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  Great Inventors and Their...

  Frank Puterbaugh Bachman

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  This book is about Great inventors and what they created. It has different stories like Alexander Bell, Wrights, Morse, Gutenberg, and Edison. ON August 17, 1807, a curious crowd of people in New York gathered at a boat landing. Tied to the dock was a strange-looking craft. A smokestack rose above the deck. From the sides of the boat, there stood out queer shaped paddle wheels. Of a sudden, the clouds of smoke from the smokestack grew larger, the paddle wheels turned, and the boat, to the astonishment of all, moved. It was "Fulton's Folly," the Clermont, on her first trip to Albany.The first boat used by man was probably the trunk of a fallen tree, moved about by means of a broken branch or pole. Then some savage saw that a better boat could be made by tying a number of logs together to make a raft. But rafts are hard to move, so the heart of a log was hollowed out by means of a stone ax or fire, to make a still better boat, or strips of birch bark were skillfully fastened together to form a graceful canoe. Boats were constructed also of rough-hewn boards. With such primitive craft, voyages of hundreds of miles were made up and down great rivers like the Mississippi, or along the shores of inland seas like the Great Lakes. The Phœnicians were the first great sailors. Their boats, called galleys, were sometimes two to three hundred feet long. These were of two kinds, merchantmen and war vessels. The merchantmen were propelled partly by sails and partly by oars, but on the war vessels, when in battle, oars only were used. On a single boat there were often several hundred oarsmen or galley slaves. These galley slaves were as a rule prisoners of war. They were chained to the oar benches, and to force them to row, they were often beaten within an inch of their lives. In enormous sail-and-oar vessels the Phœnicians crossed the Mediterranean in every direction, pushed out into the Atlantic Ocean, and went as far north as England. The chief improvement in boat making, from the time of the Phœnicians until the first trip of the Clermont, was to do away with oars and to use sails only.  - Summary by Elijah Fisher

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  Richest Man In Babylon The -...

  George S. Clason

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  The Richest Man in Babylon, based on "Babylonian parables", has been hailed as the greatest of all inspirational works on the subject of thrift, financial planning, and personal wealth. In simple language, these fascinating and informative stories set you on a sure path to prosperity and its accompanying joys. A celebrated bestseller, it offers an understanding and a solution to your personal financial problem. Revealed inside are the secrets to acquiring money, keeping money, and making money earn more money. This original edition has the original language, content, and message from George S. Clason as intended in 1926. It's all here, uncensored.

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  Craft Corps - Celebrating the...

  Vickie Howell

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  The host of HGTV’s Knitty Gritty presents “craftographies” of the most influential designers in the industry and profiles of under-the-radar newbies.  
   
  Bestselling author and stitchery dynamo Vickie Howell puts down her needles to pay tribute to her fellow crafters! Her extraordinary new collection features interviews with thirty successful professional craftspeople as well as profiles of a diverse group of approximately sixty amateurs. And every interview includes a photo of the subject, plus a peek at their work or their studio. 
   
  This project—a true labor of love—also documents how social networking sites, groups like Stitch ’n’ Bitch, and alternative sales outlets such as Etsy have helped create a close community of crafters passionate about their work and each other. 
   
  Includes interviews with such influential crafters, designers, and business people as:Renowned quilter Denyse SchmidtThe Crafty Chica, Kathy Cano-MurilloArtist and designer Mary EngelbreitEmmy-nominated host of Creative Juice, Cathie FilianIndie craft documentarian Faythe LevineScrapbooking legend Sandi GenoveseProject Runway winner and fabric designer Jay McCarrollTV Host and author Mark MontanoCraft pioneer Carol DuvallFamed fabric designer Amy Butler 
   
  “Bad ass!”—Christina Batch-Lee, marketing for Etsy 
   
  “The kind of book you can’t stop devouring from the moment you open the cover and when you’ve finished reading you’re hungry for more . . . It’s the kind of book that changes lives.” —Margot Potter, The Impatient Crafter 
   
  “[Vickie’s] heart, soul and intentions [with Craft Corps] are touching, and crazy cool!”—Amy Butler, world-renowned fabric designer

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  The Illustrated Letters of Jane...

