The One-room Schoolhouse: A Tribute to a Beloved National Icon

The One-room Schoolhouse: A Tribute to a Beloved National Icon
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Great book on a largely American phenomenon

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The One-room Schoolhouse: A Tribute to a Beloved National Icon
Paul Rocheleau
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Binding: Hardcover
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Offering a glimpse at the values that built this country, The One-Room Schoolhouse is a poignant, engaging, beautiful and heart-warming tribute to an enduring slice of Americana.
From 1750 through about 1950, the one-room schoolhouse was a common fixture on the American landscape, with as many as 200,000 in total across the land. Today, approximately 450 one-room schoolhouses are still in use.

Despite the decline in numbers, it remains a powerful presence, and its mere mention conjures up feelings of warmth and nostalgia for a long ago time. The One-Room Schoolhouse pays homage to this American icon and is a tour of these structures still standing, detailing the best examples from the forty-eight contiguous states. Exploring working schools, some in existence for more than 100 years, schools restored as historic museums, and schools converted into private residences, The One-Room Schoolhouse touches and inspires us by sharing "conversations" with past and present one-room schoolhouse teachers.

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Great book on a largely American phenomenon.......2006-11-13

The author has traveled the country photographing buildings, and the result is a book filled with beautifully clear, colorful pictures of schoolhouses, many of them architectural gems. The book traces the earliest American schoolhouses from their beginnings in the 1600's up through the 1940's. Every style is represented from simple log buildings through elaborate stone, brick, clapboard, and shingle sided relics.

There must be 100 or more buildings from 48 states featured in the included photos. Rocheleau has photographed interiors as well as exteriors and included histories and anecdotes related to many of the buildings. Some of the schools are in places that you would expect, featuring a classic schoolhouse design such as the Kibler Schoolhouse in Towamensing, Pennsylvania. Others are very unusual, such as an old Japanese schoolhouse in Hawaii. I've thought the one-room schoolhouse was a fascinating subject ever since I spent summers in Tennessee with my grandparents as a child and discovered that their next door neighbors were living in a converted one-room schoolhouse. I am surprised this book went out of print so fast. At least you can still find it used.

Interesting Read.......2006-07-06

A fun read and great photographs for someone interested in this disappearing landmark.

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My dog is on the Cover!.......2000-01-29

I would like to take this opportunity to share that Gentle Giants by Bruce Weber is very "special" because it is our beautiful grey Newf, Kady as the cover dog for Bruce Weber's "Gentle Giant". This is definitely a collector's book for anyone passionate about dogs and particularly, Newfies. Kady and our Landseer, Jon-Luc (pictured on plates 100, 102 & 103, spent 3-days with Bruce at an estate in Marblehead,MA. We were ecstatic! We will never forget the excitement and glowing pride, watching Bruce photograph role after delightful role of our dogs with passion and compassion. Bruce has formally acknowledged the misprint in Gentle Giants. He has sent signed pictures with an apology. The newfs pictured on the cover and plates 100, 102, 103 are Rossland's Kady in the Mist & Seaward's Sebastian Sir James (Jon-Luc). Kady continued her career on the cover of Rhoda Lerman's book, In the Company of Newfs. Jon-Luc went on to appear in Ralph Lauren's Polo Expedition, American Express and Timberland Ads! Thanks to Bruce, we have a lifelong, cherished memory. Kady has sinced crossed Rainbow Bridge. Jon-Luc is 9 years old and resting comfortably on his dognapper. Bruce, you made a special difference in our loves. We will always appreciate your warmth, compassion and love of dogs, especially the Newf! Fondly, Maureen & Gary Ross and the Pack!

My dog is on the Cover!.......2000-01-29

They are also photographed in the book on pages/plates

Great pics of Newfs; can do without naked men........1998-03-30

I own a Newfy and can appreciate how dificult it is to photograph black dogs. So many of these pics make one smile; but the naked men are laughable. What is it I don't get here? Hardcover, family-oriented, coffee-table-type book, with these naked guys running around. How artsy?! Text is sadly lacking. For example, the section on training rescue newfs is visually exciting and has great potential, but it begs so many more questions.

It is the best book with Newfoundland dogs pictures.......1998-03-11

I found this book by chance. As I own a Newfoundland, I bought it, but I never could imagine how lovely it was. If you have a Newfoundland, you would like to have this book, you could read one and another time the text, and you will enjoy with the pictures. I wish that my Newfy was on this book.

WONDERFUL!!!! PRECIOUS!!!!.......1997-11-21

I have the fortune of owning this book, and it is really a truly wonderful book. For anyone who loves newfs, they have to have this book. It is a big beautiful hardcover. Nothing flashy, just good old fashioned pictures of newfs! Puppies! I love it and would not part with it for the world!

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This handbook of locally based agricultural practices brings together the best of science and farmer experimentation, vividly illustrating the enormous diversity of shifting cultivation systems as well as the power of human ingenuity. Environmentalists have tended to disparage shifting cultivation (sometimes called swidden cultivation, or "slash-and-burn agriculture") as unsustainable due to its supposed role in deforestation and land degradation. However, a growing body of evidence indicates that such indigenous practices, as they have evolved over time, can be highly adaptive to land and ecology. In contrast, "scientific" agricultural solutions imposed from outside can be far more damaging to the environment. Moreover, these external solutions often fail to recognize the extent to which an agricultural system supports a way of life along with a society's food needs. They do not recognize the degree to which the sustainability of a culture is intimately associated with the sustainability and continuity of its agricultural system.

Unprecedented in ambition and scope, Voices from the Forest focuses on successful agricultural strategies of upland farmers in the Asia-Pacific Region. More than 100 scholars from 19 countries -- including agricultural economists, ecologists, and anthropologists -- collaborated in the analysis of different fallow management typologies, working in conjunction with hundreds of indigenous farmers of different cultures and a broad range of climates, crops, and soil conditions. By sharing this knowledge -- and combining it with new scientific and technical advances -- the authors hope to make indigenous practices and experience more widely accessible and better understood, not only by researchers and development practitioners, but by other communities of farmers around the world.

Bank Soundness and Macroeconomic Policy
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Bank Soundness and Macroeconomic Policy
Carl-Johan Lindgren , Gillian Garcia , and Matthew I. Saal
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Exogenous shocks, deposit runs and bank soundness: A macroeconomic framework (IMF working paper)
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Exogenous shocks, deposit runs and bank soundness: A macroeconomic framework (IMF working paper)
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"Good enough" isn't enough. . . : Nine Challenges for Companies That Choose to Be Great
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"Good enough" isn't enough. . . : Nine Challenges for Companies That Choose to Be Great
Alan Weiss
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Author Alan Weiss has worked with over 1,000 organizations over a 26-year career in 51 countries. In 'Good Enough' Isn't Enough, he provides a hard hitting, candid, often amazingly entertaining perspective on the difference between the great organizations and the also-rans. Entirely timely in today's economy, he points out how a long-term vibrant economy covered a multitude of sins only now emerging in the harsh light of harder times. Weiss, the author of the best-selling Million Dollar Consulting as well as 15 other books, takes on bureaucratic legal departments, the "touchie-feelie" industry which mesmerizes human resource professionals, somnolent boards, and overpaid executives, using contemporary examples which should be memorized and studied in every executive suite (and by every investor).

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Alan tells it like it is.......2005-03-17

Alan Weiss tells it like it is. If you want to learn from one of the best...read EVERYTHING Alan Weiss writes! Alan's insights and experience are second to none. I personally own just about every book Alan Weiss has written. He is not only a consultant's consultant, but he is also a gifted writer as well.
Alan Weiss's advice, insights and knowledge will take years off your learning curve. This book is a must for your library.

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Highly Recommended!.......2001-04-03

Alan Weiss's clarion call for corporate excellence may remind you of your parents' stern guidance in your youth. You weren't sure you wanted to listen to their traditional viewpoints, but you knew they were right. Weiss cites today's watered-down sense of social accountability as the bad seed that has spoiled corporate standards. He insists that constantly lowering standards is not the way to achieve lasting excellence. He warns that executives need to exercise common sense rather than chase every management fad they encounter or succumb to high-priced consultants. Similarly, he warns that executives who surround themselves with sycophants will get carried away with their own egos. At times, Weiss seems to get a bit carried away himself, regaling how he browbeat the service rep when his bottled water delivery went to the wrong address. But we [...] recommend this book as beneficial to executives - and even to consultants - as a refreshing throwback to days before the advent of kinder, gentler management.

If it's by Alan Weiss, it's worth reading.......1999-10-30

There's nobody who's writing about business today who makes more sense than Alan Weiss. His books are bright, lively and to the point. Weiss, one of the most respected consultants in America, knows what he is talking about and generously shares it with his readers.

Leveraging the Horizon: Secrets of a Serial Entrepreneur
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Practical Advice for High Tech Entrepreneurs.......2006-04-04

This book is an amalgam of the author's experience as a serial high tech entrepreneur and good business common sense. It provides a compendium of advice that one cannot find in more traditional business books and texts. It is for those who are thinking about starting a company -- especially, but not necessarily, a high tech company -- and are not certain what to do next or first. It addresses the "seed stage" of a new venture, primarily before venture capital is raised, when the team is first being assebled and the vision and product are first being formed. A must read for the first time high tech entrepreneur...

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Life Histories of North American Thrushes, Kinglets, and Their Allies.
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