Author: Eliza Leadbeater
Publisher: Shire
Keywords: spinning, library, wheels, shire
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2009-04-21
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0852634692
ISBN-13: 9780852634691

Spinning and Spinning Wheels traces the evolution of the ancient skill of spinning, from the early spindle, through the introduction of the wool and the flax wheel, to the numerous variations of the wheel in Europe and North America. The author surveys these different models and explains the principles of spinning that have essentially remained the same for generations. Providing insight into the mechanics of the U-flyer and the tools and accessories used in the craft, this volume is a timeless and valuable source of information to craftsmen, collectors and historians.

Author: Joseph Nazel
Publisher: Holloway House Publishing Company
Keywords: iceman, target, spinning
Published: 1974-08
List price: $2.25
ISBN-10: 0870670905
ISBN-13: 9780870670909

Author: Rebecca Gilman
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Keywords: play, butter, spinning
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2000-08-07
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0571199844
ISBN-13: 9780571199846

Set on a college campus in Vermont, Spinning into Butter is a new play by a major young American playwright that explores the dangers of both racism and political correctness in America today in a manner that is at once profound, disturbing, darkly comic, and deeply cathartic. Rebecca Gilman challenges our preconceptions about race relations, writing of a liberal dean of students named Sarah Daniels who investigates the pinning of anonymous, clearly racist letters on the door of one of the college’s few African American students. The stunning discovery that there is a virulent racist on

Author: Toshi Takajima
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: technology, spinning, fiber, advanced
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 1996-06-01
List price: $259.95
ISBN-10: 1855731827
ISBN-13: 9781855731820

Some of the most interesting developments of the last few decades in the field of fiber production have been the result of intensive study in Japanese industry and research institutes. This book was originally published in Japanese by the Society of Fiber Science and Technology, Japan, in order to present a thorough scientific and technological review of advances in fiber production, and is now published in English. In addition to providing an extensive review of recent breakthroughs in fiber spinning technology, this popular book illustrates how R&D can pay off in terms of commercial succ

Author: Gregory Maguire
Publisher: Clarion Books
Keywords: chronicles, hamlet, spinning, spiders, seven
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1994-08-15
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0395689651
ISBN-13: 9780395689653

Seven prehistoric spiders that have been trapped in ice for thousands of years bring excitement to rural Vermont and briefly unite the rival boys’ and girls’ clubs at a local elementary school.

Author: Stefan Keppeler
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: statistics, spectral, semiclassics, particles, spinning
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2003-11-05
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 3540011846
ISBN-13: 9783540011842

The book deals with semiclassical methods for systems with spin, in particular methods involving trace formulae and torus quantisation and their applications in the theory of quantum chaos, e.g. the characterisation of spectral correlations. The theoretical tools developed here not only have immediate applications in the theory of quantum chaos - which is the second focus of the book - but also in atomic and mesoscopic physics. Thus the intuitive understanding of semiclassical spin dynamics will also be helpful in emerging subjects like spintronics and quantum computation.

Author: Frederick M. He
Publisher: Brookings Institution Pre
Keywords: school, reform, urban, politics, wheels, spinning
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 1998-09-01
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0815736363
ISBN-13: 9780815736363

Almost everyone agrees that America’s urban schools are a mess. But while this agreement has fostered widespread support for aggressive reform, Frederick Hess argues that much of what ails urban education is actually the result of continuous or fragmentary reform. Hess explains that political incentives drive school superintendents to promote reforms - to demonstrate that they are "making a difference". Superintendents have to do this quickly, both because their tenure is usually three years or less and because urban communities are anxious to see educational improvement. However, the na