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More Work For Mother louise rick seriesIn this classic work of women's history (winner of the 1984 Dexter Prize from the Society for the History of Technology), Ruth Schwartz Cowan shows how and why modern women devote as much time to housework as did their colonial sisters. In lively and provocative prose, Cowan explains how the modern convenienceswashing machines, white flour, vacuums, commercial cottonseemed at first to offer working class women middle class standards of comfort. Over

He also considers the dark side of this phenomenon

A stirring evocation of the spring when Paris was ablaze with cannon fire and its citizens were their own masters

Calabria's Mafia had brazenly shown its savage influence outside Italy for the first time

and bipartisan fiasco

and even an appendix of quotes falsely attributed to Churchill

and his ditzy wife

In What About the Kids

public speaker and comedian Caitlin Brodnick was tested for the BRCA1 gene mutation and tested positive

to show him the ropes

An Unfinished Life is packed with revelations large and small -- about JFK's health

Desperate Valour is a stirring chronicle of courage beyond measure

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