Cobb, Ivo Geikie:
THE GLANDS OF DESTINY
Wm. Heinemann (Medical Books), London, 1936.

The mysterious thyroid, the commanding pituitary, the urgent adrenals, the cherished gonads: apparently their secretions have determined the course of human history.

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Armstrong, Charles:
CUSACK'S MODEL DRAWING
City of London Book Depôt, [1893].

"Examples of faulty drawings are given, but lest beginners in casually glancing through the diagrams should mistake them, they are carefully branded WRONG."

<-- "What to Avoid in Drawing the Square Plinth"

Kneass, Jack:
HOW TO BUY RECREATIONAL VEHICLES
Trail-R-Club of America, Beverly Hills, 1969.

The author's previous work -- a series on California's taxation of trailers and mobile homes -- was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

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[yearbook]:
RUBICON '69
St. Michael's School of Nursing, Toronto, [1969].

Like flocks of angels: one hundred oval portraits of student nurses, floating in formations of perfect symmetry.

<-- "Graduates"

Yankowski, John S., and Hermann K. Wolff:
THE TORTURED SEX
Holloway House Publishing, Los Angeles, 1965.

"The man who engages in homosexual acts may be a mental, moral, and/or psychological cripple..."

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n/a:
SOLVENTS AND PLASTICISERS FOR THE LACQUER, ARTIFICIAL LEATHER AND RELATED INDUSTRIES
J.M. Steel & Co. Ltd., London, [ca. 1938].

Concludes with a very seductive suite of industrial photos, entitled "Apparatus Used in Testing, Making and Using Lacquers."

<-- "Can-Stirring Apparatus"