Hubert Mitchell's Books

All Things Shining

Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age

By: Hubert Dreyfus,Sean Dorrance Kelly

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

All Things Shining

Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age

By: Hubert Dreyfus,Sean Dorrance Kelly

A wide-ranging look at the loss of meaning in the West, and a gripping guide for how to retrieve it.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

274

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

141659616X

ISBN 13

9781416596165

The Politics of School Choice

By: Hubert Morken,Jo Renee Formicola

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Politics of School Choice is the first comprehensive examination of diverse efforts to promote tax credits, public vouchers, private scholarships, and charter schools. Morken and Formicola provide the most current national report on the burgeoning American school choice movement. They analyze the strategies and tactics being used by a wide variety of individuals and organizations to leverage change, pass laws, win court cases, and mobilize community support to build successful, winning, school choice coalitions. Based largely on extensive interviews, documentary research, and surveys, this book covers the spectrum of school choice options and shows how they are being promoted in the United States today. It explains who the players are, what types of programs they endorse, and the various rationales behind them. The authors report the views of the entrepreneurs, religious leaders, heads of think tanks and foundations, public litigators, scholars, activists, minority leaders, and politicians who are in the forefront of providing parents with resources for educational alternatives. Finally, Morken and Formicola cover the strengths and weaknesses of the school choice issue, concluding that the movement has a wide ranging membership, that is uneven in its implementation, and that it is taking different forms in various regions of the country. As the pace of change accelerates and new school choice programs proliferate, this study is a critical resource for all those concerned about the present and future staus of American education.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

356

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

0847697215

ISBN 13

9780847697212

Hawk's Nest

A Novel

By: Hubert Skidmore

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hawk's Nest

A Novel

By: Hubert Skidmore

Appalachian Echoes Thomas E. Douglass, series fiction editor The building of a tunnel at Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, beginning in 1930 has been called the worst industrial disaster in American history: more died there than in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and the Sunshine and Farmington mine disasters combined. And when native West Virginian Hubert Skidmore tried to tell the real story in his 1941 novel, Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation apparently convinced publisher Doubleday, Doran & Co. to pull the book from publication after only a few hundred copies had appeared. Now the Appalachian Echoes series makes Hawk’s Nest available to a new generation of readers. This is the riveting tale of starving men and women making their way from all over the Depression-era United States to the hope and promise of jobs and a new life. What they find in West Virginia is “tunnelitis,” or silicosis, a disease which killed at least seven hundred workers—probably many more—a large number of them African American, virtually all of them poor. Skidmore’s roman à clef provides a narrative with emotional drive, interwoven with individual stories that capture the hopes and the desperation of the Depression: the Reips who come from the farm with their pots and pans and hard-working children, the immigrants Pete and Anna, kind waitress Lessie Lee, and “hobos” Jim Martin, “Long” Legg, and Owl Jones, the last of whom, as an African American, receives the worst treatment. This important story of conscience encompasses labor history, Appalachian studies, and literary finesse.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

375

Publisher

Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1621905500

ISBN 13

9781621905509

The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. History of California

Vol. XXII

By: Hubert Howe Bancroft

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. History of California

Vol. XXII

By: Hubert Howe Bancroft

Reprint of the original, first published in 1886.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

802

Publisher

BoD – Books on Demand

Published Date

ISBN 10

3385485754

ISBN 13

9783385485754

History of the Pacific States of North America

Vol. XVII

By: Hubert Howe Bancroft

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

History of the Pacific States of North America

Vol. XVII

By: Hubert Howe Bancroft

Reprint of the original, first published in 1886.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

802

Publisher

BoD – Books on Demand

Published Date

ISBN 10

3368636375

ISBN 13

9783368636371

A Buchan Boy

By: Hubert Mitchell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Buchan Boy

By: Hubert Mitchell

Buchan, once part of the Pictish kingdom, is now one of six Administrative areas of Aberdeenshire County Council, Scotland. It has a considerable ancient history. This story, A Buchan Boy, starts with a young man volunteering for active service and looks at his life, his growing up in an extreme NE corner of Scotland, the Fraserburgh of the1920s. Since Hubert Mitchell wrote A Buchan Boy and printed it for his immediate family in Australia, many have visited Fraserburgh. Now, 18 years on, Averil Mitchell has decided to open the family story to a wider audience, in the hope that a new generation will take a look at the historical background of a family in the Fraserburgh of the1920s.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

