Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society 0316257974, 9780316257978

An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary Days 9780292792302

From Eudora Welty's memoir of childhood to May Sarton's reflections on her seventieth year, writers' jour

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The Extraordinary in The Ordinary. The Aesthetics of Everyday Life 9781551114781

This book explores the aesthetics of the objects and environments we encounter in daily life. Thomas Leddy stresses the

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Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times 9780307597960, 2017015685, 0307597962

"An exemplary biography—exhaustively researched, fair-minded and easy to read. It can nestle on the same shelf as D

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An Anthropology of Landscape: The Extraordinary in the Ordinary 9781911307433, 9781911307457, 9781911307440, 9781911307464, 9781911307488, 9781911307471

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Extraordinary Ordinary Forgiveness 9781846945588

In mid argument with a loved one, as we stand unfairly accused, we would much rather be right than happy. As practising

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12 Commandments: For Extraordinary People To Master Ordinary Life 9789152748626

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Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s 0195050010, 9780195050011

How did people live during Stalin's reign? This book does a fairly good job of explaining. Hardly an apologetic pie

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Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s 9780198021698, 0198021690

Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by a leading authority on modern Russian history. Fo

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An Extraordinary Ordinary Woman: The Journal of Phebe Orvis, 1820-1830 1438464975, 9781438464978

In 1820, Phebe Orvis began a journal that she faithfully kept for a decade. Richly detailed, her diary captures not only

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Wonder: The Extraordinary Power of an Ordinary Experience 9781350085152, 9781350085183, 9781350085169

This book is dedicated to wonder and wondering, mundane phenomena that, despite their great value for education and othe

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