Man Ray, multitalented master of modernist imageryMan Ray (1890–1976) was a polymath modernist, working in painting, sculpture, film, printmaking, and poetry. But it was his work in pho...
A compact sourcebook of ideas for innovative furnishing, interior environments and small-scale architectural interventions.As the definition of ‘designer’ expands and archit...
Tells the fascinating story of the journey taken by the Bauhaus – both the concept behind the school and some of the individuals who represented it – from Germany to Britain and the USA...
Deep-sea Creeps is a taxonomy of those terrible exes that should have been left lurking in the murky depths of your Tinder messages-from The Self-Proclaimed “Nice Guy” to The Egomaniac,...
Get your lunch organized in record time with this foolproof, noodle-packed cookbook.Sometimes it seems like too much of a chore to get our lunch prepped for the day ahead. We can often ...
Lydia Gurney's 1914 work has nostalgia at its heart. The recipes are mostly from New England, but anyone craving honest-to-goodness old-time American cooking will find comfort in this volume.
Lafcadio Hearn's La Cuisine Creole is the first Creole cookbook, one of the great rare classics of the culture. Among its recipes, collected "from leading chefs and noted Creole housewives," are gu...
The original manual of the Camp Fire Girls, an organization among whose founders were Dr. & Mrs. Luther Halsey Gulick, was published in 1912. The motto of the Camp Fire Girls, "WoHeLo," was also th...
Originally published in 1922, the Rootabaga Stories was written by one of America's most beloved folk chroniclers, Carl Sandburg. He wrote these stories for "people from 5 to 105." "I knew that Ame...
Daniel Boone: His Own Story by Colonel Daniel Boone & The Adventures of Daniel Boone, The Kentucky Rifleman by Francis Lister Hawks.
Before Davy Crockett and Kit Carson came along to share the wild...
When it was first published in 1871, this book offered practical advice for American-born Jews who did not have the benefit of a Jewish education. Authentic Jewish cuisine for today's cook.
A guide to home health from Lydia Maria Child, one of the 19th Century's most popular domestic advisors and most ardent feminists. Mrs. Child's down-to-earth advice to pre-Civil War families stand...