Author: Dorothy L. Ferebee
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This is the first book written to help African Americans build a home library that celebrates the diversity of their culture and heritage.
How to Create Your Own African American Library
Author: Dorothy L. Ferebee
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This is the first book written to help African Americans build a home library that celebrates the diversity of their culture and heritage.
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This is the first book written to help African Americans build a home library that celebrates the diversity of their culture and heritage.
Lets Build Own Own, the Story of the Rhodes Ridley
Author: Terry Joyce
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781684541478
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
October 1958. Early morning and a workshop yard in Perth's industrial suburb of Welshpool was the scene of considerable excitement. A crowd including workshop staff and truck drivers had gathered to watch the departure of a heavily laden truck bound for the Pilbara region of Western Australia's vastness. She certainly wasn't the first truck to undertake this journey, far from it, but this was no ordinary truck. As she left the yard, she was greeted by the rising sun. It could have been the dawn of a whole new era, but this was not to be. After achieving her destination, along with a few site relocations, she was eventually allocated the role of a not-so-mobile powerhouse at the Woodie Woodie manganese mine. Subsequent removal of her engines and wheels ensured a permanence. She remained that way, abandoned and derelict, until her retrieval. She was completely restored to her former glory four decades after that sunrise. Sixty years ago, she was the largest truck in the Southern Hemisphere, and today is still the only one of her kind in the world. This is the Rhodes Ridley. This is her story.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781684541478
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
October 1958. Early morning and a workshop yard in Perth's industrial suburb of Welshpool was the scene of considerable excitement. A crowd including workshop staff and truck drivers had gathered to watch the departure of a heavily laden truck bound for the Pilbara region of Western Australia's vastness. She certainly wasn't the first truck to undertake this journey, far from it, but this was no ordinary truck. As she left the yard, she was greeted by the rising sun. It could have been the dawn of a whole new era, but this was not to be. After achieving her destination, along with a few site relocations, she was eventually allocated the role of a not-so-mobile powerhouse at the Woodie Woodie manganese mine. Subsequent removal of her engines and wheels ensured a permanence. She remained that way, abandoned and derelict, until her retrieval. She was completely restored to her former glory four decades after that sunrise. Sixty years ago, she was the largest truck in the Southern Hemisphere, and today is still the only one of her kind in the world. This is the Rhodes Ridley. This is her story.
Greg Ridley, Master of Copper Tooling
Author: Kate Ridley Jackson
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1434380408
Category : African American artists
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
O-Thy God will give thee eternity for the price of labor. -Leonardo da Vinci *** This quote is attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. Artist Greg Ridley, Jr. often cited it and used it as his mantra. It became his legacy. For the hire of a $30,000 grant, Greg's masterpiece in copper repousse now dons the Third Floor Grand Reading Room of the Ben West Public Library in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The work took two years to complete, but culminates a lifetime of study of period forms and art making. It has given Greg Ridley a place in artistic eternity, for the price of labor."
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1434380408
Category : African American artists
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
O-Thy God will give thee eternity for the price of labor. -Leonardo da Vinci *** This quote is attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. Artist Greg Ridley, Jr. often cited it and used it as his mantra. It became his legacy. For the hire of a $30,000 grant, Greg's masterpiece in copper repousse now dons the Third Floor Grand Reading Room of the Ben West Public Library in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The work took two years to complete, but culminates a lifetime of study of period forms and art making. It has given Greg Ridley a place in artistic eternity, for the price of labor."
Inland Architect Engineer and Builder
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Play Among Books
Author: Miro Roman
Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3035624054
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
How does coding change the way we think about architecture? This question opens up an important research perspective. In this book, Miro Roman and his AI Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in which they propose coding as the new literacy of information. They convey knowledge in the form of a project model that links the fields of architecture and information through two interwoven narrative strands in an “infinite flow” of real books. Focusing on the intersection of information technology and architectural formulation, the authors create an evolving intellectual reflection on digital architecture and computer science.
Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3035624054
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
How does coding change the way we think about architecture? This question opens up an important research perspective. In this book, Miro Roman and his AI Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in which they propose coding as the new literacy of information. They convey knowledge in the form of a project model that links the fields of architecture and information through two interwoven narrative strands in an “infinite flow” of real books. Focusing on the intersection of information technology and architectural formulation, the authors create an evolving intellectual reflection on digital architecture and computer science.
The Man who was Q
Author: David Porter
Publisher: Authentic Paternoster Press
ISBN: 9780853644811
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Publisher: Authentic Paternoster Press
ISBN: 9780853644811
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Sisters of the Great War
Author: Suzanne Feldman
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 0369703383
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Inspired by real women, this powerful novel tells the story of two unconventional American sisters who volunteer at the front during World War I August 1914. While Europe enters a brutal conflict unlike any waged before, the Duncan household in Baltimore, Maryland, is the setting for a different struggle. Ruth and Elise Duncan long to escape the roles that society, and their controlling father, demand they play. Together, the sisters volunteer for the war effort—Ruth as a nurse, Elise as a driver. Stationed at a makeshift hospital in Ypres, Belgium, Ruth soon confronts war’s harshest lesson: not everyone can be saved. Rising above the appalling conditions, she seizes an opportunity to realize her dream to practice medicine as a doctor. Elise, an accomplished mechanic, finds purpose and an unexpected kinship within the all-female Ambulance Corps. Through bombings, heartache and loss, Ruth and Elise cherish an independence rarely granted to women, unaware that their greatest challenges are still to come. Illuminating the critical role women played in the Great War, this is a remarkable story of resilience, sacrifice and the bonds that can never be vanquished.
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 0369703383
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Inspired by real women, this powerful novel tells the story of two unconventional American sisters who volunteer at the front during World War I August 1914. While Europe enters a brutal conflict unlike any waged before, the Duncan household in Baltimore, Maryland, is the setting for a different struggle. Ruth and Elise Duncan long to escape the roles that society, and their controlling father, demand they play. Together, the sisters volunteer for the war effort—Ruth as a nurse, Elise as a driver. Stationed at a makeshift hospital in Ypres, Belgium, Ruth soon confronts war’s harshest lesson: not everyone can be saved. Rising above the appalling conditions, she seizes an opportunity to realize her dream to practice medicine as a doctor. Elise, an accomplished mechanic, finds purpose and an unexpected kinship within the all-female Ambulance Corps. Through bombings, heartache and loss, Ruth and Elise cherish an independence rarely granted to women, unaware that their greatest challenges are still to come. Illuminating the critical role women played in the Great War, this is a remarkable story of resilience, sacrifice and the bonds that can never be vanquished.
The Speaker
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
Book Description
The Heir Apparent
Author: Jane Ridley
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812994752
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 611
Book Description
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE BOSTON GLOBE This richly entertaining biography chronicles the eventful life of Queen Victoria’s firstborn son, the quintessential black sheep of Buckingham Palace, who matured into as wise and effective a monarch as Britain has ever seen. Granted unprecedented access to the royal archives, noted scholar Jane Ridley draws on numerous primary sources to paint a vivid portrait of the man and the age to which he gave his name. Born Prince Albert Edward, and known to familiars as “Bertie,” the future King Edward VII had a well-earned reputation for debauchery. A notorious gambler, glutton, and womanizer, he preferred the company of wastrels and courtesans to the dreary life of the Victorian court. His own mother considered him a lazy halfwit, temperamentally unfit to succeed her. When he ascended to the throne in 1901, at age fifty-nine, expectations were low. Yet by the time he died nine years later, he had proven himself a deft diplomat, hardworking head of state, and the architect of Britain’s modern constitutional monarchy. Jane Ridley’s colorful biography rescues the man once derided as “Edward the Caresser” from the clutches of his historical detractors. Excerpts from letters and diaries shed new light on Bertie’s long power struggle with Queen Victoria, illuminating one of the most emotionally fraught mother-son relationships in history. Considerable attention is paid to King Edward’s campaign of personal diplomacy abroad and his valiant efforts to reform the political system at home. Separating truth from legend, Ridley also explores Bertie’s relationships with the women in his life. Their ranks comprised his wife, the stunning Danish princess Alexandra, along with some of the great beauties of the era: the actress Lillie Langtry, longtime “royal mistress” Alice Keppel (the great-grandmother of Camilla Parker Bowles), and Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Winston. Edward VII waited nearly six decades for his chance to rule, then did so with considerable panache and aplomb. A magnificent life of an unexpectedly impressive king, The Heir Apparent documents the remarkable transformation of a man—and a monarchy—at the dawn of a new century. Praise for The Heir Apparent “If [The Heir Apparent] isn’t the definitive life story of this fascinating figure of British history, then nothing ever will be.”—The Christian Science Monitor “The Heir Apparent is smart, it’s fascinating, it’s sometimes funny, it’s well-documented and it reads like a novel, with Bertie so vivid he nearly leaps from the page, cigars and all.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune “I closed The Heir Apparent with admiration and a kind of wry exhilaration.”—The Wall Street Journal “Ridley is a serious scholar and historian, who keeps Bertie’s flaws and virtues in a fine balance.”—The Boston Globe “Brilliantly entertaining . . . a landmark royal biography.”—The Sunday Telegraph “Superb.”—The New York Times Book Review
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812994752
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 611
Book Description
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE BOSTON GLOBE This richly entertaining biography chronicles the eventful life of Queen Victoria’s firstborn son, the quintessential black sheep of Buckingham Palace, who matured into as wise and effective a monarch as Britain has ever seen. Granted unprecedented access to the royal archives, noted scholar Jane Ridley draws on numerous primary sources to paint a vivid portrait of the man and the age to which he gave his name. Born Prince Albert Edward, and known to familiars as “Bertie,” the future King Edward VII had a well-earned reputation for debauchery. A notorious gambler, glutton, and womanizer, he preferred the company of wastrels and courtesans to the dreary life of the Victorian court. His own mother considered him a lazy halfwit, temperamentally unfit to succeed her. When he ascended to the throne in 1901, at age fifty-nine, expectations were low. Yet by the time he died nine years later, he had proven himself a deft diplomat, hardworking head of state, and the architect of Britain’s modern constitutional monarchy. Jane Ridley’s colorful biography rescues the man once derided as “Edward the Caresser” from the clutches of his historical detractors. Excerpts from letters and diaries shed new light on Bertie’s long power struggle with Queen Victoria, illuminating one of the most emotionally fraught mother-son relationships in history. Considerable attention is paid to King Edward’s campaign of personal diplomacy abroad and his valiant efforts to reform the political system at home. Separating truth from legend, Ridley also explores Bertie’s relationships with the women in his life. Their ranks comprised his wife, the stunning Danish princess Alexandra, along with some of the great beauties of the era: the actress Lillie Langtry, longtime “royal mistress” Alice Keppel (the great-grandmother of Camilla Parker Bowles), and Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Winston. Edward VII waited nearly six decades for his chance to rule, then did so with considerable panache and aplomb. A magnificent life of an unexpectedly impressive king, The Heir Apparent documents the remarkable transformation of a man—and a monarchy—at the dawn of a new century. Praise for The Heir Apparent “If [The Heir Apparent] isn’t the definitive life story of this fascinating figure of British history, then nothing ever will be.”—The Christian Science Monitor “The Heir Apparent is smart, it’s fascinating, it’s sometimes funny, it’s well-documented and it reads like a novel, with Bertie so vivid he nearly leaps from the page, cigars and all.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune “I closed The Heir Apparent with admiration and a kind of wry exhilaration.”—The Wall Street Journal “Ridley is a serious scholar and historian, who keeps Bertie’s flaws and virtues in a fine balance.”—The Boston Globe “Brilliantly entertaining . . . a landmark royal biography.”—The Sunday Telegraph “Superb.”—The New York Times Book Review
Thomas Bates and the Kirklevington Shorthorns
Author: Cadwallader John Bates
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle breeders
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle breeders
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description