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The age of comfort : when Paris discovered casual--and the modern home began by DeJean, Joan E.

Table of Contents: “…A short history of modern comfort -- An architecture of comfort -- The bathroom -- The flush toilet -- Heating -- Easy seats -- Convenience furniture -- 1735 : architect-designed seating begins -- The original interior decorators and the comfortable room -- The bedroom -- The boudoir -- Dressing for comfort -- The fabric of their lives -- The comfortable body -- Coda : l'art de vivre.…”
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Chinese village life today : building families in an age of transition by Santos, Gonçalo D.

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / by Charles Stafford -- Introduction: Building families in an age of transition -- Harmony Cave families : transition to the twenty-first century -- Love and marriage : the challenge of scientific birth planning -- Women and childbirth : the ambiguities of high-tech medicalization -- Grandparents and labor migration : technologies of multiple mothering -- Flush toilets : the politics of material civilization -- Popular religion : technologies of ethical imagination.…”
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Way down in the hole : race, intimacy, and the reproduction of racial ideologies in solitary confinement by Hattery, Angela

Table of Contents: “…The Flipped Script: TVs, Trays, and [Flush] Toilets -- 40. Not Always in Sync: The Job of the CO and the Work of the CO -- 41. …”
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History of Technology Volume 22. by Hollister-Short, Graham

Table of Contents: “…Notes and ReferencesSummer Breeze and Flushing Toilet: Deception and Reality about Our Technical Past; 1. …”
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The origin of feces : what excrement tells us about evolution, ecology, and a sustainable society by Waltner-Toews, David, 1948-

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