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Interviews | November 3, 2009

Sheila A.: IMG On Storytelling: The Powells.com Interview with Donald Miller

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donaldmillerDonald Miller is a Christian writer, but the question that Miller asks with his latest memoir, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, is applicable to... Continue »
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    A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

    Donald Miller
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More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave

by Ruth Schwartz Cowan

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ISBN13: 9780465047321
ISBN10: 0465047327
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This book has a dual focus. As its title is meant to suggest, it is a history not just of housework but also of the tools with which that work is done: household technology. Human beings are tool-using animals; indeed, some anthropologists believe that, along with speech,, the ability to use and to refine our tools is precisely what sets us apart from other species of primates.
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Ruth Schwartz Cowan is associate professor of history at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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ISBN:
9780465047321
Subtitle:
The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave
Author:
Cowan, Ruth Schwartz
Publisher:
Basic Books
Subject:
General
Subject:
Home economics
Subject:
Women's Studies
Subject:
Housewives
Subject:
United states
Subject:
History
Copyright:
1983
Publication Date:
March 1985
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
288
Dimensions:
9.04x6.16x.65 in. .89 lbs.
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