Author: Best of Images of America
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Keywords: images, city, america, american, atlanta, vintage, unforgettable
Published: 2000-09-23
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0738507512
ISBN-13: 9780738507514
Author: Alice Eby Hall
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: images, america, rail, cajon, pass
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-09-02
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0738570753
ISBN-13: 9780738570754
California bloomed when modern men conquered Cajon Pass. CaliforniaÂ’s two transverse (east to west) mountain ranges, the San Gabriel and San Bernardino, prevented commerce east between two-thirds of Southern California and the rest of the state. Cajon Pass, the low point between the two ranges, was first opened to business by roads that generally followed old Native American trails. When railroads pierced the divide in 1885, Northern and Southern California and states to the east benefitted. Utility trunks followed: first electrical power in about 1912, followed by telephone, and finally n
Author: Nicholas A. Veronico
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: images, america, aviation, moffett, field
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2006-05-08
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0738531324
ISBN-13: 9780738531328
The looming immensity of Moffett Field’s Hangar One, built in 1933 to house the world’s largest and last rigid-frame dirigible, is an unforgettable South Bay landmark. The lighter-than-air Macon cost 2.5 million Depression-era dollars and could hold 100 men and five Sparrowhawk biplanes, yet its silvery bulk hovered silently or sailed up to 80 miles an hour. It drew crowds as it darkened the skies around Mountain View until it broke up in a storm two years later. Other blimp squadrons, equipped with carrier pigeons instead of biplanes, succeeded the Macon. Moffett Field has at vari
Author: Images Publishing Group
Publisher: Images Publishing Dist A/C
Keywords: images, apartments, world
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2006-07-06
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 1920744495
ISBN-13: 9781920744496
Is apartment living the way of the future? According to some, it’s the only way to live. For most apartment-dwellers, beautiful views, functional floor plans, low maintenance and convenient, inner-city locations far outweigh the attributes of the traditional quarter-acre suburban block. This book presents, through text, superb floor photographs and floor plans, 50 of the best apartments from around the world. Focusing on fabulous interiors, this book is a digest of the myriad ways to fit out spaces that often begin as concrete shells, but are transformed, through the talents of the best
Authors:Nicholas Saul, Susan Tebutt,
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Keywords: images, counter, romanies, role
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-05-30
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0853236895
ISBN-13: 9780853236894
Since the arrival of the "Gypsies," or Romanies, in Europe at the beginning of the eleventh century, Europeans have simultaneously feared and romanticized them. That ambiguity has contributed to centuries of confusion over the origins, culture, and identity of the Romanies, a confusion that too often has resulted in marginalization, persecution, and scapegoating. The Role of the Romanies brings together international experts on Romany culture from the fields of history, sociology, linguistics, and anthropology to address the many questions and problems raised by the vexed relationship between
Author: Nissim Rejwan
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keywords: images, modern, times, islamic, pre, mirror, arabs
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-04-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0292717288
ISBN-13: 9780292717282
What is an Arab? Though many in the West would answer that question with simplistic stereotypes, the reality is far more complex and interesting. Arabs themselves have been debating Arab identity since pre-Islamic times, coming to a variety of conclusions about the nature and extent of their "Arabness." Likewise, Westerners and others have attempted to analyze Arab identity, reaching mostly negative conclusions about Arab culture and capacity for self-government. To bring new perspectives to the question of Arab identity, Iraqi-born scholar Nissim Rejwan has assembled this fascinating collec
Author: Joshua Stoff
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: images, america, series, aviation, island, manufacturers, aircraft
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2010-08-11
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0738573361
ISBN-13: 9780738573366
Significant aircraft manufacturing began on Long Island in the early 20th century and boomed during the war years. Long Islanders helped transform aviation from a dangerous sport to a viable means of transportation, while also producing a large portion of the nation’s aerial arsenal in times of war. From the first frail biplanes to the warbirds of World War II and the sleek fighters of the jet age, aviation companies on Long Island helped make aviation the integral part of our world that it is today. During the 20th century, over 70 firms came to build aircraft on Long Island. Some of th
