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Coffee,
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fashionable beverages profoundly shaped modes of sociability and
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Coffee,
tea, and chocolate were all the rage in Enlightenment Europe. These
fashionable beverages profoundly shaped modes of sociability and
patterns of consumption, yet none of the plants required for their
preparation was native to the continent: coffee was imported from
the Levant, tea from Asia, and chocolate from Mesoamerica. Their
introduction to 17th-century Europe revolutionized drinking habits
and social customs. It also spurred an insatiable demand for
specialized vessels such as hot beverage services and tea canisters,
coffee cups and chocolate pots.
This
book contains over 500 color photos, displaying a wide range of
cameras produced from the earliest days of photography to the rise
of the digital age. The informative text provides a history of
cameras, organized into chapters by various camera types, including
snapshot, folding, rangefinder, single lens reflex, twin lens
reflex, stereo, panoramic, miniature, and spy cameras. Cameras
within each chapter are arranged chronologically to show the
The
author focuses on a British craftsmen, such as William Morris
and Charles Rennie Mackintosh, who turned their backs on the
mass production of the Industrial Revolution to form a ‘Round
Table’ in order to establish a means of returning to
hand-crafted products.
In
the 1920s and 1930s the Art Deco style influenced everything
from art and architecture, interiors and furnishings,
automobiles and boats to the small, personal objects that were
part of everyday life: Featuring high-quality photography and
vintage illustrations and ephemera, this book brings these
objects to life in exquisite detail for the first time. The
objects in this themed book encompass the Deco style at its most
alluring, as well as the modernity, excitement, and social
revolution of the Jazz Age. 
Featuring
over 400 outstanding color photographs and 130 black and white
illustrations, this thoroughly researched and visually exciting
book covers more than 100 years in the history of Carnival
Glass. The creation of classic American Carnival Glass took the
world by storm in the early 1900s, bringing color and beauty in
the form of iridized glass to homes everywhere. The book
features detailed information on over 500 Carnival
patterns--plus shapes, colors, and values..
The
Fun Guide to Collecting Casino Chips is an all around primer for
anyone wanting to know more about the exciting world of casino
chips, cheques,, tokens and everything else gambling related.
Over 100 pages of information, photos, stories and advice from
someone with 30 years of chip collecting. Learn all about how
chips are manufactured, controlled, replaced and designed. Maybe
its dice you want to know about, or matchbooks or postcards.
They're all in here with tips and how-to practical information
on every aspect of collecting.
