Belles On Their Toes

Author : Frank B. Gilbreth,Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781480457089

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Belles on Their Toes by Frank B. Gilbreth,Ernestine Gilbreth Carey Pdf

In this delightful memoir by the authors of Cheaper by the Dozen, the twelve Gilbreth children cope with the loss of their father as they grow up together. With twelve kids, life at the Gilbreth house has always been a big project. But after their father passes away, there are more challenges than ever. And yet, with the irrepressible blend of humor and good cheer characteristic of one of the most beloved families in America, the Gilbreths happily rise to every occasion and find a way to keep it all together. With the clan struggling to make ends meet, everyone has to pitch in. As their resourceful mother works to keep the family business running without Dad, the kids tackle the adventures of raising themselves and running a household. Their attempts to pinch pennies frequently result in chaos. From tragedy and the trials of the first year as a single-parent household to the daily crises of a family with a double-digit headcount, the episodes in Belles on Their Toes are poignant, inspiring, and hilarious. “From start to finish, it is a reading joy,” raved the Chicago Sunday Tribune. “There is a sincere and heartwarming atmosphere in this second volume,” wrote Library Journal, “that makes it almost better reading, if possible, than the first.” This ebook features an illustrated biography including rare photos from the authors’ estates.

Author : Frank Bunker Gilbreth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0844094730

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Belles on Their Toes by Frank Bunker Gilbreth Pdf

Author : Frank B. Gilbreth,Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781504053891

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Cheaper by the Dozen and Belles on Their Toes by Frank B. Gilbreth,Ernestine Gilbreth Carey Pdf

The hilarious and heartwarming #1 New York Times bestseller and its beloved sequel about a larger-than-life family with twelve kids. Cheaper by the Dozen: Made into two classic movies—one starring Clifton Webb and the other starring Steve Martin—and translated into more than fifty languages, Cheaper by the Dozen is an amusing, endearing, and unforgettable memoir of the Gilbreth clan as told by siblings Frank Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth. Mother and Dad are world-renowned efficiency experts, helping factories fine-tune their assembly lines for maximum output at minimum cost. At home, the Gilbreths themselves have cranked out twelve kids, and Dad is out to prove that efficiency principles can apply to family as well as the workplace—with riotous results. “A touching family portrait that also happens to be very, very funny.” —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Belles on Their Toes: With twelve kids, life at the Gilbreth house has always been a big project. But after their father passes away, there are more challenges than ever. As their resourceful mother works to keep the family business running, the kids tackle the adventures of raising themselves and running a household. With the irrepressible blend of humor and good cheer characteristic of one of the most beloved families in America, the Gilbreths rise to every occasion and find a way to keep it all together. Belles on Their Toes was also made into a movie with Myrna Loy and Jeanne Crain reprising their roles. “There is a sincere and heartwarming atmosphere in this second volume that makes it almost better reading, if possible, than the first.” —Library Journal

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:733692754

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Cheaper by the Dozen by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frank B. Gilbreth,Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781480457072

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Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth,Ernestine Gilbreth Carey Pdf

The #1 New York Times–bestselling classic: A hilarious memoir of two parents, twelve kids, and “a life of cheerfully controlled chaos” (The New York Times). Translated into more than fifty languages, Cheaper by the Dozen is the unforgettable story of the Gilbreth clan as told by two of its members. In this endearing, amusing memoir, siblings Frank Jr. and Ernestine capture the hilarity and heart of growing up in an oversized family. Mother and Dad are world-renowned efficiency experts, helping factories fine-tune their assembly lines for maximum output at minimum cost. At home, the Gilbreths themselves have cranked out twelve kids, and Dad is out to prove that efficiency principles can apply to family as well as the workplace. The heartwarming and comic stories of the jumbo-size Gilbreth clan have delighted generations of readers, and will keep you and yours laughing for years. This ebook features an illustrated biography including rare photos from the authors’ estates.

Author : Frank Bunker Gilbreth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035267140

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Time Out for Happiness by Frank Bunker Gilbreth Pdf

"Frank Gilbreth chronicles the extraordinary partnership of his parents, which produced not only a dozen children but landmark contributions in the field of scientific management. His story follows Lillie Gilbreth from her childhood in Oakland, California, through her commencement day speech at Berkeley (at a time when few women attended college) to the day in Boston where the slim, shy girl from the West met the big, brash, and bluster Easterner who ran a successful contracting business and dabbled in time and motion studies."--Inside flap of dust jacket.

Author : Frank Bunker Gilbreth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:24058539

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Belles on Their Toes by Frank Bunker Gilbreth Pdf

Author : Monica Kulling
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781101918432

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Spic-and-Span! by Monica Kulling Pdf

Born into a life of privilege in 1878, Lillian Moller Gilbreth put her pampered life aside for one of adventure and challenge. She and her husband, Frank, became efficiency experts by studying the actions of factory workers. They ran their home efficiently, too. When Frank suddenly died, Lillian was left to her own devices to raise their eleven children. Eventually, she was hired by the Brooklyn Borough Gas Company to improve kitchen design, which was only the beginning. Lillian Gilbreth was the subject of two movies (Cheaper by the Dozen and Belles on Their Toes), the first woman elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and the first female psychologist to have a U.S. postage stamp issued in her honor. A leading efficiency expert, she was also an industrial engineer, a psychologist, an author, a professor and an inventor.

Author : Jane Lancaster
Publisher : Northeastern University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781555538613

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Making Time by Jane Lancaster Pdf

Readers of Cheaper by the Dozen remember Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972) as the working mom who endures the antics of not only twelve children but also an engineer husband eager to experiment with the principles of efficiency -- especially on his own household. What readers today might not know is that Lillian Gilbreth was herself a high-profile engineer, and the only woman to win the coveted Hoover Medal for engineers. She traveled the world, served as an advisor on women's issues to five U.S. presidents, and mingled with the likes of Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart. Her husband, Frank Gilbreth, died after twenty years of marriage, leaving her to raise their eleven surviving children, all under the age of nineteen. She continued her career and put each child through college. Retiring at the age of ninety, Lillian Gilbreth was the working mother who "did it all." Jane Lancaster's spirited and richly detailed biography tells Lillian Gilbreth's life story-one that resonates with issues faced today by many working women. Lancaster confronts the complexities of how one of the twentieth century's foremost career women could be pregnant, nursing, or caring for children for more than three decades. Yet we see how Gilbreth's engineering work dovetailed with her family life in the professional and domestic partnership that she forged with her husband and in her long solo career. The innovators behind many labor-saving devices and procedures used in factories, offices, and kitchens, the Gilbreths tackled the problem of efficiency through motion study. To this Lillian added a psychological dimension, with empathy toward the worker. The couple's expertise also yielded the "Gilbreth family system," a model that allowed the mother to be professionally active if she chose, while the parents worked together to raise responsible citizens. Lancaster has woven into her narrative many insights gleaned from interviews with the surviving Gilbreth children and from historical research into such topics as technology, family, work, and feminism. Filled with anecdotes, this definitive biography of Lillian Gilbreth will engage readers intrigued by one of America's most famous families and by one of the nation's most successful women.

Author : Lucy Wood
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408816851

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Diving Belles by Lucy Wood Pdf

Straying husbands lured into the sea can be fetched back, for a fee. Magpies whisper to lonely drivers late at night. Trees can makewishes come true - provided you know how to wish properly first. Houses creak, fill with water and keep a fretful watch on their inhabitants, straighteningshower curtains and worrying about frayed carpets.

Author : Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Publisher : Inst of Industrial Engineers
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0898061865

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As I Remember by Lillian Moller Gilbreth Pdf

Reminiscences of Lillian Gilbreth, co-author of Cheaper by the Dozen and recipient of honors and awards which are listed at the end of the book along with academic degrees, memberships, and books and articles she authored.

Author : Frank Bunker. Gilbreth (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:733674351

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Belles on Their Toes by Frank Bunker. Gilbreth (Jr.) Pdf

Author : Rose Milligan
Publisher : Souvenir Press
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781800814875

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Dust If You Must by Rose Milligan Pdf

A classic poem with a timeless message, presented in a small and beautiful gift book. Rose Milligan never intended to publicly share her poem 'Dust If You Must', but a series of events led her to publish it in The Lady magazine in 1998. Her charming message about what we value in life resonated with audiences, and it has since been read on BBC radio, posted on Instagram, printed on tea towels, read at funerals and put to music. Now appearing as a book for the first time, beautifully illustrated throughout by illustrator Hayley Wells, Dust If You Must is a timeless reminder to focus on the things we can enjoy in the world, rather than the things we think we need to do.

Author : Candace Fleming
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780307980212

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Amelia Lost by Candace Fleming Pdf

From the acclaimed author of The Great and Only Barnum—as well as The Lincolns, Our Eleanor, and Ben Franklin's Almanac—comes the thrilling story of America's most celebrated flyer, Amelia Earhart. In alternating chapters, Fleming deftly moves readers back and forth between Amelia's life (from childhood up until her last flight) and the exhaustive search for her and her missing plane. With incredible photos, maps, and handwritten notes from Amelia herself—plus informative sidebars tackling everything from the history of flight to what Amelia liked to eat while flying (tomato soup)—this unique nonfiction title is tailor-made for middle graders. Amelia Lost received four starred reviews and Best Book of the Year accolades from School Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Horn Book Magazine, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.

Author : Julie Des Jardins
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813347646

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Lillian Gilbreth by Julie Des Jardins Pdf

Lillian Gilbreth is a stunning example of female ingenuity in the early twentieth century. At a time when women were standard fixtures in the home and barely accepted in many professions, Gilbreth excelled in both spheres, concurrently winning honors as “Engineer of the Year” and “Mother of the Year.” This accessible, engaging introduction to the life of Lillian Gilbreth examines her pivotal role in establishing the discipline of industrial psychology, her work as an engineer of domestic management and home economics, and her role as mother of twelve children—made famous by the book, and later movie, Cheaper by the Dozen. This book examines the life of an exceptional woman who was able to negotiate the divide between the public and domestic spheres and define it on her terms. About the Lives of American Women series: Selected and edited by renowned women's historian Carol Berkin, these brief biographies are designed for use in undergraduate courses. Rather than a comprehensive approach, each biography focuses instead on a particular aspect of a women's life that is emblematic of her time, or which made her a pivotal figure in the era. The emphasis is on a “good read,” featuring accessible writing and compelling narratives, without sacrificing sound scholarship and academic integrity. Primary sources at the end of each biography reveal the subject's perspective in her own words. Study questions and an annotated bibliography support the student reader.