Diesel Smoke Over Asphalt Ribbons

Diesel Smoke Over Asphalt Ribbons
Author: Jerry Aaron
Publisher:
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2011
Genre: Trucking
ISBN: 9781882943685

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Diesel Smoke Over Asphalt Ribbons

Diesel Smoke Over Asphalt Ribbons
Author: Jerry Aaron
Publisher: Jerry Aaron
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2016-05-02
Genre: History
ISBN:

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This book is an affectionate, detailed look at trucking and truck drivers in Nevada and California who hauled loads over US 40 and the infamous Donner Pass during the 1930s and on, into the day of modern trucking along Interstate 80.

Country Music

Country Music
Author: Kurt Wolff
Publisher: Rough Guides
Total Pages: 612
Release: 2000
Genre: Country music
ISBN: 9781858285344

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Includes essays tracing Country's growth from hand-me-down folk to a major American industry; concise biographies; critical album reviews, from the earliest commercial recordings of the 1920s through the mulitplatinum artists of today; and vintage album jackets and previously unpublished photographs.

Blue-Collar Pop Culture

Blue-Collar Pop Culture
Author: M. Keith Booker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 745
Release: 2012-03-09
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0313391998

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From television, film, and music to sports, comics, and everyday life, this book provides a comprehensive view of working-class culture in America. The terms "blue collar" and "working class" remain incredibly vague in the United States, especially in pop culture, where they are used to express and connote different things at different times. Interestingly, most Americans are, in reality, members of the working class, even if they do not necessarily think of themselves that way. Perhaps the popularity of many cultural phenomena focused on the working class can be explained in this way: we are endlessly fascinated by ourselves. Blue-Collar Pop Culture: From NASCAR to Jersey Shore provides a sophisticated, accessible, and entertaining examination of the intersection between American popular culture and working-class life in America. Covering topics as diverse as the attacks of September 11th, union loyalties, religion, trailer parks, professional wrestling, and Elvis Presley, the essays in this two-volume work will appeal to general readers and be valuable to scholars and students studying American popular culture.

The Hot Zone

The Hot Zone
Author: Richard Preston
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 450
Release: 1995
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0385479565

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The virus kills nine out of ten of its victims. Its effects are so quick and so gruesome that even biohazard experts are terrified. It is airborne, it is extremely contagious, and it is about to burn through the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Is there any way to stop it? This doomsday scenario confronted a biohazard SWAT team struggling in secret to stop the outbreak of an exotic "hot" virus at an Army research facility outside Washington. "The Hot Zone" tells the dramatic story of their dangerous race against time, along with an alarming account of how previously unknown viruses that have lived undetected in the rain forest for eons are now entering human populations. From the airlocked confines of a biosafety level 4 military lab, to an airliner over Kenya carrying a passenger dissolving into a human virus bomb, to a deserted jungle cave alive with deadly virus, THE HOT ZONE is a non-fiction thriller like no other. "The Andromeda Strain" was fiction--- "this is real!"

The Deer/ Dear Hunt

The Deer/ Dear Hunt
Author: Alan M. Oberdeck
Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2020-02-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1489727787

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Veteran Salesman Peter Waldmann is on a Routine Sales Call When he is Surprised to find that the new purchasing agent he is calling on is none other than John Stemple, his very best friend from high school, forty years earlier. When John invites him to come on a deer hunt with him in Edgerton, Wisconsin, a place Peter hasn’t returned to in forty years, he embarks on a journey to the past that will have a lasting effect on his future. In The Deer/Dear Hunt, Author Alan M. Oberdeck explores the threads of life that affect everyone. See life through the Eyes of a man who committed a stupid, youthful act that left him maimed and cost him the love of his life, Linda Leigh Swensen. When Peter and Linda meet in the first book of The Deer/Dear Hunt trilogy, he is forced to ask the question, can you ever go back again? In the second book of the trilogy The Vancouver Rendezvous, vacation with Peter and Linda in the great scenic northwest as they learn more and more about each other and try to work out their relationship and answer two important questions: What is this space that separates them? And, more importantly, can they bridge the gulf? In the third book of the trilogy Peter and Linda have each returned home from their two-week vacation. The plan is to meet again prior to this year’s deer hunt. Peter is now trying to do things in the right and proper manner to become part of Linda’s life. But then disaster strikes! Will Linda lose Peter again?

Heaven's Luck

Heaven's Luck
Author: harold hester
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2011
Genre:
ISBN: 0557601797

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Nevada's Teamsters, Truckers & Truck Stops

Nevada's Teamsters, Truckers & Truck Stops
Author: Jerry Aaron
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2015-06-01
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 188924368X

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This is a chronicle of trucking in the Silver State begins with the Teamsters of the late 1800s and follows the transportation trail as it progressed from bullwhacker to throttle jockey. It provides an insight into the building of Nevada-based trucking companies and is a narrative of early trucking The book will place the reader in the cab of a trucking time machine that covers over a hundred and fifty years of Nevada’s transportation industry.

ThunderCloud

ThunderCloud
Author: Ronald Joseph Kule
Publisher: KULEBOOKS LLC
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2018-10-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1735240222

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ThunderCloud... is a magical-realism novel about an excommunicated Native American teen forced to learn responsibility and its consequences in an unfamiliar and, at times, hostile world full of multi-cultural strangers. When ready, he journeys back to his Principal People (Cherokee), gathering myriad experiences that try his mind and soul, and a motley entourage composed of a renegade band of runaway youngsters, a woman he comes to love, and the wisdom of a precocious Amish boy. Upon arrival at his home reservation, he is not at all sure that he and his followers will be accepted or welcome.

Out of the Gate

Out of the Gate
Author: Ken Lauter
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2017-08-24
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1543440444

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Drawing on poems composed between 1960 and 1970, Out of the Gate makes available for the first time a sampling of previously unpublished work by Ken Lauter, the author of fourteen previous books of poetry and a prose/poetry memoir of his experiences as an environmental activist, The Ratlue Diaries: Two Poets and the Rocking K War in Tucson Arizona (SFA Press, 2017). These early poems were originally assembled in three manuscripts: In Praise (which received a Hopwood Award for Poetry at the University of Michigan), Metronome, and New Light. Lauter, now seventy-four, looks back on these poems written in his late teens and early twenties with a combination of bemusement and awe, seeing them as raw and remote, as though written not by him but by a ghost-poet he can now barely recognize. (The ghost, in fact, makes a surprise appearance at the end of the book.) This collection includes love poems to his wife (a neuroscientist, photographer, and poet, Judith Lauter); an elegy for his father; anti-Vietnam War protests; meditations on the Apollo mission to the moon, as well as on the music of Mozart and Beethoven; and several longer narratives on a variety of themes.