Perhaps a Ferris Wheel
Author: C G Quilitzsch III Quilitzsch III (author)
Publisher:
Published: 1901
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780359765591
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Perhaps a Ferris Wheel
Author: C G Quilitzsch III
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2019-07-09
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0359763138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYou just inherited more money than you could ever dream of. You should: A) Go on a road trip B) Join a circus C) Solve a mystery D) Do laundry E) Reboot your life F) All of the above
Ferris Wheels
Author: Norman D. Anderson
Publisher: Popular Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780879725327
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnderson (North Carolina State University) is clearly obsessed with the Ferris Wheel. He describes the conception and construction of the first example--at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893. Imitators and variations are described and illustrated with period photos and patent drawings. An appendix contains 115 pages of patent drawings. A charming, unique book (that will win no graphics awards). Paper edition (unseen), $29.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Mr. Ferris and His Wheel
Author: Kathryn Gibbs Davis
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 45
ISBN-13: 0547959222
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines how the engineer George Ferris invented and constructed the amusement park ride that bears his name for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.
George Ferris' Grand Idea
Author: Jenna Glatzer
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
Published: 2015-08
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 1479571652
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Discusses George Ferris' invention of the Ferris Wheel and the man behind it, including the idea, the obstacles, and the eventual success"--
Play and the Human Condition
Author: Thomas S. Henricks
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2015-04-15
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 025209705X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Play and the Human Condition, Thomas Henricks brings together ways of considering play to probe its essential relationship to work, ritual, and communitas. Focusing on five contexts for play--the psyche, the body, the environment, society, and culture--Henricks identifies conditions that instigate play, and comments on its implications for those settings. Offering a general theory of play as behavior promoting self-realization, Henricks articulates a conception of self that includes individual and social identity, particular and transcendent connection, and multiple fields of involvement. Henricks also evaluates play styles from history and contemporary life to analyze the relationship between play and human freedom. Imaginative and stimulating, Play and the Human Condition shows how play allows us to learn about our qualities and those of the world around us--and in so doing make sense of ourselves.
Very Short Stories
Author: Robert A D Taylor
Publisher: Robert A D Taylor
Published: 2014-08-13
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKForty-six very short science fiction, fantasy and horror stories. Perfect for reading while commuting, standing in line while waiting to renew your driver's licence, waiting for that friend who is always running late for drinks or other situations where you just don't have time to spend on a longer story. Travel to fantasy worlds, fly with super heroes and tremble in the face of unkind mysteries and horrible horrors.
The Rights of My People
Author: Neil Thomas Proto
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 0875867219
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere were two battles for Hawaii?s sovereignty led by Queen Liliuokalani. This book, The Rights of My People, revisits these battles? the 1893 coup d?etat and the annexation in 1898? from a new perspective, against the backdrop of the harsh remnants of the Civil War, the missionary?s disquieting view of race, and the emerging role of Hawaiian women. The Rights of My People explores the fate of the Crown lands, a quarter of the Hawaii islands, taken in the 1893 coup d?etat and contested aggressively by Liliuokalani through 1910. Woven into the story are threats of execution and assassination.
Sputnik Sweetheart
Author: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2001-05-22
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 0375413464
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart romance, part detective story, Sputnik Sweetheart tells the story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited love. Now with a new introduction from the author. K is madly in love with his best friend, Sumire, but her devotion to a writerly life precludes her from any personal commitments. At least, that is, until she meets an older woman to whom she finds herself irresistibly drawn. When Sumire disappears from an island off the coast of Greece, K is solicited to join the search party—and finds himself drawn back into her world and beset by ominous visions. Subtle and haunting, Sputnik Sweetheart is a profound meditation on human longing.
James Brindley
Author: Nick Corble
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2011-10-21
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 0752472240
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt can be said of few men that without them the course of their nation's history would have been very different, yet through the force of his ideas and sheer bloody-mindedness, James Brindley, the first great canal builder, provided the spark that ignited the Industrial Revolution, united the nation and set Britain on course to become the world's first superpower. Born into poverty and barely literate, Brindley had a vision for the country that defied both established society and the natural order, dividing mid-eighteenth-century scientific and political opinion. Crowds flocked to marvel at this new canals and the engineering feats that accompanied them, with Brindley's inventiveness earning him the nickname 'The Schemer'.
