THIS manual is, the preface informs us, “designed primarily to meet the requirements of the Education Department in the Class Subject of Domestic Economy, as laid down in the Code for 1897.” It will ...

Consider the pot cookie—the commercial, prepackaged variety brought to us by legal weed and suddenly imperiled by racist geriatrics in that other Washington. My first hit of pot, administered by the ...

THE schoolmaster in the country is just now very much in want of a text-book to guide him in giving that kind of instruction which is variously termed “nature knowledge” or “rural economy”; such ...

Have you ever wondered who invented the pencil? Or what led to the creation of the swimming pool? Object Lessons is a beautifully designed book series—published by Bloomsbury Academic—that explores ...

One of my favorite books of all time is “Oranges” by John McPhee. When I tell people this, they ask me what it’s about. “Oranges,” I say. “No, seriously; what’s it about?” “Oranges.” This is when they ...