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Self-Help By Deborah Bigelow, Director, Leonia P.L., NJ - 05/15/2008
Aaronson, Deborah & Kevin Kwan . Luck: The Essential Guide . Collins: HarperCollins . Jun. 2008. c.288p. ISBN 978-0-06-149115-3 . pap. $19.95. SELF-HELP Just for fun comes this browsable guide that explains why certain things are considered lucky and how to partake of their real or imagined power.
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Social Sciences 05/15/2008
Anthropology & Customs Raffaele, Paul . Among the Cannibals: Adventures on the Trail of Man's Darkest Ritual . Jun. 2008. c.288p. photogs. index. ISBN 978-0-06-135788-6 . $25.95. Travis-Henikoff, Carole A. Dinner with a Cannibal: The Complete History of Mankind's Oldest Taboo . Santa Monica . 2008.
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Cookery By Judith Sutton, New York - 05/15/2008
Ayers, Charlie with Karen Alexander & Carolyn Humphries. Food 2.0: Secrets from the Chef Who Fed Google . DK . May 2008. c.256p. photogs. index. ISBN 978-0-7566-3358-5 . $25. COOKERY When Larry Page and Sergey Brin started Google, they wanted an employee cafeteria that offered healthful and delicious alternatives to the pizza and burritos on which most "Googlers" subsisted, and they hire...
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Science & Technology 05/15/2008
Agriculture Stark, Tim . Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer . Broadway . Jul. 2008. c.272p. ISBN 978-0-7679-2706-2 . $24. GARDENING On a whim, Stark started 3000 tomato seedlings in his New York City apartment, transplanted them to his parents' Pennsylvania yard, and then sold his crop at the Union Square Greenmarket in Manhattan.
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Short Takes By Savannah Schroll-Guz, formerly with Smithsonian Inst. Libs., Washington, DC - 05/15/2008
Benedict, Gerald . The Watkins Dictionary of Religions and Secular Faiths . Watkins Pub. , dist. by Sterling. 2008. c.708p. ISBN 978-1-905857-52-4 . pap. $19.96. REF In this meticulously researched lexicon of liberal theoretical breadth, Benedict (The Maya Prophecies for 2012) offers objective definitions of world religions and secular belief systems—both historical and contemporary.
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Reference 05/15/2008
Census Atlas of the United States: Census 2000 Special Reports . U.S. Census Bureau . 2008. 302p. maps. index. ISBN 978-1-58-769010-5 . $165. REF Data from decennial U.S. censuses prior to 2000 create a dramatic graphic portrait of a diverse and changing nation in this self-proclaimed "first comprehensive atlas of population and housing produced by the U.
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In the Bookroom Michael Rogers, Infotech Editor, Library Journal May 13, 2008 Indiana Jones: Golden Idol
The legend goes that in May of 1977 Steven Spielberg and George Lucas were hiding out... More
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