Stanley Books

I chose to read Big Annie of Calumet because it features a strong female protagonist, who dedicated a year of her life to working to improve the lives of her family and friends during the Industrial Revolution. She is not only a positive role model for young adults, but also her story is inspiring and interesting for all ages of readers. It is another reminder of those who gave so much so that we can live as comfortably as we do, which is the theme of the book. In 1913 Annie Clemenc, the wife of a Croatian miner, led copper mine strikers in Upper Michigan in daily protest demonstrations against unsafe working conditions, long hours and low pay. Her determination, courage and strength were aimed at the powerful Calumet and Hecla Mining Company. Annie was born in 1888, the oldest of five children, to George and Mary Klobuchar, who were immigrants from Croatia. Her father worked in the C & H Mines for thirty years and Mary worked as a cook and maid for a wealthy family. Annie graduated from a C & H school and became a church worker, who helped crippled miners. She also helped the family by doing laundry for other families. Even though they worked hard, there was no guarantee that there would be enough money for food and clothing. When she was eighteen, she married Joseph Clemenc, a Croatian miner. If Annie was lucky, she could earn fifty cents a day scrubbing floors and washing other people's clothing. She had grown up in poverty, living in a shack and wearing secondhand dresses. She would either continue to live in poverty or she would march against the people who kept her in poverty. "In the summer of 1913, she decided to march." The story is set against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution and the author devoted the first chapter and much of this book to describing the struggle by the working class during that period in U.S. history. He explained that the number of immigrants to this country was the largest movement of people in history. He also explained that a small group of men gained control of the natural resources. Focusing on profit, these men seemed to forget the workers on whose backs they amassed great fortunes. He shows the reader how men, women and children worked ten to twelve hour days, sometimes seven days and week and earning less that ten dollars a week. Women and children averaged five dollars a week and they worked in unsafe conditions. The author tells how Big Annie marched daily against the giant C & H Mining Co. and provoked them to take several actions against the miners. The striking miners were opposed by the state militia, business owners in the town, which was run by the mining company, and by strikebreakers. They faced shootings and beatings and even the courts and gained international attention in the news media. You'll have to read this wonderful book to find out what happened, but it's a wonderful read and well worth your time! A great book for all aged readers! I give it five stars!

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In the opening chapters of this book, Ellisen speaks to the "why" of what is going on. Few popular prophecy books or commentaries speak to this issue. This information is a must for any serious student.

Ellisen has an enjoyable writing style.

Everyone dedicated to provide nutritional support has to read this excellent book, supported by one of the most important promoter of nutrition Dr. S. Dudrick, this book serves as a quick reference for the ultimate concepts about this science or to obtain elemental knowledges in the field of clinical nutriton ranging from molecular to practical mechanisms in order to improve the nutritional status and avoid morbility and mortality in our patients. We are used to read regular journals about nutrition or related areas, but always is needed one book that compilates and arranges the elements provided by literature in this book just does it!.

This is a very interesting little book. It relates the story of a nightmare of domestic murder that took place in Birmingham, Alabama in 1888. Without editorializing, it presents the environment, and the characters in a way that puts the reader right into the picture.

The author of this book gives names, places, landmarks, etc. in a clinical way. He quotes the newspaper articles, magazine articles, and court testamony in a seemingly accurate manner. If there is any criticism at all, it could be in the way in which he sometimes quotes the black dialect, and sometimes does not. Since he is inconsistent in this, it would have been better if he had left out dialectic quotes all together. However, this is such a small (equivocal) error, compared to his overall accomplishment, perhaps it should not even be mentioned.

I am particularly interested in his method of factual documented presentation because I live in Birmingham and identify with much of the data he presents. If one likes true crime, presented comprehensively, objectively, with reserved sentiment, he will like this book.

I walked the streets of Grove City, Ohio looking for a trace of it's native son inventor. Nothing! Passersby didn't know who he was. He'd been dead 7 years (1998), but wouldn't you think they'd have erected a statue or named a street after him or something, in view of the twenty-some years of his life that he dedicated to bringing us clean, renewable, free energy from water? And then they give almost $2 billion to the oil industry to look for hydrogen fuel technology! What a joke! Beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here!

"JOBS-2000 covers business basics, including how to start any business from scratch. This is where The Small Business Administration (SBA)/Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) Counselors help any new entrepeneur. There is no shortcut to $uccess--Do your 'due diligence'!"

This book gave understanding and a reason for Gods plan when we go through the really hard times. I was blessed and got peace that passes all understanding by reading this book during the worst time in my life.

My daughter, who is not yet 3 years old, LOVES the Blue Bug books. She memorizes them and "reads" them herself. These are great books for toddlers and beginning readers. The art work is very colorful and fun for kids to look at.

The importance of this book is very strong. Jevons was the first economist who uses the mathematic language as we today mean in this sense.
Jevons was also logic and he knew very well the probability and the statistics. His teory of utiliy takes the place of the value theory introduced by Smith and Ricardo.This fact was really a revolution.

The book is eazy to folow and backed with thought and evedence. Inciteful into the true history not just what we learn from a 8th grade text book.