age ~58
from Greeley, CO
Walter Pitts (right) with Jerry Lettvin, co-author of the seminal cognitive science paper "What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain" (1959). Walter Harry Pitts, Jr. ...
This book retraces the African origins of African-American forms of worship. During a five-year period in the field, Pitts played the piano at and recorded numerous worship services in black Baptist churches throughout rural Texas. His historical comparisons and linguistic analyses of this material ...
Author
Jr. Walter F. Pitts
Binding
Paperback
Pages
216
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0195111451
EAN Code
9780195111453
ISBN #
7
What do you do when you're eleven years old, over six feet tall, and not only hate basketball? Alexander "Suitcase" Bingham really wants to know. He's sick and tired of being the last kid picked in gym class. He's sick and tired of not being the athletic son his daddy seems to want. Xander has had e...
Author
Mildred Pitts Walter
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
112
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN #
6
Ten-year-old Justin hates that his sisters and his mama are always fussing at him. They make him feel stupid because he can't clean his room or cook. But why should he? He'd rather be outside playing. After all, cooking and cleaning is just “women's work.” That's why Justin is glad when his grandfat...
Author
Mildred Pitts Walter
Binding
Paperback
Pages
144
Publisher
Amistad
ISBN #
0061958913
EAN Code
9780061958915
ISBN #
3
As a young boy born into slavery in Virginia, Alec Turner was forbidden to learn to read. Naturally he was frightened when Zephie, his owner's granddaughter, first offered to teach him, but she told him that if he learned to read, he could become a free man. As Alec mastered the alphabet from a smal...
Author
Mildred Pitts Walter
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
32
Publisher
Vermont Folklife Center
ISBN #
0916718204
EAN Code
9780916718206
ISBN #
2
A two-part chronicle of the history of African Americans in Mississippi documents the slavery, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras, as well as the civil rights movement of the 1960s, including the Freedom Summer, the murder of three civil rights workers, and more.
Author
Mildred Pitts Walter
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
205
Publisher
Bradbury Press
ISBN #
0027923010
EAN Code
9780027923018
ISBN #
10
Twelve-year-old Mariah envisions a great summer competing as a diver and planning a surprise party for her sister Lynn but half-sister Denise proves a cloud in Mariah's sunny summer.
Author
Mildred Pitts Walter
Binding
Paperback
Pages
139
Publisher
Troll Associates
ISBN #
0816732132
EAN Code
9780816732135
ISBN #
1
Suffering in a family full of females, ten-year-old Justin feels that cleaning and keeping house are women's work until he spends time on his beloved grandfather's ranch.
Author
Mildred Pitts Walter
Binding
Paperback
Pages
138
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
ISBN #
039573245X
EAN Code
9780395732458
ISBN #
9
On a hot, humdrum day Ty meets a man who, using a washboard, comb, spoons, and pail, fills that night with music.
Author
Mildred Pitts Walter
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Four Winds Press
ISBN #
0590075802
EAN Code
9780590075800
ISBN #
8