Help Wanted
Title | Help Wanted PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Litzinger |
Publisher | |
Pages | 124 |
Release | 2021-11-03 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781737760016 |
The job search can be an emotional roller coaster. Help Wanted is an easy-to-browse guide for coping, inspiration, and motivation.
Palace of Culture
Title | Palace of Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Robert J. Gangewere |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
Pages | 423 |
Release | 2011-09-30 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0822979691 |
Andrew Carnegie is remembered as one of the world's great philanthropists. As a boy, he witnessed the benevolence of a businessman who lent his personal book collection to laborer's apprentices. That early experience inspired Carnegie to create the "Free to the People" Carnegie Library in 1895 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1896, he founded the Carnegie Institute, which included a music hall, art museum, and science museum. Carnegie deeply believed that education and culture could lift up the common man and should not be the sole province of the wealthy. Today, his Pittsburgh cultural institution encompasses a library, music hall, natural history museum, art museum, science center, the Andy Warhol Museum, and the Carnegie International art exhibition. In Palace of Culture, Robert J. Gangewere presents the first history of a cultural conglomeration that has served millions of people since its inception and inspired the likes of August Wilson, Andy Warhol, and David McCullough. In this fascinating account, Gangewere details the political turmoil, budgetary constraints, and cultural tides that have influenced the caretakers and the collections along the way. He profiles the many benefactors, trustees, directors, and administrators who have stewarded the collections through the years. Gangewere provides individual histories of the library, music hall, museums, and science center, and describes the importance of each as an educational and research facility. Moreover, Palace of Culture documents the importance of cultural institutions to the citizens of large metropolitan areas. The Carnegie Library and Institute have inspired the creation of similar organizations in the United States and serve as models for museum systems throughout the world.
The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Title | The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh PDF eBook |
Author | Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Carnegie libraries |
ISBN |
The Handy Science Answer Book
Title | The Handy Science Answer Book PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN |
Nowhere Girl
Title | Nowhere Girl PDF eBook |
Author | Cheryl Diamond |
Publisher | Algonquin Books |
Pages | 393 |
Release | 2021-06-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1643751689 |
By the age of nine, I will have lived in more than a dozen countries, on five continents, under six assumed identities. I’ll know how a document is forged, how to withstand an interrogation, and most important, how to disappear . . . To the young Cheryl Diamond, life felt like one big adventure, whether she was hurtling down the Himalayas in a rickety car or mingling with underworld fixers. Her family appeared to be an unbreakable gang of five. One day they were in Australia, the next in South Africa, the pattern repeating as they crossed continents, changed identities, and erased their pasts. What Diamond didn’t yet know was that she was born into a family of outlaws fleeing from the highest international law enforcement agencies, a family with secrets that would eventually catch up to all of them. By the time she was in her teens, Diamond had lived dozens of lives and lies, but as she grew older, love and trust turned to fear and violence, and her family—the only people she had in the world—began to unravel. She started to realize that her life itself might be a big con, and the people she loved, the most dangerous of all. With no way out and her identity burned so often that she had no proof she even existed, all that was left was a girl from nowhere. Surviving would require her to escape, and to do so Diamond would have to unlearn all the rules she grew up with. Wild, heartbreaking, and often unexpectedly funny, Nowhere Girl is an impossible-to-believe true story of self-discovery and triumph.
Pittsburgh
Title | Pittsburgh PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 2017-06-12 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781910401125 |
Includes previously unpublished photographs of Pittsburgh by acclaimed photographer Elliot Erwitt taken between 1949 and 1950. These photographs, capturing the humanity and spirit of the architecture and people of the city of Pittsburgh, were thought lost until the negatives were recently located in the Pittsburgh Photographic Library.
A Deadly Inside Scoop
Title | A Deadly Inside Scoop PDF eBook |
Author | Abby Collette |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2020-05-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0593099664 |
This book kicks off a charming cozy mystery series set in an ice cream shop—with a fabulous cast of quirky characters. Recent MBA grad Bronwyn Crewse has just taken over her family's ice cream shop in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and she's going back to basics. Win is renovating Crewse Creamery to restore its former glory, and filling the menu with delicious, homemade ice cream flavors—many from her grandmother’s original recipes. But unexpected construction delays mean she misses the summer season, and the shop has a literal cold opening: the day she opens her doors an early first snow descends on the village and keeps the customers away. To make matters worse, that evening, Win finds a body in the snow, and it turns out the dead man was a grifter with an old feud with the Crewse family. Soon, Win’s father is implicated in his death. It's not easy to juggle a new-to-her business while solving a crime, but Win is determined to do it. With the help of her quirky best friends and her tight-knit family, she'll catch the ice cold killer before she has a meltdown...