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Book Wood and Iron

Download or read book Wood and Iron written by Macarena Abascal and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The industrial aesthetic has crossed borders. Proof of this is the selection of interior design projects, designers, and manufacturers included in this book. This selection takes us on a journey through New York, the cradle of this decorative style, to Singapore, London, and Istanbul. Not only does this design aesthetic infuse loft spaces which have been turned into luxurious and spaceious apartments, but it's also the perfect solution for small homes, for artists who require space to live and work, and for commercial spaces. Different projects, different styles, but they all have a common nexus: the extensive use of reclaimed wood and cast iron, bringing out the beauty of imperfection"--Back cover

Book Iron Pots   Wooden Spoons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jessica B. Harris
  • Publisher : Simon & Schuster
  • Release : 1999-02-03
  • ISBN : 9780684853260
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Iron Pots Wooden Spoons written by Jessica B. Harris and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1999-02-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cajun, Creole, and Caribbean dishes all have their roots in the cooking of West and Central Africa; the peanuts, sweet potatoes, rice, cassava, plantains, and chile pepper that star in the cuisines of New Orleans, Puerto Rico, and Brazil are as important in the Old World as they are in the New World. In Iron Pots and Wooden Spoons, esteemed culinary historian and cookbook author Jessica Harris returns to the source to trace the ways in which African food has migrated to the New World and transformed the way we eat. From condiments to desserts, Harris shares more than 175 recipes that find their roots and ingredients in Africa, from Sand-roasted Peanuts to Curried Coconut Soup, from Pepper Rum to Candied Sweet Potatoes, from Beaten Biscuits to Jamaica Chicken Run Down, from Shortening Bread to Ti-Punch. Enticing recipes, a colorful introduction on the evolution of transported African food, information on ingredients from achiote to z'oiseaux and utensils make this culinary journey a tantalizing, and satisfying, experience.

Book Iron Men  Wooden Women

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  • Author : Margaret S. Creighton
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 1996-05
  • ISBN : 9780801851605
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book Iron Men Wooden Women written by Margaret S. Creighton and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996-05 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the voyage of the Argonauts to the Tailhook scandal, seafaring has long been one of the most glaringly male-dominated occupations. In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary study, Margaret Creighton, Lisa Norling, and their co-authors explore the relationship of gender and seafaring in the Anglo-American age of sail. Drawing on a wide range of American and British sources—from diaries, logbooks, and account ledgers to songs, poetry, fiction, and a range of public sources—the authors show how popular fascination with seafaring and the sailors' rigorous, male-only life led to models of gender behavior based on "iron men" aboard ship and "stoic women" ashore. Yet Iron Men, Wooden Women also offers new material that defies conventional views. The authors investigate such topics as women in the American whaling industry and the role of the captain's wife aboard ship. They explore the careers of the female pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read, as well as those of other women—"transvestite heroines"—who dressed as men to serve on the crews of sailing ships. And they explore the importance of gender and its connection to race for African American and other seamen in both the American and the British merchant marine. Contributors include both social historians and literary critics: Marcus Rediker, Dianne Dugaw, Ruth Wallis Herndon, Haskell Springer, W. Jeffrey Bolster, Laura Tabili, Lillian Nayder, and Melody Graulich, in addition to Margaret Creighton and Lisa Norling.

Book Wooden Ships and Iron Men

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  • Author : Reese Palley
  • Publisher : Quantuck Lane Press& the Mill rd
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781593720131
  • Pages : 175 pages

Download or read book Wooden Ships and Iron Men written by Reese Palley and published by Quantuck Lane Press& the Mill rd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 beautiful nautical paintings, the first full presentation of Thomas Hoyne's work.

Book Wooden Rigs   Iron Men

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  • Author : Bill Walraven
  • Publisher : Javelina Press (TX)
  • Release : 2005-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780964632561
  • Pages : 399 pages

Download or read book Wooden Rigs Iron Men written by Bill Walraven and published by Javelina Press (TX). This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Between the Woods and the Water

Download or read book Between the Woods and the Water written by Patrick Leigh Fermor and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2010-10-10 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we travel on with him across the great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Romanian border to Transylvania. The trip was an exploration of a continent which was already showing signs of the holocaust which was to come. Although frequently praised for his lyrical writing, Fermor's account also provides a coherent understanding of the dramatic events then unfolding in Middle Europe. But the delight remains in travelling with him in his picaresque journey past remote castles, mountain villages, monasteries and towering ranges.

Book American Folk Art in Wood  Metal and Stone

Download or read book American Folk Art in Wood Metal and Stone written by Jean Lipman and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The carved and painted figures collected in this exceptional book are excellent examples of a wide-spread American folk art tradition that flourished from the middle of the 18th to the end of the 19th-century. 183 photographic illustrations, 4 reproduced in full-color on the covers. List of illustrations. Extensive bibliography.

