Zimmerly, David W.:
HOOPER BAY KAYAK CONSTRUCTION
National Museums of Canada, Ottawa, 1979.

Includes a pocket with folding blueprints!

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Schwind, Phil:
MAKING A LIVING ALONGSHORE
International Marine Publishing, Camden, ME, 1976.

Clam-digging as a career, by a cranky Yankee.

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Hudson, W.H.; and S. Magno (illus.):
BIRDS OF LA PLATA
Penguin Books, London, 1952.

Sumptuous would not be too strong a word.

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Richardson, Ernie, et al.:
CURLING
Thomas Allen Limited, Toronto, 1962.

Is it a game, or a sport?

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[n/a]:
WEATHER WAYS
Third edition. Meteorological Branch, Dept. of Transport, Toronto, 1966.

Chapter 15 is devoted to "Ice Accretion."

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deForest, Lynda:
PROUD HERITAGE: A HISTORY OF THE ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES, 1894-1972
Alumnae Association of the RVH, [Montreal], 1994.

Includes a number of yearbook-style class photos.

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Davis, Porter:
AUTO-EROTIC PRACTICES
New Enlarged Edition; Mental Health Press, New York, 1953.

The sound of one hand clapping.

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Baljeu, Joost:
ATTEMPT AT A THEORY OF SYNTHESIST PLASTIC EXPRESSION
Alec Tiranti, London, 1963.

Heady geometric art requires lots of explanation.

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Eilart, J. (ed.):
ITEMS FROM HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN THE ESTONIAN SSR
Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR, Tartu, 1971.

With words in convenient English language.

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[n/a]:
TRAINS ALBUM OF RAILROAD PHOTOGRAPHS BOOK 7: ELECTRIC RAILWAYS
Kalmbach Publishing Co., Milwaukee, 1944.

Very large photos of real trains (not the toy kind).

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Measures, Howard:
STYLES OF ADDRESS
Revised ed.; Macmillan Co., Toronto, 1962.

An archbishop, a sheik, and a chief justice all walk into a bar...

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Hackes, Sidney (comp):
DAVID'S PRACTICAL LETTERER
Thaddeus Davids Co., New York, 1903.

The way they did it before bar codes.

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Jacobson, Edmund:
YOU MUST RELAX
Revised Ed.; Whittlesey House, New York, 1942.

The philosophy and practice of fighting nervous tension.

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[Carlsberg Breweries]:
THE BOOK OF CARLSBERG
Copenhagen, 1946.

Eerily nordic: a scientific brew-factory surrounded by empty parks and palaces.

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Forberg, Fred. Chas.:
MANUAL OF CLASSICAL EROTOLOGY
Facsimile Reprint. Grove Press, New York, 1966.

All the dirty bits of the classical canon, in side-by-side translation.

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[multiple authors]
THE PERCEPTION AND APPLICATION OF FLASHING LIGHTS
University of Toronto Press, 1971.

A subject which receives less attention than it deserves.

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Cosgrove, J.J.:
SANITARY PLUMBING FIXTURES (Part 1)
Int'l Textbook Co., Scranton, PA, 1940.

The golden age of ceramic toilet design.

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Amoss, Harry:
PLAY STORY GEOGRAPHY
W.J. Gage & Co, Toronto, 1937.

Several layers of abstraction muddled into a childish narrative about map skills.

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Wichmann, Hans (ed.):
MADE IN GERMANY: PRODUKTFORM/INDUSTRIAL DESIGN/FORME INDUSTRIELLE
Peter-Winkler-Verlag, Munchen, 1966.

The icy elegance of German material culture.

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Harvey, E. Newton:
LIVING LIGHT
Princeton University Press, 1940.

What could be more unsettling than bioluminescence?

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