Mills: 1566 books

Knox County was created in 1799, and the town of Barbourville sprang up on the banks of the Cumberland River, at the mouth of Richland Creek. The site of one of the first small battles of the Civil War, Barbourville grew from a sleepy little community into a center of trade and travel in Kentucky. Both...

In 1945, faculty and students at Chicago�s Central YMCA College walked out to protest admission quotas on race and religion and created one of the nation�s first institutions to admit all qualified students. Despite having no endowment, library, or campus, Roosevelt College attracted more than 1,000...

Bigger has turned out not to be better. Servicing the global economy has exacted a heavy toll in the erosion of our communities and the destruction of our environment. Increasingly we are coming to realize that the way forward looks a lot like the way back back to strong local economies back to resilient...

Indoor gardening has taken a big gain in popularity over the past few years. People love the idea of being able to grow a garden inside even if they have a short growing season or they want to have some fruits and vegetables all year long. This guidebook is meant to provide you with all of the information...

Democracy Works asks how we can learn to nurture, deepen and consolidate democracy in Africa. By analyzing transitions within and beyond the continent, the authors identify a 'democratic playbook' robust enough to withstand threats to free and fair elections. However, substantive democracy demands...

The fundamental claim of How South Africa Works is that the overwhelming challenge that South Africa faces, and has to date failed to address, is unemployment. The current unemployment statistics are appalling and fall especially on young African youths who were promised a better future in 1994. If...

Imagine living your life perched on a tiny island, without electricity, exposed to the fury of the sea, and always at the service of the mariner. This is how lightkeepers and their families spent their lives, even up until the 1960s. We are very close to losing the last of the people who lived this...

When starting new airlines in response to government deregulation, entrepreneurs in the U.S. and Europe reduced some traditional service qualities (to reduce costs), concentrated on non-stop services between city pairs not already so connected, improved on-time performance, and offered low fares to...

The book is to encourage from young to old to overcome challenges in your life by seeking God and to know trouble does not last forever.

This book sets out to answer the call for the historic turn in organization studies through the development of an alternative methodology for history, one that we call ANTiHistory. In responding to that call, this book contributes generally to the broad critique of the ahistorical nature of management...

De l'amour, de l'humour et du chien ! Comédie so british, roman feel-good bourré de tendresse, En attendant Doggo est un vrai coup de cœur. Dire de Dan qu'il traverse une mauvaise passe serait très en dessous de la réalité : alors qu'il vient de perdre son boulot, sa petite amie lui annonce...

This book explores the implications of knowing our place in the universe and recognising our hybridity. It is a series of self-reflections and essays drawing on many diverse ways of knowing. The book examines the complex ethical challenges of closing the wide gap in living standards between rich...

The scenic beauty of the canals' route through the Golden Valley provided professionals and amateur photographers of the 1870-1930 period with a plethora of subjects. Therefore, the commercial and pleasure aspects of the stretch from Eastington to Cirencester have been well recorded. As much of the...

This volume completes a trilogy of albums dedicated to capturing as much as possible of the evidence from historic photographs of two famous canals which together linked the rivers Severn and Thames. Today this route, now in part under active restoration, is known as the Cotswold Canals, a snappy...