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Early Modern Maritime Recipes

Circulating Knowledge in the Atlantic World

by Lyn Bennett, Edith Snook ...

Describing how to pickle beef, make a low-cost substitution for sugar, waterproof a coat, or treat kidney stones, eighteenth-century settler recipes recorded a wide range of processes essential to daily life. Early Modern Maritime Recipes offers a compendium of culinary, medicinal, and domestic recipes from before 1800 that point to the many ways knowledge was preserved and circulated in the ... Read more

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Describing how to pickle beef, make a low-cost substitution for sugar, waterproof a coat, or treat kidney stones, eighteenth-century settler recipes recorded a wide range of processes essential to daily life. Early Modern Maritime Recipes offers a compendium of culinary, medicinal, and domestic recipes from before 1800 that point to the many ways knowledge was preserved and circulated in the
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Rhetoric, Medicine, and the Woman Writer, 1600–1700

by Lyn Bennett ...

How did physicians come to dominate the medical profession? Lyn Bennett challenges the seemingly self-evident belief that scientific competence accounts for physicians' dominance. Instead, she argues that the whole enterprise of learned medicine was, in large measure, facilitated by an intensely classical education that included extensive training in rhetoric, and that this rhetorical training is ... Read more

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How did physicians come to dominate the medical profession? Lyn Bennett challenges the seemingly self-evident belief that scientific competence accounts for physicians' dominance. Instead, she argues that the whole enterprise of learned medicine was, in large measure, facilitated by an intensely classical education that included extensive training in rhetoric, and that this rhetorical training is
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The Perfect Fence

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by Lyn Ellen Bennett, Scott Abbott ...

Series series Connecting the Greater West Series
Barbed wire is made of two strands of galvanized steel wire twisted together for strength and to hold sharp barbs in place. As creative advertisers sought ways to make an inherently dangerous product attractive to customers concerned about the welfare of their livestock, and as barbed wire became commonplace on battlefields and in concentration camps, the fence accrued a fascinating and troubling ... Read more

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Barbed wire is made of two strands of galvanized steel wire twisted together for strength and to hold sharp barbs in place. As creative advertisers sought ways to make an inherently dangerous product attractive to customers concerned about the welfare of their livestock, and as barbed wire became commonplace on battlefields and in concentration camps, the fence accrued a fascinating and troubling
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Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors

Edith Wharton and Material Culture

by Jamie Barlowe, Jacqueline Wilson-Jordan, Karin Roffman, J. Michael Duvall, Linda S. Watts, Deborah Zak, Lyn Bennett, Jennifer Shepherd, Carol Sapora, Dr. Emily J. Orlando ...

Series series Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
In Edith Wharton’s works, references to architecture, interior decoration, painting, sculpture, and fashion abound. As these essays demonstrate, art and objects are for Wharton evidence of cultural belief and reflect the values, assumptions, and customs of the burgeoning consumer culture in which she lived and about which she wrote. Furthermore, her meditations about issues of architecture, design ... Read more

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In Edith Wharton’s works, references to architecture, interior decoration, painting, sculpture, and fashion abound. As these essays demonstrate, art and objects are for Wharton evidence of cultural belief and reflect the values, assumptions, and customs of the burgeoning consumer culture in which she lived and about which she wrote. Furthermore, her meditations about issues of architecture, design
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Jackie Spade

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What is Jackie Spade about? It's about a girl who tries and succeeds at almost everything, but despite her success, she fails to know where she belongs. Jackie Spade is a collection of memories and lessons that girl learned through being a Jack of all trades with no place to call home. ... Read more

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What is Jackie Spade about? It's about a girl who tries and succeeds at almost everything, but despite her success, she fails to know where she belongs. Jackie Spade is a collection of memories and lessons that girl learned through being a Jack of all trades with no place to call home.
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Little Women - Unabridged with the original illustrations by Frank T. Merrill (200 illustrations)

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This carefully crafted ebook: “Little Women - Unabridged with the original illustrations by Frank T. Merrill (200 illustrations)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This edition is unabridged and includes the original illustrations by Frank T. Merrill.Little Women is a novel by Louisa May Alcott, published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. The novel ... Read more

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This carefully crafted ebook: “Little Women - Unabridged with the original illustrations by Frank T. Merrill (200 illustrations)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This edition is unabridged and includes the original illustrations by Frank T. Merrill.Little Women is a novel by Louisa May Alcott, published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. The novel
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The Notebooks of Leonardo Davinci

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The Notebooks of Leonardo Davinci. Widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. Leonardo Davinci was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, ... Read more

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The Notebooks of Leonardo Davinci. Widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. Leonardo Davinci was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history,
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Rilla of Ingleside

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Rilla of Ingleside is the eighth and final entry in L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series, which has charmed audiences for nearly a century. This concluding volume focuses on Rilla, Anne Shirley's youngest daughter. Set in the midst of World War I, the novel intersperses the interludes of quaint village life that set the tone for most of the series with more serious passages detailing the ... Read more

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Rilla of Ingleside is the eighth and final entry in L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series, which has charmed audiences for nearly a century. This concluding volume focuses on Rilla, Anne Shirley's youngest daughter. Set in the midst of World War I, the novel intersperses the interludes of quaint village life that set the tone for most of the series with more serious passages detailing the
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Pride and Prejudice

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IllustrationsFree Audiobook LinksPride And Prejudice, the story of Mrs. Bennet's attempts to marry off her five daughters is one of the best-loved and most enduring classics in English literature. Excitement fizzes through the Bennet household at Longbourn in Hertfordshire when young, eligible Mr. Charles Bingley rents the fine house nearby. He may have sisters, but he also has male friends, and ... Read more

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Wyatt Earp

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This acclaimed biography separates history from myth to reveal the man behind the enduring Western legend.In popular culture, Wyatt Earp is the hero of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, and a beacon of rough cowboy justice in the tumultuous American West. The subject of dozens of films, he has been invoked in battles against everything from organized crime in the 1930s to al ... Read more

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This acclaimed biography separates history from myth to reveal the man behind the enduring Western legend.In popular culture, Wyatt Earp is the hero of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, and a beacon of rough cowboy justice in the tumultuous American West. The subject of dozens of films, he has been invoked in battles against everything from organized crime in the 1930s to al
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Agatha Christie

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A Chautauqua Idyl

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A Chautauqua Idyl by Grace Livingston HillDown in a rocky pasture, on the edge of a wood, ran a little brook, tinkle, tinkle, over the bright pebbles of its bed. Close to the waters edge grew delicate ferns, and higher up the mossy bank nestled violets, blue and white and yellow.Later in the fall the rocky pasture would glow with golden-rod and brilliant sumach, and ripe milk-weed pods would burst ... Read more

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