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  • The Lead Pencil Manufactory of A. W. Faber at Stein near Nürnberg, Bavaria

    An Historical Sketch

    by Faber-Castell (Firm) ...
    The Lead Pencil Manufactory of A. W. Faber at Stein near Nürnberg, Bavaria: An Historical Sketch is a detailed and richly illustrated account chronicling the origins, development, and global significance of the A. W. Faber pencil manufactory, one of the world’s oldest and most renowned pencil manufacturers. The book traces the company’s beginnings in the 18th century, when Kaspar Faber, a humble ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Sexton's Pocket-Book for Boiler-Makers and Steam Users

    Comprising a Variety of Useful Information for Employer and Workmen, Government Inspectors, Board of Trade Surveyors, Engineers in Charge of Works and Ships, Foreman of Manufactories, and the General Steam-Using Public

    by Maurice John Sexton ...
    This vintage book contains a handbook of useful information originally designed for inspectors, surveyors, engineers, factory foremen, and the general steam-using public. With information on everything from repairing boilers to general advice, this profusely illustrated volume will appeal to modern readers with a practical interest in steam power and collectors of vintage literature of this ilk. ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The American Manufactory

    Art, Labor, and the World of Things in the Early Republic

    by Laura Rigal ...
    This cultural history of American federalism argues that nation-building cannot be understood apart from the process of industrialization and the making of the working class in the late-eighteenth-century United States. Citing the coincidental rise of federalism and industrialism, Laura Rigal examines the creations and performances of writers, collectors, engineers, inventors, and illustrators who ... Read more

    $79.19 CAD

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  • The Book That Changed America

    How Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation

    by Randall Fuller ...
    **A compelling portrait of a unique moment in American history when the ideas of Charles Darwin reshaped American notions about nature, religion, science and race“A lively and informative history.” – The New York Times Book Review**Throughout its history America has been torn in two by debates over ideals and beliefs. Randall Fuller takes us back to one of those turning points, in 1860, with the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Queen Victoria

    by eBooksLib ...
    This brief life of Queen Victoria gives the salient features of her reign, including the domestic and public life, with a glance at the wonderful history and progress of our country during the past half-century. In the space at command it has been impossible to give extended treatment. The history is necessarily very brief, as also the account of the public and private life, yet it is believed no ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Self Help

    by Samuel Smiles ...
    "Self-help or self-improvement is a self-guided improvement—economically, intellectually, or emotionally—often with a substantial psychological basis. Many different self-help group programs exist, each with its own focus, techniques, associated beliefs, proponents and in some cases, leaders. Concepts and terms originating in self-help culture and Twelve-Step culture, such as recovery, ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Laboring Women

    Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery

    by Jennifer L. Morgan ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their potential to bear children, who by law would become the enslaved property of the mother's master. In Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery, Jennifer L. Morgan examines for the first time how African women's labor in both senses ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • A Beginner's Guide to the Mechanics of Wrist and Pocket Watches - Including the History of Their Development and Some Famous Watch Makers

    by Anon ...
    This antiquarian volume contains a beginner's guide to watches, being an accessible and simplified description of the mechanics of wrist and pocket watches together with information on the history of their development. Written in clear, plain language and full of useful hints and clear explanations, this text is ideal for those with an interest in the workings of timepieces but who have little ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Slavery and the Culture of Taste

    by Simon Gikandi ...
    It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined. Ranging across Britain, the antebellum South, ... Read more

    $45.09 CAD

  • Banquet at Delmonico's

    Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America

    by Barry Werth ...
    In Banquet at Delmonico’s, Barry Werth, the acclaimed author of The Scarlet Professor, draws readers inside the circle of philosophers, scientists, politicians, businessmen, clergymen, and scholars who brought Charles Darwin’s controversial ideas to America in the crucial years after the Civil War.The United States in the 1870s and ’80s was deep in turmoil–a brash young nation torn by a great ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • A HANDBOOK ON HANGING

    Being a short introduction to the fine art of Execution ...

    by Charles Duff ...
    Charles Duff’s 1928 study of state sanctioned-killing, botched executions and the relative merits and demerits of decapitation. ‘A Handbook on Hanging’ is an anti-capital punishment polemic in the honourably ironic tradition of Jonathan Swift and Stephen Leacock. Duff updated his ‘Handbook’ in 1938, 1948 and in 1961, but this version is the original 1928 edition.Charles Duff (Enniskillen, N.I., ... Read more

    $3.50 CAD