michael worth davison editor (10 resultados)

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Ex-Library copy with some moderate shelf wear. A portion of your purchase of this book will be donated to non-profit organizations.Over 1,000,000 satisfied customers since 1997! Choose expedited shipping (if available) for much faster delivery. Delivery confirmation on all US orders.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. clean and sturdy copy, unmarked. jn.

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Ships quickly. Mild shelf/reading wear. Orphans Treasure Box sells books to raise money for orphans and vulnerable kids.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near fine/VG, used, marbled look end papers, 384pp. Interior clean no marks, pages near bright. Slight shelf rubbing to dust jacket, no chips or tears. Corners are not worn.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket, small minor edge tear to jacket corner. Pages clean and the binding is tight.

Hardcover_pictorial boards. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 10.25"x10.25" 384 indexed pgs. Pictorial boards. Marble paste downs. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unmarked. Secure ship w/tracking #. Price covers extra shipping costs for weight. Did you know that the ancient Romans filled their mattresses with rose petals, soap didn't exist until A.D. 1200, or that brown was the most popular color for Victorian wedding dresses? Filled with humorous stories, this colorful, carefully researched book covers the whole span of human history--all over the world--from the Stone Age to the present century. Over 900 photographs, drawings, maps, and specially commissioned paintings. Source: Publisher.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 448 pages.

Pictorial Cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Pictorial Boards. Condición: Near Fine. First. Beautifully printed and illustrated book of life throughout the ages. This is a large and very heavy book; the price includes additional postal charges to be incurred in shipping this book. There is much about the history of everyday life that we shall never know. People kept their secrets. Some things, however, we know better than they did. They had at best only a limited knowledge of their world - or worlds. We have a global overview. And we have the great advantage over all our ancestors of knowing what came next, including the disasters and the wars that broke the pattern of everyday life. This volume is designed to satisfy curiosity. It spans the centuries and covers the continents. There are two kinds of curiosity to which it respomds. First is our natural curiosity to learn more about people in the past who had something in common with ourselves. Second is our equally natural curiosity to learn more about people who were - and are - very different from ourselves. This book covers both the familiar and the exotic. It cannot, however, cover everyday life in all countries at all times. Like all history, it has to be selective. Some elements of everyday life remain constant through the centuries and across the world. For life to continue, new generations of men, women and children are born. They have all had to find shelter, to eat, to drink, to clothe themselves, to divide their time between different pursuits, to work and to play. Yet they have done all these basic things in different ways in different times and places - and seldom completely of their own choice, The relationship between necessity and choice in any generation has often been complex, though equally often people take choice or necessity for granted. How long and how hard we work or are made to work, and how far we travel - by choice or by necessity - have always varied greatly even witnin the same generation. On the cover of this book are pictures of many of the characters, and inside there are accounts of the daily lives of such contrasting people as a Roman centurian, a Saxon ploughman, a Sumerian schoolchild, a medieval nun, a North American trapper, a pilgrim on the road to Compostela, and a Victorian pauper. There is something in this volume to appeal to all interests - and to all ages. Book.

hardcover. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!