This is an electrician's instant answer book. Whether you're an electrician or a consulting or plant engineer, if you use portable meters to test, maintain, and troubleshoot electrical equipment and systems, this quick look-up, pocket-sized resource delivers key information where you need it most - on the job. Completely updated, the "Electrician ...
They were the self-made men of their time. Lincoln was born dirt poor, had less than 1 year of formal schooling and became the nation's greatest President. Douglass spent his first 20 years as a slave, had no formal schooling, couldn't read or write and became 1 of America's greatest writers and activists. At a time when most whites would not let ...
Jenkins, bestselling author of "The Real All Americans," and Stauffer mine a nearly forgotten piece of Civil War history and strike gold in this riveting account of the only Southern county to secede from the Confederacy.
At a time when slavery was spreading and the country was steeped in racism, two white men and two black men overcame social barriers and mistrust to form a unique alliance that sought nothing less than the end of all evil. Drawing on the largest extant biracial correspondence in the Civil War era, John Stauffer braids together these men's ...
The first African American to receive a medical degree, this invaluable collection brings together the writings of James McCune Smith, one of the foremost intellectuals in antebellum America. The Selected Writings of James McCune Smith is one of the first anthologies featuring the works of this illustrious scholar. Perhaps best known for his ...
"I like a little rebellion now and then" - so wrote Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, enlisting in a tradition that throughout American history has led writers to rage and reason, prophesy and provoke. This is the first anthology to collect and examine an American literature that holds the nation to its highest ideals, castigating it when it ...
Robert Stivers has quickly emerged as one of the foremost contemporary photographers. In this, his second book of photographs in three years, Stivers extends, deepens, and complicates the themes of mystery and movement, sensuality and spirituality, and the search for individual identity that occupied him in his first book, Robert Stivers: ...
The first collection of original contributions on American abolitionism to appear in a generation. The campaign to abolish slavery in the United States was the most powerful and effective social movement of the nineteenth century and has served as a recurring source of inspiration for every subsequent struggle against injustice. But the ...
A collective effort to present a new kind of moral history, this volume seeks to show how the study of the past can illuminate profound ethical and philosophical issues. More specifically, the contributors address a variety of questions raised by the history of American slavery. How did freedom - personal, civic, and political - become one of the ...
Few men in American history have been at once as glorified and maligned as John Brown. From his attack of the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in October 1859, as part of a scheme to free the slaves, Brown has been called a saint and sinner, rogue and redeemer, martyr and madman. Brown rebelled against the American government, and he ...
"New York Times" bestselling author Sally Jenkins and distinguished Harvard professor John Stauffer mine a nearly forgotten piece of Civil War history and strike gold in this surprising account of the only Southern county to secede from the Confederacy. "The State of Jones" is a true story about the South during the Civil War--the "real "South. ...
Ten Truths Real Estate Professionals Care Not to Share is a how-to book about selling your home. It contains over a dozen concrete ideas shared in short, easy-to-read chapters that will assist a potential home seller or buyer in saving money in their next real-estate transaction. Most Americans have a love/hate relationship (mostly hate) with ...
The first collection of original contributions on American abolitionism to appear in a generation. The campaign to abolish slavery in the United States was the most powerful and effective social movement of the nineteenth century and has served as a recurring source of inspiration for every subsequent struggle against injustice. But the ...
This guide provides information on the best methods of performing, testing and troubleshooting tasks. It highlights safety precautions necessary to prevent damage to circuits and components during testing procedures, and also shows how to verify that electrical instruments are operating correctly.
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