Ask the Past: Pertinent and Impertinent Advice from Yesteryear
Autor Elizabeth P. Archibalden Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 mai 2015
Based on the popular blog,Ask the Pastis full of the wisdom of the ages--as well as the fad diets, zany pickup lines, and bacon Band-Aids of the ages. Drawn from centuries of antique texts by historian and bibliophile Elizabeth P. Archibald,Ask the Pastoffers a delightful array of advice both wise and weird.
Whether it's eighteenth-century bedbug advice (sprinkle bed with gunpowder and let smolder), budget fashion tips of the Middle Ages (save on the clothes, splurge on the purse) or a sixteenth-century primer on seduction (hint: do no pass gas),Ask the Pastis a wildly entertaining guide to life from the people who lived it first.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316298896
ISBN-10: 0316298891
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 140 x 197 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Hachette Book Group
Colecția Hachette Books
ISBN-10: 0316298891
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 140 x 197 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Hachette Book Group
Colecția Hachette Books
Notă biografică
Yale-educated
historianElizabeth
P.
Archibaldis
an
instructor
at
the
Peabody
Institute
of
Johns
Hopkins.
Her
research
focuses
on
the
history
of
education
from
antiquity
to
the
Renaissance,
as
well
as
the
history
of
books.
She
launched
the
blogAsk
the
Pastin
2013.
Recenzii
"Lucky
for
her
readers,
Archibald
has
a
wry
wit
and
keen
eye
for
absurdity.
Some
of
the
book's
advice
makes
the
past
feel
very
far
away...but
much
of
it
reminds
of
what
we
have
in
common
with
our
ancestors,
who
also
worried
about
attracting
lovers,
raising
children,
and
killing
bedbugs
(the
secret
is
gunpowder)."—Boston
Globe
"Comical and illuminating."—Johns Hopkins Magazine
"Comical and illuminating."—Johns Hopkins Magazine