Reich, Edward, and Carlton John Siegler:
CONSUMER GOODS: HOW TO KNOW AND USE THEM
American Book Company, New York, 1937.

In late-stage capitalism, the highly informed shopper is a moral equal to the scholar or the priest.

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n/a:
WELCOME ABOARD AMERICAN ASTROJET
American Airlines, [n.p.], 1961.

This in-flight brochure for the jet set addresses pressing concerns ranging from the efficiency of fan-jet engines to the physical dimensions of stewardesses.

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Allen, Ellen Gordon:
JAPANESE FLOWER ARRANGEMENT IN A NUTSHELL
Charles E. Tuttle, Rutland, VT, 1961.

Don't let yourself be duped like we were -- you're actually supposed to arrange the flowers in a vase or bowl.

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Storm, Wayne:
INTERNATIONAL MONEY POWER BEHIND WORLD REVOLUTION
Storm Publishing, Shreveport, LA, 1966.

Why are the illustrations in anti-Semitic conspiracy literature always rendered so ineptly? Does pathological paranoia interfere with a person's ability to draw?

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Chevalier, Denys:
CAR STRIPTIZA
Slavko Krušnik, Ljubljana, 1971.

Titillating, pretentious, opaque: the Slovenian edition of a French photo-illustrated study of strippers (original title: "Métaphysique du Strip-Tease").

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Smith, James Reuel:
SPRINGS AND WELLS OF MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX [etc.]
New-York Historical Socity, 1938.

Another laudable obsession: from 1898 to 1901, the author bicycled all over New York City to measure and photograph its surviving mineral springs and wells.

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