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A Place for Everything - The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders
$24.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries, Language & Reference
A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of alphabetization, from the Library of Alexandria to Wikipedia. The story of alphabetical order has been shaped by some of history's most compelling characters, such as industrious and enthusiastic early adopter Samuel Pepys and dedicated alphabet cha ...Show more
A Place for Everything - The Story of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders
$39.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: FLANDERS, JUDITH
A celebration of alphabetical order, from its humble beginnings to its pre-eminence as the organizing principle for the sum of the world's knowledge. While we emphasize our subconscious appreciation for the importance of the alphabet, it is alphabetic order, its organization, that allows us to sift thr ...Show more
Christmas: a Biography by Judith Flanders
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
Christmas has been all things to all people: a religious festival, a family celebration, a time of eating and drinking. Yet the origins of the customs which characterise the festive season are wreathed in myth.Food, drink and nostalgia for Christmases past seem to be almost as old as the holiday itself, ...Show more
Christmas: a Biography by Judith Flanders
$34.99 NZD
Category: History
Christmas has been all things to all people: a religious festival, a family celebration, a time of eating and drinking. Yet the origins of the customs which characterize the festive season are wreathed in myth. When did turkeys become the plat du jour? Is the commercialization of Christmas a recent phen ...Show more
Consuming Passions : Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain by Judith Flanders
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
A delightful and fascinating social history of Victorians at leisure, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of nineteenth-century men and women, from the author of the bestselling The Victorian House. Imagine a world where only one in five people owns a book, where just one in ten has a ...Show more
The Making of Home by Judith Flanders
$55.00 NZD
Category: Architecture and Interior Design | Reading Level: very good
"The idea that 'home' is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us today that we barely pause to think about it. But, as Judith Flanders shows in her fascinating new book, 'home' is a relatively new idea. When in 1900 Dorothy assured the citizens of ...Show more
The Victorian City - Everyday Life in Dickens' London by Judith Flanders
$59.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented transformation, and nowhere was this more apparent than on the streets of London. In only a few decades, London grew from a Regency town to the biggest city the world had ever seen, with more than 6.5 million people and railways, street-lighting and new ...Show more
The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London by Judith Flanders
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
Full of detail and colour about everyday life in Dickens's London, and leaves you with a sense not only of how hard life was then, but how strange. Even if you've read Dickens and the contemporary historians of the poor, there is still more to marvel at here.' Sebastian Faulks, Mail on Sunday Books of t ...Show more
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