Groves, Derek.
The Roof of Africa on Wheels:
(Alfresco Books, 1999).
Commentary by Jon Amos. Foreword by Chris Bonnington. Jon Amos became a paraplegic following a road accident when just 17. Since then he has advanced the awareness of what a person with a disability can achieve by the challenges he has personally undertaken, raising thousands of pounds for charity in the process. In 1998 he attained an altitude record by someone in a wheelchair - 16,040 feet up Mount Kilimanjaro. This book vividly describes the preparation and actual ascent by Jon and the team. With a fascinating selection of colour photographs, this story of Jon's grit and determination, and the dedicated teamwork of those who accompanied him, makes inspiring reading. Paperback. Fine. 104pp. Order No. NSBK-A6269
Keywords: 1873727119, Africa, African, Derek Groves, Alfresco Books, Jon Amos, Chris Bonnington, wheelchairs, mountains, mountaineering, disabilities, disability, teamwork, climbing, Mount Kilimanjaro, twentieth century, paraplegics, paraplegic sports, Moshi International School, Moshi Club, Tanzania, wheelchair sport, British Wheelchair Sports Foundation, Marangu Gate, Tanzanian National Parks, TANAPA, Arusha, Mkombozi Street Kids Project, Kishari Orphanage, Mandara Hut, Brice Bennett's Trekking Lodge, Horombo, Kibo, Mwereni Primary School, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, KCMC, Arusha National Park, Ngurdoto Crater, Momella Lodge, Poverty Africa, Cyclone Wheelchairs
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National Institute, Economic and Social Research.
The UK Economy:
(Heinemann, 3rd edit., 1995).
Series editor Bryan Hurl. Studies in the UK Economy. Paperback. Very good. v + 90pp. Order No. NSBK-A9824
Keywords: 0435330365, UK, economy, economic, history, twentieth century, Britain, British, history, England, English, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, Studies in the UK Economy
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Anon, .
Morley Scrap Album:
(Morley College, 1973).
Paperback. Over size, covers slightly soiled, otherwise good, laid out like a scrapbook. pp. Order No. NSBK-A11924
Keywords: B000HC7CLG, Morley College, higher education, education, educational, university, universities, colleges, academia, academe, twentieth century, 20th, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Beik, Mildred Allen.
The Miners of Windber: The Struggles of New Immigrants for Unionization
(Pennsylvania University Press, 1996).
Paperback. Near fine. xxx + 447pp. Order No. NSBK-A10290
Keywords: 0271015675, immigrants, immigration, America, American, USA, US, United States, history, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, unionization, unionisation, Pennsylvania, Windber, miners, mining, coal, coalminers, coalmining, Berwind-White Coal Mining Company, New Deal, United Mine Workers, ethnicity, ethnic
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Beckerman, Wilfred.
Slow Growth in Britain: Causes and Consequences
(Clarendon Press, 1979).
Paperback. Very good +. vi + 237pp. Order No. NSBK-A10121
Keywords: 0198284217, Britain, British, England, English, history, industry, industrial, economics, economic, twentieth century, 20th, British Association for the Advancement of Science Economics, slow growth, productivity, manufacturing
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Thompson, Laurence.
The Enthusiasts: A Biography of John and Katharine Bruce Glasier
(Victor Gollancz, 1971).
Hardback. Very good in rubbed and faded dustrwapper. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A312
Keywords: 9780575006553, John Bruce Glasier, Katharine Bruce Glasier, socialism, biography, biographies, labour movement, labor, socialists, history, Scotland, Scottish, ILP, Independent Labour Party, Britain, British, nineteenth century, twentieth century, poltics, political, Keir Hardie, Ramsay MacDonald
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Burgess, Robert G., ed.
Investigating Society:
(Longman, 1989).
Paperback. Very good. ix + 243pp. Order No. NSBK-A10592
Keywords: 0582355958, society sociology, sociological, methods, methodology, social sciences, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, child abuse, community, communities, gender, teachers, feminism, feminists
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Smith, Joan.
Femmes de Siecle: Stories from the '90s: Women Writing at the End of Two Centuries
(Chatto & Windus, 1992).
Paperback. Ink inscription to fly leaf, otherwise good. 303pp. Order No. NSBK-C6905
Keywords: 0701139846, women writers, woman writers, women's writing, New women, New woman, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, twentieth century, 20th, femmes de siecle
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Political and Economic Planning (PEP), .
Industrial Trade Associations: Activities and Organisation
(George Allen and Unwin, 1957).
Hardback. Spine bumped, internally good in worn and torn dustwrapper. xiii + 340pp. Order No. NSBK-A10179
Keywords: B0000CJN2K, industry, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, trade associations, organisations, trade, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, Political and Economic Planning, PEP
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Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(W. Collins, 1st edition, 1918).
Rare first edition copy of this ground-breaking work. For the collector. Women employed in housekeeping; changes in domestic standards; why not be servantless?; the distaste for domestic service; labour-making houses; domestic federations; reconstructed domestic service; the motor as emancipator; waste of labour; women who do domestic work without aptitude or satisfaction; service of women needed by the country. Clementina Black urges a reorganisation of household duties, in order to free women from domestic drudgery. In her utopian vision of 'co-operative housekeeping', women would be released from the wasted effort of housework and made available for the labour market, which was now so very depleted of men after the Great War. She criticises the 'stupidity' of 'labour-making houses', and questions the continuing validity of the employment of domestic servants in the modern age. Her solution is to propose the formation of 'domestic federations'. These would represent committees of householders who would collectively manage their domestic arrangements in a centre 'fitted up with store places, kitchens, dining-rooms, offices, and lodgings for a nucleus of resident servants'. Hardback. Original cloth covered in small dark and white blotches, corners worn and spine split, text firm. A good working copy only. 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C4960
Keywords: Great War, First World War, World War I, social history, class, middle classes, middle class, domesticity, servants, domestic servants, maid, maids, housemaids, housekeeping, Clementina Black, labour-making houses, homes, houses, domestic service, twentieth century, interwar, inter-war, inter war, Homes for Heroes, housing, domestic standards, etiquette, women, domestic work, labour, working women, women's history, chores, co-operative housekeeping, domestic federations, cooperative housekeeping, co-operatives, co-operation, cooperation, Women's Industrial Council, labour-saving, labour market, labor, labour shortage, housework, utopianism, utopian, stored with antiquarian
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