Through The Mill

Author : David Macaulay
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547348363
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mill written by David Macaulay and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1989-10-30 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated look at nineteenth-century New England architecture was named a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. This book, from the award-winning author of The Way Things Work, takes readers of all ages on a journey through a fictional mill town called Wicksbridge. With words and pictures, David Macaulay reveals fascinating details about the planning, construction, and operation of the mills—and gives us a powerful sense of the day-to-day lives of Americans in this era. “His imaginary mills in an imaginary town in Rhode Island, and the generations of people who built and ran them, come to life.” —The New York Times

Author : David Hanson
Publisher : Headline
ISBN 13 : 1472220420
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of the Mill written by David Hanson and published by Headline. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Channel 4's The Mill captivated viewers with the tales of the lives of the young girls and boys in a northern mill. Focusing on the lives of the apprentices at Quarry Bank Mill, David Hanson's book uses a wealth of first-person source material including letters, diaries, mill records, to tell the stories of the children who lived and worked at Quarry Bank throughout the nineteenth century. This book perfectly accompanies the television series, satisfying viewers' curiosity about the history of the children of Quarry Bank. It reveals the real lives of the television series' main characters: Esther, Daniel, Lucy and Susannah, showing how shockingly close to the truth the dramatisation is. But the book also goes far beyond this to create a full and vivid picture of factory life in the industrial revolution. David Hanson has written an accessible narrative history of Victorian working children and the conditions in which they worked.

Author : Rukmini Barua
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009032402
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of the Mill written by Rukmini Barua and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the socio–spatial transformation of Ahmedabad's worker neighbourhoods over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries - during which the city witnessed dramatic and disturbing transformations. It follows the multiple histories of Ahmedabad's labour landscapes from the times when the city acquired prominence as an important site of Gandhian political activity and as a key centre of the textile industry, through the decades of industrial collapse and periods of sectarian violence in the recent years. Taking the working-class neighbourhood as a scale of social practice, the question of urban change is examined along two axes of investigation: the transformation of local political configurations and forms of political mediation and the shifts in the social geography of the neighbourhood as reflected in the changing regimes of property.

Author : Ram Dass
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062235923
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grist for the Mill written by Ram Dass and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Ram Dass, one of America’s most beloved spiritual figures and bestselling author of Be Here Now and Be Love Now, comes this timeless classic about the experience of being and the risks and rewards of our spiritual path. Originally published in 1976, Grist for the Mill offers a deep spiritual journey of self-discovery, and a universal understanding of what it means to "be" and to grow as human beings. The book is fully revised with a new introduction. As Ram Dass puts it, "When the faith is strong enough it is sufficient just to be. It’s a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It’s a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification."

Author : Kerri Arsenault
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250155959
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mill Town written by Kerri Arsenault and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Rachel Carson Environmental Book Award Winner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics John Leonard Prize for Best First Book Finalist for the 2021 New England Society Book Award Finalist for the 2021 New England Independent Booksellers Association Award A New York Times Editors’ Choice and Chicago Tribune top book for 2020 “Mill Town is the book of a lifetime; a deep-drilling, quick-moving, heartbreaking story. Scathing and tender, it lifts often into poetry, but comes down hard when it must. Through it all runs the river: sluggish, ancient, dangerous, freighted with America’s sins.” —Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland Kerri Arsenault grew up in the small, rural town of Mexico, Maine, where for over 100 years the community orbited around a paper mill that provided jobs for nearly everyone in town, including three generations of her family. Kerri had a happy childhood, but years after she moved away, she realized the price she paid for that childhood. The price everyone paid. The mill, while providing the social and economic cohesion for the community, also contributed to its demise. Mill Town is a book of narrative nonfiction, investigative memoir, and cultural criticism that illuminates the rise and collapse of the working-class, the hazards of loving and leaving home, and the ambiguous nature of toxics and disease with the central question; Who or what are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival?

Author : Lori Rohda
Publisher : She Writes Press
ISBN 13 : 1631527207
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mill of Lost Dreams written by Lori Rohda and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1870 and 1900, twelve million people immigrated to America. Hundreds of thousands of them came to work in the textile mills of Fall River, Massachusetts. The Mill of Lost Dreams is a story of love, friendship and sacrifice that provides an inside view into the world of textile mills and the daily life of seven courageous souls who leave home and risk everything for their shared dream of a better life: Angelina and Guido Wallabee, who have left their family’s failed farm in Italy; eleven-year-old Miranda Alysworth and her fifteen-year-old brother, Francois, who have escaped from indentured service in Canada; twins Phoebe and Charlie Dougherty, the children of Irish immigrant parents, who, though not yet thirteen, are forced to work in Troy Mill to support their family after their father’s untimely death; and eleven-year-old, Anne Kenny, an orphan who’s never known where she came from. All but one take jobs in Troy Mill in Fall River. Over the course of seven decades, there are marriages, births, secrets exposed, friendships tested, and innocence lost. Some succeed in making a new life away from harm but pay a terrible price. Many cannot build the life they dreamed of and the consequences impact and shape the lives of their children—and their children’s children.

Author : Alan Hunter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780750534987
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gently Through the Mill written by Alan Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When small-time gambler and petty crook Steinie Taylor turns up dead in a hopper of flour at a country bakery, Gently has to figure out not only how he got there, but also why his prime suspects all appear to have a dark secret to hide. Why had the deceased villain and his two friends been spending money like it was going out of fashion? Why had they strayed from their usual haunts? Why did Taylor's friends both disappear? The investigation becomes even more sinister when one of Taylor's cronies is also found dead.

Author : Bernard Edward Joseph Capes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mill of Silence written by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M. B. Shaw
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250189314
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder at the Mill written by M. B. Shaw and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Murder at the Mill by M. B. Shaw is a great sweeping adventure. Ideal for holiday reading." —M. C. Beaton, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author "a rich, mystery debut" —Kirkus Starred Review A picture hides a thousand lies... And only Iris Grey can uncover the truth. Iris Grey rents a quaint cottage in a picture-perfect Hampshire village, looking to escape from her crumbling marriage. She is drawn to the neighboring Wetherby family, and is commissioned to paint a portrait of Dominic Wetherby, a celebrated crime writer. At the Wetherby's Christmas Eve party, the mulled wine is in full flow - but so are tensions and rivalries among the guests. On Christmas Day, the youngest member of the Wetherby family, Lorcan, finds a body in the water. A tragic accident? Or a deadly crime? With the snow falling, Iris enters a world of village gossip, romantic intrigue, buried secrets, and murder.

Author : Susan Lewis
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 140900872X
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mill House written by Susan Lewis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How far would you go to hide the truth? Julia Thayne is a valued and loving wife, a successful mother and a beautiful woman. She is everything most other women strive to be. But beneath the surface is a terrible secret that threatens to tear her perfect world apart. Joshua is Julia's husband - a dynamic, devastatingly handsome man with great style, charisma and humour. He is utterly devoted to his wife and children, but as the ghosts of Julia's past begin to move into their marriage, he finds himself losing the struggle to keep them together. Then two telephone calls change everything. Julia moves from London to a remote mill house in Cornwall, determined to break free from the past and save her fractured relationship with Josh. But it is here that she makes her own fatal mistake, and once more her marriage is rocked to its very foundation ...