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...infinitely varied floral array to be found in jungles, pampas, steppes and deserts. Hodge's text, despite a deplorable text layout, is as clear as it is authoritative. And the work of the 68 superb photographers who contributed to the collection has no equal on any bookshelf anywhere...
...book business flourished, scores of manuals pouring forth to soothe and lead the nouveau riche nervously forward to some kind of presentability. Some of the rules were quite exquisite then; one writer advised that books by male and female authors should never be placed side by side on a bookshelf...
...manila pieces of papers from right to left so later it can be read from left to right. He is majoring in Spanish--a subject he says he doesn't plan to do anything with, but he wanted very much to learn a language. Large brown folders on his bookshelf containing big sheets of paper are his Spanish dictionary, and underneath that are piles of tapes that are mailed to him on request by a non-profit foundation in New York. If he's lucky, he can get tapes of most of his books, but this year...
...Second Whole Kids Catalog (Bantam; $7.50), by Peter Cardozo, belongs on any whole kid's bookshelf. No matter what his or her interest-or obsession-this fat paperback has an entry to satisfy it. Like the first Whole Kids Catalog (1975), its encore lists scores of free items that children can send away for-posters, coloring books, even games. Is the child a budding conjuror? Self-Working Card Tricks are only a postage stamp (plus $1.50) away, as well as membership in the Young Magicians Club. Kids into cartoons and photography can study film animation, make paper movie machines...
...which don't stray far from the classic rock and roll love-them-and-leave-them (and occasionally be left by them) basics. But they are musicians who produce a great original sound and, in this age of the art rock and the message rock that you need a bookshelf full of mystical treatises to understand, that is something...