Everyday Life in the 1800s

Everyday Life in the 1800s
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Publisher : Writers Digest Books
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 1582970637
ISBN-13 : 9781582970639
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Everyday Life in the 1800s by : Marc McCutcheon

Provides information about many aspects of everyday life in the 1800s, covering speech and slang, transportation, household goods, clothing, occupations, money, health and medicine, food and tobacco, amusements, courtship and marriage, slavery, the Civil War, crime, and the wild west.

Learn Something New Every Day

Learn Something New Every Day
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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : 9781118238127
ISBN-13 : 1118238125
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Learn Something New Every Day by : Kee Malesky

Learn something new with 366 fascinating facts from NPR librarian Kee Malesky What was the greatest thing before sliced bread?1 What color did carrots used to be?2 Why do many American spellings differ from their British counterparts?3 What does it mean "to have one's eyes lined with ham"? 4 If you know the answers to these questions, then you're John Hodgman. If you had to look for them below, you need this book.5 Kee Malesky, author of All Facts Considered, returns with a year's worth of facts on the arts, history, language, natural history, religion, and science to build up your brain. From "What is the only sea without coastlines?" to "How did the tradition of April Fool's Day begin?", this book is the best way to know more stuff than that other guy.6 Learn Something New Every Day is the ideal gift for anyone with an inquisitive mind and an appreciation of the wonders of the world around us. But don't give it to them. You don't want them to know more than you do. 1. Bagged bread. 2. Purple. 3. Blame?or thank?Noah Webster. 4. That's the Italian expression for "can't see the wood for the trees." 5. You'd enjoy it too, Mr. Hodgman. 6. Discovering more than one fact per day can cause increased confidence. We've probably already put you at risk with the four above. Learn safely.

Everyday Life

Everyday Life
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Publisher : Reaktion Books
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9781780236636
ISBN-13 : 1780236638
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Everyday Life by : Joseph A. Amato

"In Everyday Life Joseph A. Amato offers a panoramic account of the evolution of our daily existence and reflects on the complex and changing textures of everyday life. Beginning with societies of scarcity and relative lack of change and ending with our own twenty-first-century lives, he ranges widely through topics as varied as dirt and muck, walking and the charm of spices, and through time from early agriculture to mechanization and the modern urban existence. Amato argues that what seems to be ordinary is in fact extraordinary, and shows how life, even in the very recent past, differed from life in our present-day societies of abundance and of remorseless change. The result is a challenging and thought-provoking introduction to change and continuity in daily life"--Publisher's description.

The Science of Everyday Life

The Science of Everyday Life
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Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Total Pages : 205
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ISBN-10 : 9781782434207
ISBN-13 : 1782434208
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis The Science of Everyday Life by : Marty Jopson

A fascinating and accessible guide to chemistry and physics using the everyday objects around us.

The Internet in Everyday Life

The Internet in Everyday Life
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 624
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ISBN-10 : 9780470777381
ISBN-13 : 0470777389
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis The Internet in Everyday Life by : Barry Wellman

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.

Factfulness

Factfulness
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Publisher : Flatiron Books
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9781250123817
ISBN-13 : 125012381X
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Factfulness by : Hans Rosling

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “One of the most important books I’ve ever read—an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.” – Bill Gates “Hans Rosling tells the story of ‘the secret silent miracle of human progress’ as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.” —Melinda Gates "Factfulness by Hans Rosling, an outstanding international public health expert, is a hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases." - Former U.S. President Barack Obama Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school—we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective—from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse). Our problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases. It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most. Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future. --- “This book is my last battle in my life-long mission to fight devastating ignorance...Previously I armed myself with huge data sets, eye-opening software, an energetic learning style and a Swedish bayonet for sword-swallowing. It wasn’t enough. But I hope this book will be.” Hans Rosling, February 2017.

Information Literacy in Everyday Life

Information Literacy in Everyday Life
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 630
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ISBN-10 : 9783030134723
ISBN-13 : 3030134725
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Information Literacy in Everyday Life by : Serap Kurbanoğlu

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.

The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the Wild West

The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the Wild West
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 344
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X004289652
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Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the Wild West by : Candy Vyvey Moulton

Provides period information on clothes and accessories, food, architecture, medicine, education, communications, crime, and money.

The Social Psychology of Everyday Life

The Social Psychology of Everyday Life
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 342
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ISBN-10 : 9781134961801
ISBN-13 : 1134961804
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis The Social Psychology of Everyday Life by : Michael Argyle

Is psychology good for our health? What is the effect of class on social behaviour? In this comprehensive and fully up-to-date accoung of the psychology of everyday life, Michael Argyle looks at the most interesting and practically important areas of social psychology. He takes social psychology out of the laboratory into real-life settings and helps us to understand the world in which we live. He covers many of the pressing concerns of the day - conflict and aggression, racial prejudice, social class, relationships, health, happiness - and emphasisies the practical applications of social psychology.

Study Guide for Psychology in Everyday LIfe

Study Guide for Psychology in Everyday LIfe
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 1429222115
ISBN-13 : 9781429222112
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Study Guide for Psychology in Everyday LIfe by : David G. Myers