Featherweight

Author : Nancy Johnson-Srebro
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-05
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781607053798

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Featherweight 221 by Nancy Johnson-Srebro Pdf

A comprehensive history of the treasured Singer sewing machine from the author of Big Block One-Star Quilts by Magic. Enjoy an entertaining look at the history of the Featherweight sewing machine with this expanded third edition updated with the latest research. It’s packed with photos, stories, and handy information, like how to date and troubleshoot your machine. It’s a fun read for quilters, Featherweight owners, and history buffs.

Author : Mick Kitson
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781838851934

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Featherweight by Mick Kitson Pdf

'A gleeful, page-flipping read' Observer 'The ultimate summer escape' New York Times One wrong move, one misstep, and the course of a life can be changed for ever. Annie Perry is born beside the coal-muddied canals of the Black Country at the height of the industrial revolution. At nine years old she is sold for six guineas to the famous and feared bare-knuckle boxer Bill Perry, the Tipton Slasher. From that moment on, Annie will fight – for Bill and for her future. A whole new world opens up to Annie, one of love, fortune and family, but also of great danger.

Author : Darrel P. Kaiser
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780615248516

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Before the Featherweight - Sewhandy Volume 1 History by Darrel P. Kaiser Pdf

The reason for this book was the recurring gossip and speculation that the Standard Sewhandy machine was the basis of the SINGER 221 Featherweight. After many months of research, I realized that documenting the Sewhandy would take more than 500 pages; I have published before the Featherweight - Sewhandy in two volumes. This book, Volume 1, details before the design (early 1920's) thru production end (late 1938) of the Sewhandy, patents, model identification, Sewhandy ads and brochures, & an OSANN SINGER Sewhandy versus SINGER Featherweight sew-off.The companion book, Volume 2, covers maintenance & repair of all Sewhandy models, mechanical and electrical operation, advice on buying, restoring, shipping, parts, model identification, & a specification comparison of an OSANN SINGER Sewhandy with a SINGER 221 Featherweight. For more on the STANDARD Sewhandy - GE MODEL A sewing machines, visit www.SewhandySewingMachine.com . For more on all of my other books, visit www.DarrelKaiserBooks.com

Author : Mac McCarthy,Henry McCarthy
Publisher : WoodenBoat Books
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0937822396

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Featherweight Boatbuilding by Mac McCarthy,Henry McCarthy Pdf

Using the Wee Lassie as an example, the author opens your eyes to the natural beauty around you. A practical and beautiful craft, this lightweight and strong double-paddle canoe will carry you to waterways that are inaccessible in most boats.

Author : Oliver Herwig
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015058725600

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Featherweights by Oliver Herwig Pdf

From Bruno Taut's glass house to the Crystal Palace, geodesic domes to the Millennium Dome, this lavishly illustrated exploration of lightness in architecture explains how and why the movement began, and shows where it will take us in the future. Architecture has been moving towards lightness since the beginning of the twentieth century. As new building materials become available, and as land disappears, architects have focused on efficiency, impermanence and flexibility in structures. Illustrating the achievements of the most visionary architects of the past and present, Featherweights traces the evolution of lightness in architecture from the fantastic glass structures of the early twentieth century to the latest hi-tech materials for the third millennium. Covering everything from pre-fab houses to inflatable buildings, utopian architecture to virtual cities, this fascinating exploration illustrates the ongoing dialogue between shelter and society and offers exciting glimpses into a future in which gravity is optional.

Author : Bill Mallon,Ian Buchanan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476609522

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The 1908 Olympic Games by Bill Mallon,Ian Buchanan Pdf

The 1908 Olympic Games were controversial. There was almost constant bickering among the American team and the British officials. Because of the controversies, the 1908 Olympics have been termed “The Battle of Shepherd’s Bush,” referring to the site of the Olympic Stadium. Reports of the 1908 Olympics have been rare and do not for instance contain full results for archery, track and field athletics, football (soccer), gymnastics, motorboating and shooting. A great deal of new information has been discovered by the authors, and this work gives complete results for all events. The information presented is based primarily on 1908 sources. For the first time, definitive word on the sites, dates, events, competitors, and nations as well as the event results are available for all of the 1908 Olympic events, including boxing, cycling, diving, fencing, field hockey, lacrosse, polo, raquets, swimming, lawn tennis, tug-of-war, weightlifting, wrestling and yachting, among other sports. A series of appendices include rarely seen information about the many controversies surrounding the Games.

Author : Botchway, De-Valera NYM
Publisher : NISC (Pty) Ltd
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781920033569

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Boxing is no Cakewalk! by Botchway, De-Valera NYM Pdf

Boxing is no cakewalk! Azumah ‘Ring Professor’ Nelson in the Social History of Ghanaian Boxingexplores the social history of boxing in Ghana and its interesting nexus with the biography of Azumah Nelson, unquestionably Ghana’s most celebrated boxer. The book posits that sports constitute more than mere games that people play. They are endowed with enormous political, cultural, economic and social power that can influence people’s lives in various ways. Boxing is no cakewalk! interrogates the social meaning and impact of boxing within the colonial and postcolonial milieux of popular culture in Ghana. Consequently, it reconsiders the prevailing conception of boxing as adversative to ‘enlightened’ human culture by arguing that it is a positive formulator of individual and national identities. The historicising of sports and the lives of sportspersons in Ghana provides an eloquent backdrop for an understanding of the past social dynamics and their effect in the present. The book’s analytical narrative offers an intellectual contribution to the promising areas of social and cultural history in Ghana’s historiography and the scholarly discourse on identity formation and social empowerment through the popular culture of sports.

Author : John Brady
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Music
ISBN : HARVARD:ML1G69

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Mrs. Featherweight's Musical Moments by John Brady Pdf

Author : Peter Hunn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Spark ignition engines
ISBN : 1610592174

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The Small-Engine Handbook by Peter Hunn Pdf

Peter Hunn. It's common for homeowners to have 2- or 4-cycle small engines in their lawn and garden equipment, utility vehicles, recreational vehicles, generators and other machines. With this easy-to-follow, richly illustrated handbook, homeowners will be able to understanding small engines, troubleshooting them and working on them. The book has a brief history of significant and popular small engines and a guide to setting up a home workshop in which to work on them. It also includes case studies on the disassembly, maintenance, repair and/or rebuilding of: a 2-stroke lawnmower engine, a 4-stroke utility motor, a 2-stroke chainsaw engine, and a curbside junker. The writing is lively and entertaining and the color photos clearly show how to work on these useful engines.

Author : John Grasso
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780810878679

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Historical Dictionary of Boxing by John Grasso Pdf

Boxing is one of the oldest sports in the world, reaching back to the Ancient Greeks, although it has become popular only in the past century or so. But, in some ways, it is a rather complicated sport since – to avoid unnecessary harm – it has been endowed with rules to keep it clean, referees to see the rules are obeyed, and organizations to regulate the sport. Boxing was once largely amateur, although the professional bouts attracted the most attention, but now it is also an Olympic sport. And, over the years, there has been one champion after another who symbolized what boxing was all about, such Joe Louis, Mohammad Ali and Cassius Clay. Naturally, these champions are the focus of the Historical Dictionary of Boxing as well, and they have the biggest entries in the dictionary section, but they had to fight against someone and there are dozens and dozens of other boxers with smaller entries. More of these boxers come from the United States than elsewhere, but there are others from Europe, Asia and Latin America, and there are also entries on the major boxing countries as well. Plus entries on the rules, on the organizations, and on the technical terminology and jargon you have to know just to follow the bouts. The introduction provides a broad view of boxing’s history while the chronology traces events from 688 B.C. to 2012 A.D. Not all that much has been written on boxing that is not ephemeral, but much of that literature can be found in the bibliography. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the sport of boxing.

Author : Colleen Aycock,Mark Scott
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786449910

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The First Black Boxing Champions by Colleen Aycock,Mark Scott Pdf

This volume presents fifteen chapters of biography of African American and black champions and challengers of the early prize ring. They range from Tom Molineaux, a slave who won freedom and fame in the ring in the early 1800s; to Joe Gans, the first African American world champion; to the flamboyant Jack Johnson, deemed such a threat to white society that film of his defeat of former champion and "Great White Hope" Jim Jeffries was banned across much of the country. Photographs, period drawings, cartoons, and fight posters enhance the biographies. Round-by-round coverage of select historic fights is included, as is a foreword by Hall-of-Fame boxing announcer Al Bernstein.

Author : Bert Randolph Sugar
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781461749813

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Boxing's Greatest Fighters by Bert Randolph Sugar Pdf

Easily the most enduring of all sports questions is "Who was/is the best . . . ?" Perhaps in no sport is the question more asked and argued over than in boxing. And in boxing perhaps none is more qualified to answer the question than Bert Randolph Sugar. In Boxing's Greatest Fighters, not only does the former publisher of Ring Magazine tell us who the best fighters were, he lists them in order. Could Sugar Ray Robinson have beaten Muhammad Ali? Could Sugar Ray Leonard have beaten Sonny Liston? The answer, most experts agree, would be "no." But what if, as Bert Sugar has done here, one were to take all the boxers and reduce them in the mind's eye to the same height, the same weight, and the same ring conditions? The answers would be quite different. And while some fans may express outrage that Rocky Marciano barely makes the top twenty, and Marvin Hagler staggers into the top seventy-five, others will nod eagerly when they read that Harry Greb and Benny Leonard were better than just about anybody. So whether you read Boxing's Greatest Fighters cover to cover, pick your favorites at random, or simply browse through the many rare photographs, "at the bell, come out arguing."

Author : Mark Allen Baker
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476685526

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Willie Pep by Mark Allen Baker Pdf

Among the best pound-for-pound fighters of all time, Willie Pep (1922-2006) was a virtuoso of the squared circle. A two-time World Featherweight Champion, his International Boxing Hall of Fame professional record stands at 230 wins, 11 losses and one draw, with 65 knockouts and two winning streaks of more than 62 victories--each longer than most modern fighters' careers. During his 26 years in the ring, he appeared on cards with everyone from Fritzie Zivic to Joe Frazier. A scientific boxer with balletic defensive skills and a stiff jab, Pep--known as "Will o' the Wisp"--so masterfully evaded his opponents, one remarked it was like battling a man in a room full of mirrors. This book covers his remarkable career, with highlights of each bout.

Author : Harry Mullan,Bob Mee
Publisher : Carlton Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1847326188

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The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Boxing by Harry Mullan,Bob Mee Pdf

From the earliest days of 19th-century prize-fighters to the modern era, this book highlights the great names and stories of some of the worlds most recognizable characters, such as Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, and Roy Jones.

Author : Bo Brumble
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781662431524

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When Boxing Mattered by Bo Brumble Pdf

When Boxing Mattered is a fact-based history of boxing covering the classic era from 1880 to 1980. Beginning with John L. Sullivan and the bare-knuckle beginnings of the modern sport, the author takes the reader through all the greats, and some of the not-so-greats, who make up the fascinating history of professional boxing. The book utilizes a decade-by-decade approach, focusing on the original eight weight divisions. All-timers Jack Johnson, Stanley Ketchel, Joe Gans, Barbados Joe Walcott, Jack Dempsey, Willie Pep, Sugar Ray Robinson, Rocky Marciano, Panama Al Brown, Archie Moore, and Muhammad Ali as well as many, many more are covered in detail, aided by historical photographs. The author also takes on the various sanctioning bodies that govern professional boxing and whom he feels have had a largely negative influence on the Sweet Science.