Amend Hours of Service Act of 1907

Amend Hours of Service Act of 1907
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Aeronautics
Publisher:
Total Pages: 552
Release: 1966
Genre: Hours of labor
ISBN:

Considers H.R. 5196, H.R. 8476 and similar bills, to amend the Hours of Service Act to further limit hours of continuous duty for certain railroad employees.

UFOs

UFOs
Author: Stuart Webb
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2012-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1448871824

Whether or not UFOs are evidence of life outside of Earth's atmosphere, no one can argue with the reality of strange objects in the sky and their impact on culture. Since claims of experience with "flying saucers" by Kenneth Arnold's, people have been enthralled by UFOs. This book explores some of the most popular UFO sightings of the past century, offers explanations, and discusses their impact on society.

Russian Learners' Dictionary

Russian Learners' Dictionary
Author: Nicholas Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1136926623

This dictionary contains 10,000 Russian words in order of importance starting with the most common and finishing with words that occur about 8 times in a million. All the words have English translations, many have examples of usage and the entries include information on stress and grammatical irregularities. There is also a complete alphabetical index to the words in the list. A learner who knows all or most of these 10,000 words can be regarded as competent in Russian for all normal purposes. The list takes you from a beginner's core vocabulary through to postgraduate level.

Factories in the Field

Factories in the Field
Author: Carey McWilliams
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2000-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520925181

This book was the first broad exposé of the social and environmental damage inflicted by the growth of corporate agriculture in California. Factories in the Field—together with the work of Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and John Steinbeck—dramatizes the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture. McWilliams starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and continues on to examine the experience of the various ethnic groups that have provided labor for California's agricultural industry—Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Filipinos, Armenians—the strikes, and the efforts to organize labor unions