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How to be an Older Writer

By: Brian Darwent

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Why keep sending your manuscripts and synopses off to mainstream publishers who give them precious little attention but consign them to a slushpile? This book suggests a different approach, which sets aside the fantasy of fame and riches and other crazy dreams. Its message is: if you sincerely want to be a writer be one.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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190523791X

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9781905237913

Understanding Chipped Stone Tools

By: Brian Hayden

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Understanding Chipped Stone Tools

By: Brian Hayden

This is a unique and engaging book on prehistoric stone tools. It advocates an experiential approach in which analysts try to understand stone tool designs from the users' perspectives, and employs a universal logic of designing tools to solve practical problems and evaluating various possible solutions. However, to do so it is also necessary to understand how stone can be mechanically modified to serve specific functions. The author enlists a rich array of ethnographic observations and considerable background as a flintknapper to show the basic ways in which stones can be flaked and modified and what these characteristics can reveal about prehistoric problem-solving strategies and design constraints. This is an invaluable primer for anyone contemplating the study of prehistoric stone tools.

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226

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Eliot Werner Publications

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1734281871

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9781734281873

South Yorkshire Mining Disasters

Volume 1: The Nineteenth Century

By: Brian Elliot

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South Yorkshire Mining Disasters

Volume 1: The Nineteenth Century

By: Brian Elliot

In the period that we now call the Industrial Revolution mining disasters wrecked the lives of thousands of South Yorkshire families and devastated entire communities. The Husker pit flooding of 1838 in which 26 young girls and boys were killed shocked Victorian society and and was a significant factor in the 1842 Report on Employment of Women and Children in Mines; but earlier, long forgotten disasters are also explored. The Barnsley area was particularly hard-hit during the middle decades of the century with major mining accidents, usually great explosions of firedamp occurring, for example, at Lundhill Colliery (189 men and boys killed); Oaks (361 fatalities, Britains worst pit disaster) and Swaithe Main (143 dead). Scenes of grief, mourning and remarkable heroism provided spectacular copy for Victorian newspapers and magazines such as The Illustrated London News, focusing on the very uncertain and dangerous life of the miner. Despite the importance and widespread occurrence of South Yorkshire mining disasters, which also included dreadful winding accidents and gas emissions, their story has never been told in a single volume.

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Wharncliffe

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1903425646

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9781903425640

How to be an Older Writer

By: Brian Darwent

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Through the Year with Brian D'arcy

By: Brian D'Arcy

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Through the Year with Brian D'arcy

By: Brian D'Arcy

This book contains a short reflection for each day of the year on cultural, political, social, and religious matters from Irish columnist Brian D'Arcy.

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Columba Press (IE)

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How to be an Older Writer

How to be an Older Writer

Understanding Chipped Stone Tools

Understanding Chipped Stone Tools

South Yorkshire Mining Disasters

South Yorkshire Mining Disasters

How to be an Older Writer

How to be an Older Writer

Through the Year with Brian D'arcy

Through the Year with Brian D'arcy

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