Wheels of Change
Title | Wheels of Change PDF eBook |
Author | Sue Macy |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | 100 |
Release | 2017-02-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1426328559 |
Explore the role the bicycle played in the women's liberation movement.
Wheels of Change
Title | Wheels of Change PDF eBook |
Author | Darlene Beck-Jacobson |
Publisher | Creston Books |
Total Pages | 197 |
Release | 2019-08-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1939547709 |
Racial intolerance, social change, and sweeping progress make 1908 Washington, D.C., a turbulent place to grow up in for 12-year-old Emily Soper. For Emily, life in Papa's carriage barn is magic, and she's more at home hearing the symphony of the blacksmith's hammer than trying to conform to the proper expectations of young ladies. When Papa's livelihood is threatened by racist neighbors and horsepower of a different sort, Emily faces changes she'd never imagined. Finding courage and resolve she didn't know she had, Emily strives to save Papa's business, even if it means going all the way to the White House.
The Book Rescuer
Title | The Book Rescuer PDF eBook |
Author | Sue Macy |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 52 |
Release | 2019-10-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1481472216 |
Recipient of a Sydney Taylor Book Award for Younger Readers An ALA Notable Book A Bank Street Best Book of the Year “Text and illustration meld beautifully.” —The New York Times “Stunning.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Inspired...[a] journalistic, propulsive narrative.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “The story comes alive through the bold acrylic and gouache art.” —Booklist (starred review) From New York Times Best Illustrated Book artist Stacy Innerst and author Sue Macy comes a story of one man’s heroic effort to save the world’s Yiddish books in their Sydney Taylor Book Award–winning masterpiece. Over the last forty years, Aaron Lansky has jumped into dumpsters, rummaged around musty basements, and crawled through cramped attics. He did all of this in pursuit of a particular kind of treasure, and he’s found plenty. Lansky’s treasure was any book written Yiddish, the language of generations of European Jews. When he started looking for Yiddish books, experts estimated there might be about 70,000 still in existence. Since then, the MacArthur Genius Grant recipient has collected close to 1.5 million books, and he’s finding more every day. Told in a folkloric voice reminiscent of Patricia Polacco, this story celebrates the power of an individual to preserve history and culture, while exploring timely themes of identity and immigration.
Cars, Automobility and Development in Asia
Title | Cars, Automobility and Development in Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Arve Hansen |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2016-09-13 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1317396715 |
Cars, Automobility and Development in Asia explores the nexus between automobility and development in a pan-Asian comparative perspective. The book seeks to integrate the policies, production forms, consumption preferences and symbolism implicated in emerging Asian automobilities. Using empirically rich and grounded analyses of both comparative and single-country case studies, the authors chart new approaches to studying automobility and development in emerging Asia.
The Cycling City
Title | The Cycling City PDF eBook |
Author | Evan Friss |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 2021-01-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022675880X |
As Evan Friss shows in his mordant history of urban bicycling in the late nineteenth century, the bicycle has long told us much about cities and their residents. In a time when American cities were chaotic, polluted, and socially and culturally impenetrable, the bicycle inspired a vision of an improved city in which pollution was negligible, transport was noiseless and rapid, leisure spaces were democratic, and the divisions between city and country blurred. Friss focuses not on the technology of the bicycle but on the urbanisms that bicycling engendered. Bicycles altered the look and feel of cities and their streets, enhanced mobility, fueled leisure and recreation, promoted good health, and shrank urban spaces as part of a larger transformation that altered the city and the lives of its inhabitants, even as the bicycle's own popularity fell, not to rise again for a century. --Publisher's description.
The Behaviour Change Wheel
Title | The Behaviour Change Wheel PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Michie |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 329 |
Release | 2014-05 |
Genre | Behavior modification |
ISBN | 9781912141005 |
Designing Interventions' brings together theory-based tools developed in behavioural science to understand and change behaviour to form a step-by-step intervention design manual. This book is for anyone with an interest in changing behaviour regardless of whether they have a background in behavioural science.
Parnassus on Wheels
Title | Parnassus on Wheels PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Morley |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | 94 |
Release | 2023-12-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9359328715 |
Christopher Morley's story "Parnassus on Wheels" is a joy. Helen McGill, a middle-aged spinster, has spent her life caring for her brother Andrew and their lucrative traveling bookshop known as "Parnassus." This book is classified as historical fiction, and it is a brilliant collection of ideas compacted into a single draft for readers of all ages to read. With an eye-catching new cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of "Parnassus on Wheels" is both current and legible. She, on the other hand, yearns for adventure and freedom. Helen's life takes an unexpected turn when Roger Mifflin, an interesting and strange story salesman, appears at her door with an offer to buy Parnassus. Fearing that her brother is wasting his life on the road, Helen decides to sell the bookstore and embark on her own creative trip. As she meets new people and navigates the world of bookselling, she rapidly realizes that living on the road can be both exciting and challenging. Helen and Roger form an unusual and touching friendship as they travel together, discovering not only literary delights but additionally the joys of company.