Trap History
Author: A. R. Shaw
Publisher:
Published: 2021-10-08
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ISBN-13: 9780978979911
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A look at the Atlanta music scene and birth of Trap music.
Author: A. R. Shaw
Publisher:
Published: 2021-10-08
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780978979911
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A look at the Atlanta music scene and birth of Trap music.
Author: Neil Swidey
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2015-02-17
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 0307886735
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless, miles-long tunnel, hundreds of feet below the ocean, to do a nearly impossible job—with deadly results A quarter-century ago, Boston had the dirtiest harbor in America. The city had been dumping sewage into it for generations, coating the seafloor with a layer of “black mayonnaise.” Fisheries collapsed, wildlife fled, and locals referred to floating tampon applicators as “beach whistles.” In the 1990s, work began on a state-of-the-art treatment plant and a 10-mile-long tunnel—its endpoint stretching farther from civilization than the earth’s deepest ocean trench—to carry waste out of the harbor. With this impressive feat of engineering, Boston was poised to show the country how to rebound from environmental ruin. But when bad decisions and clashing corporations endangered the project, a team of commercial divers was sent on a perilous mission to rescue the stymied cleanup effort. Five divers went in; not all of them came out alive. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents collected over five years of reporting, award-winning writer Neil Swidey takes us deep into the lives of the divers, engineers, politicians, lawyers, and investigators involved in the tragedy and its aftermath, creating a taut, action-packed narrative. The climax comes just after the hard-partying DJ Gillis and his friend Billy Juse trade assignments as they head into the tunnel, sentencing one of them to death. An intimate portrait of the wreckage left in the wake of lives lost, the book—which Dennis Lehane calls "extraordinary" and compares with The Perfect Storm—is also a morality tale. What is the true cost of these large-scale construction projects, as designers and builders, emboldened by new technology and pressured to address a growing population’s rapacious needs, push the limits of the possible? This is a story about human risk—how it is calculated, discounted, and transferred—and the institutional failures that can lead to catastrophe. Suspenseful yet humane, Trapped Under the Sea reminds us that behind every bridge, tower, and tunnel—behind the infrastructure that makes modern life possible—lies unsung bravery and extraordinary sacrifice.
Author: Nicholas Rankin
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2023-11-14
Total Pages: 493
ISBN-13: 0571307779
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Trapped in History tells how the British colonised Kenya and how African nationalism arose under Jomo Kenyatta. It describes the terrifying first attacks by the guerrilla freedom fighters known as Mau Mau. Though defeated, the Mau Mau hastened the end of British rule in Kenya. Trapped in History explores the effect the uprising on the author, who grew up as a child in the Kenya colony. The book is both a history, as well as a memoir, of the end of Empire.
Author: Karen Tintori
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2018-02-06
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0743428048
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A gripping account of the worst coal mine fire in US history—the 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster that claimed the lives of 259 men. "Drawing on diaries, letters, written accounts of survivors and testimony from the coroner's inquest...Tintori's engaging prose keeps readers on the edge" (Publishers Weekly). Inspired by a refrain of her girlhood—"Your grandfather survived the Cherry Mine disaster"—Karen Tintori began a search for her family's role in the harrowing tragedy of 1909. She uncovered the stories of victims, survivors, widows, orphans, townspeople, firefighters, reporters, and mine owners, and wove them together to pen Trapped, a riveting account of the tragic day that would inspire America's first worker's compensation laws and hasten much-needed child labor reform. On a Saturday morning in November of 1909, four hundred and eighty men went down into the mines as they had countless times before. But a fire erupted in the mineshaft that day and soon burned out of control. By nightfall, more than half the men would either be dead or trapped as officials sealed the mine in an attempt to contain the blaze. Miraculously, twenty men would emerge one week later, but not before the Cherry Mine disaster went down in history as the worst ever coal mine fire in the US—and not before all the treachery and heroism of mankind were revealed.
Author: Dan Greenburg
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Published: 2002-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780613500890
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It seems like a regular field trip to a natural history museum - until Zack gets locked inside for the night and discovers what really goes on in those display cases when no one is watching
Author: Declan P. Cleary
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781434321954
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story shows how being raised in a family that has been part of historical events traps the individual to follow in line with the fulfillment of these dreams. It shows how the actions one takes has consequences for future events . The deeds of the pasts shape the future , and the ghosts of the past have away of casting a shadow over that future.
Author: Dan Greenburg
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Published: 2002-02-01
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ISBN-13: 9780606250825
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →After a class trip to see the Neanderthals, Zach gets locked into the Rosencrantz Museum on the night of the new moon, the one time of the month when the prehistoric people and animals in the exhibits come to life.
Author: Dan Greenburg
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Published: 2002-02-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780756922450
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Zack Files #25.
Author: Dan Greenburg
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9781404608160
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Zack, trapped overnight in a museum of natural history, learns to his dismay that the Neanderthals and other exhibits come to life.
Author: Ruth Pierce
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Published: 2016-08-29
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9781373258441
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