The Freedom to Read PDF Download

Author: Catherine M. Parisian
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027103713X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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The First White House Library is the first book to consider the history of books and reading in the Executive Mansion.

Author: American Library Association
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 16

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Author: Harry Bernstein
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512814369
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author: Eliza Smith
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1449428258
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 239

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First published in England, this kitchen reference became available to colonial American housewives when it was printed in Williamsburg, Virginia is 1742. Originally published in London in 1727, The Compleat Housewife was the first cookbook printed in the United States. William Parks, a Virginia printer, printed and sold the cookbook believing there would be a strong market for it among Virginia housewives who wanted to keep up with the latest London fashions—the book was a best-seller there. Parks did make some attempt to Americanize it, deleting certain recipes “the ingredients or material for which are not to be had in this country,” but for the most part, the book was not adjusted to American kitchens. Even so, it became the first cookery best seller in the New World, and Parks’s major book publication. Author Eliza Smith described her book on the title page as “Being a collection of several hundred approved receipts, in cookery, pastry, confectionery, preserving, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made wines, cordials. And also bills of fare for every month of the year. To which is added, a collection of nearly two hundred family receipts of medicines; viz. drinks, syrups, salves, ointments, and many other things of sovereign and approved efficacy in most distempers, pains, aches, wounds, sores, etc. never before made publick in these parts; fit either for private families, or such public-spirited gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor neighbours.” The recipes are easy to understand and cover everything from 50 recipes for pickling everything from nasturtium buds to pigeons to “lifting a swan, breaking a deer, and splating a pike,” indicating the importance of understanding how to prepare English game. The book also includes diagrams for positioning serving dishes to create an attractive table display.

Author: American Library Association. Conference
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Category : Library science
Languages : en
Pages : 1008

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Author: American Library Association
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Category : Library science
Languages : en
Pages : 518

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 614

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Author: Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 852

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Author: Melvil Dewey
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 836

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Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.

Author: United States. Advisory Commission on Educational Exchange
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Category : Educational exchanges
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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