Book Wings of Wood  Wings of Metal

Download or read book Wings of Wood Wings of Metal written by Eric Schatzberg and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schatzberg shows that American aeronautical engineers and airplane designers were swayed by the symbolism of airplane materials, a symbolism that linked metal with technological progress and wood with preindustrial craft traditions. This symbolism encouraged the aeronautical community to focus research and development on metal airplanes at the expense of promising projects involving wood - despite the fact that other countries continued to produce highly successful aircraft with wood through the end of World War II. According to Schatzberg, technical personnel in the American military played the key role in this process. They had little evidence for metal's superiority but used their dominant influence to press the case that metal was the wave of the future and that airplanes would inevitably follow ships and abandon wood.

Book Report on the Substitution of Metal for Wood in Railroad Ties

Download or read book Report on the Substitution of Metal for Wood in Railroad Ties written by Edward Ernest Russell Tratman and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Degradation of wood by products of metal corrosion

Download or read book Degradation of wood by products of metal corrosion written by A. J. Baker and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wooden Boats and Iron Men

Download or read book Wooden Boats and Iron Men written by Trygvie Jensen and published by Trygvie Jensen. This book was released on 2007 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ariadne Florentina  Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving

Download or read book Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving written by John Ruskin and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ariadne Florentina is a collection of famed American landscape painter John Ruskin's essays on wood and metal engraving. Contents: "DEFINITION OF THE ART OF ENGRAVING LECTURE II. THE RELATION OF ENGRAVING TO OTHER ARTS IN FLORENCE LECTURE III. THE TECHNICS OF WOOD ENGRAVING LECTURE IV. THE TECHNICS OF METAL ENGRAVING LECTURE V. DESIGN IN THE GERMAN SCHOOLS OF ENGRAVING (HOLBEIN AND DÜRER) LECTURE VI. DESIGN IN THE FLORENTINE SCHOOLS OF ENGRAVING (SANDRO BOTTICELLI) APPENDIX. ARTICLE I. NOTES ON THE PRESENT STATE OF ENGRAVING IN ENGLAND II. DETACHED NOTES."

Book Wooden Ships and Iron Men

Download or read book Wooden Ships and Iron Men written by David D. Bruhn and published by Heritage Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1953-1994, sixty-five U.S. Navy ocean minesweepers (MSOs) swept mines; searched the seafloor for downed aircraft, sunken ships, and lost munitions; "showed the flag" throughout the world, even sailing up the Congo and Mekong Rivers, calling at dozens

Book Iron Orchid

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  • Author : Stuart Woods
  • Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Iron Orchid written by Stuart Woods and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 2005 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Holly Barker, the sexy, no-nonsense former police chief from Orchid Beach, Florida, has been known to crack cases that even the FBI couldn't break. Now Lance Cabot, whom readers will remember from The Short Forever, makes Holly an offer she can't refuse: to join an elite intelligence unit hunting down terrorists on American soil. Their first prey, however, may turn out to be all-American." "Teddy Fay, the ex-CIA technology wizard introduced in Capital Crimes, apparently blew up his own airplane while being hotly pursued by the FBI and U.S. Navy pilots. But now a series of attacks on a new kind of victim - terrorists with diplomatic immunity - makes some in the government, up to and including the president of the United States, believe Teddy may be back. And Holly finds herself in the thick of the hunt."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The Fleet of the Future  Iron Or Wood  Containing a Reply to Some Conclusions of General Sir H  Douglas  in Favour of Wooden Walls

Download or read book The Fleet of the Future Iron Or Wood Containing a Reply to Some Conclusions of General Sir H Douglas in Favour of Wooden Walls written by John Scott Russell and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Age of Wood

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  • Author : Roland Ennos
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2020-12-01
  • ISBN : 1982114754
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book The Age of Wood written by Roland Ennos and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “smart and surprising” (Booklist) “expansive history” (Publishers Weekly) detailing the role that wood and trees have played in our global ecosystem—including human evolution and the rise and fall of empires—in the bestselling tradition of Yuval Harari’s Sapiens and Mark Kurlansky’s Salt. As the dominant species on Earth, humans have made astonishing progress since our ancestors came down from the trees. But how did the descendants of small primates manage to walk upright, become top predators, and populate the world? How were humans able to develop civilizations and produce a globalized economy? Now, in The Age of Wood, Roland Ennos shows for the first time that the key to our success has been our relationship with wood. “A lively history of biology, mechanics, and culture that stretches back 60 million years” (Nature) The Age of Wood reinterprets human history and shows how our ability to exploit wood’s unique properties has profoundly shaped our bodies and minds, societies, and lives. Ennos takes us on a sweeping journey from Southeast Asia and West Africa where great apes swing among the trees, build nests, and fashion tools; to East Africa where hunter gatherers collected their food; to the structural design of wooden temples in China and Japan; and to Northern England, where archaeologists trace how coal enabled humans to build an industrial world. Addressing the effects of industrialization—including the use of fossil fuels and other energy-intensive materials to replace timber—The Age of Wood not only shows the essential role that trees play in the history and evolution of human existence, but also argues that for the benefit of our planet we must return to more traditional ways of growing, using, and understanding trees. A brilliant blend of recent research and existing scientific knowledge, this is an “excellent, thorough history in an age of our increasingly fraught relationships with natural resources” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

Book Bent Wood and Metal Furniture  1850 1946

Download or read book Bent Wood and Metal Furniture 1850 1946 written by Derek E. Ostergard and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines bent wood and metal furniture made between 1850 and 1946.