187

Publisher

Lulu.com

Published Date

ISBN 10

1471649474

ISBN 13

9781471649479

Peter Taylor

A Writer's Life

By: Hubert Horton McAlexander

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Peter Taylor

A Writer's Life

By: Hubert Horton McAlexander

“Splendid. . . . McAlexander’s biography only makes it clearer than ever that Peter Taylor was our last great southern man of letters.”—Chicago Tribune “For those of us to whom Taylor’s writing is among the chief glories of 20th-century American literature, Peter Taylor: A Writer’s Life has much to tell us about how he emerged from what he called ‘the small old world we knew...in Tennessee’ and explored that world with such acuity, clarity, and unsentimental love.”—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World “McAlexander has done a splendid job of tracing the progression of Taylor’s writing through the circumstances of a surprisingly frenetic life...Anyone interested in the evolution of fiction writing in the last century will be delighted to come upon this volume...fascinating, sometimes amusing, and often heartbreaking.”—New York Times Book Review Hubert H. McAlexander’s accomplished portrait of Peter Taylor (1917–1994) achieves a remarkable intimacy with this central figure in the history of the American short story and one of the greatest southern writers of his time. McAlexander knits together the facts of Taylor’s life in a compelling, seamless account: his deep and distinguished family roots in Tennessee; his close bonds with writers from three generations, including Allen Tate, Robert Lowell, and James Alan McPherson; his establishment of the dysfunctional family as a force in American literature; and his perseverance as a writer, finally rewarded with the Pulitzer Prize at age seventy. Exhaustively researched and engagingly written, Peter Taylor presents a vivid picture of the man, the artist, and his literary milieu.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

364

Publisher

LSU Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0807167282

ISBN 13

9780807167281

PILOT HERE OR PILE IT THERE

A Memoir

By: Lt. Col. William E. Hubert, USAF (Ret.)

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

PILOT HERE OR PILE IT THERE

A Memoir

By: Lt. Col. William E. Hubert, USAF (Ret.)

Pilot Here or Pile It There is an autobiography relating many of Bill’s experiences during 45 years of a widely diversified career as pilot. It also includes a few unusual events or circumstances that Bill encountered as a direct result of being a pilot. He attained his civilian instructor and instrument ratings in mid 1946, which early on qualified him to engage in almost unlimited piloting endeavors. Considering that his activities as a pilot included; a military career, manager of a civilian flight school and charter service, a non-scheduled air-freight pilot and Civil Air Patrol pilot, some interesting situations were bound to occur. I neglected to mention he was chief pilot in a failed attempt to start a scheduled air shuttle service. Bill’s one ambition that he never achieved was to be in a combat situation. He received his Army Air Corps pilot wings and commission in June 1944, during WWII at the age of nineteen. He had two breaks in military service from which he was recalled in August of 1950 for the Korean conflict and again in 1958 prior to Viet Nam. Bill’s three tours of active duty certainly provided ample opportunities for the Air Force to fulfill his one missing challenge.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

218

Publisher

AuthorHouse

Published Date

ISBN 10

1452050422

ISBN 13

9781452050423

Making Innovation Last: Volume 1

Sustainable Strategies for Long Term Growth

By: Hubert GATIGNON,David Gotteland,Christophe Haon

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Making Innovation Last: Volume 1

Sustainable Strategies for Long Term Growth

By: Hubert GATIGNON,David Gotteland,Christophe Haon

Making Innovation Las t considers the long term success of a firm. Authored by a trio of top international scholars who present pioneering new work on what it takes to create long term growth, the book examines the internal conditions that are likely to encourage sustainable innovation, as well as what a culture of innovation should look like.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

274

Publisher

Springer

Published Date

ISBN 10

1137560983

ISBN 13

9781137560988

The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft Vol. XXXI History of Washington, Idaho, and Montana 1845-1889

Vol. 31

By: Hubert Howe Bancroft

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft Vol. XXXI History of Washington, Idaho, and Montana 1845-1889

Vol. 31

By: Hubert Howe Bancroft

Reprint of the original, first published in 1890.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

865

Publisher

BoD – Books on Demand

Published Date

ISBN 10

3385412536

ISBN 13

9783385412538

Book's by Hubert Mitchell

All Things Shining

All Things Shining

The Politics of School Choice

The Politics of School Choice

Hawk's Nest

Hawk's Nest

The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. History of California

The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. History of California

History of the Pacific States of North America

History of the Pacific States of North America

A Buchan Boy

A Buchan Boy

Peter Taylor

Peter Taylor

PILOT HERE OR PILE IT THERE

PILOT HERE OR PILE IT THERE

Making Innovation Last: Volume 1

Making Innovation Last: Volume 1

The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft Vol. XXXI History of Washington, Idaho, and Montana 1845-1889

The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft Vol. XXXI History of Washington, Idaho, and Montana 1845-1889

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email