Review of Ideal Homes?: Social Change and the Experience of the Home (Hardcover)

This book consists of a collection of papers about people's images of home.The volume is divided into 4 parts: Changing images of the ideal home; Betwixt and between: homes in transition; Anxieties and risks: homes in danger; and Changing perceptions of home.The first part, changing images of the ideal home, focuses mainly on British homes and British attitudes towards home.Much of the remaining material, however, could easily be generalized to cover Western attitudes towards housing and home.Tony Chapman's paper "You've got him well trained': the negotiation of roles in the domestic sphere is a particularly well-done exploration into sources of social attitudes towards sharing housework.Overall, this book provides some extremely interesting vantage points of many different aspects of domestic life, especially in 21st century England.Anthropologists, sociologists, and feminists will all find something of interest in this book.

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Ideal Homes? provides a fascinating analysis which reveals how both popular images and experiences of home life can produce vital clues as to how society's members produce and respond to social change.

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Review of Herbal Medicine: Revised & Updated (Hardcover)

This book is organized in two ways - by plant and by symptom.
By plant you can see the different uses for each herb, and by symptom you look up your health issue and you can then decide which treament best suits you (maybe depending on what you've got on hand..).
It also has a handy explanation of the various ways plants are treated to make the best use of them. This book is on my shelf, always at hand. Many times I've used cough and stomach rememdies from it, and many times I felt better just knowing I was treating my kids with natural sources and putting alittle limit on the chemicals.

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Classic bestselling book on herbs, now completely revised and updated to include all the latest information and discoveries in the world of herbs.Learn how to use herbs to relieve headaches, flu, alleviate muscle pain, stop allergies and change the way you look and feel.And see why this book has sold over 220,000 copies.

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Classic bestselling book on herbs, now completely revised and updated to include all the latest information and discoveries in the world of herbs.Learn how to use herbs to relieve headaches, flu, alleviate muscle pain, stop allergies and change the way you look and feel.And see why this book has sold over 220,000 copies.

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