Mill

Author: David Macaulay
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547348363
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157

Book Description
This illustrated look at nineteenth-century New England architecture was named a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. This book, from the award-winning author of The Way Things Work, takes readers of all ages on a journey through a fictional mill town called Wicksbridge. With words and pictures, David Macaulay reveals fascinating details about the planning, construction, and operation of the mills—and gives us a powerful sense of the day-to-day lives of Americans in this era. “His imaginary mills in an imaginary town in Rhode Island, and the generations of people who built and ran them, come to life.” —The New York Times

Mill Town

Author: Kerri Arsenault
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250155959
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
Winner of the 2021 Rachel Carson Environmental Book Award Winner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics John Leonard Prize for Best First Book Finalist for the 2021 New England Society Book Award Finalist for the 2021 New England Independent Booksellers Association Award A New York Times Editors’ Choice and Chicago Tribune top book for 2020 “Mill Town is the book of a lifetime; a deep-drilling, quick-moving, heartbreaking story. Scathing and tender, it lifts often into poetry, but comes down hard when it must. Through it all runs the river: sluggish, ancient, dangerous, freighted with America’s sins.” —Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland Kerri Arsenault grew up in the small, rural town of Mexico, Maine, where for over 100 years the community orbited around a paper mill that provided jobs for nearly everyone in town, including three generations of her family. Kerri had a happy childhood, but years after she moved away, she realized the price she paid for that childhood. The price everyone paid. The mill, while providing the social and economic cohesion for the community, also contributed to its demise. Mill Town is a book of narrative nonfiction, investigative memoir, and cultural criticism that illuminates the rise and collapse of the working-class, the hazards of loving and leaving home, and the ambiguous nature of toxics and disease with the central question; Who or what are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival?

Walt Disney's The Old Mill

Author: Margaret Wise Brown
Publisher: Random House Disney
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
The old mill and the barn animals go through a stormy night.

Hamlet's Mill

Author: Giorgio De Santillana
Publisher: Gambit, Incorporated, Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 586

Book Description

Utilitarianism - Ed. Heydt

Author: John Stuart Mill
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1460402103
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism is a philosophical defense of utilitarianism, a moral theory stating that right actions are those that tend to promote overall happiness. The essay first appeared as a series of articles published in Fraser’s Magazine in 1861; the articles were collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863. Mill discusses utilitarianism in some of his other works, including On Liberty and The Subjection of Women, but Utilitarianism contains his only sustained defence of the theory. In this Broadview Edition, Colin Heydt provides a substantial introduction that will enable readers to understand better the polemical context for Utilitarianism. Heydt shows, for example, how Mill’s moral philosophy grew out of political engagement, rather than exclusively out of a speculative interest in determining the nature of morality. Appendices include precedents to Mill’s work, reactions to Utilitarianism, and related writings by Mill.

The Secret of the Old Mill

Author: Franklin W. Dixon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Teenage detectives Frank and Joe Hardy investigate a case of counterfeiting.

Murder at the Mill

Author: M. B. Shaw
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1250189314
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
"Murder at the Mill by M. B. Shaw is a great sweeping adventure. Ideal for holiday reading." —M. C. Beaton, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author "A rich, mystery debut" —Kirkus Starred Review A picture hides a thousand lies... And only Iris Grey can uncover the truth. Iris Grey rents a quaint cottage in a picture-perfect Hampshire village, looking to escape from her crumbling marriage. She is drawn to the neighboring Wetherby family, and is commissioned to paint a portrait of Dominic Wetherby, a celebrated crime writer. At the Wetherby's Christmas Eve party, the mulled wine is in full flow - but so are tensions and rivalries among the guests. On Christmas Day, the youngest member of the Wetherby family, Lorcan, finds a body in the water. A tragic accident? Or a deadly crime? With the snow falling, Iris enters a world of village gossip, romantic intrigue, buried secrets, and murder.

A Series of Unfortunate Events #4: The Miserable Mill

Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061757160
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104

Book Description
NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES I hope, for your sake, that you have not chosen to read this book because you are in the mood for a pleasant experience. If this is the case, I advise you to put this book down instantaneously, because of all the books describing the unhappy lives of the Baudelaire orphans, The Miserable Mill might be the unhappiest yet. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are sent to Paltryville to work in a lumber mill, and they find disaster and misfortune lurking behind every log. The pages of this book, I'm sorry to inform you, contain such unpleasantries as a giant pincher machine, a bad casserole, a man with a cloud of smoke where his head should be, a hypnotist, a terrible accident resulting in injury, and coupons. I have promised to write down the entire history of these three poor children, but you haven't, so if you prefer stories that are more heartwarming, please feel free to make another selection. With all due respect, Lemony Snicket

Mill and Liberalism

Author: Maurice Cowling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521388726
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
When first published in 1963, this interpretation of Mill's thought caused much controversy.

The Mill on the Po

Author: Riccardo Bacchelli
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 604

Book Description
The work, considered Bacchelli's masterpiece, dramatizes the conflicts and struggles of several generations of a family of millers.