June 8, 2008


Kira, Alexander:
THE BATHROOM
Viking Press, New York, 1976.

A serious ergonomic design study, and the only place you'll ever find a photographic analysis of human urine-stream trajectories.

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n/a:
NARCOTIC DRUGS UNDER INTERNATIONAL CONTROL: MULTILINGUAL LIST
United Nations, Geneva, 1963.

For those occasions when you need to say "morphine sulfate" in Finnish, Arabic, or Korean.

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Davis, Jon (illus.):
TOOLS IN THE KITCHEN
Ginn & Co., London, 1974.

With many provocative illustrations of an affectless, aproned housewife wielding an apple corer, rolling pin, scissors, meat grinder...

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Milgram, Stanley, and R. Lance Shotland:
TELEVISION AND ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOR: FIELD EXPERIMENTS
Academic Press, New York, 1973.

Good news: one extra-violent episode of a prime-time melodrama won't turn you into a sociopath!

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n/a:
A KEY TO ESPERANTO
[British Esperanto Association, London, ca. 1940].

Everyone's favorite universal language, fully explicated in a humble pamphlet not much larger than a credit card.

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Vishneva-Sarafanova, N.:
SOVIET WOMEN -- A PORTRAIT
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1981.

A retired fighter pilot; the headmistress of a tractor-driving school; the winner of the Moscow Hairdressing Contest; etc.

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