n/a:
DB AUSLANDKURSBUCH WINTER 1965/66.
Deutschen Bundesbahn, Essen, 1965.

With this comprehensive Euro-rail timetable and a pinch of imagination, you can ride a well-appointed express from Strasbourg to Paris; a haunted sleeper from Budapest to Bucharest; or a glacial milk run across Finland (Pieksämäki, Lapinlahti, Kontiomäki...).

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Hewat, A. Fergus, and G.L. Malcolm-Smith:
HEWAT'S EXAMINATION OF THE URINE AND OTHER CLINICAL SIDE-ROOM METHODS
7th Ed.; E. & S. Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1932.

A consideration of all the icky effluences, including pus, blood, sputum, feces, etc.; in compact vest-pocket format, convenient for carrying along on housecalls.

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Kaswell, Ernest R.:
WELLINGTON SEARS HANDBOOK OF INDUSTRIAL TEXTILES
Wellington Sears Co., New York, 1963.

Technical data on yarn manufacturing; the properties of man-made fibers; industrial fabric end uses; etc.

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Grant, Charles:
THE WAR GAME
A & C Black, London, 1971.

Grown men, playing with toy soldiers? Here the rules of engagement are formalized with grave precision by a credible-sounding lunatic.

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Mayle, Peter; John Thornton (phot.):
"WILL I LIKE IT?" YOUR FIRST SEXUAL EXPERIENCE: WHAT TO EXPECT, WHAT TO AVOID, AND HOW BOTH OF YOU CAN GET THE MOST OUT OF IT
Corwin Books, New York, 1977.

A recruiting manual for the sexual revolution, aimed at an adolescent readership, and written with insinuating frankness and a smarmy pop-psych tone.

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Fish, Donald:
AIRLINE DETECTIVE
Collins, London, 1962.

Sometimes a particularly potent dustjacket sets the level of expectation so high that no mere text can hope to live up to it.

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