The Silver Short Line
Author | : Ted Wurm |
Publisher | : Howell-North Books, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ted Wurm |
Publisher | : Howell-North Books, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Transportation |
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Author | : Ted Wurm |
Publisher | : Interurban Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780870460647 |
Author | : Kris Lane |
Publisher | : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2021-03-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520383354 |
"For anyone who wants to learn about the rise and decline of Potosí as a city . . . Lane’s book is the ideal place to begin."—The New York Review of Books In 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. There followed the world's greatest silver bonanza, making the Cerro Rico or "Rich Hill" and the Imperial Villa of Potosí instant legends, famous from Istanbul to Beijing. The Cerro Rico alone provided over half of the world's silver for a century, and even in decline, it remained the single richest source on earth. Potosí is the first interpretive history of the fabled mining city’s rise and fall. It tells the story of global economic transformation and the environmental and social impact of rampant colonial exploitation from Potosí’s startling emergence in the sixteenth century to its collapse in the nineteenth. Throughout, Kris Lane’s invigorating narrative offers rare details of this thriving city and its promise of prosperity. A new world of native workers, market women, African slaves, and other ordinary residents who lived alongside the elite merchants, refinery owners, wealthy widows, and crown officials, emerge in lively, riveting stories from the original sources. An engrossing depiction of excess and devastation, Potosí reveals the relentless human tradition in boom times and bust.
Author | : Matthew Quick |
Publisher | : Sarah Crichton Books |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2010-04-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 142996023X |
A New York Times bestseller, The Silver Linings Playbook was adapted into the Oscar-winning movie starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. It tells the riotous and poignant story of how one man regains his memory and comes to terms with the magnitude of his wife's betrayal. During the years he spends in a neural health facility, Pat Peoples formulates a theory about silver linings: he believes his life is a movie produced by God, his mission is to become physically fit and emotionally supportive, and his happy ending will be the return of his estranged wife, Nikki. When Pat goes to live with his parents, everything seems changed: no one will talk to him about Nikki; his old friends are saddled with families; the Philadelphia Eagles keep losing, making his father moody; and his new therapist seems to be recommending adultery as a form of therapy. When Pat meets the tragically widowed and clinically depressed Tiffany, she offers to act as a liaison between him and his wife, if only he will give up watching football, agree to perform in this year's Dance Away Depression competition, and promise not to tell anyone about their "contract." All the while, Pat keeps searching for his silver lining. In this brilliantly written debut novel, Matthew Quick takes us inside Pat's mind, deftly showing us the world from his distorted yet endearing perspective. The result is a touching and funny story that helps us look at both depression and love in a wonderfully refreshing way.
Author | : Jack Russell Wagner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 11 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Railroads |
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Total Pages | : 1450 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Railroads |
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Author | : Jodi Picoult |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2013-06-25 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1451635818 |
Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy-tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.
Author | : William Bowie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Leveling |
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Total Pages | : 2348 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Railroads |
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Author | : Lucius Beebe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Railroads |
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