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Ever heard of the Who’s Who books? They are a series of reference books published every year and they can focus on particular countries, industries, religions, etc. Well, today we had a request from a gentleman in Wisconsin requesting photocopies from every volume of Who’s Who in the Butter, Cheese and Milk Industries since the 1930’s.
Family research? Who knows… I’m just glad that these volumes actually serve a purpose from time to time.
Royal sugar sculpture : 600 years of splendour.
and
Mice in the freezer, owls on the porch : the lives of naturalists Frederick & Frances Hamerstrom.
Small Wars and Insurgencies.Published by Routledge since 1990. Features articles like:
“Red Star falling? The Soviet ’small war’ in Afghanistan,”
“Thinking the unspeakable: On cruelty in small wars,” and
“Managing Withdrawal: Afghanistan as the Forgotten Example in Attempting Conflict Resolution and State Reconstruction.”
This isn’t exactly light reading, but isn’t it nice to know that some people are actually paying attention?
Handbook of poisoning: diagnosis & treatment, by Robert H. Dreisbach. In its 8th edition, thank god.
Handbook of deep-sea hydrothermal vent fauna…and,
The Handbook of Fire Protection by the National Fire Protection Association. This was a RUSH request… I hope this lady’s house wasn’t on fire.
Physics and Chemistry of the Earth from Oxford features articles like:
“The microbiological safety of duckweed fed chickens: a risk assessment of using duckweed reared on domestic wastewater as a protein source in broiler chickens.”
“Some purposes and methods of the satellite measurements of the ignorospheric response on the solar flares.”
and
“Planetary maxima of the Earth seismicity.”
The journal is divided into three parts:
A. Solid Earth and Geodesy
B. Hydrology, Oceans, and Atmosphere
C. Solar, Terrestrial, and Planetary Science.
cool, right?
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Polskie archiwum medycyny wewne,trznej
