Facts and Hints for Every-day Life
Author | : A. H. W. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : Home economics |
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Author | : A. H. W. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : Home economics |
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Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 187? |
Genre | : Formulas, recipes, etc |
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Author | : Joseph A. Amato |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2016-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1780236867 |
Most of the stories we tell are about great feats, dangerous journeys, or daring confrontations—exceptional moments in our existence. But what about how we live every single day? In Everyday Life, Joseph A. Amato offers an account of daily existence that reminds us how important the quotidian is. Ranging across social, economic, and cultural history—as well as anthropology, folklore, and technology—he explores how and why the pattern of our lives has changed and developed over time. Amato examines the common facts and occurrences in lives from all spheres, whether of a pauper or a noble, a criminal or state official, or a lunatic or a philosopher. Such facts include basic aspects of human existence, such as play, work, conflict, and healing, as well the logistics of survival, such as housing, clothing, cleaning, cooking, animals, plants, and machines. Tracing core historical developments like efficiency of production and greater mobility, Amato shows how we became modern in everyday ways. He explores how, paradoxically, commerce, technology, design, industrialization, nationalism, and democratization—which have so undercut traditional culture and have homogenized, centralized, and secularized masses of people—have also profoundly transformed daily life, affording citizens with materially improved lives, individual rights, and productive and rewarding expectations. A wide-ranging account of lives throughout history, this book gives us new insights into our own condition, showing us how extraordinary the ordinary can be.
Author | : Barry Wellman |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0470777389 |
The Internet in Everyday Life is the first book to systematically investigate how being online fits into people's everyday lives. Opens up a new line of inquiry into the social effects of the Internet. Focuses on how the Internet fits into everyday lives, rather than considering it as an alternate world. Chapters are contributed by leading researchers in the area. Studies are based on empirical data. Talks about the reality of being online now, not hopes or fears about the future effects of the Internet.
Author | : Marty Jopson |
Publisher | : Michael O'Mara Books |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2015-09-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1782434208 |
A fascinating and accessible guide to chemistry and physics using the everyday objects around us.
Author | : Mikael Wulff |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-11-08 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 0062486438 |
Welcome to Truth Facts, a collection of information graphics that poke fun at societal quirks and everyday absurdities through charts and graphs. Danish writer Mikael Wulff and cartoon artist Anders Morgenthaler have taken the internet by storm with their humorous and perceptive infographics that turn commonplace phenomena into clever commentary. In distilling keen observations about universal experiences into elegant charts and graphs, Truth Facts gets to the heart of the paradoxical and wonderful world we all share, and puts modern reality into perspective in a funny and visceral way. These simple, colorful graphics explore societal quirks and everyday oddities, such as what happens when you call customer service (anything but service), when banks are open (only when you’re at work), the biggest lies on the internet (“LOL”), and much more. Playfully teasing readers even as it explores themes like perception vs. reality, this compendium of life’s truthiest facts prods us to laugh at ourselves, own up to our shortfalls, accept the strangeness of the world we live in, and continue on—happier and more connected to one another than ever before.
Author | : Laura Lee |
Publisher | : Broadway |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : |
Fact: More people are killed annually by teddy bears than by grizzly bears. Fact: Each year, thousands of couch potatoes are admitted to emergency rooms for television-related injuries. Fact: There are more germs on your desk than there are on your toilet. Forget about lions, tigers, and sharks--in a world where vacuum cleaners are more dangerous than venomous spiders, and household cleaner is more deadly than anthrax, it pays to know the risks of daily living--and how to avoid them. In this witty and wonderfully practical guide, Laura Lee reveals the "100 Most Dangerous Things in Everyday Life and What You Can Do About Them. From rubber bands and paper clips to wading pools and holy water, readers will learn: - The probability of encountering each threat - How to determine the magnitude of danger - Expert advice on how best to minimize the hazard - Statistics on how many people have met their demise as a result of these risks Equipped with this" worst-case scenario guide to armchair misadventures, alarmists, hypochondriacs, paranoids, and skeptics alike will be prepared for anything that comes their way--at home, at work, or at play.
Author | : Paula Knight |
Publisher | : Myriad Editions |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2017-03-06 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 1908434767 |
'In her moving and sympathetic book, Paula Knight charts the emotional cost of the pursuit of motherhood and thoughtfully challenges the societal notion that to live a life without children is to live a lesser life.'— Aminatta Forna A clarion call to recognise that parenting isn't the be-all and end-all of family life, Paula Knight's extraordinarily powerful graphic memoir is a beautifully drawn, funny and sometimes painful exploration of what it takes to be a woman, and a mother—or not. In 1970s Northeast England, best friends Polly and April are sitting up a tree, whispering about periods and swapping their hazy knowledge of the facts of life. They both expect to have families one day—it's the normal script to follow, isn't it? But, as Polly grows up, education and career become important too, and she believes that she can have it all. When, some years later, Polly settles with Jack, her career has taken off and she feels torn over whether or not to try for a baby. Has she left it too late? Did she have any control over that choice? They go ahead, but, after repeated miscarriage and chronic illness take their toll, Polly and Jack have to face a very tough decision. As Polly looks back to discover the origins of her own expectations, she has to confront what family means in a society where 'family' usually means 'children'.
Author | : Serap Kurbanoğlu |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 2019-02-19 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 3030134725 |
This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2018, held in Oulu, Finland, in September 2018. The 58 revised papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 241 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the field of information literacy and focus on information literacy in everyday life. They are organized in the following topical sections: information literacy in different contexts of everyday life; information literacy, active citizenship and community engagement; information literacy, health and well-being; workplace information literacy and employability; information literacy research and information literacy in theoretical context; information seeking and information behavior; information literacy for different groups in different cultures and countries; information literacy for different groups in different cultures and countries; information literacy instruction; information literacy and aspects of education; data literacy and reserach data management; copyright literacy; information literacy and lifelong learning.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : Home economics |
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