Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
Men of Achievement
Men of Achievement
Author: Ernest KayPublisher: Amer Biographical Inst
ISBN: 9780900332487
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Men of Achievement Inventors
Author: Philip G. HubertPublisher: Digital Scanning Inc
ISBN: 1582182388
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
In “Men of Achievement”, Philip Hubert writes about the famous inventors Benjamin Franklin, Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney, Elias Howe, Samuel Morse, Charles Goodyear, Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell as well as many others. Although it reviews their inventions it also examines the inventor: their origins, hopes, aims, principles, disappointments, trials and triumphs, their daily life and personal character. With over forty-five illustrations, “Men of Achievement” discusses the value of their work – the invention of steam, electricity, the telegraph, telephone, phonograph and the camera and Goodyear’s vulcanized rubber. With the patent laws of the time it also highlights how these men contributed thousands of millions of dollars to the nation’s wealth and received comparatively nothing in return.
Men of Achievement
Author: Ernest KayPublisher:
ISBN: 9780900332661
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Men of Achievement
Author: Francis X. ChauvinBlack Men in the Academy
Author: Brian L. McGowanPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137567287
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Using an anti-deficit approach, Black Men in the Academy explores narratives of resiliency, success, and achievement for black men in the academy. This book is an important text for scholars interested in promoting success in education for underrepresented minorities.
Men of Achievement
Author: MEN.Men of Achievement
Author: Ernest KayPublisher:
ISBN: 9780900332395
Category : Men
Languages : en
Pages : 785
Book Description
The Two Thousand Men of Achievement
Author: A River Runs through It and Other Stories
Author: Norman MacLeanPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022647223X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
The New York Times–bestselling classic set amid the mountains and streams of early twentieth-century Montana, “as beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway” (Chicago Tribune). When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, “it has trees in it.” Today, the title novella is recognized as one of the great American tales of the twentieth century, and Maclean as one of the most beloved writers of our time. The finely distilled product of a long life of often surprising rapture—for fly-fishing, for the woods, for the interlocked beauty of life and art—A River Runs Through It has established itself as a classic of the American West filled with beautiful prose and understated emotional insights. Based on Maclean’s own experiences as a young man, the book’s two novellas and short story are set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana. It is a world populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, but also one rich in the pleasures of fly-fishing, logging, cribbage, and family. By turns raunchy and elegiac, these superb tales express, in Maclean’s own words, “a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by.” “Maclean’s book—acerbic, laconic, deadpan—rings out of a rich American tradition that includes Mark Twain, Kin Hubbard, Richard Bissell, Jean Shepherd, and Nelson Algren.” —New York Times Book Review Includes a new foreword by Robert Redford, director of the Academy Award–winning film adaptation