A fascinating portrait of the man who invented the erector set focuses on the life and times of A. C. Gilbert, the Yale graduate and marketing genius who created a toy that would radically change the market, and successive generations of boys. Reprint.

The Man Who Changed How Boys and Toys Were Made: The Life and Times of A. C. Gilbert, the Man Who Saved Christmas

Biographies & Memoirs

Watson, Bruce

Professionals & Academics

Penguin Group USA

On January 12, 1912, an army of textile workers stormed out of the mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, commencing what has since become known as the "Bread and Roses" strike. Based on newspaper accounts, magazine reportage, and oral histories, Watson reconstructs a Dickensian drama involving thousands of parading strikers from fifty-one nations, unforgettable acts of cruelty, and even a protracted murder trial that tested the boundaries of free speech. A rousing look at a seminal and overlooked chapter of the past, Bread and Roses is indispensable reading.

Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream

Business & Money

Economics

Penguin Publishing Group

In this groundbreaking narrative of one of America?s most divisive trials and executions, award-winning journalist Bruce Watson mines deep archives and newly available sources to paint the most complete portrait available of the ?good shoemaker? and the ?poor fish peddler.? Opening with an explosion that rocks a quiet Washington, D.C., neighborhood and concluding with worldwide outrage as two men are executed despite widespread doubts about their guilt, Sacco &amp; Vanzetti is the definitive history of an infamous case that still haunts the American imagination.

Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind

Historical

A riveting account of one of the most remarkable episodes in American history. In his critically acclaimed history Freedom Summer, award- winning author Bruce Watson presents powerful testimony about a crucial episode in the American civil rights movement. During the sweltering summer of 1964, more than seven hundred American college students descended upon segregated, reactionary Mississippi to register black voters and educate black children. On the night of their arrival, the worst fears of a race-torn nation were realized when three young men disappeared, thought to have been murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. Taking readers into the heart of these remarkable months, Freedom Summer shines new light on a critical moment of nascent change in America. "Recreates the texture of that terrible yet rewarding summer with impressive verisimilitude." -Washington Post

Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy

History

Americas

Borel's methods of summability--transformations of one series of numbers to another--are fundamental to a whole class of sequences to function methods. Conceived at the beginning of the 20th century, they have been increasingly applied to exciting new problems in theoretical physics. Comprehensive and rigorous, this book offers an outstanding overview of the subject. It will be sought after by students and researchers in number theory.

Borel's Methods of Summability: Theory and Application (Oxford Mathematical Monographs)

Shawyer, Bruce

Europe

Clarendon Press

A majestic history of the summer of '64, which forever changed race relations in America In the summer of 1964, with the civil rights movement stalled, seven hundred college students descended on Mississippi to register black voters, teach in Freedom Schools, and live in sharecroppers' shacks. But by the time their first night in the state had ended, three volunteers were dead, black churches had burned, and America had a new definition of freedom. This remarkable chapter in American history, the basis for the controversial film Mississippi Burning, is now the subject of Bruce Watson's thoughtful and riveting historical narrative. Using in- depth interviews with participants and residents, Watson brilliantly captures the tottering legacy of Jim Crow in Mississippi and the chaos that brought such national figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and Pete Seeger to the state. Freedom Summer presents finely rendered portraits of the courageous black citizens-and Northern volunteers-who refused to be intimidated in their struggle for justice, and the white Mississippians who would kill to protect a dying way of life. Few books have provided such an intimate look at race relations during the deadliest days of the Civil Rights movement, and Freedom Summer will appeal to readers of Taylor Branch and Doug Blackmon.

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A fascinating portrait of the man who invented the erector set focuses on the life and times of A. C. Gilbert, the Yale graduate and marketing genius who created a toy that would radically change the market, and successive generations of boys. 17,500 first printing.

The Man Who Changed How Boys and Toys Were Made

Arts & Literature

Viking Adult

An account of the 1912 textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, draws on newspaper accounts, magazine reportage, and oral histories to identify the strike's key figures and events, from the walkout of 23,000 workers to the evacuations of their children to Manhattan. 30,000 first printing.

Documents the infamous 1927 trial and execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, from the anarchist bombings in Washington, D.C., for which they may have been wrongfully convicted to the fierce public debates that have subsequently occurred as a result of the case.

In the summer of 1964, with the civil rights movement stalled, seven hundred college students descended on Mississippi to register black voters, teach in Freedom Schools, and live in sharecroppers' shacks. But by the time their first night in the state had ended, three volunteers were dead, black churches had burned, and America had a new definition of freedom. This remarkable chapter in American history, the basis for the controversial film Mississippi Burning, is now the subject of Bruce Watson's thoughtful and riveting historical narrative. Using in-depth interviews with participants and residents, Watson brilliantly captures the tottering legacy of Jim Crow in Mississippi and the chaos that brought such national figures as Martin Luther King, Jr., and Pete Seeger to the state. Freedom Summer presents finely rendered portraits of the courageous black citizens and Northern volunteers who refused to be intimidated in their struggle for justice, as well as the white Mississippians who would kill to protect a dying way of life. Few books have provided such an intimate look at race relations during the deadliest days of the civil rights movement.

Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy

Africa

Tantor Audio

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The Man Who Changed How Boys and Toys Were Made: The Life and Times of A. C. Gilbert, the Man Who Saved Christmas

Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream

Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind

Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy

Borel's Methods of Summability: Theory and Application (Oxford Mathematical Monographs)

Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy

The Man Who Changed How Boys and Toys Were Made

Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream

Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind

Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy