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Handsome treasury of 118 vintage pictures, accompanied by captions, document the Garden City Hotel fire (1899), the Vanderbilt Cup Race (1908), the first airmail flight departing from the Nassau Boulevard Aerodrome (1911), more.
Author : Mildred H. Smith
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 12,64 MB
Release : 1998-10-28
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0486406695
Handsome treasury of 118 vintage pictures, accompanied by captions, document the Garden City Hotel fire (1899), the Vanderbilt Cup Race (1908), the first airmail flight departing from the Nassau Boulevard Aerodrome (1911), more.
Author : M. Smith
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,64 MB
Release : 1995-03
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ISBN : 9780486284316
Author : Bette S. Weidman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 13,74 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780486241364
175 vintage photos recall aspects of life on Long Island from post-Civil War to modern era. Village life, agriculture, local industries, celebrities, early aviation and movie industries, fabulous estates, beaches, much more. Unique document of early Nassau and pioneer photography. Full informative captions. Introduction. Indices.
Author : William Lee Younger
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,38 MB
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0486141691
157 photographs, many never before reprinted, show the vitality and variety of old Brooklyn: waterfront, Brooklyn Bridge, Fulton Street, Brooklyn Heights, Ebbets Field, Luna Park, Sheepshead Bay, Manhattan Beach Hotel, more.
Author : Richard Panchyk
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 27,84 MB
Release : 2016-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1439658986
True stories, fun facts, and photos that reveal the little-known secrets of New York’s Long Island. Long Island’s history is filled with fascinating firsts, magnificent mansions, and colorful characters. From Glenn Curtiss, the first pilot to fly a plane on the island, to Earle Ovington, who carried the country’s first airmail, the area has been known as the cradle of aviation. Millionaire William K. Vanderbilt’s Long Island Motor Parkway, remnants of which still remain, was the nation's first highway. The desolate ruins of an exiled Albanian king’s estate lie in the midst of the woods of the Muttontown Preserve. Captain William Kidd, pirate chaser turned pirate, is rumored to have buried treasure on the island. With these stories and more, Richard Panchyk reveals the rapidly vanishing traces of Long Island’s intriguing history. “Amazing and unknown historical gems.”—Queens Gazette
Author : Stanley Appelbaum
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 19,81 MB
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0486119998
Works by Villon, Ronsard, Voltaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, many more. Full French texts with literal English translations on facing pages. Biographical, critical information on each poet. Introduction. 31 black-and-white illustrations.
Author : Gustave Mathieu
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 10,63 MB
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0486121798
Over 40 poems by Goethe, Schiller, Heine, Hölderlin, Brecht, and other masters. Full German text plus literal English translations on facing pages. Biographical and critical commentary on each poet. 34 portraits. Introduction.
Author : S. Morris Engel
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 24,76 MB
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0486157431
As S. Morris Engel alerts us in this eye-opening book, we risk falling into potentially harmful language traps every moment. Not just the occasional malapropism or grammatical faux pas, but a more sinister kind — distortions of meaning that would persuade us to believe something that may not be true. Sometimes these language traps are set for us deliberately by politicians, advertisers, journalists, lawyers or other professional persuaders. Sometimes they are set inadvertently by our friends, our loved ones — even ourselves. This work explains how and why these fallacies work, and how we may suffer the consequences when they do. Day after day we listen to government newspeak (our troops are called "peace-keeping forces"), exaggerated advertising claims from "leading authorities," twisted logic and misleading propaganda. We are treated to more and more euphemisms (slums are called "substandard housing"; dogcatchers, "animal welfare officers"). We encounter innumerable ambiguities ("I wish you all the good fortune you deserve") — and indulge in a few ourselves. The author wittily explores this verbal minefield, and tells us how to spot a language trap and how to avoid falling in. The book is not only a useful manual of verbal self-defense, it's an engrossing study of the nature of language and the subtle ways in which it operates. It will intrigue anyone interested in words, language, and the dynamics of modern culture.
Author : William T Sherman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,74 MB
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0486147118
Highlights from the general's autobiography chronicle his blitzkrieg-styled march through the heart of the South in 1864 and reveal the theories that marked him as the first modern military strategist.
Author : Elizabeth Geddes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 32,91 MB
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0486176207
Modern version of traditional craft; materials, techniques, patterns, projects. 320 illustrations.