At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Bill Bryson

nonfiction history challenging funny informative slow-paced

605 pages | first published 2010

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From the author of that classic of modern science writing, A Short History of Nearly Everything, comes a work of what you might call domestic science: our homes, how they work, and the fascinating history of how they got that way. Bill Bryson a...
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