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Hemos complicado excesivamente el estudio del pasado dando mayor importancia a opiniones e intereses nacionalistas, religiosos y morales, relegando el hecho histórico a un segundo plano, subordinándolo a los intereses del sistema que controla nuestra educacion. No podemos aceptar esa manipulacion, es nuestro deber librarnos de las cadenas falsamente culturales por respeto hacia nuestros antepasados. Despues de muchos años estudiando Historia, he llegado a la conclusion de que la mejor manera de conocer el pasado es a traves de una cronologia imparcial y objetiva que coloque cada acontecimiento en su lugar exacto en el tiempo y revele la historia sin manipulaciones ni medias verdades. Cronologias siempre fueron un complemento secundario en los metodos tradicionales de estudio, pero en mis libros constituye el centro de la narrativa, una obra de referencia completa que transcurre año a año, en la medida de lo posible, desde la prehistoria hasta el presente. Para aquellos que prefieran un estudio mas detallado, he organizado una segunda cronologia, que abarca dia a dia desde 1789 hasta 1946, dividida en cuatro colecciones.

Creative Dimensions in Weaving explains many techniques weavers can use to incorporate visual and physical depth in their woven fabric. It first looks at many familiar weave structures and transforms them into dimensional surfaces, before exploring the sculptural potential in multi-layer weaves. Aimed at weavers of all abilities, it introduces the principles and topics clearly for the novice, but provides advanced ideas and challenges for those with more experience. Richly illustrated, this thorough book encourages and inspires all weavers with four or more shafts to experiment and to understand the possibilities of adapting techniques to make ever more creative and unique work. The textural surface of cloth is often overlooked. Touching fabrics from birth, most people have an instinct for texture but would not necessarily know how to create tactile surfaces in cloth. Creative Dimensions in Weaving opens the door to various techniques that ally materials with weave structures so that many different three-dimensional surfaces can be made. Some are subtle, some more extreme but all are aimed at moving the fabric beyond the _at plane. The book shows methods, explains the reasoning behind decision-making, and gives many options for the reader to explore and incorporate in their weaving vocabulary, with examples of drafts, cloth and inspirational work from many weavers. For weavers with four shafts and more, the book offers possibilities for any level of expertise, with a particular focus for eight-shaft looms. Single cloth, double cloth with several adaptations, and multiple layers are included.

Hedges are one of Great Britains most iconic landscape features. They are the stitching in the patchwork quilt of fields and meadows that defines the countryside. Hedgelaying first developed to form living stock-proof barriers, and has always been considered an art and a skill, taking something wild and unruly and giving it order, structure and perhaps even beauty. The book examines over 25 regional styles in England and Wales, introducing local experts who proudly explain their native style and offer a wealth of informed advice.

First published in 1861, The Book of Household Management surveys the Victorian home from marketing and menu-planning to recipes, etiquette, childcare, and the sickroom. Numbered recipes, precise timings, standardized measures, seasonal charts, and costings impose a quasi-scientific order on domestic labour. Brisk, didactic, and modular in layout, it embodies mid-Victorian faith in system: a hybrid of cookbook, conduct manual, and domestic economy treatise for an ascendant middle class. Isabella Mary Beeton, working with her publisher husband, Samuel, developed this project from material serialized in The Englishwomans Domestic Magazine. Trained by journalism and acute market sense, she compiled and standardized dispersed household knowledge for aspiring mistresses managing servants and budgets. Her editorial method, often synthesizing existing sources, sought to professionalize domestic authority within the new rhythms of industrial life, despite her brief career and tragically early death. Modern readers will find both usable procedures and a key document of social history. Cooks can adapt her clear instructions; scholars of food, gender, and empire can mine its menus and margins. Choose an annotated edition to translate obsolete terms and measures; the reward is insight as well as sustenance.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The American Frugal Housewife distills early nineteenth-century domestic economy into a compact manual of recipes, household management, and moral counsel. In brisk, imperative prose, Child details economical cookery, repurposing of scraps, preserving, soap and candle making, and plain home remedies, all under the creed that thrift is a civic virtue. Rooted in New England yet national in aim, it answers early republic fears about debt and display with cornmeal porridges, apple vinegar, and careful accounts. Child, born in Massachusetts in 1802, joined literary ambition to reformist purpose: author of Hobomok, editor of the Juvenile Miscellany, and later a prominent abolitionist. Her marriage to David Lee Child brought chronic financial strain, compelling her to make letters support a household. From that lived economyand Yankee pedagogical habitsshe forged a guide for families of modest means, where prudence was both survival strategy and ethical stance. Students of American letters, womens history, and food studiesas well as readers seeking sustainable, budget-wise practicewill value this lucid primary text. Read it critically for period assumptions, and appreciatively for its intelligence, craft, and humane insistence on living within ones means. Few books show so clearly how the household can be a crucible of economy and ethics.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.