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Book Chicago s Grand Hotels

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert V. Allegrini
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2005-11-09
  • ISBN : 1439616590
  • Pages : 150 pages

Download or read book Chicago s Grand Hotels written by Robert V. Allegrini and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005-11-09 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecturally imposing, historically rich, and socially important, Chicagos magnificent grand hotels have fascinated generations of Chicagoans and have pleased generations of guests. The Palmer House Hilton, The Drake, and The Hilton Chicago have come to represent a collective formal living room for Chicago, where the citys most important visitors are accommodated, entertained, and made aware of the grandeur and sophistication of their hosts hometown. They were built to inspire aweand still do for anyone fortunate enough to find themselves in the lobby of The Palmer House Hilton, The Palm Court of The Drake, or the Grand Ballroom of The Hilton Chicago. Many of the most famous locales in these classic structures have been transformed or have disappeared altogether due to changing times. Gone, for example, is The Hilton Chicagos famous rooftop miniature golf course and Boulevard Room supper club, complete with its ice shows. Gone, too, is The Drakes legendary supper club, the Camellia House. While the Empire Room of The Palmer House Hilton continues to exist as an function room, it no longer reverberates with the sound of Liberaces piano or Jimmy Durantes vocals, as it did when it was the citys premier entertainment facility. Chicagos Grand Hotels chronicles over 100 years of Chicago hotel history through vivid photographs and memorabilia from the archives of The Palmer House Hilton, The Drake, and The Hilton Chicago. It tells the compelling story of the visionary architects and hoteliers who brought these hotels to life and made them structural testaments to the warmth of midwestern hospitality.

Book Frank Lloyd Wright s Palmer House

Download or read book Frank Lloyd Wright s Palmer House written by Grant Hildebrand and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Lloyd Wright's Palmer house, built in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the early 1950s, is one of Wright's last residential masterpieces. Working from extensive materials gathered by Ann and Leonard Eaton, and from his own fifty-two-year familiarity with the building, Grant Hildebrand crafts the story of Billy and Mary Palmer's extraordinary home. He presents in detail the events surrounding the Palmers' selection of Wright as architect; Wright's personal creation of the design; the challenges, and the craftsmanship, of its construction; the evolution of its garden and teahouse; the role of the house as a setting for the Palmers' lives; and an analysis of its remarkable formal and spatial qualities. With a rich compendium of personal information and an extensive array of photographs, plans, and diagrams created especially for this book, Frank Lloyd Wright's Palmer House offers a comprehensive exploration of a living work of art and an intimate portrait of the people who, having brought it into being, treasured its presence in their lives for half a century. Citing the particular synergies of architect and client, house and site, Hildebrand situates the heretofore little-known Palmer house within the context of Wright's overall oeuvre and presents a convincing argument for the inclusion of the Palmer house in the canon of the architect's finest residential designs.

Book The Palmer House Cook Book

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ernest E. Amiet
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011-10-01
  • ISBN : 9781258191993
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book The Palmer House Cook Book written by Ernest E. Amiet and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Why I Built the Boogle House

    Book Details:
  • Author : Helen Marion Palmer
  • Publisher : Random House Childrens Books
  • Release : 1964
  • ISBN : 9780394900353
  • Pages : 63 pages

Download or read book Why I Built the Boogle House written by Helen Marion Palmer and published by Random House Childrens Books. This book was released on 1964 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy builds larger and larger houses for his pets, then suddenly finds himself with a pet house but no pet.

Book The Art of Asking

    Book Details:
  • Author : Amanda Palmer
  • Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
  • Release : 2014-11-11
  • ISBN : 1455581070
  • Pages : 349 pages

Download or read book The Art of Asking written by Amanda Palmer and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rock star, crowdfunding pioneer, and TED speaker Amanda Palmer knows all about asking. Performing as a living statue in a wedding dress, she wordlessly asked thousands of passersby for their dollars. When she became a singer, songwriter, and musician, she was not afraid to ask her audience to support her as she surfed the crowd (and slept on their couches while touring). And when she left her record label to strike out on her own, she asked her fans to support her in making an album, leading to the world's most successful music Kickstarter. Even while Amanda is both celebrated and attacked for her fearlessness in asking for help, she finds that there are important things she cannot ask for-as a musician, as a friend, and as a wife. She learns that she isn't alone in this, that so many people are afraid to ask for help, and it paralyzes their lives and relationships. In this groundbreaking book, she explores these barriers in her own life and in the lives of those around her, and discovers the emotional, philosophical, and practical aspects of The Art of Asking. Part manifesto, part revelation, this is the story of an artist struggling with the new rules of exchange in the twenty-first century, both on and off the Internet. The Art of Asking will inspire readers to rethink their own ideas about asking, giving, art, and love.

Book Main Street

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sinclair Lewis
  • Publisher : First Avenue Editions TM
  • Release : 2022-08-01
  • ISBN : 1728468884
  • Pages : 466 pages

Download or read book Main Street written by Sinclair Lewis and published by First Avenue Editions TM. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carol Milford dreams of living in a small, rural town. But Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, isn't the paradise she'd imagined. First published in 1920, this unabridged edition of the Sinclair Lewis novel is an American classic, considered by many to be his most noteworthy and lasting work. As a work of social satire, this complex and compelling look at small-town America in the early 20th century has earned its place among the classics.

Book Technology in the Country House

Download or read book Technology in the Country House written by Marilyn Palmer and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together research on the introduction of domestic technologies into country houses and their estates.

Book The House Gardener

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  • Author : Isabelle Palmer
  • Publisher : CICO Books
  • Release : 2014-02-13
  • ISBN : 9781782490982
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The House Gardener written by Isabelle Palmer and published by CICO Books. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Balcony Gardener heads indoors! Following the success of her first book, The Balcony Gardener, Isabelle Palmer now adapts her talent for small-space gardening to interiors. If you are looking for new and innovative ways to display your houseplants, needing guidance on growing herbs and other edibles on a sunny windowsill, seeking inspiration for table settings, or wanting ideas for unusual containers for indoor growing, The Indoor Balcony Gardener will provide the answers and the inspiration. Isabelle brings a new eye and a contemporary twist to gardening indoors—try your hand at a miniature Zen garden, indoor water gardens, terrariums and table centres, fairy-tale gardens for children, indoor crops, and much more.

Book HomeSpace

    Book Details:
  • Author : Darren Palmer
  • Publisher : Allen & Unwin
  • Release : 2016-08-24
  • ISBN : 1952534771
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book HomeSpace written by Darren Palmer and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a selection of family homes, Darren Palmer gives us an insight into their occupants' relationship to their living spaces, providing information as well as solutions to questions we may have about what some of our own design challenges may currently be, or may be in the future. Whether single parents with one child, married couples with kids, older working couples with grown children and grandchildren, middle-aged couples with no kids and no pets - our lives have different demands, and our homes reflect this, in every way. Each family group will have a different set of needs and challenges; the associated constraints, requirements and solutions resulting in specially designed spaces that are as individual as all the people living within them. Darren's book demonstrates in engaging, information-filled text and stunning photography that we can draw inspiration and practical solutions from the way different families have tailored various interior design elements - storage, lighting, furniture, materials, larger and smaller spaces - to their unique brief. In HomeSpace, we'll find out what makes people happy and fulfilled through the homes they have created, homes that work to support the family in their lives.

Book Palmer Hughes Accordion Course  Book 1

Download or read book Palmer Hughes Accordion Course Book 1 written by Willard A. Palmer and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive method of music instruction enables the beginner to progress to an advanced stage of technical skill.

Book Perhaps the Stars

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ada Palmer
  • Publisher : Tor Books
  • Release : 2021-11-02
  • ISBN : 146685877X
  • Pages : 854 pages

Download or read book Perhaps the Stars written by Ada Palmer and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars is the final book of the Hugo Award-shortlisted Terra Ignota series. World Peace turns into global civil war. In the future, the leaders of Hive nations—nations without fixed location—clandestinely committed nefarious deeds in order to maintain an outward semblance of utopian stability. But the facade could only last so long. The comforts of effortless global travel and worldwide abundance may have tempered humanity's darkest inclinations, but conflict remains deeply rooted in the human psyche. All it needed was a catalyst, in form of special little boy to ignite half a millennium of repressed chaos. Now, war spreads throughout the globe, splintering old alliances and awakening sleeping enmities. All transportation systems are in ruins, causing the tyranny of distance to fracture a long-united Earth and threaten to obliterate everything the Hive system built. With the arch-criminal Mycroft nowhere to be found, his successor, Ninth Anonymous, must not only chronicle the discord of war, but attempt to restore order in a world spiraling closer to irreparable ruin. The fate of a broken society hangs in the balance. Is the key to salvation to remain Earth-bound or, perhaps, to start anew throughout the far reaches of the stars? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book The Pink House

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kate Salley Palmer
  • Publisher : Warbranch PressInc
  • Release : 1998-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780966711417
  • Pages : 35 pages

Download or read book The Pink House written by Kate Salley Palmer and published by Warbranch PressInc. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated story of family beach trip, complete with aunts, uncles, grandma, big cousins and little cousins. Pictures show family all participating in beach activities like fishing, hunting shark's teeth, reading books and then going up to The Pink House for outside shower and on-deck fun and games while the uncles cook supper. Then everyone gets into their Pink House beds and waits for the next day's beach surprises.

Book Flight Path

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Hill
  • Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
  • Release : 2017-04-03
  • ISBN : 0143770535
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Flight Path written by David Hill and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping novel for young adults that captures both the daring and the everyday realities of serving in the Air Force during the Second World War. Pete and Paul yelled together. 'Bandit! Nine o'clock! Bandit!' Jack spun to stare. There was the Messerschmitt on their left, streaking straight at them. Eighteen-year-old Jack wanted to escape boring little New Zealand. But he soon finds that flying in a Lancaster bomber to attack Hitler’s forces brings terror as well as excitement. With every dangerous mission, he becomes more afraid that he’ll never get back alive. He wants to help win the war, but will he lose his own life? My Brother’s War: '... there are stories that need to be told over and over again, to introduce a new generation of readers to important ideas and to critical times in their country's history ... Hill's descriptions of trench warfare are unforgettable.' from the Judges' Report of the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2013

Book The Palmer Hotel

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rick Paulas
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-09
  • ISBN : 9780578948249
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Palmer Hotel written by Rick Paulas and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is with great pleasure and tremendous gusto that our staff at The Palmer Hotel, the most haunted place in the world until its mysterious collapse in 2020, await your arrival. Inside each room is a person, or persons, who've checked in for the night, but none will be resting peacefully.

Book Prairie Rose

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catherine Palmer
  • Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
  • Release : 2011-07-14
  • ISBN : 1414362811
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Prairie Rose written by Catherine Palmer and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-07-14 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope and love blossom on the untamed prairie as a young woman searching for a place to call home happens upon a Kansas homestead during the 1860s . . . A Town Called Hope, the inspiring series set in post–Civil War Kansas, is the creation of best-selling romance writer Catherine Palmer. In the fast-paced Prairie Rose, impulsive nineteen-year-old Rosie Mills takes a job caring for the young son of widowed homesteader Seth Hunter in order to escape the orphanage in which she was raised. Rosie’s naive view of love and her understanding of what it means to have a Father in heaven are quickly put to the test. Afraid of being wounded again, Seth struggles to freely open his heart—to his hurting son, to a woman’s love, and to a Father who will not abandon him. Together Rosie and Seth must face the harsh uncertainties of prairie life—and the one man who threatens to destroy their happiness. Prairie Rose launches a series sure to satisfy readers who expect solid biblical values in a wholesome, exhilarating romance.

Book Evicted

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alice Faye Duncan
  • Publisher : Astra Publishing House
  • Release : 2022-01-11
  • ISBN : 1684379792
  • Pages : 66 pages

Download or read book Evicted written by Alice Faye Duncan and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlist, Goddard Riverside/CBC Young People's Book Prize for Social Justice This critical civil rights book for middle-graders examines the little-known Tennessee's Fayette County Tent City Movement in the late 1950s and reveals what is possible when people unite and fight for the right to vote. Powerfully conveyed through interconnected stories and told through the eyes of a child, this book combines poetry, prose, and stunning illustrations to shine light on this forgotten history. The late 1950s was a turbulent time in Fayette County, Tennessee. Black and White children went to different schools. Jim Crow signs hung high. And while Black hands in Fayette were free to work in the nearby fields as sharecroppers, the same Black hands were barred from casting ballots in public elections. If they dared to vote, they faced threats of violence by the local Ku Klux Klan or White citizens. It wasn't until Black landowners organized registration drives to help Black citizens vote did change begin--but not without White farmers' attempts to prevent it. They violently evicted Black sharecroppers off their land, leaving families stranded and forced to live in tents. White shopkeepers blacklisted these families, refusing to sell them groceries, clothes, and other necessities. But the voiceless did finally speak, culminating in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which legally ended voter discrimination. Perfect for young readers, teachers/librarians, and parents interested in books for kids with themes of: Activism Social justice Civil rights Black history

Book Domesticity And Dirt

Download or read book Domesticity And Dirt written by Phyllis Palmer and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the cultual norms of women after Suffrage to define labor based on color.