Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta W. R. Mitchell
yhteensä 56 hakutulosta
Ethnic Dress in the United States
The clothes we wear tell stories about us—and are often imbued with cultural meanings specific to our ethnic heritage. This concise A-to-Z encyclopedia explores 150 different and …
Young People, Risk and Leisure
Social theorists have claimed that modern life is increasingly risky and uncertain and is profoundly effecting experiences of everyday-life and our sense of self. Drawing upon …
Flying High
In the beginning of the twentieth century, women were demanding more freedom. What could bring more freedom than a chance to fly? Women went up in those early wire-and-fabric …
Grading the Nation's Report Card
Since the late 1960s, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)?the nation's report card?has been the only continuing measure of student achievement in key subject …
Cranium and Its Sutures
The history of medicine is dotted with the episodic appearance of new discoveries, scientific breakthroughs, and the development of new schools of medicine, and each has …
It's a Long Way to Muckle Flugga
For twenty years, W R Mitchell was the editor of The Dalesman and he is known for his love of the Yorkshire Dales but there is another place close to his heart: the remote parts of …
Watkins Glen Racing
The war was won, the Depression was over, and Americans were back on the road. From all across the nation, sports car drivers converged on Watkins Glen to race through the gorges, …
Glenn H. Curtiss
Charles R. Mitchell tracks Curtiss's dizzying ride from a village bicycle shop to record-smashing motorcycle races and city building in the Florida land boom.Glenn Curtiss beat …
Anthropogenic Compounds
Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science. Interest in this subject, however, is growing very rapidly and, although no agreement has been reached as yet about the exact …