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Chicken Soup for the Girlfriend's Soul celebrates all that is special about the warm, nurturing relationships that women have with their best friends - the unique spirit of female friendship. With stories of old friends, new friends, laughter and tears, this is a book that every woman will appreciate.
On June 21, 1877, in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, ten men were executed by court order. All were said to be members of the "Molly Maguires," a secret society formed during the latter half of the nineteenth century by the Irish coal miners of the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania. Dr. Barrett, using a wealth of authentic records and backed by intensive research, contends that although the Mollies did exist and did perpetrate some crimes, their trials and arrest were ridden with perjury, false accusations, and unbelievable miscarriages of justice, all condoned by the politicians of the era. Hired by a mine executive, a Pinkerton detective, carried out a course of espionage among members o...
'Dom opens people's eyes to show them that what's holding their life back might be hiding at the bottom of their glass...' - Chris Williamson - Modern Wisdom ‘I saw firsthand how Dominic transformed his relationship with alcohol. This enabled him to become the best version of himself and inspired him to achieve his personal and business goals.’ - Steven Bartlett, Entrepreneur, Speaker, Investor, Author and the host of the UK’s No.1 Podcast ‘The Diary of a CEO’ ‘Like any drug, if not taken in moderation, alcohol is a poison and impacts every part of your system. Dominic McGregor saw this clearly on his own journey to change his relationship with alcohol, and interweaves his own pe...
Winner of CLR James Book Prize from the Working Class Studies Association and 2nd Place for the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing. In 1980, Christine J. Walley’s world was turned upside down when the steel mill in Southeast Chicago where her father worked abruptly closed. In the ensuing years, ninety thousand other area residents would also lose their jobs in the mills—just one example of the vast scale of deindustrialization occurring across the United States. The disruption of this event propelled Walley into a career as a cultural anthropologist, and now, in Exit Zero, she brings her anthropological perspective home, examining the fate of her family and that of blue-collar A...