Ninth Annual Catalogue of the Baltimore Manual Training School, 311 to 327 Courtland Street, 1893 (Classic Reprint)
Ninth Annual Catalogue of the Baltimore Manual Training School, 311 to 327 Courtland Street, 1893 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Baltimore Manual Training School

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-04

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 9781332169474

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Excerpt from Ninth Annual Catalogue of the Baltimore Manual Training School, 311 to 327 Courtland Street, 1893 April 24th, 1883. In the Board of School Commissioners Mr. Joshua Plaskitt offered a resolution which was seconded by Mr. John P. Poe, and adopted, setting forth that it is well known that a number of the boys and girls leave the public schools of Baltimore without any knowledge of the mechanic arts or other industrial pursuits, and find themselves at once in front of the realities of life, destitute of the means of earning a livelihood; and that it is known that such boys and girls are unable to apply the principles taught them to practical advantage in life, and that, in order to fit them as quickly as possible for self-support, the subject be referred to a committee of three for investigation and report. The committee appointed were Messrs. Joshua Plaskitt, James V. Bowers and John F. Hancock. Messrs. John T. Morris, President, Henry A. Wise, Superintendent, and Charles G. Edwards, Assistant Superintendent, were afterwards added to the committee. On June 19th, 1883, the committee submitted the following: Resolved, That the Committee on Conference be authorized and requested to apply to the City Council for permission to establish a school for manual education for the use of the male pupils of the public schools, under the supervision of the Board of Commissioners of Public Schools, and to request that an appropriation be made for the payment of the expenses of said school. October, 1883. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Living Downtown
Living Downtown

Author: Paul E. Groth

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780520068766

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From the palace hotels of the elite to cheap lodging houses, residential hotels have been an element of American urban life for nearly two hundred years. Since 1870, however, they have been the target of an official war led by people whose concept of home does not include the hotel. Do these residences constitute an essential housing resource, or are they, as charged, a public nuisance? Living Downtown, the first comprehensive social and cultural history of life in American residential hotels, adds a much-needed historical perspective to this ongoing debate. Creatively combining evidence from biographies, buildings and urban neighborhoods, workplace records, and housing policies, Paul Groth provides a definitive analysis of life in four price-differentiated types of downtown residence. He demonstrates that these hotels have played a valuable socioeconomic role as home to both long-term residents and temporary laborers. Also, the convenience of hotels has made them the residence of choice for a surprising number of Americans, from hobo author Boxcar Bertha to Calvin Coolidge. Groth examines the social and cultural objections to hotel households and the increasing efforts to eliminate them, which have led to the seemingly irrational destruction of millions of such housing units since 1960. He argues convincingly that these efforts have been a leading contributor to urban homelessness. This highly original and timely work aims to expand the concept of the American home and to recast accepted notions about the relationships among urban life, architecture, and the public management of residential environments.

Bio-Inspired Innovation and National Security
Bio-Inspired Innovation and National Security

Author: National Defense University

Publisher: NDU Press

Published: 2010-10

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1780390408

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Despite the vital importance of the emerging area of biotechnology and its role in defense planning and policymaking, no definitive book has been written on the topic for the defense policymaker, the military student, and the private-sector bioscientist interested in the "emerging opportunities market" of national security. This edited volume is intended to help close this gap and provide the necessary backdrop for thinking strategically about biology in defense planning and policymaking. This volume is about applications of the biological sciences, here called "biologically inspired innovations," to the military. Rather than treating biology as a series of threats to be dealt with, such innovations generally approach the biological sciences as a set of opportunities for the military to gain strategic advantage over adversaries. These opportunities range from looking at everything from genes to brains, from enhancing human performance to creating renewable energy, from sensing the environment around us to harnessing its power.

The Divo and the Duce
The Divo and the Duce

Author: Giorgio Bertellini

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2019-01-15

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0520301366

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At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the post–World War I American climate of isolationism, nativism, democratic expansion of civic rights, and consumerism, Italian-born star Rodolfo Valentino and Italy’s dictator Benito Mussolini became surprising paragons of authoritarian male power and mass appeal. Drawing on extensive archival research in the United States and Italy, Giorgio Bertellini’s work shows how their popularity, both political and erotic, largely depended on the efforts of public opinion managers, including publicists, journalists, and even ambassadors. Beyond the democratic celebrations of the Jazz Age, the promotion of their charismatic masculinity through spectacle and press coverage inaugurated the now-familiar convergence of popular celebrity and political authority. This is the first volume in the new Cinema Cultures in Contact series, coedited by Giorgio Bertellini, Richard Abel, and Matthew Solomon.