Bookride describes a passage from a 2009 book Books Do Furnish a Room, by Leslie Geddes Brown: There is a great shot of designer Sallie Trout who built shelves in an inaccessible stairwell which she reaches by a bosun’s chair fastened to a chain hoist hanging from the ceiling above.
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Parker’s Tremendously Typical Timelines
The word “typical” applies to each of the Webster’s Timeline History books more than it does to almost any other item of any group of anything. Each of these 90,000 books – each and every one – is authored, directly or indirectly, by Philip Parker, a professor at INSEAD, the international business school in France. […]
Cepalopod beak guidebook
The British Antarctic Survey has put the entire Cephalopod Beak Guide for the Southern Ocean online, downloadable free (one entry, more mysterious than most, is reproduced below). The official description: This is an up-to-date guide to identify the squid and octopods beaks, including 3-D computer images, making this book a extremely useful tool to marine […]
Flanagan’s double-use double dactyl
From time to time we will publish double dactyls, most of them newly written for this blog (if you write good ones, send em in!). But here’s one we stumbled across. Brian Flanagan uses double dactyl form to review a book about double dactyls — and, more pointedly, to apply economic principles and also review […]