Herbert: 2062 books
by Herbert W. Stanford, III PE
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
The maintenance of a commercial building or facility can in large measure be considered the protection of an important capital asset. This text examines in depth the requirements for effectively designing, implementing and managing both programs and procedures for all areas of building maintenance, from...
by Herbert Gager
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
It was December fifth in 1920 when life began in a place called Williston Park, Minnesota. My parents had come by Street Car from Minneapolis and by night time of that day in 1916 had erected a house in which three boys and a sister and mom and dad all slept. Dad called our two acre plot "Hearts...
Rim of Christendom
A Biography of Eusebio Francisco Kino, Pacific Coast Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
"This re-issued biography recounts [Kino's] work with loving detail and with an accuracy that has survived slight amendments. Its accompanying plates, maps, and bibliography enhance a text that should find a place in every serious library."—Religious Studies Review
"This is...
by Herbert Brayley Collett
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2016
A comprehensive description of Australia's mounted horse troops involvement in the First World War. From the formation of the 28th brigade light horse, through to their battles overseas.
by Herbert James Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Alabama's capital has roots all over the state. It first emerged in St. Stephens in 1799, a small fort acquired from the Spanish atop a tall limestone bluff overlooking the Tombigbee River. Next came Huntsville in the Tennessee Valley, where the state constitution emerged. Cahawba was the capital to...
The Railroad That Never Was
Vanderbilt, Morgan, and the South Pennsylvania Railroad
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
This account of a doomed enterprise is “an important contribution to both rail and road history, as well as to business history”—photos and maps included (The Lexington Quarterly).
Stretching over two hundred miles through Pennsylvania’s most challenging mountain terrain, the South Pennsylvania...
Story of the Automobile
Its History and Development From 1760 to 1917
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
“ So far as I know, there is no book in circulation that tells, in concise form, the story of the mechanical and commercial evolution of the automobile, mirrors its sudden leap into popular use, and shows how it has demonstrated, in a most amazing way, the power of money to make money, describes...
Music in Words
A Guide to Researching and Writing about Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2009
Music in Words is a compact guide to researching and writing about music, addressing all the issues that anyone who writes about music--from students to professional musicians and critics--may confront when putting together anything from brief program notes to a lengthy thesis. The book is a writing...
by Herbert Norris
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Scrupulously researched book by noted authority traces the development of European clothing styles from prehistory to the Norman Conquest in A.D. 1066. Over 160 illustrations, including 17 full-color plates, display draped robes of classical Greece, the jewel-encrusted apparel of a 10th-century Byzantine...
One-Dimensional Man
Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in the ensuing decade of radical political change. This second edition, newly introduced by Marcuse scholar Douglas Kellner, presents Marcuse's best-selling work to another generation of readers in the context of contemporary events.
by Herbert Marcuse
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
This classic book is Marcuse's masterful interpretation of Hegel's philosophy and the influence it has had on European political thought from the French Revolution to the present day. Marcuse brilliantly illuminates the implications of Hegel's ideas with later developments in European thought, particularily with Marxist theory.
The Aesthetic Dimension
Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Developing a concept briefly introduced in Counterrevolution and Revolt, Marcuse here addresses the shortcomings of Marxist aesthetic theory and explores a dialectical aesthetic in which art functions as the conscience of society. Marcuse argues that art is the only form or expression that can take...
Introduction to Practical Peridynamics
Computational Solid Mechanics Without Stress and Strain
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Parting with the classical continuum concepts of stress and strain in the computational simulation of solids, this book proposes a peridynamic model that applies the model directly to particle lattices. The model is directly solvable on a computer.
Introduction to Practical Peridynamics is...
The Social Movement Society
Contentious Politics for a New Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 1997
Is there more social protest now than there was prior to the movement politics of the 1960s, and if so, does it result in a distinctly less civil society throughout the world? If everybody protests, what does protest mean in advanced industrial societies? This volume brings together scholars from...