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Simple Social Graces: Recapturing the Lost Art of Gracious Victorian Living by Linda S. Lichter Simple Social Graces: Recapturing the Lost Art of Gracious Victorian Living by Linda S. Lichter PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad If you randomly stopped people on the street and asked them to assess their lives, most would wonder, "Am I happy?" A Victorian would wonder, "Am I a good person?" National pride, self-respect, hard work, self-reliance, family, neighborliness -- these ideals were the embodiment of Victorian living. At a time when the national spotlight is cast on the demise of cultural decency and the disintegration of family, Victorian scholar Linda Lichter presents an invaluable guide that demonstrates how the ideals of character and civility that formed the bedrock of community during this bygone age can breathe new life and dignity into the troubled '90s. Illustrated with period black-and-white drawings, this engaging, enlightening text explores the fascinati...

What the Apothecary Ordered: Questionable Cures Through the Ages (Old House) by Caroline Rance What the Apothecary Ordered: Questionable Cures Through the Ages (Old House) by Caroline Rance PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad This pocket handbook of medical advice draws together the most bizarre and disgusting cures recommended by healers to their patients from Ancient Greece to the twentieth century. It features such delightful treatments as gargling sugared snail juice for a sore throat (from 1920s Lincolnshire), soothing a child's teething pains with a dab of cocaine (c19th), and curing a lovesick man by dressing as a haggard version of his beloved and hurling abuse at him. Covering disease, surgery, cosmetics, keeping fit and curing madness, it offers a fascinating - and undeniably grim - view of the tortuous ways in which our ancestors tried to stay in shape. From reader reviews: Beatrice Rogers: Here thing why this kind of What the Apothecary Ordered: Questionable Cures Through the A...

Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls by Matt Ruff Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls by Matt Ruff PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad Andy Gage was born in 1965 and murdered not long after by his stepfather. . . . It was no ordinary murder. Though the torture and abuse that killed him were real, Andy Gage's death wasn't. Only his soul actually died, and when it died, it broke in pieces. Then the pieces became souls in their own right, coinheritors of Andy Gage's life. . . . While Andy deals with the outside world, more than a hundred other souls share an imaginary house inside Andy's head, struggling to maintain an orderly coexistence: Aaron, the father figure; Adam, the mischievous teenager; Jake, the frightened little boy; Aunt Sam, the artist; Seferis, the defender; and Gideon, who wants to get rid of Andy and the others and run things on his own. Andy's new coworker, Penny Driver, is also a multiple personality, a fact that Penny is only ...

Historic Preservation: Caring for Our Expanding Legacy by Michael A. Tomlan Historic Preservation: Caring for Our Expanding Legacy by Michael A. Tomlan PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad This well-illustrated book offers an up-to-date synthesis of the field of historic preservation, cast as a social campaign concerned with the condition, treatment and use of the legacy of existing properties in the United States. Drawing on a wide range of research, experience and scholarship over the last fifty years, it allows us to re-think past and current ideas in preservation, challenging readers to explore how their own interests lie within the cognitive framework of the activities taking place with people who care. “Who” is involved is explored first, in such a way as to explore “why”, before examining “what” is deemed important. After that the questions of “when” and “how” to proceed are given attention. The major topics are introduced in an historical review through the mid-1980s, after which the broad...

THE DIRE ELEGIES: 59 Poets on Endangered Species of North America by William Heyen, Maxine Kumin, W. S. Merwin, Enid Shomer, James E. Smelcer, Gary Snyder, Brian Swann, Lewis Turco THE DIRE ELEGIES: 59 Poets on Endangered Species of North America by William Heyen, Maxine Kumin, W. S. Merwin, Enid Shomer, James E. Smelcer, Gary Snyder, Brian Swann, Lewis Turco PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad Dr. Edward O. Wilson, world-renowned Harvard entomologist and two-time Pulitzer-Prize winning author, points out in the epigraph to this unique collection of poetry, "...the better an ecosystem is known, the less likely it will be destroyed."This is the premise of "THE DIRE ELEGIES: 59 Poets on Endangered Species of North America" and why author Bill McKibben says in the book's foreword, "These magnificent poems work as a chant to summon more" of the love to save the endangered from extinction. It's also why writer Susan Cerulean has called the book an "important ...

The Book of Saints by Michael Walsh The Book of Saints by Michael Walsh PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad Many of these saints have given us famous prayers or hymns: others had their own prayers and thoughts which we can share, and which can equally well be used by any Christian today. From reader reviews: Michelle Beltran: In this 21st millennium, people become competitive in every way. By being competitive currently, people have do something to make these individuals survives, being in the middle of the particular crowded place and notice by simply surrounding. One thing that oftentimes many people have underestimated the idea for a while is reading. That's why, by reading a book your ability to survive enhance then having chance to stand up than other is high. To suit your needs who want to start reading some sort of book, we give you that The Book of Saints book as nice and daily reading reserve. Why, because this book is greater than just a book. Kathryn Patterson: As people who live i...

The Public Mirror: Moliere and the Social Commerce of Depiction by Larry F. Norman The Public Mirror: Moliere and the Social Commerce of Depiction by Larry F. Norman PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad Though much beloved and widely produced, Molière's satirical comedies pose a problem for those reading or staging his works today: how can a genre associated with biting caricature and castigation deliver engaging theater? Instead of simply dismissing social satire as a foundation for Molière's theater, as many have done, Larry F. Norman takes seriously Molière's claim that his satires are first and foremost effective theater. Pairing close readings of Molière's comedies with insightful accounts of French social history and aesthetics, Norman shows how Molière conceived of satire as a "public mirror" provoking dynamic exchange and conflict with audience members obsessed with their own images. Drawing on these tensions, Molière portrays characters satirizing one anothe...