The Webb School of Bell Buckle is the oldest continuously operating boarding school in the South. In Culleoka, Tennessee, in 1870, William Robert "Sawney" Webb Sr. founded the school, and classes were taught in the basement of a Methodist church. Webb's brother, John Maurice, joined as coprincipal i...

Buddy Moorehouse has been a journalist, newpaper editor and columnist in Livingston County, Michigan, for the past 40 years. This book is part memoir and part collection of great stories and columns from his four decades of writing about the county. You'll find out how the Ugly Naked Guy came to Bri...

A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia, the subject of the PBS documentary  Letters from Baghdad,  voiced by Tilda Swinton, and  the major motion picture Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, and Robert Pattinson and directed by Werner H...

In their groundbreaking book Revolutionizing Product Development, Steven C. Wheelwright and Kim B. Clark demonstrated how project leaders for product development could apply new innovations to bring products to market at breakneck speed. Now, in their new work, they address the general manager's r...

Maggie la maleta is an English and Spanish bilingual children's book about an animated suitcase who travels the world and finds adventure everywhere she goes! Maggie, the suitcase, explores these new places while making friends and learning about her roots as well as the Spanish language. Kaitlyn A....

For much of the 20th century, the Chicagoland area was a manufacturing mecca due to its central geographic location and ready access to rail and water transportation. The city and suburbs mass-produced a wide range of products, including appliances, bicycles, electronics, furniture, globes, pianos, ...

"Maggie la maleta: Costa Rica", is the second bilingual children's book of the "Maggie la maleta" series. Maggie, an animated traveling suitcase explores Costa Rica while discovering more about herself, the languages she speaks and taking adventures around the world! Kaitlyn A. Bell was born in Long...

A behind-the-scenes look at Wall Street's top banker Following the eleventh-hour rescue of Bear Stearns by JP Morgan, Jamie Dimon's profile reached stratospheric levels. And while the deals and decisions he's made have usually turned out to be the right ones, his journey to the top of the financial...

Memorias de Abuela Fela trata de una mujer analfabeta y extremadamente pobre que lucha contra la pobreza, el machismo, los valores culturales y religiosos. La abuela lucha contra las adversidades de la vida con muy escasos recursos monetarios y en un mundo que tiene muy poco que ofrecerle. Abuela Fe...

This book is an essential guide to making traditional 16mm and 8mm films, from production to post, using both analog and digital tools. Focusing on low-budget equipment and innovative techniques, this text will provide you with the steps to begin your journey in making lasting work in the legacy m...

Trust: The Winning Formula for Digital Leaders is intended to help you become a more successful digital leader—and maybe a better person (more about this at the end). We know you are thinking, I am not the CEO, or even the Chief Digital Officer, I just work in the ranks of my organization, so how...

Most companies know that long-term success does not hinge on any single product but on a continuous stream of value-rich products that target growth markets. Yet many firms inexplicably develop one product at a time, and by doing so fail to embrace commonality, compatibility, standardization, or mo...

Small wonder that, at nine years old, Monica Holloway develops a fascination with the local funeral home. With a father who drives his Ford pickup with a Kodak movie camera sitting shotgun just in case he sees an accident, and whose home movies feature more footage of disasters than of his children...

Winner of the 2005 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. Grace is John Hodgen’s third book of poetry. He is a poet of extreme contrasts, offering us the dregs of despair, yet instantly recalling hope in the beauty of nature or in a moment in time when all is right, when we realize grace. In “For the Lea...

Out to see America and satisfy his travel bug, W. T. Pfefferle resigned from his position as director of the writing program at Johns Hopkins University and hit the road to interview sixty-two poets about the significance of place in their work. The lively conversations that resulted may surprise wi...

Coffee: A Comprehensive Guide to the Bean, the Beverage, and the Industry offers a definitive guide to the many rich dimensions of the bean and the beverage around the world. Leading experts from business and academia consider coffee’s history, global spread, cultivation, preparation, marketing, a...

A proven program for organizational change, illustrated with real-life examples from companies and community groups Dr. James D. Ludema is a Professor of Organization Development at Benedictine University, an internationally recognized organizational consultant, and a Founding Owner of Appreciative ...

The letters of a WW II Marine Corps photographer reveal the transition of a young man from the innocence of pre-war America to the gut wrenching amphibious warfare in the Pacific Theater. He provides an intimate portrayal of his training, adventures on liberty and his romances. Armed with a Bell and...

“In my personal genealogy research, I often spent days in courthouses, libraries, and cemeteries, as well as considerable expense copying, records only to discover that I was following in another researcher's footsteps. I could have saved myself time, effort, and a lot of money if I'd only known o...

As the stars burn and the wheel turns, Underland Arcana continues to celebrate the four aspects of the eternal spark: the numinous, the esoteric, the supernatural, and the weird. These are the ways we find new paths. These are the ways we protect our hearts. These are the ways we illuminate monster...