We all talk about the "tube" or "box," as if television were simply another appliance like the refrigerator or toaster oven. But Cecilia Tichi argues that TV is actually an envi...
1000 tulosta hakusanalla Cecelia Tichi.
From Harriet Beecher Stowe's image of the Mississippi's "bosom" to Henry David Thoreau's Cape Cod as "the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts," the U.S. environment has been r...
From robber barons to titanic CEOs, from the labor unrest of the 1880s to the mass layoffs of the 1990s, two American Gilded Ages-one in the early 1900s, another in the final ye...
The convergence of activists in Seattle during the World Trade Organization meetings captured the headlines in 1999. These demonstrations marked the first major expression on U....
Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing view of London as merely a mass-market p...
A delightful romp through America's Golden Age of Cocktails The decades following the American Civil War burst with invention—they saw the dawn of the telephone, the motor car,...
How the Prohibition law of 1920 made alcohol, savored in secret, all the more delectable when the cocktail shaker was forced to go "underground" "Roaring Twenties" America boast...
A delightful history of cocktails from the era of new interstate highways, sprouting suburbs, and atomic engineering America at midcentury was a nation on the move, taking to wi...
A richly illustrated romp with America's Gilded Age leisure class—and those angling to join it Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age. Between 1870 and 1900, the United States' pop...
Murder, Murder, Murder in Gilded Central Park
Cecelia Tichi · ISBN 9781685248154
Julkaistu 2022 Kieli englanti pokkari
In her Fifth Avenue mansion in autumn, 1898, silver heiress Val DeVere learns a third young woman's strangled body has been found nearby in New York's Central Park. The victim c...
Western silver heiress Val DeVere expects nothing but joy at an elegant Newport picnic in 1899, only to be abruptly summoned to New York by a close friend's urgent and cryptic p...
The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Wendy Martin Ph.D.; Cecelia Tichi · ISBN 9781610697637
Julkaistu 2016 Kieli englanti sidottu
This book offers a one-stop reference work covering the Gilded Age and Progressive Era that serves teachers and their students.This book helps students to better understand key...
Shifting Gears is a richly illustrated exploration of the American era of gear-and-girder technology. From the 1890s to the 1920s machines and structures shaped by this technolo...
This book describes the transformative power of citizen action. A gripping and inspiring book, ""Civic Passions"" examines innovative leadership in periods of crisis in American...
Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the longstanding view of London as merely a mass-market pr...
It's Christmas time in New York City, and Emmy is investigating a case of missing pets. With the help of her feline friend, Cecelia, and a team of neighborhood cats, Emmy hopes...
Cecelia's Garden: Planting the Seeds of Creativity
Joann B. Sondy · ISBN 9780984895076
Julkaistu 2019 Kieli englanti nidottu
Nurturing creative problem solving skills in children is a core parenting technique and objective, how do we teach our children these skills? My, mother, Cecelia encapsulated th...