A Reverence for Wood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Reverence for Wood write by Eric Sloane. This book was released on 2004-02-18. A Reverence for Wood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book underscores the important role that wood has played in the development of American life and culture. Covering such topics as the aesthetics of wood, wooden implements, and carpentry, Sloane remarks expansively and with affection on the resourcefulness of Early Americans in their use of this precious commodity.
A Museum of Early American Tools
A Museum of Early American Tools - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Museum of Early American Tools write by Eric Sloane. This book was released on 2002-01-01. A Museum of Early American Tools available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Absorbing book describes, in detail, farm tools and kitchen implements and how they were made. Includes devices used by curriers, wheelwrights, coopers, blacksmiths, loggers, tanners, coachmakers, and other craftsmen of the pre-industrial age. An informal, expressively written book for cultural historians, woodcrafters, and Americana enthusiasts. 184 black-and-white illustrations.
American Barns and Covered Bridges
American Barns and Covered Bridges - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Barns and Covered Bridges write by Eric Sloane. This book was released on 2002-01-01. American Barns and Covered Bridges available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This lovingly written book presents reliable records of such vanishing forms of architecture as the American barn and covered bridge. Delightful anecdotes accompany accurate line drawings of barns attached to houses, an "open" log barn in Virginia, a "top hat" barn in North Carolina, and more. Over 75 black-and-white illustrations.
Diary of an Early American Boy 1805
Diary of an Early American Boy 1805 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diary of an Early American Boy 1805 write by Eric Sloane. This book was released on 2008-01-01. Diary of an Early American Boy 1805 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Excerpts from a teenager's diary interspersed with the author's comments and illustrations depict the lifestyle and crafts of rural New England.
Reverence
Reverence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reverence write by Paul Woodruff. This book was released on 2014. Reverence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reverence is an ancient virtue that survives among us in half-forgotten patterns of civility and moments of inarticulate awe. Reverence gives meaning to much that we do, yet the word has almost passed out of our vocabulary. Reverence, says philosopher and classicist Paul Woodruff, begins in an understanding of human limitations. From this grows the capacity to be in awe of whatever we believe lies outside our control -- God, truth, justice, nature, even death. It is a quality of character that is especially important in leadership and in teaching, although it figures in virtually every human relationship. It transcends religious boundaries and can be found outside religion altogether. Woodruff draws on thinking about this lost virtue in ancient Greek and Chinese traditions and applies lessons from these highly reverent cultures to today's world. The book covers reverence in a variety of contexts -- the arts, leadership, teaching, warfare, and the home -- and shows how essential a quality it is to a well-functioning society. First published by Oxford University Press in 2001, this new edition of Reverence is revised and expanded. It contains a foreword by Betty Sue Flowers, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, a new preface, two new chapters -- one on the sacred and one on compassion -- and an epilogue focused on renewing reverence in our own lives.