  Penelope Hughes-Hallett

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  A beautifully illustrated account of the letters and correspondence of Jane Austen.
  It has been said that Jane Austen the woman and Jane Austen the author are all of a piece, and nowhere is this more evident to the lovers of her novels than in the pages of her letters. This handsome celebration of Austen's letters is illustrated with portraits, facsimile letters, topographical engravings and fashion plates, all helping to bring to life the world Jane Austen inhabited.
  The letters, with an accompanying commentary by Penelope Hughes-Hallett, are separated into six periods of Jane Austen's life, between the years 1796, when she was twenty, and 1817, the year of her death. They celebrate Jane Austen's talent for expressing exactly what she perceived, making this an illuminating companion to her novels. Although the book follows a broadly chronological scheme, the letters are arranged round visual themes, including the Hampshire countryside, social life in Bath and London, domestic pursuits, paying visits and travelling by carriage.
  The author, who was born in Jane Austen's Hampshire village of Steventon, lectured on English Literature for the Open University and the Oxford University Department of External Studies. 

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  Victoria Crosses on the Western...

  Paul Oldfield

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  The research for this book commenced in 1988 while the author was serving in the Army. In the years since, numerous sources have been consulted, but career imperatives left insufficient time to complete the project until retirement from the military. In the past the author spent many days on the First and Second World War battlefields wondering precisely where the Victoria Cross actions took place. He resolved to find out.The book is designed for the armchair reader as much as the battlefield visitor. A detailed account of each VC action sets it in the wider strategic and tactical context. Detailed sketch maps show the area today, together with the battle-lines and movements of the combatants. It will allow visitors to stand upon the spot, or very close, where the VCs were won. Photographs of the battle sites illustrate the accounts. There is also a comprehensive biography for each VC recipient and photographs. The biographies cover every aspect of their lives 'warts and all' - parents and siblings, education, civilian employment, military career, wife and children, death and burial or commemoration. There is also a host of other information, much published for the first time. Some fascinating characters emerge, with numerous links to many famous people and events.As featured on BBC Radio Wiltshire and in the Daily Record, Gloucestershire Echo, Canterbury Times and Barking & Dagenham Post.

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  The Prison Book Club - This book...

  Ann Walmsley

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  In The Prison Book Club, Walmsley follows six particularly involved book club members, asking them to keep journals and participated in candid one-on-one conversations. Ann portrays these inmates – Graham the biker, Frank the gunman, Ben and Dread the Jamaicans, and the robber duo Gaston and Peter – with sensitivity and understanding and follows their lives as they leave prison. And Ann herself grows, overcoming her fear and reconciling her knowledge of their crimes with the individuals themselves. Woven throughout is the compassionate determination of Carol Finlay, as she works tirelessly to expand her program across Canada and into the United States.Anyone who loves books knows that books can change one’s life, and this is true for the inmates, too. The men are changed by the books and in turn, the men change Ann. This experience allowed her to move beyond her position as a victim. Indeed, the experience was so moving that she came to realize given the choice, she’d forsake the company of her privileged friends and their comfortable book club, and make the two hour drive to Collins Bay.“I loved this book…..I was captivated by the articulate and creatively thought out reviews of the ‘prisoners’……and the parallels drawn between them and the Toronto women’s book club (s) were fascinating! I found I didn’t want them to leave the Book Club once they were ‘out’…..Carol and Ann are amazing!”The Prison Book Club came about after an indecent in London.  While living in London, Ann Walmsley was brutally mugged just outside her own home. The attack shook her belief in the fundamental goodness of people and left her so shaken she was unable to walk down the street alone for some time. A few years later, now returned to Canada, her friend Carol Finlay asked her to participate in a book club in a men’s medium security prison. Ann’s curiosity and desire to be of service eventually overcame her anxiety and fear and she signed on.For eighteen months, Ann accompanied Carol to a remote building at Collins Bay, meeting with heavily tattooed book club members WITHOUT the presence of guards or security cameras. Unlike the book clubs she participated in outside of prison, there were no wine and cheese, no nice furnishings, nor superficial chat about jobs or recent vacations. And yet, the prison book club proved to be a place to share ideas, learn about each other, and regain humanity.For the inmates, the books were rare prized possessions and the meetings an oasis of safety and a respite from isolation in an otherwise hostile environment. And their responses to the books were sincere and multifacited. Discussions about the obstacles the characters faced revealed glimpses of their own struggles, sometimes devastating and sometimes comic. Reading a wide variety of books – The Grapes of Wrath, The Cellist of Sarajevo, Outliers to Infidel, etc, – the discussions became a launching point for revealing conversations about loss, anger, redemption, heroism and loneliness.

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