Product Description: In the past the home kitchen provided a family with all its medicines and cosmetics as well as its food, wine, pickles and preserves. Our ancestors were resourceful and imaginative and very much in tune with nature; this book recaptures their harmonious, sustainable way of life by setting down for the modern reader all that knowledge and lore...read more

Product Description: This book offers an illuminating introduction to many aspects of health and society in twentieth-century Wales, ranging from public health to personal lifestyles and household budgets, birth control and the incidence of deaths from child-birth...read more

Women share stories of international travel in this fascinating celebration of the globetrotting spirit, with contributions from Frances Mayes, Anne Lamott, Pam Houston, Jo Ann Beard, Candace Dempsey, Ann Jones, and others. Original.

Product Description: This text is an account of the changing provision for the insane in north Wales from the beginning of the 19th century to the end of the millennium.

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Product Description: Mother's World illuminates what it means to be a mother on the road, and aims to dispels the notion that motherhood and travel are incompatible. ' (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Gathers traditional recipes from classical Greece and Rome, ancient China, Persia, India, fourteenth-century England, and eighteenth-century Australia and America

The rugged and tranquil natural beauty of the American landscape is revealed in photographs of natural parks from Acadia in Maine to Zion in Utah