9780743272865-0743272862-Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House

Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House

ISBN-13: 9780743272865
ISBN-10: 0743272862
Edition: Reprint
Author: Cheryl Mendelson
Publication date: 2005
Publisher: Scribner
Format: Paperback 896 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780743272865
ISBN-10: 0743272862
Edition: Reprint
Author: Cheryl Mendelson
Publication date: 2005
Publisher: Scribner
Format: Paperback 896 pages

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Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (ISBN-13: 9780743272865 and ISBN-10: 0743272862), written by authors Cheryl Mendelson, was published by Scribner in 2005. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.56.

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The classic bestselling resource for every American home. Choosing fabrics, cleaning china, keeping the piano in tune, making a good fire, folding a fitted sheet, setting the dining room table, keeping surfaces free of food pathogens, watering plants, removing stains -- Home Comforts addresses the meanings as well as the methods of hands -- on housekeeping to help you manage everyday chores, find creative solutions to modern domestic dilemmas, and enhance the experience of life at home.
Further topics include: Making up a bed with hospital corners, Expert recommendations for safe food storage, Reading care labels (and sometimes carefully disregarding them), Keeping your home free of dust mites and other allergens, Home safety and security, A summary of laws applicable to the home, including privacy, accident liability, contracts, and domestic employees and more in this practical, good-humored, historic, philosophical, even romantic, guidebook to the art of household management.

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