The Shaker Legacy
Author: Christian Becksvoort
Publisher: Taunton Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781561583577
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a photo gallery of 150 Shaker pieces, many seen here for the first time.
Author: Christian Becksvoort
Publisher: Taunton Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781561583577
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a photo gallery of 150 Shaker pieces, many seen here for the first time.
Author: Timothy D. Rieman
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780764320019
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book surveys furniture made during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Shaker communities of New England, Kentucky, and Ohio, with over 130 color photos. Free-standing tables, chairs, boxes, desks, built-in cupboards, and cases of drawers are included. The text introduces nearly twenty Shaker communities, known cabinetmakers, identifiable furniture traits, and designs unique to specific Shaker communites.
Author: Timothy D. Rieman
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book documents Shaker furniture from communities in New England, Ohio, and Kentucky throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Free-standing tables, chairs, desks, boxes, and case clocks and built-in cupboards and cases of drawers are included. The text provides a detailed account of Shaker history, culture, and religion. Further, it examines Shaker design and tools, reporting new research on the Shaker color palette.
Author: John Kassay
Publisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780870232756
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive, amply illustrated guide illustrates the simple, functional furniture style developed during the Shaker movement--a successful experiment in communitarian living--and traces its evolution from the Colonial styles of New York and New England
Author: Paul Rocheleau
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The team that introduced Shaker life, work, and design to America and the world, in such successful books as Shaker and Shaker Design, here presents the ultimate visual work on the unique melding of form and function that created the Shaker look. 200 color illustrations.
Author: Kenric J. McKenzie
Publisher:
Published: 2011-01
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780956418500
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For four centuries, open-minded scholars have been questioning the validity of the most famous English author - William Shakespeare! These groups of scholars have argued that the acknowledged author from Stratford-Upon-Avon may not have written the works attributed to him, and instead believe that "Shake-speare" was a pseudonym for another author. This Novel covers the secret life of the 16th Century English philosopher and statesman, Sir Francis Bacon, one of the strong candidates for the Shakespeare crown. Weaving historical events together with fiction to take the reader on a roller coaster ride as it unravel the long hidden secret life about this enigmatic English figure, you will share the highs and lows of his political career, his life as an English secret agent, secret societies, the hidden secrets of his royal Tudor lineage, loves won and lost, his forays into mysticism, and his hand in the authorship of the works of Shakespeare. Kenric McKenzie, author of Spear-Shaker: Francis Bacon's Legacy.
Author: M. Stephen Miller
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1584658509
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An exploration of the Shakers' innovative spirit that informed their legendary craftsmanship and led to a broad array of creations
Author: LeAnne Howe
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A dangerous enemy has arrived on our shores with weapons of fire . . . He's a very different kind of Wasano, bloodsucker, he always hungers for more".--from Shell Shaker The action in this debut novel alternates between 1738, as a Choctaw family prepares for war against the English, and the 1990s, as their Oklahoma descendants, the Billys, fight a Mafia takeover of the tribe's casino. In trouble with the law and in the fight of their lives, the Billy women must find a way, as their ancestors did, to join forces against a devious foe. Humor, toughness, and resourcefulness are the Billys' only weapons. Until the Shell Shaker shows up. LeAnne Howe, an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is a fiction writer, playwright, scholar and poet whose writings on Choctaw women are drawn from both personal experience and scholarly research. Her short fiction has appeared in several anthologies, including Through the Eye of the Deer, Returning the Gift, Spider Woman's Granddaughters, and Earth Song, Sky Spirit, as well as in journals such as Callaloo and Fiction International. Howe has read her fiction and lectured throughout the United States, Japan and the Middle East, and her plays have been produced in Los Angeles and New York City. She has also presented programs on recruitment and retention of American Indians at universities and colleges. Currently, she teaches in the English Department at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In 1991, Howe received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to conduct research for Shell Shaker.
Author: Lindsey Apple
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2011-08-01
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 0813134102
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Known as the Great Compromiser, Henry Clay earned his title by addressing sectional tensions over slavery and forestalling civil war in the United States. Today he is still regarded as one of the most important political figures in American history. As Speaker of the House of Representatives and secretary of state, Clay left an indelible mark on American politics at a time when the country’s solidarity was threatened by inner turmoil, and scholars have thoroughly chronicled his political achievements. However, little attention has been paid to his extensive family legacy. In The Family Legacy of Henry Clay: In the Shadow of a Kentucky Patriarch, Lindsey Apple explores the personal history of this famed American and examines the impact of his legacy on future generations of Clays. Apple’s study delves into the family’s struggles with physical and emotional problems such as depression and alcoholism. The book also analyzes the role of financial stress as the family fought to reestablish its fortune in the years after the Civil War. Apple’s extensively researched volume illuminates a little-discussed aspect of Clay’s life and heritage, and highlights the achievements and contributions of one of Kentucky’s most distinguished families.