"American Country Furniture" provides woodworkers with all the information they need to reproduce 35 authentic country projects, including tables, chairs, chests, benches, and cabinets. In addition, 12 sidebars give comprehensive instruction on essential woodworking techniques like turning spindles and routing dovetails, and there's a chapter on ...
At the 1968 Olympics, Tommie Smith came in first in the 200-meter dash. As they received their medals, he and bronze winner John Carlos each raised a black-gloved fist, creating an indelible image of courage and protest that still resonates forty years later. In this, his autobiography, Smith fills out the story of that moment - how it came to be ...
Corporal Zenas T. Haines's dispatches from the Civil War in eastern North Carolina provide a detailed account of the history of a Massachusetts regiment operating in the hostile southern coastal lowlands during the winter of 1862-1863.
No other book gives you better insight into the expert preparation of engines for racing and high-performance road use, whether your interest lies in street, oval track, drag, or stock car racing. The first chapters explain the fundamentals that govern high-performance engines: thermodynamic laws, gasflow, mechanical efficiency, and engine ...
Cotton's Renaissance is the story of one of the more remarkable feats in the annals of enterprise. At its center, the book shows how U.S. cotton growers lost half their market share in the 1960s and 1970s and then won it back through highly innovative marketing and organization. To place this unprecedented achievement in perspective, the authors ...
'Fast becoming a contemporary classic...this book tries both to be critical and engender critical thinking in a number of ways. It offers an overview of a number of theories that address human distress as well as particular forms of "pathology". This book effectively highlights the way that western society has taken "normal"; and "abnormal" ...
An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. This text analyses nationalism in Europe from the French Revolution to the Second World War. Drawing on a wide range of examples, Timothy Baycroft explains what characterises modern nations, what the theoretical roots of nationalism are, and what interaction there has ...
- Looking for a fresh approach to the study of Development Geography? - Bored with the traditional structure of most development texts? -Do you consider pressing topics such as gender, sustainable development, modernity-postmodernity as integral to a clear understanding of this field? -Want to learn or teach with the aid of a team of world ...
This is a lively history of one of America's oldest publishing houses, published in conjunction with Wiley's bicentennial. Founded in New York City when Thomas Jefferson was president, Wiley has been a significant player in the publishing industry for two centuries. Now, on the occasion of Wiley's bicentennial, a distinguished team of authors ...
As Thoreau used the pond, Romtvedt uses the windmill as a metaphor to take the reader on a philosophical and spiritual search of fundamental truths in the commonplace elements of daily existence.
This book documents the "brave new world" of teacher, administrator, school, and student accountability that has swept across the United States in recent years. Its particular vantage point is the perspective of dozens of new teachers trying to make their way through their first months and years working in schools in the New York City metropolitan ...
This is a concise yet wide-ranging and accessible synthesis of the experience of southern workers between World War II and the present. Linking his discussion to important debates in the field of southern history today, Timothy Minchin brings the story of southern labor up to date and places the workers' own experiences in the forefront. He ...
Today, Thomas Dixon is perhaps best known as the author of the best-selling early twentieth-century Klan trilogy that included the novel The Clansman (1905), which provided the core narrative for D.W. Griffith's groundbreaking and still controversial film The Birth of a Nation (1915). In his twenty-eighth and last novel, The Flaming Sword (1939), ...
Explains cooperative learning, its success as a learning tool, and techniques for its most effective use. Topics includes the cooperative lecture, base groups, and cooperation among faculty.
This work brings together the diverse findings of occupational health and risk assessment experts on the usefulness of risk assessment in the protection of worker health. Representatives from regulatory agencies, labour, industry and academia consider policy and technical issues.
This text is intended for people who are looking for options beyond NetWare or NT networks, and who want the functionality of Lotus Notes without the training, maintenance and management usually associated with it. It explains how to build an Intranet, discusses the software needed, and how to use your Intranet locally to connect to a WAN. The ...
Since the end of the Cold War there has been an increased interest in the Baltics. The Baltic States brings together three titles, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, to provide a comprehensive and analytical guide integrating history, political science, economic development and contemporary events into one account. Since gaining their independence, ...
The author studies one of the longest labour disputes in American history, a lockout involving the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers' International Union and BASF, a German-based chemical manufacturer. Minchin examines the range of tactics employed by the union.
Hosea/Amos/Micah, which is part of the NIV Application Commentary Series, helps readers learn how the messages of Hosea, Amos, and Micah can have the same powerful impact today that they did when they were first written.
Steve is a reporter, Mr. Salt is a waiter, and Tickety is a painter. But what does Blue want to be? Using the many stickers included, children can figure out Blue's Clues and create new jobs for the different characters as well. Full color. with 2 sticker sheets.
This continuing series will explore different diseases to show the science behind how disease-causing organisms affect the body. Microorganisms have plagued humans since the beginning of time, causing debilitating diseases and even death. But how, exactly, do these microorganisms infect and cause disease? The books in this series examine various ...
In Friends in Life and Death two distinguished historians join forces to exploit the exceptional riches offered by the records of British and Irish Quakers for the student of social, demographic, and familial change during the period 1650-1900. Professor Vann and Eversley have analysed the experiences of more than 8,000 Quaker families, involving ...
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