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Book Iron City

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lloyd Louis Brown
  • Publisher : UPNE
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9781555532062
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Iron City written by Lloyd Louis Brown and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1994 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking work of African American proletarian literature, first published in 1951 and now back in print.

Book Alita  Battle Angel   Iron City

Download or read book Alita Battle Angel Iron City written by Pat Cadigan and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official prequel novelization to the highly anticipated science fiction movie, Alita: Battle Angel. The official prequel novel to the highly anticipated film. A long time ago there was the Great War. The reasons for the war have been lost to time. On the shattered surface of the Earth, there is a metropolis that lives amidst the garbage thrown down from the inhabitants of a sky city floating above it. Welcome to Iron City. A lonely doctor specialising in cyborg repair, Ido, is doing his best to help the citizens of Iron City. But Ido has a double life, another persona born from the pieces of his broken heart. Hugo, a young man surviving on a life of crime, spots the ultimate steal: an object that will unearth secrets from his own past. And Vector, the most powerful businessman in the city, has his sights set on a new technology that will change the future of Iron City forever...

Book The Next Shift

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gabriel Winant
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2021-03-23
  • ISBN : 0674238095
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book The Next Shift written by Gabriel Winant and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men in hardhats were once the heart of America’s working class; now it is women in scrubs. What does this shift portend for our future? Pittsburgh was once synonymous with steel. But today most of its mills are gone. Like so many places across the United States, a city that was a center of blue-collar manufacturing is now dominated by the service economy—particularly health care, which employs more Americans than any other industry. Gabriel Winant takes us inside the Rust Belt to show how America’s cities have weathered new economic realities. In Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods, he finds that a new working class has emerged in the wake of deindustrialization. As steelworkers and their families grew older, they required more health care. Even as the industrial economy contracted sharply, the care economy thrived. Hospitals and nursing homes went on hiring sprees. But many care jobs bear little resemblance to the manufacturing work the city lost. Unlike their blue-collar predecessors, home health aides and hospital staff work unpredictable hours for low pay. And the new working class disproportionately comprises women and people of color. Today health care workers are on the front lines of our most pressing crises, yet we have been slow to appreciate that they are the face of our twenty-first-century workforce. The Next Shift offers unique insights into how we got here and what could happen next. If health care employees, along with other essential workers, can translate the increasing recognition of their economic value into political power, they may become a major force in the twenty-first century.

Book The Iron City

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  • Author : John Bensko
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780252068713
  • Pages : 98 pages

Download or read book The Iron City written by John Bensko and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These vivid narrative and lyrical poems focus on scenes and characters from the coal and steel producing regions of Alabama, an unlikely but rich source for meditations on the hidden emotions of our lives. The iron city is a world in which a child and the people around him are trapped in the mystery of their surroundings, trying to reach toward love, understanding, and clarity. Acclaimed poet John Bensko creates powerful images of enclosed spaces, both physical and emotional, and of the surprising radiance they evoke. Through the central metaphor of a raw material that contains both its history (""Memory of delicate / Ferns, leaves, bones of fishes"") and its future (""Coal, the rock that burns""), The Iron City explores the chasm between child and adult, musing over veins depleted, resources misused, and the glint of promise deep underground."

Book City of Iron and Dust

    Book Details:
  • Author : J.P. Oakes
  • Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
  • Release : 2021-07-06
  • ISBN : 1789097118
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book City of Iron and Dust written by J.P. Oakes and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fast-paced and razor-sharp dark fantasy for readers of Nicholas Eames, Anna Smith Spark and Robert Jackson Bennett "A fantastic book, full of wit and sharp humor, City of Iron and Dust careens through a modernized faerie at a breakneck pace, full of verve and unforgettable characters. Oakes spins a smart, electric, and sometimes snarky tale, showing that the beating heart of modern fantasy is alive and well." – John Hornor Jacobs, author of A Lush and Seething Hell and The Incorruptibles The Iron City is a prison, a maze, an industrial blight. It is the result of a war that saw the goblins grind the fae beneath their collective boot heels. And tonight, it is also a city that churns with life. Tonight, a young fae is trying to make his fortune one drug deal at a time; a goblin princess is searching for a path between her own dreams and others’ expectations; her bodyguard is deciding who to kill first; an artist is hunting for his own voice; an old soldier is starting a new revolution; a young rebel is finding fresh ways to fight; and an old goblin is dreaming of reclaiming her power over them all. Tonight, all their stories are twisting together, wrapped up around a single bag of Dust—the only drug that can still fuel fae magic—and its fate and theirs will change the Iron City forever.

Book Clockworld  The Iron City

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ben Myatt
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 0244980454
  • Pages : 700 pages

Download or read book Clockworld The Iron City written by Ben Myatt and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Worker City  Company Town

Download or read book Worker City Company Town written by Daniel J. Walkowitz and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book City of the Iron Fish

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  • Author : Simon Ings
  • Publisher : Gollancz
  • Release : 2014-04-10
  • ISBN : 057513092X
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book City of the Iron Fish written by Simon Ings and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Ings has written a surreal adventure probing the very fabric of existence, tearing it open to reveal a sometimes horrifying world within. It is a work that will delight any fan of China Mieville. Only a fool would question the strange magics that maintain the cool haven of the City of the Iron Fish in the middle of an inferno of scorching heat and splintered rock, for the well-watered streets of the city hide secrets in their shadows. Thomas Kemp is just such a fool ... And embarks on a journey that will take him to the limits of reality. It may kill him, worse, that may not be enough. Especially as it is his only friend, Blythe, who may discover the secret of the city's isolation.

