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| Accidental Inventions: The Chance Discoveries That Changed Our Lives
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Birgit Krols.
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| Publisher: Insight. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781608870738. Daedalus Item Code: 31012 |
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| As difficult as it might be to imagine a world without Coca-Cola, Post-it notes, or Velcro, these inventions have one thing in common: they were invented accidentally, usually while trying to develop ... (Read More)
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| The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012
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Dave Eggers, ed. Ray Bradbury, intro.
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| Publisher: Mariner. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780547595962. Daedalus Item Code: 31543 |
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| For 2012, the highly popular annual contribution to the Best American series from McSweeney's editor and part-time pirate Dave Eggers features an introduction by the late Ray Bradbury on the ... (Read More)
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| The Accidental Assassin
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Jan Toms.
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| Publisher: History Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780752462707. Daedalus Item Code: 31341 |
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| A 37-year-old tax inspector who lives by himself, Victor Green is the sort of man who irons his underpants. When he receives a letter from the council telling him to prune a lime tree in his front ... (Read More)
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| Bon Mots, Wisecracks, and Gags: The Wit of Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, and the Algonquin Round Table
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Robert E. Drennan, ed. Heywood Hale Broun, intro.
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| Publisher: Skyhorse. Format: flexi-binding.
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| ISBN: 9781616087135. Daedalus Item Code: 31807 |
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| For more than a decade following World War I, the dining room of New York's Algonquin Hotel was a hub of letters and wit. Cocktails were swilled as the writers, humorists, actors, and critics of the ... (Read More)
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| Weedopedia: A Totally Dank A-Z Reefer Reference
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Will B. High.
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| Publisher: Adams Media. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781440506451. Daedalus Item Code: 30243 |
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| There's more to marijuana than smoking it, says dedicated aficionado "Will B. High," who here describes a remarkably diverse marijuana culture in more than 800 entries, covering everything from ... (Read More)
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| The Little Red Book of New York Wisdom
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Ed Koch. Gregg Stebben & Jason Katzman, eds.
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| Publisher: Skyhorse. Format: laminated cover.
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| ISBN: 9781616083724. Daedalus Item Code: 30825 |
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| "I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them," former New York mayor Ed Koch famously quipped, and here he pilots a book full of such Big Apple chutzpah, refreshingly blunt observations, and eloquent ... (Read More)
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| The Rejection Collection Vol.2: The Cream of the Crap
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Matthew Diffee, ed.
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| Publisher: Simon Spotlight. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781416934011. Daedalus Item Code: 30966 |
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| He's at it again. Unable to let sleeping dogs lie, New Yorker cartoon editor Matthew Diffee gives us more of the best of the not-quite-good-enough, otherwise known as "the cream of the crap," ... (Read More)
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| Skewered!: The Rudest Food Reviews
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Michelle Lovric, ed.
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| Publisher: Chicago Review. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781556526510. Daedalus Item Code: 31193 |
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| Even before Goldilocks made saucy remarks about her purloined porridge, people have been offering unflattering commentary on the victuals proffered, from Mark Twain ("The food would create an ... (Read More)
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General Non-Fiction
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F in Exams: The Very Best Totally Wrong Test Answers
Richard Benson.
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The Darwin Awards Countdown to Extinction
Wendy Northcutt.
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Animals Behaving Badly: Boozing Bees, Cheating Chimps, Dogs with Guns, and Other Beastly True Tales
Linda Lombardi. Kevin Sherry, illus.
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The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Book
Robert Mankoff, intro.
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Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Unsettling, Witty Answers to Questions You Never Thought You Wanted to Ask
The Editors of New Scientist.
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Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head & Other Drawings
B. Kliban.
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Monty Python Live!: The Never-Before-Told Story of Six and a Half Men and a Girl on the Road
Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. Eric Idle, ed.
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Jim, Who Ran Away From His Nurse and Was Eaten By a Lion: A Cautionary Tale
Hilaire Belloc. Mini Grey, illus.
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The Amazing Book of Useless Information: More Things You Didn't Need to Know But Are About to Find Out
Noel Botham & the Useless Information Society.
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Mental_Floss: Scatterbrained: Connecting the World in 486 Mind-Blowing Facts
Will Pearson, Mangesh Hattikudur & John Green, eds.
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