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List Of Books About Coal Mining
Books and some articles relating to coal mining, especially historical. Current conditions * Burns, Daniel. ''The modern practice of coal mining'' (1907) * Chirons, Nicholas P. ''Coal Age Handbook of Coal Surface Mining'' (1978) * Hamilton, Michael S. ''Mining Environmental Policy: Comparing Indonesia and the USA'' (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005). (). * Hayes, Geoffrey. ''Coal Mining'' (2004), 32 pp * * Charles V. Nielsen and George F. Richardson. ''1982 Keystone Coal Industry Manual'' (1982) * Saleem H. Ali. "Minding our Minerals, 2006." * Speight, James G"An Introduction to Petroleum Technology, Economics, and Politics,"John Wiley & Sons 2011. * * World Coal Institute. ''The Coal Resource'' (2005) covers all aspects of the coal industry in 48 pp. * Woytinsky, W. S., and E. S. Woytinsky. ''World Population and Production Trends and Outlooks'' (1953) pp 840–881; with many tables and maps on the worldwide coal industry in 1950 Fiction and Poetry * Brierley, Walter. ''Means T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Brierley (writer)
Walter Brierley (1900–1972) was an England, English novelist active in the 1930s and one of the Birmingham Group (authors), Birmingham Group of writers. His first book ''Means Test Man'' has been called “one of the most powerful and original novels of that decade.” Born in Waingroves, Derbyshire, to a family of miners, Brierley left school at 13 and started work at the local colliery. Following Workers’ Educational Association night classes he applied through the Miners Welfare Scholarship to study at Nottingham University College, but later returned to mining until made redundant in the early 1930s. Following encouragement from Birmingham Group writers John Hampson (novelist), John Hampson and Walter Allen, Brierley became a full-time writer and his first novel, ''Means Test Man'', was published in 1935, drawing on first-hand experience of unemployment and poverty. It is regarded as a key work of 1930s working-class literature, and has been reprinted twice. His second nov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |