Author: Thornton Waldo BurgessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The Adventures of Peter Cottontail
Author: Thornton Waldo BurgessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Mrs. Peter Rabbit
Author: Thornton W. BurgessPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486145530
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Charming story of Peter Rabbit and his bride as they start their new life together in the Old Briar-Patch. Set in large, easy-to-read type, enhanced with 8 new illustrations.
The End and the Beginning
Author: Hermynia Zur MühlenPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1906924279
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman's struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Muhlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. After five years on her German husband's estate in czarist Russia she broke with both her family and her husband and set out on a precarious career as a professional writer committed to socialism. Besides translating many leading contemporary authors, notably Upton Sinclair, into German, she herself published an impressive number of politically engaged novels, detective stories, short stories, and children's fairy tales. Because of her outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she had to flee her native Austria in 1938 and seek refuge in England, where she died, virtually penniless, in 1951. This revised and corrected translation of Zur Muhlen's memoir - with extensive notes and an essay on the author by Lionel Gossman - will appeal especially to readers interested in women's history, the Central European aristocratic world that came to an end with the First World War, and the culture and politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Mother West Wind's Neighbors
Author: Thornton Waldo BurgessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Stream Runs Fast
Author: Nellie Letitia McClungPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Stream Runs Fast" (My Own Story) by Nellie Letitia McClung. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Adventures of Happy Jack
Author: Thornton W. BurgessPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486112217
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Happy Jack Squirrel starts the day cheerily enough but soon finds himself trying every trick he knows to get away from nasty Shadow the Weasel. 4 black-and-white illustrations.
Blockbusting in Baltimore
Author: W. Edward OrserPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813148316
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This innovative study of racial upheaval and urban transformation in Baltimore, Maryland investigates the impact of "blockbusting"—a practice in which real estate agents would sell a house on an all-white block to an African American family with the aim of igniting a panic among the other residents. These homeowners would often sell at a loss to move away, and the real estate agents would promote the properties at a drastic markup to African American buyers. In this groundbreaking book, W. Edward Orser examines Edmondson Village, a west Baltimore rowhouse community where an especially acute instance of blockbusting triggered white flight and racial change on a dramatic scale. Between 1955 and 1965, nearly twenty thousand white residents, who saw their secure world changing drastically, were replaced by blacks in search of the American dream. By buying low and selling high, playing on the fears of whites and the needs of African Americans, blockbusters set off a series of events that Orser calls "a collective trauma whose significance for recent American social and cultural history is still insufficiently appreciated and understood." Blockbusting in Baltimore describes a widely experienced but little analyzed phenomenon of recent social history. Orser makes an important contribution to community and urban studies, race relations, and records of the African American experience.
Roadside Baseball
Author: Chris EptingPublisher: Santa Monica Press
ISBN: 1595809112
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Capturing such quintessentially American pastimes as baseball and road trips in one fascinating work, this updated and expanded guide chronicles more than 500 important events in baseball history with detailed descriptions of the event and information on each location. Packed with historical data, trivia, photographs, and baseball lore, entries include the birthplaces of baseball legends, ballparks, museums and halls of fame, final resting places, and many locations that are no longer standing. From out-of-the-way spots to the most popular stadiums in the U.S. and Canada, no site is too small or insignificant to be included in this comprehensive directory. Entries include the Buckminster Hotel in Boston, where the Black Sox planned their fix of the 1919 World Series; the original little league field and museum in Williamsport, Pennsylvania; the birthplace of Jackie Robinson; the place where Mickey Mantle was discovered by a scout from the New York Yankees; and the site of the original Wrigley Field, erected in Los Angeles in 1925.
The Adventures of Buster Bear
Author: Thornton W. BurgessPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486111768
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
Gentle morality lessons, delightfully taught, in a tale about an amiable bear who comes to live in the Green Forest. Large, easy-to-read type and charming illustrations.
Blacky the Crow
Author: Thornton W. BurgessPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486110869
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Children will love this wonderful tale of Blacky the Crow, who gets into trouble seeing things he shouldn't. Reset in large type with four original illustrations by Harrison Cady.