01645cam a2200325 4500 771164190 TxAuBib 20101117120000.0 101020s2010||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2010485616 9780375434310 PAP $29.00 0375434313 PAP $29.00 DLC DLC DLC TxAuBib Bryson, Bill. At home [Large Print] : a short history of private life / Bill Bryson. Large print ed. New York : Random House, 2010. 768 p. (large print) : ill. ; 24 cm. "Originally published in Great Britain by Doubleday"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. [691]-730) and index. The year -- The setting -- The hall -- The kitchen -- The scullery and the larder -- The fusebox -- 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. Explores the ways in which homes reflect history, from a bathroom's revelations about medicine and hygiene to a kitchen's exposure of the stories of trade and nutrition. 20101117. Earl M. & Mildred Jacoby Endowment Fund. Dwellings Psychological aspects. Dwellings Environmental aspects. Rooms Psychological aspects. Rooms Environmental aspects. Large type books.