Download or read book Stig of the Dump written by Clive King and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy befriends a young caveman in this modern children’s classic of friendship and adventure. Barney isn’t supposed to go near the chalk pit. His grandmother and sister both told him the edge could give way and he could fall in—but what else is he supposed to do on a miserable gray day? It’s not long before Barney falls into the pit and bumps his head. But where he lands is more than an old garbage dump: It’s a home. There’s a little hut built out of discarded junk, and more surprisingly, there’s a boy, about Barney’s age, inside. He speaks in grunts instead of English, wears a rabbit-skin loincloth, has shaggy black hair, and might be named something that sounds like “Stig.” Barney befriends him immediately. Together, Barney and Stig go on all sorts of adventures, building a chimney for Stig’s hut, joining a foxhunt, stopping robbers, and catching a leopard escaped from the circus! Barney and Stig’s escapades have been delighting children for more than fifty years, while addressing important topics such as bullying, recycling, and language barriers. This timeless classic is sure to captivate readers young and old with its wit, imagination, and sense of adventure.
Download or read book Rubbish Belongs to the Poor written by Patrick O'Hare and published by Anthropology, Culture and Soci. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnography of Uruguayan waste-pickers that reconceptualizes rubbish as a form of modern-day commons.
Download or read book The Dump Man s Treasures written by Lynn Plourde and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Pottle, who oversees the town dump, cannot bear to destroy books, so he recycles them for the community to enjoy. When Mr. Pottle falls and the community's children deliver books to him to speed his recovery, they discover the book-loving dump man cannot read. A town full of willing tutors then teaches Mr. Pottle to read so he can fully enjoy his treasures. An enjoyable story, it also delivers a heartwarming message.
Download or read book Out of the Dump written by Kristine Franklin and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1996-03-18 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nancy McGirr initiated a project to provide a group of children living in a Guatemala City garbage dump with cameras and encouragement: this book consists of examples of their photographs and essays. The poignant black-and-white photos clearly depict the abject poverty that surrounds these young people. Through their words and pictures, readers learn about their family life, neighbors, daily struggles....exceptional...Will leave a lasting impression."--School Library Journal.
Download or read book Out of the Dump written by Mary Marcy and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Waste written by Catherine Coleman Flowers and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The MacArthur grant–winning environmental justice activist’s riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for America’s most vulnerable A Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Science Book of 2020 Catherine Coleman Flowers, a 2020 MacArthur “genius,” grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that’s been called “Bloody Lowndes” because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it’s Ground Zero for a new movement that is also Flowers’s life’s work—a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of the waste from their toilets and, as a consequence, live amid filth. Flowers calls this America’s dirty secret. In this “powerful and moving book” (Booklist), she tells the story of systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice that foster Third World conditions not just in Alabama, but across America, in Appalachia, Central California, coastal Florida, Alaska, the urban Midwest, and on Native American reservations in the West. In this inspiring story of the evolution of an activist, from country girl to student civil rights organizer to environmental justice champion at Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative, Flowers shows how sanitation is becoming too big a problem to ignore as climate change brings sewage to more backyards—not only those of poor minorities.
Download or read book Out of the Dump Classic Reprint written by Mary E. Marcy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Out of the Dump Perhaps, if his friends had been able to reach father's bedside, mother might have gotten a few thousand dollars damages from the packing company, and we children could have been sent to school, which would have equipped us to bring better returns when we were put on the labor market later on. But if is a big word. Nobody saw father during his last moments but the callous packing house lawyer who brought away a paper which he claimed father signed, releasing the company from liability. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Little Dump Truck written by Margery Cuyler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A happy little dump truck, driven by Hard Hat Pete, hauls stones, rocks, and debris from a construction site to a landfill.
Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History written by Zsuzsa Gille and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zsuzsa Gille combines social history, cultural analysis, and environmental sociology to advance a long overdue social theory of waste in this study of waste management, Hungarian state socialism, and post--Cold War capitalism. From 1948 to the end of the Soviet period, Hungary developed a cult of waste that valued reuse and recycling. With privatization the old environmentally beneficial, though not flawless, waste regime was eliminated, and dumping and waste incineration were again promoted. Gille's analysis focuses on the struggle between a Budapest-based chemical company and the small rural village that became its toxic dump site.
Download or read book The Grumpy Dump Truck written by Brie Spangler and published by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bertrand the dump truck is always grumpy and mean, but a chance encounter with a porcupine reveals that his bad mood has a cause.
Download or read book Dump People written by Debbie Lacy and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venice was a very compassionate lead garbage collector for Central Pickup Garbage Company in Augusta Georgia. He and his crew had fun times on their garbage pickup routes in various communities. One day a good friend suggested a part time job as a Heavy Equipment Operator on a dumping ground but alarmingly, he was quite devastated to witness what actually took place on that waste site...
Download or read book Brain Dump written by Geoff Tibballs and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also works well as emergency loo roll. While you're not going anywhere, why not expand your mind with Brain Dump? Learn thousands of fascinating facts, stats and trivia. Guaranteed to boost your brain, this bumper compendium covers every subject from football to phobias, mountains to the Muppets and spiders to Shakespeare. It features hundreds of mind-blowing entries from Types of Cloud to the Longest Song Titles. And it's not just for the bathroom but the bedroom too! Struggling to sleep? Turn to the Fascinating Facts About Sheep and other gems to tire and train your brain. Zzzzzzzzzz..... Printed on soft absorbent paper for emergencies.
Download or read book Dump Trucks written by Donald F. Wood and published by . This book was released on with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This nostalgic scrapbook of archival and contemporary photographs documents the evolution of dump trucks, from the first dump trucks to the monsters of today! Heavy haulers from Mack, Ford, Chevrolet, Dodge, Diamond T, White, and many others are featured with introductory text and detailed captions that explain the development of these wonderful workhorse vehicles.
Download or read book The Atlantic Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dump Trucks Camiones de Volteo written by Erin Falligant and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whoosh! Crunch! Dump Trucks are here to haul! Learn how and where they do their work in this Machines! song. ¡Zum! ¡Crac! ¡Camiones de volteo llegaron para transportar! Aprende cómo y dónde trabajan en esta canción de ¡Las máquinas!
Download or read book Reclaiming the Discarded written by Kathleen M. Millar and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reclaiming the Discarded Kathleen M. Millar offers an evocative ethnography of Jardim Gramacho, a sprawling garbage dump on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, where roughly two thousand self-employed workers known as catadores collect recyclable materials. While the figure of the scavenger sifting through garbage seems iconic of wageless life today, Millar shows how the work of reclaiming recyclables is more than a survival strategy or an informal labor practice. Rather, the stories of catadores show how this work is inseparable from conceptions of the good life and from human struggles to realize these visions within precarious conditions of urban poverty. By approaching the work of catadores as highly generative, Millar calls into question the category of informality, common conceptions of garbage, and the continued normativity of wage labor. In so doing, she illuminates how waste lies at the heart of relations of inequality and projects of social transformation.
