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The Evolution of Useful Things
How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are.
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
How did the table fork acquire a fourth tine? What advantage does the Phillips-head screw have over its single-grooved predecessor? Why does the paper clip look the way it does? What makes Scotch tape Scotch?
In this delightful book Henry, Petroski takes a microscopic look at artifacts that...
by Jeff Davis
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Quicklets: Your Reading Sidekick!ABOUT THE BOOKA Framework for Understanding Poverty provides important insight into the nations ongoing difficulty educating poor children. Students from impoverished backgrounds at all levels of Americas education system achieve success at lower rates...
by Steve Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
This ebook contains just 4 chapters & over 80 pics; grouped together in the form of Attack Formations. Because Humanity is Under Attack! Today we face Attack from; The Chemtrails Air Assault , Radiation Via Air and Water, The Chemical Ground Attack & The Water Attack Force, plus many other...
by Cynthia Snyder Stackpole
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
The professional standard in the field of project management, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge better known as the PMBOK® Guide published by the Project Management Institute (PMI®) serves as the ultimate resource for professionals and as a valuable studying and training device...
Household Workers Unite
The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Telling the stories of African American domestic workers, this book resurrects a little-known history of domestic worker activism in the 1960s and 1970s, offering new perspectives on race, labor, feminism, and organizing.
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In this groundbreaking history of African American domestic-worker organizing,...
Standing Up to Goliath
Battling State and National Teachers' Unions for the Heart and Soul of Our Kids and Country
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
In a book that’s both accessible and enlightening, Rebecca Friedrichs recounts her thirty-year odyssey as an elementary school teacher who comes face-to-face with the forces dividing and corrupting our schools and culture—state and national teachers’ unions. An exciting true story that features...
Generations of Somerset Place
From Slavery to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2005
When the institution of slavery ended in 1865, Somerset Place was the third largest plantation in North Carolina. Located in the rural northeastern part of the state, Somerset was cumulatively home to more than 800 enslaved blacks and four generations of a planter family. During the 80 years that Somerset...
Toronto Architecture
A City Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Toronto has been hailed as “a city in the making” and “the city that works.” It’s an ongoing project: in recent years Canada’s largest city has experienced transformative, exciting change. But just what does contemporary Toronto look like? This authoritative architectural guide, newly...
Paper
An Elegy
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Let us suppose for a moment that paper were to disappear.
Would anything be lost?
Everything would be lost.
aper surrounds us. Not only as books, letters and diaries, but as beer mats and birth certificates, board games and business cards, fireworks and flypaper, photographs and...
The Chicago School of Architecture
Building the Modern City, 1880–1910
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
The birth of the skyscraper in Chicago in the mid-1880s introduced a new direction for city architecture: upwards. But how-and why- was it that Chicago set the standard for high-rise buildings, not only across the USA but all over the world? Rolf Achilles here introduces the style of the First Chicago...
Architect
The Pritzker Prize Laureates in Their Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
**In this completely revised and up-to-date edition, the world's most accomplished architects-**Gehry, Pei, Meier, Nouvel, Piano, and 37 more-express their views on creativity, inspiration, and legacy in this visually stunning, one-of-a-kind collection.
The Pritzker Prize is the most prestigious...
Designing the British Post-War Home
Kenneth Wood, 1948-1968
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
In Designing the British Post-War Home Fiona Fisher explores the development of modern domestic architecture in Britain through a detailed study of the work of the successful Surrey-based architectural practice of Kenneth Wood. Wood’s firm is representative of a geographically distinct category...
by Ian Nairn
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
50th Anniversary of original publication; this is a unique Paris guidebook from the late, great, architecture and travel writer Ian Nairn.
Illustrated with the author's black and white snaps of the city, Nairn shows his eye for detail - whether it is stonework on an archway, shadows cast by...
by Tracy Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
This “fascinating, engaging” history of St. Louis’s monument to American expansion reveals a story of greed, discrimination, and community displacement (NextSTL.com).
Rising to a triumphant height of 630 feet, the Gateway Arch is one of the world’s most widely recognized structures...