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Retribution

By: Warren Pechin

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Retribution takes place in Sacramento, California, in the late 1990s. The story details the crises the main character, Werner Manheim--the sixty-five-year-old owner of the largest structural engineering firm in the city--goes through personally and professionally after losing an arbitration proceeding to the architects GBA, who hired his firm on a new local high school project. His maneuverings to overcome the effects of he and his wife, Georgina, having to pay off the arbitration award and interest to the architects and his legal expenses to his long-time friend, Brent Bannock, who represented him during the arbitration, are detailed. The drama of adversaries and others on both sides and how they affect the escalating series of events, adding additional monetary stress, progresses to a surprising conclusion.

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9798886540819

The American Steel Industry, 1850–1970

A Geographical Interpretation

By: Kenneth Warren

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The American Steel Industry, 1850–1970

A Geographical Interpretation

By: Kenneth Warren

A richly detailed account of the American steel industry from its beginnings until 1970, when its long period of international leadership was challenged, this book interprets steel from viewpoints of historical and economic geography. It considers both physical factors, such as resouces, and human factors such as market, organization, and governmental policy. In major discussions of the east coast, Pittsburgh, the Ohio Valley, the Great Lakes, the South and the West, Warren analyzes the location and relocation of steel plants over 120 years. He explains the influence on location of a variety of factors: The accessibility of resources, the cost of transportation, the existence of specialized markets, and the availability of entrepreneurial skills, capital, and labor. He also evaluates the role of management in the development of the industry, through an analysis of individual companies, including Bethlehem, Carnegie, United States Steel, Kaiser, Inland, Jones and Laughlin, and Youngstown Sheet and Tube. Warren examines the influence exerted on the industry by complex technological changes and weighs their significance against market forces and the supply of natural resources. In the production process alone, the industry changed from pig iron to steel; from charcoal to anthracite; to bituminous coking coal; and from the widespread use of low-grade ore from the eastern United States, to the high quality but localized deposits of the Upper Great Lakes, to imported ores. Unlike other industrialized nations, the United States has undergone major geographical shifts in steel consumption since the 1850s. As the American population moved south and west into new territory, steel followed. Warren concludes that these radical alterations in the distribution and demand were the decisive force in the location of steel production.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822978733

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9780822978732

Wealth, Waste, and Alienation

Growth and Decline in the Connellsville Coke Industry

By: Kenneth Warren

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Wealth, Waste, and Alienation

Growth and Decline in the Connellsville Coke Industry

By: Kenneth Warren

The southwestern Pennsylvania town of Connellsville lay in the middle of a massive reserve of high quality coal. Connellsville coal was so soft and easily worked that one man and a boy could cut and load ten tons of it in ten hours. This region became a major source of coke, a vital material in industrial processes, above all in steel manufacture, producing forty-seven percent of America`s supply in 1913. But by the 1920s, what had seemed to be a gold mine was turning into a devastating economic, environmental and social loss. In Wealth, Waste and Alienation, Kenneth Warren draws from primary source material, including the minutes and letters of the Carnegie Steel Company, the United States Steel Corporation, and the archives of Henry Clay Frick, to explain the birth, phenomenal growth, decline and death of the Connellsville coke industry. Its rich natural resources produced wealth for individuals, companies, and some communities, but as Warren shows, there was also social alienation, waste, and devastation of the natural environment. The complicated structure of enterprise, capital, and labor which made this region flourish unwound almost as quickly as it arose, creating repercussions that are still reverberating in what's left of Connellsville today, a kind of postindustrial rural shell of its former productive glory.

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University of Pittsburgh Pre

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0822970546

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9780822970545

Talking with Robert Penn Warren

By: Floyd C. Watkins,John T. Hiers,Mary Weaks-Baxter

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Talking with Robert Penn Warren

By: Floyd C. Watkins,John T. Hiers,Mary Weaks-Baxter

Collects a wide variety of interviews given by the author over the years, including television appearances and conversations with other writers

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University of Georgia Press

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0820312207

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9780820312200

Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren

Toward Sunset, at a Great Height, 1980–1989

By: Robert Penn Warren

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Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren

Toward Sunset, at a Great Height, 1980–1989

By: Robert Penn Warren

In the last decade of his life, Robert Penn Warren remained a vibrant force in American literature, producing new works of poetry and nonfiction while also dealing courageously with the gradual decline of his health and the diminishment of his poetic powers. Toward Sunset, at a Great Height, 1980--1989, the sixth and final volume of the author's selected letters, provides crucial documentation of this period, containing Warren's correspondence with friends, family, fellow writers, editors, critics, and the scholars studying his works. Warren published several volumes of poetry, including Being Here (1980), Rumor Verified (1981), and Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce (1983), and returned to nonfiction prose with Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back (1980) and the memoir Portrait of a Father (1988). His letters reveal that he tried to begin writing a novel but was unable to make substantial progress on it, and that from 1985 on he became increasingly dissatisfied with his new poems. Until his death at age eighty-four, however, Warren maintained an active correspondence filled with news about his writings and travels, accounts of the lives of his wife and children, and a stoic attitude about his own physical decline as well as a solicitousness regarding the health of others, such as his brother, Thomas, and sister, Mary. He communicated with rising young scholars and encouraged younger poets he admired. Toward Sunset, at a Great Height offers rich insights into the closing chapter of Robert Penn Warren's professional and personal life, making it an essential resource for understanding the full scope of the author's contribution to American letters.

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LSU Press

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080715282X

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9780807152829

Portrait of a father

By: Robert Penn Warren

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Portrait of a father

By: Robert Penn Warren

Confederate John Singleton Mosby forged his reputation on the most exhilarating of military activities: the overnight raid. Mosby possessed a genius for guerrilla and psychological warfare, taking control of the dark to make himself the "Gray Ghost" of Union nightmares. Gray Ghost, the first full biography of Confederate raider John Mosby, reveals new information on every aspect of MosbyÕs life, providing the first analysis of his impact on the Civil War from the Union viewpoint.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813130611

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9780813130613

Selections from the Papers and Speeches of Warren G. Harding, 1918-1923

The Twenty-ninth President of the United States of America

By: Warren Gamaliel Harding

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Selections from the Papers and Speeches of Warren G. Harding, 1918-1923

The Twenty-ninth President of the United States of America

By: Warren Gamaliel Harding

This collection of documents, both personal and political, is an invaluable tool for better understanding and appreciating a president often condemned by historians as a poor leader and administrator.

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0773451072

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Retribution

Retribution

The American Steel Industry, 1850–1970

The American Steel Industry, 1850–1970

Wealth, Waste, and Alienation

Wealth, Waste, and Alienation

Talking with Robert Penn Warren

Talking with Robert Penn Warren

Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren

Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren

Portrait of a father

Portrait of a father

Selections from the Papers and Speeches of Warren G. Harding, 1918-1923

Selections from the Papers and Speeches of Warren G. Harding, 1918-1923

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