'I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy ways...' For tips on how to be a goddess of domesticity, a modern-day Beeton and a purveyor of familial joy, look no further than this miscellany of hints on cookery from the Victorians.
'There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them' 'How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue' If you want to make like Elizabeth Bennet and live happily ever after with a man who owns half of Derbyshire, then arm yourself with this Austen-tatious guide to flirting and courtship. SELLING POINTS: Will appeal to those who enjoyed 'Sex Tips for Husbands and Wives from 1894', ISBN: 9781840247022 and 'Advice on Courtship and Marriage', ISBN: 9781840247732 ILLUSTRATIONS b/w illustrations
To celebrate the two-hundredth anniversary of Charles Dickens' birth in 1812, What Would Dickens Do? brings together the thoughts of some of his best-loved and most-maligned characters, as well as his own opinions, and answers age-old questions which continue to perplex the finest minds of today: 'Can destiny be changed?', 'Is society in decline?', and 'How should you celebrate your freedom after being stuck in a chimney?' If you find yourself facing hard times, trying to deal with other people's great expectations, or going home every night to a bleak house, look inside for words of comfort and guidance from one of the greatest writers of all time. About the Author
Apollo is a photographic commemoration of the Apollo lunar missions as seen through the eyes of the astronauts. Each of the surviving 21 astronauts from the Apollo missions has chosen a favorite photograph from his space flight especially for this book. These selections are accompanied by other iconic photographs from the Apollo missions. Bestselling astrophysicist Stephen Hawking and his daughter Lucy Hawking contribute a foreword on the meaning of the space exploration. July 20, 2009, marks the 40th anniversary of the first manned landing on the Moon by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin of Apollo 11 . Apollo is the only photographic book on the Apollo missions to be created by NASA, and is the perfect commemorative volume about this epochal program, where legendary achievement was recorded in powerful images.