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  • Tea at the Blue Lantern Inn

    A Social History of the Tea Room Craze in America

    de Jan Whitaker ...
    "A delightful tour of the tearooms that dotted the nation in the first half of the twentieth century . . . [an] irresistible slice of American popular culture." — BooklistThe Gypsy Tea Kettle. Polly's Cheerio Tea Room. The Mad Hatter. The Blue Lantern Inn. These are just a few of the many tea rooms—most owned and operated by women—that popped up across America at the turn of the last century, and ... Leer más

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  • Service and Style

    How the American Department Store Fashioned the Middle Class

    de Jan Whitaker ...
    A comprehensive history of America's downtown department stores and their influence on culture and society—from careers and consumerism to technology.From Boston to San Diego and Miami to Seattle, department stores symbolized a city's spirit, wealth, and progressiveness. Situated at busy intersections, they occupied the largest and finest downtown buildings, and their massive corner clocks became ... Leer más

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  • THE QUIET CONFIDENT JOURNAL OF AFFIRMATIONS

    UNSTOPPABLE YOU

    Unstoppable You is a Guided Journal of affirmations designed to help readers build deep, lasting, and quiet confidence from within. Instead of Loud, external validation, this journal will help to give you an “Unstoppable” mindset through self-reflection, gratitude, and powerful affirmations, allowing individuals to transform self-doubt into self-love and resilience. The Quiet Confidence’ Approach ... Leer más

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  • The Right People

    The Social Establishment in America

    An enlightening and entertaining inside look at the lifestyles of America's extremely wealthy from the bestselling author of "Our Crowd"It's no secret that the rich are different from the rest of us. But the rich, as author Stephen Birmingham so insightfully points out, are also different from the very rich. There's Society, and then there's Real Society, and it takes multiple generations for ... Leer más

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  • The Man Who Ate Too Much

    The Life of James Beard

    de John Birdsall ...
    **A Finalist for the 2022 James Beard Foundation Cookbook Award (Writing)The definitive biography of America’s best-known and least-understood food personality, and the modern culinary landscape he shaped.**In the first portrait of James Beard in twenty-five years, John Birdsall accomplishes what no prior telling of Beard’s life and work has done: He looks beyond the public image of the "Dean of ... Leer más

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  • Cubed

    A Secret History of the Workplace

    de Nikil Saval ...
    You mean this place we go to five days a week has a history? Cubed reveals the unexplored yet surprising story of the places where most of the world's work—our work—gets done. From "Bartleby the Scrivener" to The Office, from the steno pool to the open-plan cubicle farm, Cubed is a fascinating, often funny, and sometimes disturbing anatomy of the white-collar world and how it came to be the way it ... Leer más

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    Ideas About Cities

    In this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and Slate architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing about the way people live, just as he did in the acclaimed bestsellers Home and A Clearing in the Distance. In Makeshift Metropolis, Rybczynski has drawn upon a lifetime of observing cities to craft a concise and insightful book that is at once an ... Leer más

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  • What Would Mrs. Astor Do?

    The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age

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    This illustrated Gilded Age etiquette guide offers "proof that sliding around the naughty edges of society can be as informative as it is entertaining." (Alida Becker, The New York Times Books Review)Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age. Between 1870 and 1900, the United States' population doubled, accompanied by an unparalleled industrial expansion and an explosion of wealth. America was the ... Leer más

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  • The Company I Keep

    My Life in Beauty

    In hismuch-anticipated memoir, The Company I Keep: My Life inBeauty, Chairman Emeritus and former CEO of The Estée LauderCompanies Leonard A. Lauder shares the business and life lessons he learned aswell as the adventures he had while helping transform the mom-and-pop businesshis mother founded in 1946 in the family kitchen into the beloved brand andultimately into the iconic global prestige ... Leer más

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