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Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House
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- Como nuevo
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- MPN
- 40-17414
- Brand
- SCRIBNER
- Style
- ABIS_BOOK
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780684814650
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
068481465X
ISBN-13
9780684814650
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26038436234
Product Key Features
Book Title
Home Comforts : the Art and Science of Keeping House
Number of Pages
896 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Repair
Publication Year
1999
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
House & Home
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.8 in
Item Weight
48 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-037555
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Letitia Baldrigeauthor ofLetitia Baldrige's Complete Guide to the New Manners for the '90sI lovedHome Comforts!There's a mountain of information in these pages -- everything from how to sort laundry to keeping fabrics from fading and from choosing the right lightbulb to create a special mood to making your own environmentally safe cleaning solutions. Here's a book that makes you want to go home again., Harold McGeeauthor ofOn Food and CookingInHome Comforts,Cheryl Mendelson has shaped personal experience, thoughtful reflection, and years of dogged investigation into a remarkable guide to modern material life -- to our food and clothing and shelter, how best to choose, use, and care for them, and the nonmaterial satisfactions we take from them. Mendelson opens our eyes to the homes we inhabit yet know so little, to the fascinations of food and fabric, dirt and bugs, air and light.Home Comfortsis a unique and absorbing book., Witold Rybczynskiauthor ofA Clearing in the Distance, Home,andCity LifeCheryl Mendelson knows the secret of transforming a house into a home. This extraordinary book is to be read for its wise counsel, its authoritative advice, and its illuminating insights into the management of the domestic realm. As if that were not enough, it is beautifully written., Elizabeth Fox-Genoveseauthor ofFeminism Is Not the Story of My LifeandFeminism Without IllusionsA treasure trove of invaluable information, a delight to read, a marvel of thoughtful common sense,Home Comfortsis all this and more. Recent changes in women's lives and expectations have tended to relegate keeping house to the realm of servant's work -- the epitome of what no self-respecting woman (or man) would choose to do. In this entrancing book, Cheryl Mendelson restores keeping house to its rightful place as the custodian of the peace, order, comfort, and sanity of our lives, simultaneously instructing us in how to do it well and in why doing it matters so much. And in so doing, she helps to restore dignity, value, and craft to the work that creates and sustains the private space that nourishes our humanity.
Dewey Decimal
640
Synopsis
The classic bestselling resource for every American home. Choosing fabrics, cleaning china, keeping the piano in tune, making a good fire, folding a fitted sheet, setting the dining room table, keeping surfaces free of food pathogens, watering plants, removing stains -- Home Comforts addresses the meanings as well as the methods of hands -- on housekeeping to help you manage everyday chores, find creative solutions to modern domestic dilemmas, and enhance the experience of life at home. Further topics include: Making up a bed with hospital corners, Expert recommendations for safe food storage, Reading care labels (and sometimes carefully disregarding them), Keeping your home free of dust mites and other allergens, Home safety and security, A summary of laws applicable to the home, including privacy, accident liability, contracts, and domestic employees and more in this practical, good-humored, historic, philosophical, even romantic, guidebook to the art of household management., Home Comfortsis something new. For the first time in nearly a century, a sole author has written a comprehensive book about housekeeping. This is not a dry how-to manual, nor a collection of odd tips and hints, a cleaning book, a history book, or an arid encyclopedia compiled by a committee or an institute.Home Comfortsis a readable explanation for both beginners and experts of all the domestic arts -- choosing fabrics, keeping the piano in tune, caring for books, making a good fire in the fireplace and avoiding chimney fires, ironing and folding, setting up a good reading light, keeping surfaces free of food pathogens, and everything else that modern people might want to do for themselves in their homes. But this reliable and thorough book on the practicalities of housekeeping is also an argument for the importance of private life and the comforts offered by housekeeping.Cheryl Mendelson is a philosopher, lawyer, sometime professor, and a homemaker, wife, and mother.Home Comfortsis based on her domestic education, which she acquired while growing up on a farm in the hills of Greene County, in southwestern Pennsylvania, from her grandmothers, aunts, and mother. Learning from the distinct domestic styles of her native Appalachian relatives and her Italian immigrant relatives, she appreciated early on how important domestic customs are to a sense of comfort and identity in life. She writes out of love and respect for her subject, and hopes to inspire others to develop the affection and respect for home life and housework she was fortunate to have learned.Mendelson addresses the meanings as well as the methods of housekeeping with a keen sense of the history and values involved. The result is a warm, good-humored, engagingly written book with a message and a point of view, one that is overflowing with useful reflections and information. The clarity, breadth, and depth of the information collected here are unparalleled. You can readHome Comfortsfor thoughtful entertainment or use its ample index to help you find the answers to practical domestic questions. There is nothing quite like it.Among this book's unique features:· A skeptical discussion of the excessive use of disinfectants in the home. · How to iron a dress shirt and how to fold sheets. · How to make up a bed with hospital corners. · How to do all basic sewing stitches. · How to choose proper sizes for sheets, tablecloths, and other household linens. · How to set the table for informal and formal meals. · Expert recommendations for safe food storage. · The most exhaustive and reliable information on fabrics, textile fibers, and their laundering, drying, and other care that exists for nonprofessionals. · A thorough explanation of care labels and why and how you should often (carefully) disregard them. · Housekeeping guidelines for people with pets or with allergies. · What to do about dust mites. · How to clean and care for wood, china and crystal, jewelry, ceramic tile, metals, and more. · Guides to stain and spot removal. · Extensive recommendations for improving home safety. · A summary of laws applicable to the home, including privacy, accident liability, contracts, and domestic employees.·· 200 Elegant, Clear Drawings ·
LC Classification Number
TX145.M38 1999
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