Saving An American Treasure

Author : Dwight Young
Publisher : National Geographic Society
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saving America's Treasures written by Dwight Young and published by National Geographic Society. This book was released on 2001 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcases some of America's priceless historical artifacts, documents, and sites that, because of neglect, age, or lack of funding, are in danger of being lost forever.

Author : Stephen Puleo
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250065747
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Treasures written by Stephen Puleo and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic, never-before-told stories behind the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Gettysburg Address: America's crown jewels that define its commitment to freedom.

Author : Kathleen Mcmanus Overton, Ph.d.
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781495907005
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saving an American Treasure written by Kathleen Mcmanus Overton, Ph.d. and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-02-23 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listed on the National Register of Historic Places and selected for inclusion in Save America's Treasures is testimony to the significance of Vista House at Crown Point, Oregon.This book tells the story of the genesis of the building, the movers and shakers who made it happen, the disputes between the players, and the unique architectural design.It begins in 1915 and continues through to the current day, describing the deterioration from use and weather that almost destroyed the “crown” of the Columbia River Highway.The forty-plus black and white photographs help convey why Vista House is a legacy to all of us and to future generations.

Author : David Tolin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199329273
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buried in Treasures written by David Tolin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While most people find it relatively easy to manage their possessions, some find it extremely difficult. If you have a problem resisting the urge to acquire and you find your home cluttered and filled to capacity with items many people would find useless and unnecessary, you may suffer from a condition known as hoarding disorder. Hoarding is a behavioral problem consisting of clutter, difficulty discarding items, and excessive buying or acquiring. Hoarding is often associated with significant reduction in quality of life, and in extreme cases, it can pose serious health risks. If you or a loved one has hoarding disorder, this book can help. This fully updated Second Edition of Buried in Treasures outlines a scientifically based, effective program for helping those with hoarding disorder dig their way out of the clutter and chaos of their homes. Written by scientists and practitioners who are leaders in studying and treating hoarding disorder, this book outlines a program of skill-building, learning to think about possessions in a different way, and gradual challenges to help people manage their clutter and their lives. It also provides useful information for family and friends of people who hoard, as they struggle to understand and help. Discover the reasons for your problems with acquiring, saving, and hoarding, and learn new ways of thinking about your possessions so you can decide what you really need and what you can do without. Learn to identify the "bad guys" that cause and maintain your hoarding behavior and meet the "good guys" who can help motivate you and put you on the path to change. Useful self-assessments will help you determine the severity of your problem. Training exercises, case examples, organizing tips, and motivation boosters help change the way you think and behave toward your possessions. This book provides easy-to-understand strategies and techniques that anyone can use.

Author : Stephen Puleo
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466872748
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Treasures written by Stephen Puleo and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Puleo's American Treasures is a narrative history of America's secret efforts to hide its founding documents from Axis powers, and its national tradition of uniting to defend the definition of democracy. A Boston Globe Bestseller On December 26, 1941, Secret Service Agent Harry E. Neal stood on a platform at Washington's Union Station, watching a train chug off into the dark and feeling at once relieved and inexorably anxious. These were dire times: as Hitler's armies plowed across Europe, seizing or destroying the Continent's historic artifacts at will, Japan bristled to the East. The Axis was rapidly closing in. So FDR set about hiding the country's valuables. On the train speeding away from Neal sat four plain-wrapped cases containing the documentary history of American democracy: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Gettysburg Address, and more, guarded by a battery of agents and bound for safekeeping in the nation's most impenetrable hiding place. American Treasures charts the little-known journeys of these American crown jewels. From the risky and audacious adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 to our modern Fourth of July celebrations, American Treasures shows how the ideas captured in these documents underscore the nation's strengths and hopes, and embody its fundamental values of liberty and equality. Stephen Puleo weaves in exciting stories of freedom under fire - from the Declaration and Constitution smuggled out of Washington days before the British burned the capital in 1814, to their covert relocation during WWII - crafting a sweeping history of a nation united to preserve its definition of democracy.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Millennium written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Academy of Natural Sciences
ISBN 13 : 9781604834765
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lewis and Clark Herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences : Part 2. Saving an American treasure: preservavtion of the herbarium on the bicentennial of the expedition written by and published by Academy of Natural Sciences. This book was released on with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert M. Edsel
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393240452
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis written by Robert M. Edsel and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Monuments Men: "An astonishing account of a little-known American effort to save Italy's…art during World War II." —Tom Brokaw When Hitler’s armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind’s greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the treasures of the Vatican, and the antiquities of the Roman Empire. On the eve of the Allied invasion, General Dwight Eisenhower empowered a new kind of soldier to protect these historic riches. In May 1944 two unlikely American heroes—artist Deane Keller and scholar Fred Hartt—embarked from Naples on the treasure hunt of a lifetime, tracking billions of dollars of missing art, including works by Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli. With the German army retreating up the Italian peninsula, orders came from the highest levels of the Nazi government to transport truckloads of art north across the border into the Reich. Standing in the way was General Karl Wolff, a top-level Nazi officer. As German forces blew up the magnificent bridges of Florence, General Wolff commandeered the great collections of the Uffizi Gallery and Pitti Palace, later risking his life to negotiate a secret Nazi surrender with American spymaster Allen Dulles. Brilliantly researched and vividly written, the New York Times bestselling Saving Italy brings readers from Milan and the near destruction of The Last Supper to the inner sanctum of the Vatican and behind closed doors with the preeminent Allied and Axis leaders: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Churchill; Hitler, Göring, and Himmler. An unforgettable story of epic thievery and political intrigue, Saving Italy is a testament to heroism on behalf of art, culture, and history.

Author : Earl Jefferson Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674332157
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Treasure and the Price Revolution in Spain, 1501-1650 written by Earl Jefferson Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Millennium Communities Handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: