Product Description: 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 obliterate both his own aroma and everyone else’s, but never immersing himself in – horrors! – water...read more

A fascinating social history of grieving in America takes the nation's death rituals, or lack thereof, to task, unraveling the current traditions surrounding death and mourning. Reprint.

Offers over twenty driving tours focusing on different parts of Canada, and provides information on museums, parks, and historical sites

Product Description: 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 tantalizing and informative details of provincial history, indulges the near universal vice of real-estate voyeurism, and beckons even the most reluctant to physical exercise...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)