Rob Kaplan

Harold Rabinowitz

In an anthology of sixty entertaining and incisive essays, notable authors including John Updike, Philip Roth, Anna Quindlen, Walter Benjamins, and many others describe their pleasure in collecting, reading, and caring for books of all kinds. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Lore, and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring For, and Appreciating Books

A Passion for Books

Notable authors describe their pleasure in collecting, reading, and caring for books of all kinds

Written by experienced aviation historian Harold Rabinowitz and illustrated with stunning black-and-white and full-color photographs, Pushing the Envelope documents the dramatic rise of jet-powered airplanes and points the way to jets of the future.

Airplanes of the Jet Age

Pushing the Envelope

How U.S. Cotton is Sold for Export

Summary: Traces the history of humankind's attempts to shrug off the shackles of gravity and take to the air.

Great Moments in Aviation

Conquer the Sky

Suzanne Vogel

Much like the Chicago Manual of Style, The Manual of Scientific Style addresses all stylistic matters in the relevant disciplines of physical and biological science, medicine, health, and technology. It presents consistent guidelines for text, data, and graphics, providing a comprehensive and authoritative style manual that can be used by the professional scientist, science editor, general editor, science writer, and researcher. Scientific disciplines treated independently, with notes where variances occur in the same linguistic areas Organization and directives designed to assist readers in finding the precise usage rule or convention A focus on American usage in rules and formulations with noted differences between American and British usage Differences in the various levels of scientific discourse addressed in a variety of settings in which science writing appears Instruction and guidance on the means of improving clarity, precision, and effectiveness of science writing, from its most technical to its most popular

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