Book Iron Kin

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  • Author : M.J. Scott
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2013-04-02
  • ISBN : 0451465059
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Iron Kin written by M.J. Scott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a city divided. Fae and human mages on one side, vampire Blood Lords and shape-shifting Beast Kind on the other. Between these supernatural forces stands a peace treaty that threatens to shatter at the slightest provocation.... I was raised to do the right thing. But to my family that means staying safe behind the walls of human society. To be a respectable metalmage and never put myself at risk. But the treaty is faltering. And if it fails, nothing is safe. To help save the city and everyone I care about, I will use whatever means I can to ensure the negotiations to renew the treaty are successful—even if that means forging an alliance with a man who is the very opposite of the right thing.... Fen is trouble. Wild. He would rather bind himself in iron and drink himself into oblivion than learn to master the visions that come to him. Those visions might just hold the key to peace, and it seems that my power might hold the key to his control—if I can keep it around him....

Book Book of Iron

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Bear
  • Publisher : Subterranean Press
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9781596064744
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Book of Iron written by Elizabeth Bear and published by Subterranean Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subterranean Press is proud to announce Book of Iron, the standalone prequel to Elizabeth Bear's acclaimed novella, Bone and Jewel Creatures. Bijou the Artificer is a Wizard of Messaline, the City of Jackals. She and her partner and rival Kaulas the Necromancer, along with the martial Prince Salih, comprise the Bey's elite band of trouble-solving adventurers. But Messaline is built on the ruins of a still more ancient City of Jackals. So when two foreign Wizards and a bard from the mysterious western isles cross the desert in pursuit of a sorcerer intent on plundering the deadly artifacts of lost Erem, Bijou and her companions must join their hunt. The quest will take them through strange passages, beneath the killing light of alien suns, with the price of failure the destruction of every land.

Book Iron and the Maiden

Download or read book Iron and the Maiden written by Jason Rubin and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in an alternate-universe, 1930s metropolis, a hitman trying to reform and an innocent debutante get caught in the middle of a three-way battle for power between the government, a religious sect, and an underworld criminal organization. Series writer and creator Jason Rubin Iron and the Maiden as "a cross between a '30s gangster film, Escape from New York, and Beauty and the Beast."

Book Iron City

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  • Author : Pat Cadigan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 383 pages

Download or read book Iron City written by Pat Cadigan and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long time ago there was the Great War. The reasons for the war have been lost to time. On the shattered surface of the Earth, there is a metropolis that lives amidst the garbage thrown down from the inhabitants of a sky city floating above it. Welcome to Iron City. A lonely doctor specialising in cyborg repair, Ido, is doing his best to help the citizens of Iron City. But Ido has a double life, another persona born from the pieces of his broken heart. Hugo, a young man surviving on a life of crime, spots the ultimate steal: an object that will unearth secrets from his own past. And Vector, the most powerful businessman in the city, has his sights set on a new technology that will change the future of Iron City forever.

Book Iron City Strangers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peggy Lutz-McDaniel
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2012-02-01
  • ISBN : 1471604950
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Iron City Strangers written by Peggy Lutz-McDaniel and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the annual Iron City Festival approaches, Maggie Callahan, mystery writer and shop owner from a small town in South Carolina stumbles across what she believes to be a conspiracy brewing when two strangers enter her bookshop. The chain of events which unravel over the course of the next eight months leaves Maggie and the town folks reeling when two badly decomposed bodies are discovered a few miles outside the city limits of Blacksburg. Staring the Devil in the eye, Maggie stands face-to-face with a serial killer who has left a string of nineteen unsolved murders across Texas, Florida, Alabama and Georgia before reaching South Carolina. The FBI comes to the aid of SLED, working relentlessly to capture the killer and bring him to justice. Just when Maggie thought she had seen and heard it all, a bombshell is dropped into her lap -- leaving her flabbergasted and the "Iron City" changed. No one saw it coming!

Book Iron City

Download or read book Iron City written by Lloyd Louis Brown and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iron City is a prison novel by the American writer Lloyd L. Brown based on an actual court case and inspired by the author's experiences as a labor organizer and political prisoner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1936 to 1941. The novel tells the story of Lonnie James, a black youth falsely convicted of -- and sentenced to death for the murder of a white businessman. From inside the "iron city" of the Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh, America's "iron city," three black Communist prisoners spearhead a fight to save James's life. Iron City confronts race relations in mid-twentieth-century America inside and outside prison walls and promotes a Communist vision of racial and class solidarity.

Book The Iron City  A Compendium Of Facts Concerning Pittsburgh And Vicinity  For Strangers And The Public Generally  April  1867

Download or read book The Iron City A Compendium Of Facts Concerning Pittsburgh And Vicinity For Strangers And The Public Generally April 1867 written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Iron City; A Compendium Of Facts Concerning Pittsburgh And Vicinity, For Strangers And The Public Generally. April, 1867 has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Book Iron City

Download or read book Iron City written by Marion Hawthorne Hedges and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Iron City

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pittock and McFall
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2018-02-19
  • ISBN : 9780656918560
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book The Iron City written by Pittock and McFall and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Iron City: A Compendium of Facts Concerning Pittsburgh and Vicinity; For Strangers and the Public Generally; April, 1867 First-class family newspaper, suited to the Politician, the Farmer, the Mechanic, the Family Circle, and the general reader. 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.