Featuring powerful portraits and beautiful colour images with poignant and often humorous interviews, this is a contemporary portrait of America's first highway. It documents how the heritage of Route 66 is reflected in the current conditions and rhythms of life and portrays a fresh spin on local folklore and Americana.
"Jane's Fighting Ships" has been published annually since 1897. To mark the centenary of this title, this edition reviews the full range of technological developments charted in the pages of this publication, from the beginning of the 20th century, when Britain was the world's greatest naval power, through the World Wars and into the long era of ...
"INDEX Architecture" documents the extensive cross-fertilization of ideas that can occur between architectural practice and education. Through work developed by students and faculty at Columbia University's School of Architecture, it offers not only an archive of avant-garde work but a record of architectural discourse at a time when the design ...
'Your words moved me-inspired me-gave me hope. I am certainly at a crossroads, and meeting you, reading your book-it was like you handed me a map." Leah Johnson, San Francisco, CA 'I have read it 5 times and always, finding something applicable to help me through that day, week. Unknown to them, it has helped my family as I am not such an ...
Mindful that it is a common experience to think about one's own death, and that such thought is necessary to understand the meaning of life, Bernard Sesboue, faithful to the teaching of Scripture and the tradition of the Church, details the principal elements of the Christian faith in the resurrection of the body and eternal life.
This is the first volume of a four-volume set that will reprint in their entirety the texts of 72 pamphlets relating to the Anglo-American controversy that were published in America in the years 1750-1776. They have been selected from the corpus of the pamphlet literature on the basis of their importance in the growth of American political and ...
By 1930 vocational curricula in the United States had been funded by the federal government for more than ten years and vocational programmes were entrenched in the secondary school curriculum. Vocational courses for young women consisted of training for office work, home economics and some trade education. Course work in all three of these areas ...
Dr. Szejer uses a revolutionary approach to restoring the health of failure-to-thrive infants: the psychoanalytic techniques of carefully listening and talking to suffering newborns about their mothers, fathers, and problematic histories (i.e. the death of a twin).
Billy''s mum is going out on a date - the fir st since his dad left home. To Billy this means a do-as-you- please evening but, with sister Sandra in charge, things don ''t quite go according to plan. '
This extensive collection of writings from Gordon Mackie leads us into a world of fly-fishing adventure, mystery and debate. We explore a wide range of waters, with trout and grayling the principle quarry, while the author is forever seeking to identify the less tangible secrets of successful fly-fishing and discover some of the joys of the ...
A guide to the warships of World War II, providing histories and technical specifications for over 100 vessels, from famous battleships such as "Bismarck" and "Hood", to the landing craft that carried Allied troops ashore in Normandy.
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