in state law in the Marcellus Shale region -- How the legal framework of fracking in Appalachia disserves the poor -- Framing fracking through local lenses -- Using boomtown models to understand the consequences of fracking -- Hydraulic fracturing and boomtown planning in western North Dakota -- Local planning and the Shell cracker plant -- The resource conflict and the local tradeoffs of fracking -- Local labor markets and shale gas -- Shale energy and regional economic development impacts in northwest Pennsylvania -- The boom, the bust, and the cost of the cleanup -- Private and public economic impacts of fracking in Wyoming -- An economic and policy analysis of shale gas well bonds -- Conclusion: lessons and extensions.…”
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Leadville The Struggle To Revive An American Town. by Klucas, Gillian

Table of Contents: “…Doc's Meadows -- 19. Appalachia of the West -- 20. Wedding Cakes and Merlot Ponds -- Epilogue…”
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Education in the New Latino Diaspora. by Wortham, Stanton

Table of Contents: “…The Politics of Bilingual Education, Latino Student Accommodation, and School District Management in Southern Appalachia; 5 The New Paths of Mexican Immigrants in the United States; 6 Gender and School Success in the Latino Diaspora; 7 Fragmented Community, Fragmented Schools; 8 Lowrider Art and Latino Students in the Rural Midwest; 9 Policy Design as Practice.…”
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All the great territories by Wimberley, Matthew, 1989-

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Mountain Homespun. by Goodrich, Frances Louisa

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Institutions v. geography : sub-national evidence from the United States by Clifton, Eric V.

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Coal in our veins : a personal journey by Thomas, Erin Ann

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- A Miner's Lamp -- Cymyru -- A Welsh Coal Miner -- The First Loco to Run on Rails -- Two Miners' Sons -- The Paths of Blind Horses -- Carbon County -- The Rattle of Dead Men's Skin -- Zeph and Maud -- The Castle Gate -- The Striking Years -- Get the Men Out -- Leaving Carbon -- Ghost Towns -- Bridge -- A Historical Gap -- West Virginia -- The Little White Chapel -- One Who Escaped -- A Memorial -- Mountains Made Low -- String-Town Appalachia -- Squatter on a Gold Mine -- Washington, D.C. -- The Energy Future of America -- A Drop in the Bucket -- Yes to Electric Reliability -- Coda -- In the Bowels of the Earth -- The Last Deep Coal Mine in Wales -- The Winds of Change -- Afterword.…”
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Mice in the freezer, owls on the porch : the lives of naturalists Frederick & Frances Hamerstrom by Corneli, Helen McGavran

Table of Contents: “…Foreword by George Archibald -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Prologue -- 2 The Complexities of Childhood -- 3 Self-Discovery and Love -- 4 Students, Teachers, and New Horizons -- 5 Conservation Beginnings in a Midwestern Appalachia -- 6 Enter Leopold and the Chickens -- 7 An Interruption: World War II -- 8 The Action: Postwar Scientific Solidarity -- 9 The Return: Deer and a Decision -- 10 The Setting, the Task -- 11 Booming Chickens and a Land Boom -- 12 The Prairie Chicken War -- 13 Hamerstroms' Kingdom: The Complexities of Success -- 14 A Naturalist Family.…”
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The Jefferson National Forest : an Appalachian Environmental History. by Sarvis, Will

Table of Contents: “…Industrial Logging Discovers Appalachia; 5. JNF and the Rise of National Conservation; 6. …”
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The spaces of violence by Giles, James Richard, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Violence and space -- Discovering fourthspace in Appalachia : Cormac McCarthy's Outer Dark and Child of God -- Russell Banks's Affliction : "all those solitary dumb angry men" -- Of vultures, eyeballs, and parrots : Lewis Nordan's Wolf Whistle -- The myth of the Boatright Men : Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina -- Playing for death : Don Delillo's End Zone -- Drifting through Urantia : greyhound space in Denis Johnson's Angels -- The return of John Smith : Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer -- "The Battle of Bob Hope" and "The Great Elephant Zap" : Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers -- "I hope you didn't go into raw space without me": Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho -- Violence and family structures.…”
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Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Issues in Education : Programs, Policies, and Practices. by Sears, James

Table of Contents: “…It's Elementary in Appalachia: Helping Prospective Teachers and Their Students Understand Sexuality and Gender; Challenging Teachers in Appalachia.…”
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60 minutes. The health wagon

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Agrarian landscapes in transition : comparisons of long-term ecological and cultural change

Table of Contents: “…Foster [and others] -- Agricultural transformation of southern Appalachia / Ted L. Gragson, Paul V. Bolstad, and Meredith Welch-Devine -- Dustbowl legacies : long-term change and resilience in the shortgrass steppe / Kenneth M. …”
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Westward into Kentucky : the narrative of Daniel Trabue by Trabue, Daniel, 1760-1840

Table of Contents: “…Postwar Conditions in Trans-Appalachia; 12. Violence on the Kentucky Frontier; Notes.…”
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Spirits of just men : mountaineers, liquor bosses, and lawmen in the moonshine capital of the world by Thompson, Charles D., Jr. (Charles Dillard), 1956-

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The public papers of Governor Bert T. Combs, 1959-1963

Table of Contents: “…Agricultural Cooperative Conference: Problem Areas in Kentucky Agriculture February 16, 1960Executive Order: Authorizing Payment of the Veterans' Bonus February 25, 1960; Road Fund Tax March 7, 1960; Modification of Revenue Laws March 8, 1960; Accomplishments of the General Assembly March 23, 1960; Cancellation of Truck Transaction April 19, 1960; Governors' Conference: Federal Aid to Appalachia June 28, 1960; Mayo State Vocational School Commencement July 28, 1960; Rotary Club Luncheon: Constitutional Revision July 29, 1960.…”
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Writing in the kitchen : essays on Southern literature and foodways

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Spirits of just men : mountaineers, liquor bosses, and lawmen in the moonshine capital of the world by Thompson, Charles D., Jr. (Charles Dillard), 1956-

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Writing in the kitchen : essays on Southern literature and foodways

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60 minutes. Who is Jack Spadaro?

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A great big story. Reclaiming coal country

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