Author: Edward Neville VosePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flanders
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
The Spell of Flanders
Author: Edward Neville VosePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flanders
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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The Spell of Belgium
Author: Isabel AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Belgium
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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The Making of Home
Author: Judith FlandersPublisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
ISBN: 1782393781
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The idea that 'home' is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us today that we barely pause to think about it. But, as Judith Flanders shows in this revealing book, 'home' is a relatively new concept. When in 1900 Dorothy assured the citizens of Oz that 'There is no place like home', she was expressing a view that was a culmination of 300 years of economic, physical and emotional change. In The Making of Home, Flanders traces the evolution of the house across northern Europe and America from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century, and paints a striking picture of how the homes we know today differ from homes through history. The transformation of houses into homes, she argues, was not a private matter, but an essential ingredient in the rise of capitalism and the birth of the Industrial Revolution. Without 'home', the modern world as we know it would not exist, and as Flanders charts the development of ordinary household objects - from cutlery, chairs and curtains, to fitted kitchens, plumbing and windows - she also peels back the myths that surround some of our most basic assumptions, including our entire notion of what it is that makes a family. As full of fascinating detail as her previous bestsellers, The Making of Home is also a book teeming with original and provocative ideas.
A Place for Everything
Author: Judith FlandersPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541675061
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
From a New York Times-bestselling historian comes the story of how the alphabet ordered our world. A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of alphabetization, from the Library of Alexandria to Wikipedia. The story of alphabetical order has been shaped by some of history's most compelling characters, such as industrious and enthusiastic early adopter Samuel Pepys and dedicated alphabet champion Denis Diderot. But though even George Washington was a proponent, many others stuck to older forms of classification -- Yale listed its students by their family's social status until 1886. And yet, while the order of the alphabet now rules -- libraries, phone books, reference books, even the order of entry for the teams at the Olympic Games -- it has remained curiously invisible. With abundant inquisitiveness and wry humor, historian Judith Flanders traces the triumph of alphabetical order and offers a compendium of Western knowledge, from A to Z. A Times (UK) Best Book of 2020
The Nation
Author: The Rotarian
Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary, ed. by W.D. Whitney
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ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 908
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Author: The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary ... prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney ... rev. & enl. under the superintendence of Benjamin E. Smith
Author: Newton Free Library Bulletin
Author: Newton Free LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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