Barber: 563 books

In Greenville, NC, the Visitors and Convention Bureau lists no official Historical Sites of Afro-Americans. Afro-Americans have lived in Greenville since 1771. The Southside Seniors can be influential in promoting Historical Sites on Howell Street and the Town Common. Without records, generations...

Late on a Monday night, editor Lucy Newroe answers the phone in the Capital Tribune newsroom. The caller is the notorious Scanner Lady---an anonymous elderly tipster whose hobby is to phone the newspaper with gossip from her police scanner. The old woman tells Lucy she heard two Santa Fe cops discussing...

Bask in the eighties, when the computer was every bit still a mystery, as it is even more so today, to  the not-so-young, a retiree finds his up to now well-ordered life, and his computer, suddenly in the control of an unseen, and at the first, un-welcome visitor. He became the fickle finger...

The ideas and practices related to afrofuturism have existed for most of the 20th century, especially in the north American African diaspora community. After Mark Dery coined the word "afrofuturism" in 1993, Alondra Nelson as a member of an online forum, along with other participants, began...

Reprint of rare catalog by one of America's most successful, late-19th-century domestic architects, with more than 100 designs for 68 houses. Elevations and floor plans for custom-designed homes in the Colonial, Romanesque, and Queen Anne styles, as well as plans for verandas, summer pavilions, and barns. Invaluable to architectural historians, preservationists, and home restorers.

Meticulously researched, user-friendly guide to the northeast corner of Italy; from the port city of Trieste to the high Dolomites. Authoritative and accessible, with everything that you expect from a Blue Guide: a focus on art, architecture, history and heritage, plus excellent maps as well as tips on where to eat, where to stay, and how to get around.  

American doctors dispense approximately 230 million antidepressant prescriptions every year, more than any other class of medication. Charles Barberexplores this disturbing phenomenon, examining the ways in which pharmaceutical companies first create the need for a drug and then rush to fill it. Most...

From a history of fountains and garden fountain design to installation procedures and creating auxiliary streams and water courses, The Super Simple Guide To Waterfalls & Fountains For Your Garden Pond comes packed with ideas for building the right type of pond, then maintaining it.

This attractively priced, four-color guide offers dozens of itineraries that show you how to see the best of Montréal in a short time—with bulleted maps that lead the way from sight to sight. Featuring a full range of thematic and neighborhood tours, plus dining, lodging, shopping, nightlife, and...

Accepted as the standard reference work on modern pneumatic and compressed air engineering, the new edition of this handbook has been completely revised, extended and updated to provide essential up-to-date reference material for engineers, designers, consultants and users of fluid systems.

Machine learning methods extract value from vast data sets quickly and with modest resources. They are established tools in a wide range of industrial applications, including search engines, DNA sequencing, stock market analysis, and robot locomotion, and their use is spreading rapidly. People who...

Intensive Interaction is a highly effective approach for communicating and developing social interaction and engagement with difficult-to-reach individuals. This easy-to-use guide steers readers through the practical application of the approach, showing how positive results can best be achieved. The...

Not just fancy fruit drinks anymore, smoothies have evolved. The 50 recipes in this ebook combine all kinds of nutritious ingredients to create smoothies that are as healthy as they are delicious. You'll find something for everyone: smoothies to soothe a teething baby, fuel a workout, tame a hangover,...