Gates Gates: 538 books
by David Edgerley Gates
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
McElroy made the dive from a point on the riverbank a thousand yards upstream from the triangulated position of the wreckage. The skin of ice sighed as he slipped under it, and the dark water closed over his head like a shroud.
by Christian von Aster, Bernd Perplies, Stephan R. Bellem
Language: German
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Language: German
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Der Dungeon: uralt, mit gewaltigen Ausmaßen und von unzähligen Kreaturen bevölkert. Wer herrscht über Dungeons? Ihre Besitzer oder Besetzer? Nein, die wahren Herren des Dungeons sind jene, die ihn am Laufen halten. Die das vergossene Blut aufwischen, die Knochen der Skelette sortieren, die Fallen...
Anecdotes of Great Musicians
Three Hundred Anecdotes and Biographical Sketches of Famous Composers and Performers
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
This book, which was first published in 1895, is a wonderful collection of some 300 anecdotes and biographical sketches of famous composers and performers since time began.
In the author’s own words, “[I]n the search for what this volume comprises, much material has been examined. I have...
In Search of Our Roots
How l9 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
Unlike most white Americans who, if they are so inclined, can search their ancestral records, identifying who among their forebears was the first to set foot on this country’s shores, most African Americans, in tracing their family’s past, encounter a series of daunting obstacles. Slavery was...
U-Turn Leadership
Lessons Learned from a Lifetime of Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Retired CEO and business turnaround specialist Elmer David Gates takes the reader through a tour of his leadership experiences starting with the Korean War through increasing responsibilities at General Electric and finally turning around a failing global manufacturing plant in Pennsylvania. Young...
by Richard Gates
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Packed with step by step information, hints and tips, this book provides all the basic information needed to production manage a film or video from beginning to end - from idea to delivery.
Production Management for Film and Video gives all the basic information needed to production manage...
Chinese Working-Class Lives
Getting By in Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Taiwan’s working class has been shaped by Chinese tradition, by colonialism, and by rapid industrialization. This book defines that class, explores that history, and presents with sensitive honesty the life experiences of some of its women and men. Hill Gates first provides a solid and informative...
by Gates Brandy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Have you ever gone through a traumatic experience that you mentally didn’t know how to process what happened after it was over? Did the experience make you bitter or better? So many of us have remained broken on the inside from our traumatic experiences and it’s time to change that by healing...
The Making of Massive Resistance
Virginia's Politics of Public School Desegregation, 1954-1956
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
In this book, Gates brings before the reader persons and features unique to racial politics in the commonwealth of Virginia. He deals with the turbulent days that followed school desegregation decisions in 1954 and 1955 and with the emergence of the "massive resistance" movement in the region.
Originally...
Cultural Journeys
Multicultural Literature for Elementary and Middle School Students
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
As multicultural education is becoming integral to the core curriculum, teachers often implement this aspect into their courses through literature. However, standards and criteria to teach and promote active discussion about this literature are sparse. Cultural Journeys introduces pre-service and...
by Suzanne Gates
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Set in the dream factory of the 1940s, this glittering debut novel follows a young Hollywood hopeful into a star-studded web of scandal, celebrity, and murder . . .
The chipped pink nail polish is a dead giveaway—no pun intended. When a human thumb is discovered near a Hollywood nightclub, it...
by David E. Gates
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
A man, racked with mid-life crisis, determines a unique way to end his life.
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by David Edgerley Gates
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
The room was perhaps twelve feet by eight, brightly lit. There were no cabinets or other built-in furnishings. There was a stainless steel table, on casters, big enough for a recumbent body, which I found a little sinister. There was a drain in the tiled floor. There was a single utilitarian folding...
Bound Feet, Young Hands
Tracking the Demise of Footbinding in Village China
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Footbinding was common in China until the early twentieth century, when most Chinese were family farmers. Why did these families bind young girls' feet? And why did footbinding stop? In this groundbreaking work, Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates upend the popular view of footbinding as a status, or even...