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Languages : en
Pages : 1124
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The Chronicle
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1124
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“Weston, Weston, Rah-Rah-Rah!”
Author: P. S. Marshall
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1477219358
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
“Not Grant nor Sherman, nor any of our country’s heroes, were ever made the subject of more ardent curiosity on the part of our citizens than the hero of a thousand-mile walk. The excitement at times reached almost to the point of frenzy and in their eagerness to gain a standing point right in front of the window at which the beaming countenance of the great man was seen, the crowd came in sharp collision with the police.” — Chicago Tribune — November, 1867 “He moved through a greater mass of people than was on the streets when William H. Taft, as President of the United States was here, or when Theodore Roosevelt came the day after. Crowds that blocked all traffic in the neighborhood greeted the veteran pedestrian. The side streets were choked and every roof had a fringe of humanity.” — New York’s The Sun — August, 1913 In a professional career spanning just over 60 years, one man would capture the imagination and the hearts of the people of the sporting world. Born in 1839, the enigmatic and eccentric American from Providence, Rhode Island, would become the “walking sensation” of both Britain and the USA, where he would “wow” the enormous crowds that filled the arenas and lined the roadsides with his performances on the tracks and highways. Handsome, immaculately dressed, well-spoken and intelligent, the “Wily Wobbler” would be watched by hoards of adoring fans throughout his career, which would see him compete against “time” and other athletes in the most amazing competitions. Everyone wanted to see him in action. Whenever he was pacing around a sawdust track, or scurrying along a dirt road, they clapped him, they cheered him, they loved him – and he loved them! Without them, he was a nobody, but with their support and his gutsy determination to succeed against all the odds, he became the...
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1477219358
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
“Not Grant nor Sherman, nor any of our country’s heroes, were ever made the subject of more ardent curiosity on the part of our citizens than the hero of a thousand-mile walk. The excitement at times reached almost to the point of frenzy and in their eagerness to gain a standing point right in front of the window at which the beaming countenance of the great man was seen, the crowd came in sharp collision with the police.” — Chicago Tribune — November, 1867 “He moved through a greater mass of people than was on the streets when William H. Taft, as President of the United States was here, or when Theodore Roosevelt came the day after. Crowds that blocked all traffic in the neighborhood greeted the veteran pedestrian. The side streets were choked and every roof had a fringe of humanity.” — New York’s The Sun — August, 1913 In a professional career spanning just over 60 years, one man would capture the imagination and the hearts of the people of the sporting world. Born in 1839, the enigmatic and eccentric American from Providence, Rhode Island, would become the “walking sensation” of both Britain and the USA, where he would “wow” the enormous crowds that filled the arenas and lined the roadsides with his performances on the tracks and highways. Handsome, immaculately dressed, well-spoken and intelligent, the “Wily Wobbler” would be watched by hoards of adoring fans throughout his career, which would see him compete against “time” and other athletes in the most amazing competitions. Everyone wanted to see him in action. Whenever he was pacing around a sawdust track, or scurrying along a dirt road, they clapped him, they cheered him, they loved him – and he loved them! Without them, he was a nobody, but with their support and his gutsy determination to succeed against all the odds, he became the...
History of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, Past and Present
Author: Carl Zillier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sheboygan County (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Publisher:
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Category : Sheboygan County (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
New Chronicles of Rebecca
Author: Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aunts
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Category : Aunts
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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American Book Trade Directory
Author: Information Today, Incorporated
Publisher: Information Today
ISBN: 9781573871570
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 1952
Book Description
Finding your way through the hug U.S. book trade community has never been easier! The comprehensive volume profiles nearly 30,000 retail and antiquarian book dealers, plus 1,000 book and magazine wholesalers, distributors, and jobbers--in all 50 states and U.S. territories. This useful tool will help you: - Keep tabs on the entire bookselling industry--from the smallest specialty bookstore to the largest chains.- Locate wholesalers and jobbers for hard-to-find books, software, and audiocassettes.- Track down foreign book dealers, importers, exporters, library collection appraisers, and specialty sidelines. Organized by state and city, entries include store or company size, specialties, years in business, owner and key personnel, contact information (including e-mail addresses), and notations for those businesses that also handle audiocassettes, software, and other sidelines.Youll also find: - A Types-of-Stores Index, listed under bookselling categories - An Index to Wholesale Remainder Dealers, Paperback Distributors, Exporters, and Importers, - And more.
Publisher: Information Today
ISBN: 9781573871570
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 1952
Book Description
Finding your way through the hug U.S. book trade community has never been easier! The comprehensive volume profiles nearly 30,000 retail and antiquarian book dealers, plus 1,000 book and magazine wholesalers, distributors, and jobbers--in all 50 states and U.S. territories. This useful tool will help you: - Keep tabs on the entire bookselling industry--from the smallest specialty bookstore to the largest chains.- Locate wholesalers and jobbers for hard-to-find books, software, and audiocassettes.- Track down foreign book dealers, importers, exporters, library collection appraisers, and specialty sidelines. Organized by state and city, entries include store or company size, specialties, years in business, owner and key personnel, contact information (including e-mail addresses), and notations for those businesses that also handle audiocassettes, software, and other sidelines.Youll also find: - A Types-of-Stores Index, listed under bookselling categories - An Index to Wholesale Remainder Dealers, Paperback Distributors, Exporters, and Importers, - And more.
Why?
Author: Adam Rex
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
ISBN: 1452168733
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
This sweet book will appeal to anyone familiar with the universal tendency of young children to always ask WHY? When supervillain Doctor X-Ray swoops in threatening to vanquish an innocent crowd, the only one brave enough not to run away is a little girl, who asks him simply, "Why?" He is taken aback—but he answers. She keeps asking. And he keeps answering—until a surprising truth is uncovered, and the villain is thwarted. In this laugh-out-loud take on the small-and-determined-beats-big-loud-bully story, simple questions lead to profound answers in a quest that proves the ultimate power of curiosity.
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
ISBN: 1452168733
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
This sweet book will appeal to anyone familiar with the universal tendency of young children to always ask WHY? When supervillain Doctor X-Ray swoops in threatening to vanquish an innocent crowd, the only one brave enough not to run away is a little girl, who asks him simply, "Why?" He is taken aback—but he answers. She keeps asking. And he keeps answering—until a surprising truth is uncovered, and the villain is thwarted. In this laugh-out-loud take on the small-and-determined-beats-big-loud-bully story, simple questions lead to profound answers in a quest that proves the ultimate power of curiosity.
Fay Jones
Author: Sandy Harthorn
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Her paintings are tableaus, and her tableaus are stones, yet they are also baited traps, poised to spring. One moves around them with care as well as pleasure. -- Regina HackettThis delightful book, with insightful essays by Regina Hackett and Sondra Shulman, provides a fresh perspective and understanding of Fay Jones art. The paintings and mixed-media collages included here survey four main periods in the artist's career. From the early 1970s to 1977, Jones works were primarily diaristic. The artist created figural compositions in outdoor settings that explored her reflections on social conventions and interpersonal relationships. From 1977 to 1980, Jones became a socially conscious observer, moving beyond the personal views of a diarist. Her paintings grew in scale, while background landscapes and atmospheric perspective were eliminated and figures became more prominent.During the 1980s, Jones developed contrived fictions of painted stage sets in which all real space disappears and the artist incorporates theatrical devices. Diverse and conflicting figures lay one upon the other, overlapping like cutouts or paper dolls. Rendered in a geometric framework, they gain a sense of monumentality and take on the rhetoric of the stage. In the 1990s, Jones has incorporated a lighter, brighter palette and bolder shapes; she has found elegance in the simplification of forms and a directness that is poised and assured. In her paintings, Fay Jones has chronicled a lifetime of impressions, observations, and reflections, all peppered with brilliant imagination and wry humor.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Her paintings are tableaus, and her tableaus are stones, yet they are also baited traps, poised to spring. One moves around them with care as well as pleasure. -- Regina HackettThis delightful book, with insightful essays by Regina Hackett and Sondra Shulman, provides a fresh perspective and understanding of Fay Jones art. The paintings and mixed-media collages included here survey four main periods in the artist's career. From the early 1970s to 1977, Jones works were primarily diaristic. The artist created figural compositions in outdoor settings that explored her reflections on social conventions and interpersonal relationships. From 1977 to 1980, Jones became a socially conscious observer, moving beyond the personal views of a diarist. Her paintings grew in scale, while background landscapes and atmospheric perspective were eliminated and figures became more prominent.During the 1980s, Jones developed contrived fictions of painted stage sets in which all real space disappears and the artist incorporates theatrical devices. Diverse and conflicting figures lay one upon the other, overlapping like cutouts or paper dolls. Rendered in a geometric framework, they gain a sense of monumentality and take on the rhetoric of the stage. In the 1990s, Jones has incorporated a lighter, brighter palette and bolder shapes; she has found elegance in the simplification of forms and a directness that is poised and assured. In her paintings, Fay Jones has chronicled a lifetime of impressions, observations, and reflections, all peppered with brilliant imagination and wry humor.
The Book of the Damned
Author: Charles Fort
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613106424
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
"Time travel, UFOs, mysterious planets, stigmata, rock-throwing poltergeists, huge footprints, bizarre rains of fish and frogs-nearly a century after Charles Fort's Book of the Damned was originally published, the strange phenomenon presented in this book remains largely unexplained by modern science. Through painstaking research and a witty, sarcastic style, Fort captures the imagination while exposing the flaws of popular scientific explanations. Virtually all of his material was compiled and documented from reports published in reputable journals, newspapers and periodicals because he was an avid collector. Charles Fort was somewhat of a recluse who spent most of his spare time researching these strange events and collected these reports from publications sent to him from around the globe. This was the first of a series of books he created on unusual and unexplained events and to this day it remains the most popular. If you agree that truth is often stranger than fiction, then this book is for you"--Taken from Good Reads website.
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613106424
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
"Time travel, UFOs, mysterious planets, stigmata, rock-throwing poltergeists, huge footprints, bizarre rains of fish and frogs-nearly a century after Charles Fort's Book of the Damned was originally published, the strange phenomenon presented in this book remains largely unexplained by modern science. Through painstaking research and a witty, sarcastic style, Fort captures the imagination while exposing the flaws of popular scientific explanations. Virtually all of his material was compiled and documented from reports published in reputable journals, newspapers and periodicals because he was an avid collector. Charles Fort was somewhat of a recluse who spent most of his spare time researching these strange events and collected these reports from publications sent to him from around the globe. This was the first of a series of books he created on unusual and unexplained events and to this day it remains the most popular. If you agree that truth is often stranger than fiction, then this book is for you"--Taken from Good Reads website.
Fun Home
Author: Alison Bechdel
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618871711
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618871711
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive.
Some Like It Cold
Author: William Povletich
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 0870207466
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"Some Like It Cold chronicles the true story of twin brothers Lee and Larry Williams, who even as teenagers never considered surfing to be just a hobby, but rather a lifestyle. Over the next six decades, they rode the gnarliest waves despite living nearly 2,000 miles away from any ocean. To overcome the obstacles of being born and raised in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, the Williams boys adapted to the chilling realities of surfing in the freshwaters of the Great Lakes when bringing their dreams and longboards to the shores of Lake Michigan. Their combined passion and ingenuity has since transformed their hometown into "The Malibu of the Midwest." This new edition of Bill Povletich's previously published 2010 will include a new chapter in the "Fourth Wave" section, updating Lee and Larry Williams' story to the present"--
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 0870207466
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"Some Like It Cold chronicles the true story of twin brothers Lee and Larry Williams, who even as teenagers never considered surfing to be just a hobby, but rather a lifestyle. Over the next six decades, they rode the gnarliest waves despite living nearly 2,000 miles away from any ocean. To overcome the obstacles of being born and raised in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, the Williams boys adapted to the chilling realities of surfing in the freshwaters of the Great Lakes when bringing their dreams and longboards to the shores of Lake Michigan. Their combined passion and ingenuity has since transformed their hometown into "The Malibu of the Midwest." This new edition of Bill Povletich's previously published 2010 will include a new chapter in the "Fourth Wave" section, updating Lee and Larry Williams' story to the present"--