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“john e crowley”

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  • The Invention of Comfort

    Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America

    by John E. Crowley ...
    A history and analysis of the development of domestic design in early modern Britain and America.How did our modern ideas of physical well-being originate? As John Crowley demonstrates in The Invention of Comfort, changes in sensible technology owed a great deal to fashion-conscious elites discovering discomfort in surroundings they earlier had felt to be satisfactory.Written in an engaging style ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Invention of Comfort

    Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America

    by John E. Crowley ...
    How did our modern ideas of physical well-being originate? As John Crowley demonstrates in The Invention of Comfort, changes in sensible technology owed a great deal to fashion-conscious elites discovering discomfort in surroundings they earlier had felt to be satisfactory.Written in an engaging style that will appeal to historians and material culture specialists as well as to general readers, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • At Home

    A Short History of Private Life

    by Bill Bryson ...
    A fascinating work of what you might call domestic science: our homes, how they work, and the fascinating history of how they got that way.Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as found in ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • At Day's Close: Night in Times Past

    Night in Times Past

    by A. Roger Ekirch ...
    "Remarkable….Ekirch has emptied night's pockets, and laid the contents out before us."—Arthur Krystal, The New YorkerBringing light to the shadows of history through a "rich weave of citation and archival evidence" (Publishers Weekly), scholar A. Roger Ekirch illuminates the aspects of life most often overlooked by other historians—those that unfold at night. In this "triumph of social history" ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • The Culture of Cities

    by Lewis Mumford ...
    Series Book 19 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    A classic work advocating ecological urban planning—from a civic visionary and former architecture critic for the New Yorker.Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford—a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker—The Culture of Cities is a call for communal action to "rebuild the urban world on a sounder human ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • At Home

    A Short History of Private Life Illustrated Edition

    by Bill Bryson ...
    Bill Bryson has one of the liveliest, most inquisitive minds on the planet, and At Home is likely to become the most illuminating book on the way we lived then and live now--the why and the where and the how of it--ever written.Now, in this handsome new edition, his sparkling prose will be enhanced by some 200 carefully curated full-colour images from both the past and the present. Selected from a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • In Small Things Forgotten

    An Archaeology of Early American Life

    by James Deetz ...
    A fascinating study of American life and an explanation of how American life is studied through the everyday details of ordinary living, colorfully depicting a world hundreds of years in the past.History is recorded in many ways. According to author James Deetz, the past can be seen most fully by studying the small things so often forgotten. Objects such as doorways, gravestones, musical ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Going to Town

    Architectural Walking Tours in Southern Ontario

    by Katherine Ashenburg ...
    Winner of The Ontario Historical Society’s Fred Landon Award for Best Regional History.With 300 photos and 11 maps.A work of unexpected delights and surprises: here is a one-of-a-kind guidebook that pinpoints the best of Ontario’s architectural heritage in its most charming towns, offers tantalizing and informative details of provincial history, indulges the near universal vice of real-estate ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Past Is a Foreign Country – Revisited

    by David Lowenthal ...
    The past remains essential - and inescapable. A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man's attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge, contest and domesticate the past to serve present needs. He shows how nostalgia and heritage now pervade every facet of public and popular culture. History embraces nature and the cosmos as well as humanity. ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens

    by Linda A. Chisholm ...
    “Rich with photographs and descriptions of how landscape design has shaped and reflected culture over time.” —The American GardenerThe History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens explores the defining moments in garden design. Through profiles of 100 of the most influential gardens, Linda Chisholm explores how social, political, and economic influences shaped garden design principles. The book is ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • The Radical Potter

    Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain

    by Tristram Hunt ...
    *Longlisted for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History, 2022*A spectacular biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitionist and beacon of the Industrial Revolution, from acclaimed historian and Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tristram HuntJosiah Wedgwood, perhaps the greatest English potter who ever lived, epitomized the best of his age. From his kilns and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • American Eden

    From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards: What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are

    by Wade Graham ...
    “American Eden moves luminously through landscapes of history, literature, biography, and design theory. . . . fusing sharp-edged analysis and graceful American prose.” —Kevin Starr, author of Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge“Informative and absolutely engrossing.” —Ross King, author of Brunelleschi's DomeGarden designer and historian Wade Graham offers a unique vision ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD