History of Girard College
Author: Cheesman Abiah Herrick
Publisher:
Published: 1927
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13:
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Stephen Girard
Author: George Wilson
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780938289562
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Girard
Author: Geoffrey L. Domowicz
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780738524542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorn at the dawn of America's great canal era, Girard thrived on the streams of commerce and life flowing through Pennsylvania on the Erie Canal. Home also to the nation's first Civil War monument and one of the few banks to remain open during the Great Depression, the town stayed in the mainstream of history even after the canals dried up and time passed on.
Lonely Midas
Author: Harry Emerson Wildes
Publisher:
Published: 1943
Total Pages: 410
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvolution of Desire
Author: Cynthia L Haven
Publisher: MSU Press
Published: 2018-04-01
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1628953306
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRené Girard (1923–2015) was one of the leading thinkers of our era—a provocative sage who bypassed prevailing orthodoxies to offer a bold, sweeping vision of human nature, human history, and human destiny. His oeuvre, offering a “mimetic theory” of cultural origins and human behavior, inspired such writers as Milan Kundera and J. M. Coetzee, and earned him a place among the forty “immortals” of the Académie Française. Too often, however, his work is considered only within various academic specializations. This first-ever biographical study takes a wider view. Cynthia L. Haven traces the evolution of Girard’s thought in parallel with his life and times. She recounts his formative years in France and his arrival in a country torn by racial division, and reveals his insights into the collective delusions of our technological world and the changing nature of warfare. Drawing on interviews with Girard and his colleagues, Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard provides an essential introduction to one of the twentieth century’s most controversial and original minds.
Alexander Girard, Architect
Author: Deborah Lubera Kawsky
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2018-06-18
Total Pages: 841
ISBN-13: 081434366X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShowcases the bold, innovative, and colorful architectural designs of Alexander Girard. During the midcentury period, Michigan attracted visionary architects, designers, and theorists, including Alexander Girard. While much has been written about Girard's vibrantly colored and patterned textiles for Herman Miller, the story of his Detroit period (1937–53)—encompassing interior and industrial design, exhibition curation, and residential architecture—has not been told. Alexander Girard, Architect: Creating Midcentury Modern Masterpiecesby Deborah Lubera Kawsky is the first comprehensive study of Girard's exceptional architectural projects, specifically those concentrated in the ultra-traditional Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe. One exciting element of the book is the rediscovery of another Girard masterpiece—the only surviving house designed entirely by Girard, and former residence to Mr. and Mrs. John McLucas. Restored in consultation with iconic midcentury designer Ruth Adler Schnee, the McLucas house represents the culmination of Girard's Detroit design work at midcentury. Stunning color photographs capture the unique design elements—including the boldly colored glazed brick walls of the atrium—reminiscent of Girard's role as color consultant for the GM Tech Center. Original Girard drawings for the building plan, interior spaces, and custom-designed furniture document the mind of a modernist master at work and are made available to the public for the first time in this beautiful book. Alexander Girard, Architectis a beautiful, informative book suited for enthusiasts of Alexander Girard, the midcentury modern aesthetic, and Detroit history, art, and architecture.
The First Tycoon
Author: T.J. Stiles
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2010-04-20
Total Pages: 738
ISBN-13: 1400031745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In this groundbreaking biography, T.J. Stiles tells the dramatic story of Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt, the combative man and American icon who, through his genius and force of will, did more than perhaps any other individual to create modern capitalism. Meticulously researched and elegantly written, The First Tycoon describes an improbable life, from Vanderbilt’s humble birth during the presidency of George Washington to his death as one of the richest men in American history. In between we see how the Commodore helped to launch the transportation revolution, propel the Gold Rush, reshape Manhattan, and invent the modern corporation. Epic in its scope and success, the life of Vanderbilt is also the story of the rise of America itself.
The Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Author: Harry Kyriakodis
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2014-07-07
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1439646015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Benjamin Franklin Parkway has sliced through the Logan Square neighborhood of Center City (downtown) Philadelphia since World War I. Named after Philadelphia's favorite son, the mile-long boulevard begins at city hall and heads diagonally towards Logan Circle before reaching the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The postcards and other images in this work show the parkway's development and its role in Philadelphia's civic and cultural life. Despite often serving as a speedway into and out of town, the Ben Franklin Parkway is a triumph in urban planning that has become a treasured part of the City of Brotherly Love.
Stephen Girard's Trade with China, 1787-1824
Author: Jonathan Goldstein
Publisher: Merwinasia
Published: 2011-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780983659969
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Jonathan Goldstein is our premier historian of the trade conducted between Philadelphia and China. His carefully researched new book casts needed light on the China trade of Stephen Girard, a key Philadelphia China trader, and an important figure in early United States business history. One of our first millionaires, Girard bridged several worlds. He was a curious and adaptive American, and the product of the France of his birth, naming his trading ships for enlightenment French philosophes. Goldstein's book looks at Girard's encounter with China, tracking the full arc of his China trading from entry through withdrawal, noting Girard's careful study and trade risk assessment from start to end. This book will be welcomed by scholars in various topics in American, Asian and European history. Its treatment of current popular topics such as cultural differences and perceptions, drugs and smuggling, and issues of national sovereignty and solvency will have popular appeal as well." --Frederic Delano Grant, Jr., attorney and economic historian ". . . ably traces the motivation and preparations for Girard's China ventures, detailing his legitimate commerce as well as the infamous trade in opium, which was itself both a prominent feature and the catalyst for the destruction of the pre-1842 Canton system." --Robert Gardella, emeritus professor of history, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy "Goldstein is one of the major historians studying the Old China Trade and other aspects of the western relationship with China. An important contribution to the literature of the economic relationship between the West and China." --Murray A. Rubinstein, Baruch College, CUNY
The Unique Childhood of a Hummer
Author: Lewis N. Rinko
Publisher:
Published: 2012-06
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780578104324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHUMMER is a memoir that relives a boy's unique childhood growing up near Center City Philadelphia in America's little known, but extraordinary orphanage for fatherless boys. Charles Dickens and Mark Twain would have recognized much of a Hummer's life: physical punishment without any appeal for justice, some cruel conditions and humorous escapades and adventures roaming about the nation's third largest metropolis and the world's largest city park. A newbie quickly learns that, for the next 8 to 10 years, he can depend on only one person himself. From Fifth Grade on, he loses his first name and responds with his last or a number. No one even asks Did you do your homework? Hummers, from six to seventeen, are totally responsible for their decisions and actions."
