History in the Digital Age
Title | History in the Digital Age PDF eBook |
Author | Toni Weller |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 0415666961 |
This puplication looks at how the digital age is affecting the field of history for both scholars and students. The book does not seek either to applaud or condemn digital technologies, but takes a more conceptual view of how the field of history is being changed by the digital age.
Voynich Manuscript
Title | Voynich Manuscript PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2015-12-11 |
Genre | Ciphers |
ISBN | 9781626542174 |
A facsimile of an object of unknown authorship that has been the source of study and speculation for centuries and remains undecipherable to this day.
A Catalogue of Blue and White Nankin Porcelain
Title | A Catalogue of Blue and White Nankin Porcelain PDF eBook |
Author | Sir Henry Thompson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1878 |
Genre | Blue and white ware |
ISBN |
Books and Society in History
Title | Books and Society in History PDF eBook |
Author | Association of College and Research Libraries |
Publisher | New York : R.R. Bowker |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN |
Special Collections 2.0
Title | Special Collections 2.0 PDF eBook |
Author | Beth M. Whittaker |
Publisher | Libraries Unlimited |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 2009-07-23 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN |
Advice and practical ideas for creating, collecting, and preserving digitized and born-digital materials for optimal long-term access and user engagement.
Wordsworth's Grave
Title | Wordsworth's Grave PDF eBook |
Author | William Watson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 1892 |
Genre | English poetry |
ISBN |
The Compleat Housewife
Title | The Compleat Housewife PDF eBook |
Author | Eliza Smith |
Publisher | Andrews McMeel Publishing |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2012-10-16 |
Genre | Cooking |
ISBN | 1449428258 |
First published in England, this kitchen reference became available to colonial American housewives when it was printed in Williamsburg, Virginia is 1742. Originally published in London in 1727, The Compleat Housewife was the first cookbook printed in the United States. William Parks, a Virginia printer, printed and sold the cookbook believing there would be a strong market for it among Virginia housewives who wanted to keep up with the latest London fashions—the book was a best-seller there. Parks did make some attempt to Americanize it, deleting certain recipes “the ingredients or material for which are not to be had in this country,” but for the most part, the book was not adjusted to American kitchens. Even so, it became the first cookery best seller in the New World, and Parks’s major book publication. Author Eliza Smith described her book on the title page as “Being a collection of several hundred approved receipts, in cookery, pastry, confectionery, preserving, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made wines, cordials. And also bills of fare for every month of the year. To which is added, a collection of nearly two hundred family receipts of medicines; viz. drinks, syrups, salves, ointments, and many other things of sovereign and approved efficacy in most distempers, pains, aches, wounds, sores, etc. never before made publick in these parts; fit either for private families, or such public-spirited gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor neighbours.” The recipes are easy to understand and cover everything from 50 recipes for pickling everything from nasturtium buds to pigeons to “lifting a swan, breaking a deer, and splating a pike,” indicating the importance of understanding how to prepare English game. The book also includes diagrams for positioning serving dishes to create an attractive table display.