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9 produkter
Her Turn
A Novel
E-bok, 2021
116 kr
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A delightful debut novel in the vein of Younger and The Unbreakables, with a hint of Nora Ephron, about a journalist who stumbles into an unusual relationship with the woman married to her former husband. A journalist in Washington, DC, Liz has turned lemons into lemonade after her husband walked …
Dirt on Clean
An Unsanitized History
E-bok, 2010
224 kr
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For the first-century Roman, being clean meant a public two-hour soak in baths of various temperatures, a scraping of the body with a miniature rake, and a final application of oil. For the seventeenth-century aristocratic Frenchman, it meant changing his shirt once a day, using perfume to …
Going to Town
Architectural Walking Tours in Southern Ontario
E-bok, 2012
253 kr
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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 …
Clean
An Unsanitised History of Washing
E-bok, 2011
147 kr
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''I return to Paris in five days. Stop washing.'' So wrote Napoleon to Josephine in an age when body odour was considered an aphrodisiac. In stark contrast, the Romans used to bath for hours each day. Ashenburg''s investigation of history''s ambivalence towards personal hygiene takes her through …
