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The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the Survivors of One of the Worst Disasters in Coal-Mining History Brought Suit Against the Coal Company--And Won
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Professor Gerald M Stern
"A must book for those interested in the continuing American battle between the corporations and the individual citizen".--Congressional Affairs Press.
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Everything Is Burning: Poems
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His poems are ruthless in their lack of self-pity and their focus. Showing a horror of lies, treachery, betrayal and above all a hatred of war, he offers redemption through stark language and plain speech.
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The Buffalo Creek disaster : the story of the survivors' unprecedented lawsuit
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This Time: New and Selected Poems
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Gerald Stern
A collection of poems which praise and mourn in turn and even at once.
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Frontiers of Development Economics: The Future in Perspective
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Joseph E Stiglitz (Editor), Professor Gerald M Meier (Editor), Nicholas Stern (Foreword by)
Edited by Vice President of the World Bank and Gerald Meier, author of several very successful Oxford titles, Frontiers in Development, offers cutting edge thinking from a new generation of dynamic thinkers in development economics.
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The Scotia Widows: Inside Their Lawsuit Against Big Daddy Coal
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Professor Gerald M Stern
From the author of "The Buffalo Creek Disaster"--one of the seminal books in the history of this nation's legal system--comes a searing account of a different mining disaster, and of the ongoing fight for justice.
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Last Blue
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Gerald Stern
The author describes one of his major poetic themes as being light versus darkness. This collection reflects this theme.
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Odd Mercy: Poems
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Gerald Stern
The centrepiece of Gerald Stern's ninth collection is a poem entitled "Hot Dog", which jointly received the 1996 best poem award from "The American Poetry Review".
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Bread Without Sugar: Poems
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Gerald Stern
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
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Save the Last Dance: Poems
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Gerald Stern
The fifteenth collection by a celebrated poet whose "terrific, boisterous energy has never flagged" (Megan Harlan, San Francisco Chronicle).
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What I Can't Bear Losing: Notes from a Life
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Gerald Stern looks back on his life, from his bookless childhood through his early travels and finally to academia and his position as a celebrated poet.
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American Sonnets: Poems
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A collection of 59 sonnets of 20 lines or so by Gerald Stern. It contains sonnets of an autobiographical nature as well as sonnets covering the visionary in surges of memory and language.
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Things Are Happening
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Joshua Beckman, Gerald Stern (Introduction by)
This collection of long poems was chosen by Gerald Stern for the APR/Honickman First Book Award.
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Last Blue: Poems
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Following his National Book Award winner, "Last Time", Gerald Stern further explores history and memory, the casual miracles of relationships, and his irrevocable connection to the natural world. The poems in "Last Blue" range in tone from the joyously unrestrained to the quietly sombre.
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Lucky Life
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Environmental Problems and Human Behavior
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Gerald T Gardner, Paul C Stern
*Designed for courses in environmental psychology, applied psychology, environmental sociology, and social ecology. Also appropriate as a supplemental text for enviornmental studies, enviornmental sciences, and environmental policy. *Examines the behavioral dimensions of global and regional environmental problems such as the greenhouse effect, ...
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The Death Mazurka: Poems
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Charles Fishman, Clarence Wolfshohl (Illustrator)
Historical events, however consequential, reduce easily to abstractions that quantify rather than qualify. Statistics, however disturbing, distance us from the responses that they should elicit. Lest we become anesthetized, we turn to fiction or poetry, to searing imagery and compression of language that crystallize for us the immeasurable ...
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American Sonnets
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In his 13th collection, the 1998 National Book Award winner presents us with 59 "Stern sonnets" of 20 lines or so, rather than the traditional 14. Using the events of his life as starting points, Stern deals with time and loss, light and darkness, and the possibility of joy.
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The Red Coal
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The Preacher: A Poem
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"The Preacher's a poem with polyphonic voices, enormous range, and many of Stern's familiar icons: his animism, his city grit, his philosophical fragments, his irony and justice quest, his reaching for the strain of memory."-Ira Sadoff Gerald Stern is the author of fourteen poetry books, including This Time: New and Selected Poems, which won the ...
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Lucky Life: Poems
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Night Out: Poems about Hotels, Motels, Restaurants, and Bars
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Kurt Brown (Editor), Laure-Anne Bosselaar (Editor), Gerald Stern (Foreword by)
Deep in the concrete canyons of even the largest cities, nature lurks. Its unpredictable energies animate not only squirrels and microorganisms, not only ginkgoes, roots, and rivers, but also the engines of human desire. Urban Nature captures the many faces of wildness in the city with poems by more than 130 emerging and recognized poets. Rather ...
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Paradise Poems
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Lovesick: Poems
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Leaving Another Kingdom: Selected Poems
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