The Child's Own Book of Great Musicians was a series of short books for children about famous composers.
The Child's Own Book of Great Musicians was a series of short books for children about famous composers.
The Child's Own Book of Great Musicians was a series of short books for children about famous composers.
The Child's Own Book of Great Musicians was a series of short books for children about famous composers.
The Child's Own Book of Great Musicians was a series of short books for children about famous composers.
The Child's Own Book of Great Musicians was a series of short books for children about famous composers.
"The Age of Big Business" is a history of how businesses changed from small, competing businesses to large corporations that controlled major portions of or all of an industry. Since the book was written in 1919, it was fascinating to see how the various industries have changed from post-Civil-War to post-World-War-I to now. hapter One compared 1865 to 1919 in terms of technology and busine…
For the beginnings of the enslavement of steam, that mighty giant whose work has changed the world we live in, we must return to the times of Benjamin Franklin. James Watt, the accredited father of the modern steam engine, was a contemporary of Franklin, and his engine was twenty-one years old when Franklin died. The discovery that steam could be harnessed and made to work is not, of course, cr…
This book's pace is not drawn out or too short but perfect. This book is great for beginner and intermediate readers.
The Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln marks the beginning of the end of a long chapter in human history. Among the earliest forms of private property was the ownership of slaves. Slavery as an institution had persisted throughout the ages, always under protest, always provoking opposition, insurrection, social and civil war, and ever bearing within itself the seeds of its own …