Books by "John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation"
6 books found
This definitive portrait of one of America's wealthiest, most influential dynasties traces their dynamic and often tragic lives. 'The Guggenheims': Meyer Guggenheim, the penniless immigrant whose genius for business and penchant for taking risks made the family fortune; Solomon Guggenheim, the pioneer art patron who commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to build the revolutionary piece of modern architecture, The Guggenheim Museum, opening the doors of contemporary art to America; Peggy Guggenheim, self-styled 'first liberated woman' who built a Venetian palace for her art but lost both her daughter and her lover to suicide; Daniel & Harry Guggenheim, whose financial interest in rocket science supported the Apollo moon landing and the growth of America's modern space program; Roger W Straus Jr, grandson of Daniel Guggenheim, who became America's foremost literary publisher, bringing numerous Nobel Prize Winning authors to the world's bookshelves. Updated with the latest from the heirs to the Guggenheim dynasty and illustrated throughout with rare family photos, John Davis has chronicled the saga of one of America's first families of philanthropy.
The Deaf and the Hard-of-hearing in the Occupational World
by Alice Barrows, Elise Henrietta Martens, Ella Burgess Ratcliffe, John Hamilton McNeely, Katherine Margaret (O'Brien) Cook, Severin Kazimierz Turosienski, United States. Office of Education, United States. Office of education. Committee on youth problems
1936
Individual Guidance in a C C C Camp
by Alice Barrows, Effie Geneva Bathurst, Elise Henrietta Martens, Fred Moore, Isaiah Bowman, John Hamilton McNeely, John Ward Studebaker, Kirkland Sloper, Severin Kazimierz Turosienski, Chester Sidney Williams
1939
Examines English funeral elegies and how they contributed to the birth of Romanticism.
Introduction to Genetic Analysis, Digital Update
by Anthony J.F. Griffiths, John Doebley, Catherine Peichel, David A. Wassarman
2024 · Macmillan Higher Education
Exploring the world of genetic research, from the foundations of Mendelian genetics to todays latest findings and applications, Introduction to Genetic Analysis gives you a variety of ways to learn and understand genetics.