Bernhard-Smith, A.:
POISONOUS PLANTS OF ALL COUNTRIES
Baillière, Tindall & Cox, London, 1923.

A discreet poisoner's handbook is a suggestive piece of evidence when carried by a quietly homicidal librarian.

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Rutsch, Edward S.:
SMOKING TECHNOLOGY OF THE ABORIGINES OF THE IROQUOIS AREA OF NEW YORK STATE
Associated University Presses, Cranbury, NJ, 1973.

Plain-bore stone tubes; clay basket-bowl pipes; platform pipes; open-mouthed effigies; and hundreds of other artifacts designed to encourage the inhalation of hot smoke.

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Nogina, O.P.:
MOTHER AND CHILD CARE IN THE USSR
Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1950.

The heroic story of industrial-scale nurseries, "guided by the wise Stalin policy." Many photos.

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Lefas, Jean:
PHYSIOGNOMY, THE ART OF READING FACES
Ariane Books, Barcelona, 1975.

As science, it's highly suspect; but there's no question that noses, chins, squints, and scowls offer an uncomplicated pictorial pleasure.

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Kernaleguen, Anne:
CLOTHING DESIGNS FOR THE HANDICAPPED
University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, 1978.

A subject of unassailable earnestness, capable of inflicting painful empathy. Spiral bound in highly defensive plastic covers; illustrated with many photos and patterns.

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Hagemann, Otto:
DAS NEUE GESICHT BERLINS
Arani Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin, 1959.

Post-historical European metropolis emerges from cataclysmic war: an austere cityscape of modernist rectangles. Beautiful photos; text in German.

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