Today and Tomorrow Volume 5 Home, Clothes and Food: Laret et Penates or the Home of the Future Lucullus the Food of the Future Narcissus an Anatomy of [Hardcover]

Volume 5: Lares et Penates, or the Home of the Future

H J Birnstingl

Originally published in 1928.

very careful summary. Times Literary Supplement

&his book undoubtedly gives a better understanding of the subject than any other& Saturday Review

This volume considers the labour-saving movement, the ideal house, the influence of women, the servant problem and the relegation of aesthetic considerations to the background.

88pp

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Lucullus, or the Food of the Future

Olgar Hartley and C F Leyel

Originally published in 1926.

&a clever and witty little volume. Times Literary Supplement

Opens with a brilliant picture of modern man, living in a vacuum-cleaned, steam-heated, credit-furnished suburban mansion with the wolf of hunger in his basement& Spectator

As relevant today as it was when first published this volume examines the issues of feeding an increasing world population, food miles, organic food and vegetarianism, among other things.

88pp

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Narcissus, an Anatomy of Clothes

Gerald Heard

Originally published in 1924.

&an interesting tour-de-force. Time Magazine

In this pioneering study, full of unexpected insights,
Gerald Heard shows that in clothes we are stl#…