Author: Various
Publisher: Mellon Press
Keywords: practice, room, drafting
Number of Pages: 52
Published: 2008-05-18
List price: $26.45
ISBN-10: 1409712060
ISBN-13: 9781409712060

MACHINERYS REFERENCE SERIES EACH NUMBER IS ONE UNIT IN A COMPLETE LIBRARY OF MACHINE DESIGN AND SHOP PRACTICE REVISED AND REPUB- LISHED FROM MACHINERY NUMBER 2 DRAF TING-ROOM PRACTICE CONTENTS Drafting-Room System, by RALPH E. FLANDERS - 3 Tracing, Lettering and Mounting, by I. G. BAYLEY 17 Card Index Systems, by A. L. VALENTINE, J. S. WATTS and A. B. HOWK - - - 34 Copyright, 1910, The Industrial Ircss. Publishcls of JIAcIIISERY, 49-55 Lafayette Street, Sea7 Pork ity CHAITEK I DRAFTING-ROOM SYSTEM The drafting-room may be said to bear a double relation to the shop. It is the place where design

Author: G. Renard
Publisher: Mellon Press
Keywords: times, prehistoric, work, life
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1406730475
ISBN-13: 9781406730470

CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE INTRODUCTION. THE METHODS OF PRE HISTORY. ITS BEGINNINGS AND ITS PRINCIPLES ...... 1 I. FOOD ....... 33 II. Two GREAT DISCOVERIES. FIRE AND LANGUAGE ...... 47 III. THE FIRST INDUSTRIES .... 60 IV. THE DWELLING PLACE .... 75 V. CLOTHING AND WEAPONS OF DEFENCE . 90 VI. MAN AND THE ANIMALS .... 106 VII. THE BEGINNINGS OF AGRICULTURE . . 120 VIII. THE FIRST METHODS OF TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION ..... 134 IX. THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE PEOPLES. WAR AND COMMERCE .... 149 X. THE ORIGIN OF THE ARTS . . . 165 XI. THE ORIGINS OF SCIENCE .... 188 XII. THE FIRST HUMAN SOCIETIES. THE CL

Author: H. J. Forman
Publisher: Mellon Press
Keywords: children, made, movie
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2008-06-30
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1409769755
ISBN-13: 9781409769750

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: John T. Barker
Publisher: Mellon Press
Keywords: lawyer, missouri
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $31.45
ISBN-10: 1406737895
ISBN-13: 9781406737899

JOHN T. PARKER Of TTie A lissouri I5ar DORRANCE COMPANY PHILADELPHIA COPYRIGHT, 1949 DORRANCE COMPANY, INC. MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA JOHN T. BARKER To MILDRED HAP NORMAN II JACK CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. THE TIME AND THE PLAGE 9 II. THE BAR OF CARROLL COUNTY AT THE END OF THE CENTURY 17 III. THE FIRST CITIZEN OF CARROLL COUNTY 29 IV. A YOUNG LAWYER 33 V. MACON COUNTY PERSONALITIES 42 VI. MARRIAGE,, MACON COUNTY LAWYERS AND JUDGES 51 VII. BORDER WARFARE 61 VIII. FRANK AND JESSE JAMES 69 IX. IN THE LEGISLATURE 81 X. WARRENTON TRAIN WRECK HENRY DEANTHE HYDES OF PRINCETON. . 102

Author: Mary Ruefle
Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Keywords: world, pleased
Number of Pages: 78
Published: 2007-02-02
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0887484670
ISBN-13: 9780887484674

Author: Kathleen Halme
Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Keywords: pulse, amp, drift
Number of Pages: 47
Published: 2007-01-16
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0887484638
ISBN-13: 9780887484636

Author: Rita Dove
Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Pre
Keywords: beulah, thomas
Number of Pages: 79
Published: 1986-06-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0887480217
ISBN-13: 9780887480218

The poems in this unusual book tell a story, forming a narrative almost like a realistic novel. Read in sequence as intended, they tell of the lives of a married black couple (not unlike Dove’s own grandparents) from the early part of the century until their deaths in the 1960s, a period that spans the great migration of blacks from rural south to urban north. But this is merely the social backdrop to the story of a marriage. Two separate sequences offer two views of the couple’s lives: the first, "Mandolin," consists of 23 poems giving Thomas’s side, and "Canary in Bloom" gi