A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Everyday Life from the Stone Age to the Phone Age

A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Everyday Life from the Stone Age to the Phone Age by Greg Jenner
2016 | ISBN: 1250089441 | English | 368 pages | EPUB | 1 MB

Who invented beds? When did we start cleaning our teeth? How old are wine and beer? Which came first: the toilet seat or toilet paper? What was the first clock?

Every day, from the moment our alarm clock wakes us in the morning until our head hits our pillow at night, we all take part in rituals that are millennia old. Structured around one ordinary day, A Million Years in a Day reveals the astonishing origins and development of the daily practices we take for granted. In this gloriously entertaining romp through human history, Greg Jenner explores the gradual―and often unexpected―evolution of our daily routines.

This is not a story of wars, politics, or great events. Instead, Jenner has scoured Roman rubbish bins, Egyptian tombs, and Victorian sewers to bring us the most intriguing, surprising, and sometimes downright silly historical nuggets from our past.

Drawn from across the world, spanning a million years of humanity, this book is a smorgasbord of historical delights. It is a history of all those things you always wondered about―and many you have never considered. It is the story of your life, one million years in the making.

Everyday Knowledge, Education and Sustainable Futures

Everyday Knowledge, Education and Sustainable Futures: Transdisciplinary Approaches in the Asia-Pacific Region
Springer | Education & Language | July 3, 2016 | ISBN-10: 9811002142 | 225 pages | pdf | 4.85 mb

Editors: Robertson, Margaret, Tsang, Po Keung Eric (Eds.)

Highlights the imperative of listening to local communities when designing policy changes
Provides case studies that illustrate the intersection between everyday life, events and consequences
Proposes a theoretical position on what it means to be a citizen within the Asian/Pacific region

Everyday knowledge offers opportunities for better understanding of significant issues of our times. Reflecting these themes this book places emphasis on community wisdom. The underpinning argument is that our instinctive urge for survival may not be enough if we do not share our collective knowledge and learn more about the everyday habits, beliefs and actions of communities spread across the region. Contributions from researchers active within local communities help build knowledge capacity and support for collaborative research.

Number of Illustrations and Tables

4 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour

Topics

Educational Policy and Politics

Sustainable Development

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Kitchen Simple: Essential Recipes for Everyday Cooking (Repost)

James Peterson, “Kitchen Simple: Essential Recipes for Everyday Cooking”
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1580083188 | EPUB | pages: 389 | 39,5 mb

Hundreds of recipes designed to get exceptional meals on the table in under an hour

With Kitchen Simple, James Peterson, one of America’s most celebrated cookbook authors and renowned cooking instructors, delivers a definitive resource for the busy home cook. Elevating routine, weekday fare into exciting culinary creations, Peterson proves unequivocally that great food need not be complicated or time-consuming to prepare.

More than 200 recipes, such as Summer Steak Salad, Mexican-Style Gazpacho, White Bean Bruschetta, Red Cabbage with Bacon and Apples, and Ricotta Ravioli, are thoughtfully streamlined to require no more than thirty minutes of active prep time with delivery to the table in under an hour. For leisurely meals and celebratory occasions, there are also dozens of luxe dishes, like Red Wine Pot Roast, Eggplant Parmigiano, Duck Confit, and Profiteroles with Chocolate Sauce. And, from the master of sauces, comes a paired-down primer on making foolproof Mayonnaise, Caper and Herb Sauce for vegetables and chicken, and an easy Béarnaise to dress up grilled fish.

Kitchen Simple presents creative possibilities for weeknight meals, quick-and-easy breakfasts, impromptu dinner parties, and inspired last-minute desserts. And with Peterson’s invaluable variations, cooks can confidently substitute harder-to-find ingredients with items already at hand. Additional advice on how to stock a pantry with staples to make everyday cooking even easier, plus an inventory of truly indispensable kitchen tools make Kitchen Simple a go-to source of inspiration for cooks of all persuasions: novice or experienced, time-pressed or laid-back, casual or serious.

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Wise Words: The Philosophy of Everyday Life

Wise Words: The Philosophy of Everyday Life by Stephen Trombley
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1784971316 | 330 pages | EPUB | 8,5 MB

A philosophical miscellany, as diverting as it is instructive, centred on an eclectic sequence of themes, ranging from advice to ageing, from backbiting to bigotry, from freedom to friendship, and from work to walking.

Stephen Trombley mines the canon of two and half millennia of Western thought for observations that reflect the seriousness, the joy and the strangeness of human existence, counterpointing these words of wisdom with episodes – sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, sometimes plain odd – from the lives of the great philosophers.

WISE WORDS includes, on each of its themes, the thoughts of philosophers from the distant past to the present. The result is a multi-dimensional treatment of each theme that crosses temporal, national and ideological boundaries.

Plato, Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems

Plato, Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems
Language: English | EPUB / MOBI | ISBN-10: 0060931361 | 2000 | 308 pages | 1 MB / 0.4 MB

If you’re facing a dilemma – whether it’s handling a relationship, living ethically, dealing with a career change, or finding meaning in life – the world’s most important thinkers from centuries past will help guide you toward a solution compatible with your individual beliefs. From Kirkegaard’s thoughts on coping with death to the I Ching’s guidelines on adapting to change, Plato, Not Prozac! makes philosophy accessible and shows you how to use it to solve your everyday problems.

Gone is the need for expensive therapists, medication, and lengthy analysis. Clearly organized by common problems to help you tailor Dr. Lou Marinoff’s advice to your own needs, this is an intelligent, effective, and persuasive prescription for self-healing therapy that is giving psychotherapy a run for its money.

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Everyday Chinese for Beginners - 400 Actions & Activities

Everyday Chinese for Beginners – 400 Actions & Activities
Audio CDs: English / Chinese: MP3, 54 Kbps (1 channels) | Duration: 01:06:11 | 2015 | ISBN-10: N/A | ASIN: B011LXXMC2
Overal size: 26 MB | Genre: Learning Chinese | Level: Beginner

This audiobook is a new way to learn and speak a language fast.

Start speaking in minutes with the powerful learning methods that you’ll learn inside:

Using this audiobook is simple.

You’ll learn practical phrases for over 400 daily activities through 10 easy chapters.

The phrases were chosen by a panel of professional language teachers and are some of the most frequently used phrases in daily conversation.

Each chapter covers a daily scene, such as “morning activities”, “going to work”, “hanging out with friends”, and much more. You’ll be able talk about your day easily as you learn practical phrases in every chapter. With each phrase you’ll get the audio pronunciation, bonus vocabulary, and more.

Simply listen and repeat out loud.

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