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At home : a short history of private life / Bill Bryson.

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ISBN	9780375434310 paperback
Name	Bryson, Bill author.
Title	At home : a short history of private life / Bill Bryson.
Edition	Large print edition.
Published	New York : Random House, 2010.
Published	©2010
Description	768 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes	"Originally published in Great Britain by Doubleday"--Title pages verso.
Notes	Includes bibliographical references (pages 691-730) and index.
Contents	The year -- The setting -- The hall -- The kitchen -- The scullery and the larder -- The fuse box -- The drawing room -- The dining room -- The cellar -- The passage -- The study -- The garden -- The plum room -- The stairs -- The bedroom -- The bathroom -- The dressing room -- The nursery -- The attic.
Summary	Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote a lot more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what history really consists of: centuries of people quietly going about their daily business eating, sleeping and merely endeavouring to get more comfortable. And that most of the key discoveries for humankind can be found in the very fabric of the houses in which we live. This inspired him to start a journey around his own house, an old rectory in Norfolk, wandering from room to room considering how the ordinary things in life came to be.
Subjects	Social history
	Houses -- Psychological aspects
	Houses -- Environmental aspects
	Dwellings -- Psychological aspects
	Dwellings -- Environmental aspects
	Rooms -- Psychological aspects
	Rooms -- Environmental aspects
Genre	Large type books
Series	Random House large print
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Dwellings -- Environmental aspects . Dwellings -- Psychological aspects . Houses -- Environmental aspects . Houses -- Psychological aspects . Large type books . Rooms -- Environmental aspects . Rooms -- Psychological aspects . Social history . See Also: Buddhism and social problems . History . Moral conditions . Quality of life . Social indicators . Social movements . Social problems . Sociology . Technology and civilization . Urbanization . Authors: Bryson, Bill . Series: Random House large print .

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