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Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House Tapa blanda - 2005
de Cheryl Mendelson
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.
Resumen
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.
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.
Detalles
- Título Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House
- Autor Cheryl Mendelson
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición Reprint
- Páginas 896
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Scribner Book Company, New York
- Fecha de publicación 2005-05-17
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780743272865 / 0743272862
- Peso 2.65 libras (1.20 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.2 x 6.6 x 1.6 pulgadas (23.37 x 16.76 x 4.06 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Home economics
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2005279528
- Dewey Decimal Code 640
Reseñas en medios
"An extraordinary achievement that has no peer in this century and may well have none in the next." -- Newsweek
Citas
- Ingram Advance, 05/01/2005, Page 108
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