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  • Before the Refrigerator

    How We Used to Get Ice

    by Jonathan Rees ...
    Series series How Things Worked
    A historical study of how increased access to ice—decades before refrigeration—transformed American life.During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans depended upon ice to stay cool and to keep their perishable foods fresh. Jonathan Rees tells the fascinating story of how people got ice before mechanical refrigeration came to the household. Drawing on newspapers, trade ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Witcraft

    The Invention of Philosophy in English

    by Jonathan Rée ...
    An ambitious new history of philosophy in English that broadens the canon to include many lesser-known figuresLudwig Wittgenstein once wrote that “philosophy should be written like poetry.” But philosophy has often been presented more prosaically as a long trudge through canonical authors and great works. But what, Jonathan Rée asks, if we instead saw the history of philosophy as a haphazard ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Witcraft

    The Invention of Philosophy in English

    by Jonathan Rée ...
    'Astonishing ... enjoy its riches slowly, and savour every generous, erudite and undogmatic page' Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times'We English men have wits,' wrote the clergyman Ralph Lever in 1573, and, 'we have also framed unto ourselves a language.'Witcraft is a fresh and brilliant history of how philosophy became established in English. It presents a new form of philosophical storytelling and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Great Philosophers:Heidegger

    by Jonathan Rée ...
    'The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking' Heidegger'We should never allow our fears of the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny'Martin Heidegger was one of the most controversial philosophers of the 20th century, and still causes widespread division. Born in Germany, he was concerned with what makes beings intelligible ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Chemistry of Fear

    Harvey Wiley's Fight for Pure Food

    by Jonathan Rees ...
    A fascinating examination of the controversial work of Harvey Wiley, the founder of the pure food movement and an early crusader against the use of additives and preservatives in food.Though trained as a medical doctor, chemist Harvey Wiley spent most of his professional life advocating for "pure food"—food free of both adulterants and preservatives. A strong proponent of the Pure Food and Drug ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Industrialization and the Transformation of American Life: A Brief Introduction

    A Brief Introduction

    by Jonathan Rees ...
    This book provides a descriptive, episodic yet analytical synthesis of industrialization in America. It integrates analysis of the profound economic and social changes taking place during the period between 1877 and the start of the Great Depression. The text is supported by 30 case studies to illustrate the underlying principles of industrialization that cumulatively convey a comprehensive ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Refrigeration Nation

    A History of Ice, Appliances, and Enterprise in America

    by Jonathan Rees ...
    Series series Studies in Industry and Society
    How we keep food cold while the house stays warm.Only when the power goes off and food spoils do we truly appreciate how much we rely on refrigerators and freezers. In Refrigeration Nation, Jonathan Rees explores the innovative methods and gadgets that Americans have invented to keep perishable food cold—from cutting river and lake ice and shipping it to consumers for use in their iceboxes to the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Food Adulteration and Food Fraud

    by Jonathan Rees ...
    Series series Food Controversies
    What do we really know about the food we eat? A firestorm of recent food-fraud cases – from the honey-laundering scandal in the USA, to the forty-year-old frozen ‘zombie’ meat smuggled into China, to horsemeat passed off as beef in the UK – suggests fraudulent and intentional acts of food adulteration are on the rise.Jonathan Rees examines the complex causes and surprising effects of adulteration ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Representation and Rebellion

    The Rockefeller Plan at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, 1914-1942

    by Jonathan H. Rees ...
    In response to the tragedy of the Ludlow Massacre, John D. Rockefeller Jr. introduced one of the nation’s first employee representation plans (ERPs) to the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company in 1915. With the advice of William Mackenzie King, who would go on to become prime minister of Canada, the plan—which came to be known as the Rockefeller Plan—was in use until 1942 and became the model for ERPs ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • A Schoolmaster's War

    Harry Ree - A British Agent in the French Resistance

    by Jonathan Ree ...
    The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Rée, told in his own wordsA school teacher at the start of the war, Harry Rée renounced his former pacifism with the fall of France in 1940. He was deployed into a secret branch of the British army and parachuted into central France in April 1943.Harry showed a particular talent for winning the confidence of local resisters, and guided them ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • A Schoolmaster's War

    Harry Ree - A British Agent in the French Resistance

    by Jonathan Ree ...
    The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Rée, told in his own wordsA school teacher at the start of the war, Harry Rée renounced his former pacifism with the fall of France in 1940. He was deployed into a secret branch of the British army and parachuted into central France in April 1943.Harry showed a particular talent for winning the confidence of local resisters, and guided them ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Fulton Fish Market

    A History

    by Jonathan H. Rees ...
    Series series Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
    The Fulton Fish Market stands out as an iconic New York institution. At first a neighborhood retail market for many different kinds of food, it became the nation’s largest fish and seafood wholesaling center by the late nineteenth century. Waves of immigrants worked at the Fulton Fish Market and then introduced the rest of the city to their seafood traditions. In popular culture, the market ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD