Authors:Corinne P. Earnest, Russell D. Earnest,
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt)
Keywords: german, pennsylvania, tradition, publications, society, fraktur, family, posterity, latest, registers
Number of Pages: 153
Published: 2004-07-01
List price: $57.95
ISBN-10: 0271023686
ISBN-13: 9780271023687

The family register holds a distinctive place in American visual culture. Used to record marriages and offspring within a family through several generations, the family register also incorporates hand-illuminated decorative art. To the Latest Posterity is the first major study to explore the colorful world of Pennsylvania German family registers and their place in American social, religious, and cultural traditions.Renowned authorities on fraktur, Russell and Corinne Earnest trace the evolution of decorative family registers from their roots in medieval European illuminated manuscripts to thei

Authors:Russell Earnest, Corinne Russell, Edward L. Rosenber
Publisher: Oak Knoll Press
Keywords: broadsides, fraktur, printers, german, pennsylvania, leaves, one, sheets, flying
Number of Pages: 337
Published: 2005-06-03
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 1584561459
ISBN-13: 9781584561453

First edition. With Edward L. Rosenberry. This work is a well-illustrated history of the Pennsylvania German printing traditions as represented by over 130 of their broadsides and fraktur specimens. Printing in both German fraktur (black letter) and English, these intrepid early printers produced thousands of flyers, posters, and instructional pieces in varieties so extensive as to defy categorization. Their legal documents, such as marriage, baptism, and birth certificates, with their colorfully primitive motifs and borders, are highly collected today. However their other works are also explo

Author: Earnest Holme
Publisher: Wilder Publicatio
Keywords: success, mind, creative
Number of Pages: 76
Published: 2008-11-24
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1604590734
ISBN-13: 9781604590739

Creative Mind and Success is a guide to mental wellness and success. Like Science of the Mind, this book focuses on how the power of positive thinking can better your life, but it has more of a focus on financial well-being. This book is clearly a precursor to Think and Grow Rich and The Secret. Earnest Shurtleff Holmes was the founder of the Church of Religious Science. Religious Science, like many New Thought faiths, emphasizes positive thinking, influence of circumstances through mental processes, recognition of a creative energy source and of natural law. Holmes had an immense influence on

Author: Ernest Earnest
Publisher: Ayer Co Pub
Keywords: reprint, series, index, essay, literature, foreword
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 1969-03
List price: $23.50
ISBN-10: 0836927672
ISBN-13: 9780836927672

Author: Ernest Earnest
Publisher: Maurois Press
Keywords: mitchell, weir
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $29.45
ISBN-10: 1406772925
ISBN-13: 9781406772920

S. WEIR MITCHELL Novelist and Physician S. WEIR MITCHELL Novelist and Physician by ERNEST EARNEST Philadelphia UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS 1950 Foreword SILAS WEIR MITCHELL was almost a genius. His contem poraries believed that he was one, an opinion Mitchell came to share. The reasons for this belief were impressive his book on Gunshot Wounds and Other Injuries of the Nerves 1864 was still in use by the French in World War I his quot rest cure quot for nervous diseases was famous throughout Europe and America his discovery of the nature of rattlesnake venom was the foundation stone for l

Author: Allison Earnest
Publisher: Amherst Media, Inc.
Keywords: photographers, portrait, techniques, light, sculpting
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-09-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1584282363
ISBN-13: 9781584282365

Techniques for creating flawless lighting show photographers of all levels how to take full control of their photographic atmosphere in this indispensable guide. Illustrating the physics that govern light; the visual difference between the eye and camera; the qualities of incident and reflected light; and the effects of the size, intensity, direction, contrast, and ratio of light, this manual offers tools for sculpting the face for remarkable portraits. The three desirable positions for the main light are described in detail, as well as how to use those arrangements to accentuate all types of

Author: Charles M. Earnest
Publisher: Astm Intl
Keywords: technical, publication, stp, special, astm, analysis, thermogravimetry, compositional
Number of Pages: 293
Published: 1988-11
List price: $59.00
ISBN-10: 0803111770
ISBN-13: 9780803111776