Making His Mark (Polyglot Press Alger)

Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Literature & Fiction

Polyglot Press

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A New York Boy (Polyglot Press Alger)

Slow and Sure, Or, from the Street to the Shop

Strive and Succeed, Or, the Progress of Walter Conrad (Polyglot Press Alger)

<p>Laid off from his factory job, Ben Bradford works at anything he can find to support his family while waiting and hoping for opportunity to knock. Aka: Plucky Boy's Luck. In the Brave and Bold Series.</p>

Wait and Hope, Or, Ben Bradford's Motto (Polyglot Press Alger)

The Last Judgment and World Religions (Polyglot Press Religion) (Polyglot Press Religion Series)

Hall Peebles

Religion & Spirituality

Monitor Road

Carla Haslam Herkner

This new series of essays is a critical discussion of how schools are and should be organized and operated. It considers the organization and operation of both the school administration and the board of trustees and how they interact. It reviews the business of a school and the increasingly important role of the chief financial officer. School missions are evaluated, and school boards are assessed on how well a school succeeds in meeting its mission. A central focus is how schools plan. Mordecai dismisses strategic planning and suggests a new form of planning he calls strategic envisioning; a process that focuses on capturing the energy of stakeholders to ensure that the operation of the school is aligned with its mission. The book discusses in detail how ineffective boards can become effective. The last essay is devoted to the effect of technology on curricula, its impact on how education is delivered, and how content is impacted.

Accepting Trust: The Critical Role of Independent School Trustees

Donald D. Mordecai

From 1947 Peter Newbolt spent over ten years in charge of production for a London bookpublisher, and set out to gain serious practical experience of printing, binding, process engraving, typefounding, paper-making, photography, gilding, tanning, and other relevant skills. During this period his book-designs were regularly seen in the Annual Exhibitions at the National Book League. In 1957 he was appointed Adviser to one of the largest printing groups in Europe, and consulted by London publishers, the Clarendon and Oxford University Presses, and publishers in Canada. He worked for the Royal Opera House, and planned the series format of the catalogues raisonnés of the Rothschild Collections at Waddesdon Manor, under their general editor, Sir Anthony Blunt. Following an industrial merger ten years later that appointment ended. Forming his own Company, Newbolt continued much of his earlier work. For twenty years he designed and compiled all UK editions of their international catalogues of recorded music for CBS. He embarked on a photographic survey of mediaeval church buildings in Norfolk. Since 1970 he has been restoring antiquarian books for leading international dealers and collectors, and in that year began this study of Henty's work. At the start of the Crimean War G.A. Henty left Cambridge before taking a degree, and was commissioned in the army. Letters he wrote on active service were shown by his father to a London editor, who published a number, including Henty's account of Florence Nightingale’s arrival at Scutari. From 1865, as war correspondent of the Standard, a leading London daily, he covered many of the minor Victorian campaigns. From 1860 he was one of the most prolific of writers. Of his 120 books the best known are his novels for boys. The first appeared in 1870 and several were still being reprinted in 1970. In this genre Henty developed a new and individual style, combining adventure that appealed to Edwardian prep-school boys, with history whose accuracy met with the approval of parents and educationalists alike. The pictorial bindings of his books from Blackie are known to dealers and collectors as the best examples of their kind. His dozen-or-so novels for adults, for long generally written-off as failures, are now shown to have included remarkable successes. Some, first published as three-deckers, were later re-issued as boys’ books. Indeed, most of Henty’s fiction was popular with readers of all ages. Listings and illustrations given here include over 500 editions and issues of all his books up to the end of the 1920s, his work in newspapers and periodicals, and, for the first time, examples of Henty’s own drawings, sent from Abyssinia in 1868 and printed in the London press. Peter Newbolt gives accounts of Henty’s main publishers, all important in their day, though some, including the eccentric William Tinsley, a character in whom Dickens would have delighted, are now little-known. There are notes on over 100 artists, and essays on the printing, binding, and illustration processes used for Henty’s books. This important contribution to the history of book-publishing will be invaluable to collectors of all authors of the mid-nineteenth to early-twentieth! centuries.

G.A. Henty, 1832-1902: A Bibliographical Study of His British Editions, with Short Accounts of His Publishers, Illustrators, and Designers, a ... Press Literary Bibliographies Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Peter Newbolt

Professionals & Academics

<p>Too often military stories focus solely on combat, and not the numerous other aspects of military life. This is ironic as many servicemen never see the front line. They see the non-combat aspects of military life, and one thing all service people know is the bureaucratic and confusing world of the armed forces. Before the all-volunteer army there was another form of induction—the draft. An ominous word that conjures up the idea of being pulled from the life you know into a different, confusing, potentially dangerous world. This is what happened to Gilbert Tucker. Lifted from his home streets of Philadelphia, Tucker tells the story of becoming a soldier. After finishing art school, Tucker is served with a draft notice. He describes the multitude of emotions he faces when realizing that his whole life is about to change. Yet he does his duty and reports for induction. Through a string of mishaps, luck, and military need, Tucker found himself not on the front line, but instead doing his civilian trained job as an illustrator. He tells his Korean War story through this perspective. One of Millions gives the details of what the US Army of the Korean War era was like. He tells of his journey from basic training to deployment behind the lines of a war zone. Of demanding officers, tireless chores, R&amp;R in Japan, and barracks hi-jinks. Tucker gives the many details of life in the Army with insight and candor.</p>

One of Millions (Polyglot Press War)

History

Gilbert Tucker

Military

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