The Making of the Morgan

The Making of the Morgan
Author: Paul Spencer Byard
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2008
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780875981499

A century after its creation, in 2006, The Morgan Library & Museum, having undergone a major expansion and renovation designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, reopened to wide critical and popular acclaim. The process leading up to that moment is documented in this book, which chronicles the 100-year transformation of a rarefied domain to a public museum, independent research library, musical venue, architectural landmark, and historic site.

A Princess in the Making

A Princess in the Making
Author: Melody Crombie
Publisher: Xulon Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2009-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1607914662

Rich playboy, Prince Kristen's time has run out and he has been ordered to marry quickly, produce an heir and do it all in secret! Why? Because his older brother (the crown prince) has contracted a fatal illness and Kristen must be ready to take over the monarchy when his father retires. The Danish Prince disguises himself and travels to the United States to find a bride. Only he discovers that Morgan, the woman he meets and marries, has a dark past she can't bring herself to reveal to her husband. Meanwhile, Morgan never suspects that her Kristen has been keeping a bigger secret. A Princess in the Making is a contemporary love story that retells the Biblical story of Hosea and Gomer (a prophet who is told by God to marry a prostitute). Melody Crombie lived in Germany as a teenager and traveled throughout Europe with her family while her step-father was in the military. Her husband, who is of Danish descent, was her inspiration for Prince Kristen. She currently lives in Northern California with her husband and children.

The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class

The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class
Author: Kees Van Der Pijl
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1844679365

With The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class, Kees van der Pijl put class formation at the heart of our understanding of world politics and the global economy. This landmark study dissects one of the most decisive phenomena of the twentieth century—the rise of an Atlantic ruling class of multinational banks and corporations. A new preface by the author evaluates the book’s significance in the light of recent political and economic developments.

The Making of American Industrial Research

The Making of American Industrial Research
Author: Leonard S. Reich
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2002-08-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521522373

This book draws important lessons from the early days of industrial research in America.

David E. Lilienthal

David E. Lilienthal
Author: Steven M. Neuse
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780870499401

The Lilienthal story is one of paradoxes and contradictions in human nature, of an enormous ego yoked with good intentions and a humane spirit. As this book demonstrates in compelling detail, the liberal dream that Lilienthal embodied worked at home but not abroad.

Transforming the South

Transforming the South
Author: Matthew L. Downs
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2014-12-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0807157155

Historians have long recognized the middle of the twentieth century as significant in the history of the modern South, owing to a convergence of social change, political realignment, and cultural expansion. This period in southern history has provided extensive material for scholars of race, gender, and politics. In addition, sweeping economic changes spread throughout the South, permanently shifting the area's material resources. Transforming the South examines this transition from farm to factory and explores the dramatic reshaping of the region's economy. Matthew L. Downs focuses on three developments in the Tennessee Valley: the World War I-era government nitrate plants and hydroelectric dams at Muscle Shoals, Alabama; the extensive work completed by the Tennessee Valley Authority; and Cold War/Space Age defense investment in Huntsville, Alabama. Downs argues that the modernization of the Sunbelt economy depended on cooperation between regional leaders and federal funders. Local boosters lobbied to receive federal funds for their communities while simultaneously forming economic development organizations that would prepare those communities for further growth. Economic reform also drove social reform: as members of historically disenfranchised groups attained employment in the new industrial workforce, they gained financial and political capital to push for social change. Transforming the South considers the role played by the recipients of government funds in the mid-twentieth century and demonstrates how communities exerted an unparalleled influence over the federal investments that shaped the southern economy.

The Morgans

The Morgans
Author: Vincent P. Carosso
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 940
Release: 1987
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780674587298

The House of Morgan personified economic power in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. Carosso constructs an in-depth account of the evolution, operations, and management of the Morgan banks at London, New York, Philadelphia, and Paris, from the time Junius Spencer Morgan left Boston for London to the death of his son, John Pierpont Morgan.

Day of Empire

Day of Empire
Author: Amy Chua
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2009-01-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0307472450

In this sweeping history, bestselling author Amy Chua explains how globally dominant empires—or hyperpowers—rise and why they fall. In a series of brilliant chapter-length studies, she examines the most powerful cultures in history—from the ancient empires of Persia and China to the recent global empires of England and the United States—and reveals the reasons behind their success, as well as the roots of their ultimate demise. Chua's analysis uncovers a fascinating historical pattern: while policies of tolerance and assimilation toward conquered peoples are essential for an empire to succeed, the multicultural society that results introduces new tensions and instabilities, threatening to pull the empire apart from within. What this means for the United States' uncertain future is the subject of Chua's provocative and surprising conclusion.

Evelyn Pickering De Morgan and the Allegorical Body

Evelyn Pickering De Morgan and the Allegorical Body
Author: Elise Lawton Smith
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780838638835

"This study of her work confirms that the idea of progress toward the afterlife is a recurrent motif, arising from a personal involvement in the movement of Spiritualism and paralleling the automatic writing passages in The Result of an Experiment (1909), anonymously published by Evelyn and her husband William De Morgan.".

Aircraft Production

Aircraft Production
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1244
Release: 1918
Genre: Aeronautics, Military
ISBN: