Identifying American Furniture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms, Colonial to Contemporary by Milo M. Naeve, ISBN 0393318443
Identifying American Furniture offers answers to the questions most people ask about furniture: "What style is that?" "How can you tell?" and "When was it popular?" Curators, collectors, appraisers, connoisseurs of furniture, and students of history, architecture, and the arts -- as well as those just learning the fascination of stylistic trends in American furniture -- will find this succinct handbook essential.
Styles are arranged chronologically from 1607 to the present and represent all thirty-five major furniture styles from Arts and Crafts to Windsor. Milo M. Naeve's vivid commentary draws attention to the book's 196 photographs, pinpointing distinctions among the styles. Naeve also offers an excellent guide for further reading.
China's First Hundred: Educational Mission Students in the United States, 1872-1881 by Thomas E. LaFargue, ISBN 0874220351
In 1872, 30 Chinese youths landed in San Francisco to begin a 10-year period of education in American colleges and technical institutions. Their mission, and the mission of those who followed (China's "first hundred"), was to acquire Western technical knowledge and skills and return to China as a core group of engineering experts.
China's First Hundred: Educational Mission Students in the United States, 1872-1881 by Thomas E. LaFargue, ISBN 0874220351 
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Beyond Maintenance to Mission: A Theology of the Congregation by Craig L. Nessan, ISBN 0800631528
Argues for the centrality of mission in understanding the church and provides an engaging model for a congregational leadership.
Beyond Maintenance to Mission: A Theology of the Congregation by Craig L. Nessan, ISBN 0800631528
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