I should stop peeking at ALibris or I could spend all the rent money in a trice. But I dearly love books like this, and would fill my house full of them if I could. [...]
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I love physics, and especially physics that deals with outer space or things at the atomic level. … So I really, really, really want this book. [...] Another book I want with a deep, abiding want! The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time. It’s about two friends, Jeff Deck and Benjamin D. Herson, who drove around the U.S. for a little over two months, correcting typos on commercial signs whenever the owners would let them. [...] As you probably recall, I am a light science dabbler, someone who wishes she knew a lot more and had had the chance to study her favourite scientific subjects. My main love is astronomy and astrophysics, but I’m fascinated by things at the other end of the spectrum too, in the atomic realm. As a [...] I’ve just discovered a new site I may hang out on: Fixabook. And Chronicle Books (**) also has an interesting blurb about a specific book: The Art of McSweeney’s. [...] Thanks to a Twitter contact, I’ve begun to covet more books. Not that I’d need the help, but these old books about flowers are very special. AbeBooks.com has a lovely section of gardening, horticultural, and flower books: 25 Beautiful Old Flower Books. These are a couple of my favourites: Isn’t this Rose Book just lovely? [...] I don’t know why, but I just love stuff like this. I’d really like to get American Trademarks: a Compendium, published by Chronicle Books. When you read the blurb at that site, you see that Eric Baker (who currently blogs at DesignObserver.com) and Tyler Blik originally edited a three-volume set called Trademarks, but those have [...] |
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