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The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook: Community Solutions to a Global Crisis
Greg Pahl.
Publisher: Chelsea Green.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781933392127.  Daedalus Item Code: 00652
 
In the wake of weather and seismic disasters and crude oil prices soaring to all-time highs, more people than ever accept global warming as a reality, and reckon that the peak of the petrochemical ... (Read More)
 
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The Darwin Awards Countdown to Extinction
Wendy Northcutt.
Publisher: Dutton.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780525951919.  Daedalus Item Code: 31225
 
Honoring those who improve the species by accidentally removing themselves from it, the Darwin Awards has been counting down our race toward human extinction since 1993. In this fifth collection by ... (Read More)
 
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Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Unsettling, Witty Answers to Questions You Never Thought You Wanted to Ask
The Editors of New Scientist.
Publisher: Free Press.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780743297264.  Daedalus Item Code: 31093
 
How fat do you have to be to become bulletproof? Why do people have eyebrows? Can eating green potatoes really kill you? How quickly could you turn into a fossil? And why do pineapples have a hard, ... (Read More)
 
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Dog Tales
Phoebe Bowser. Lisa Parett, illus.
Publisher: Ariel Books.   Format: laminated cover.
ISBN: 9780740750519.  Daedalus Item Code: 10005
 
From doggy haikus ("Lying in the sun / Tongue hanging out / Good to be a dog.") to "Dear Dr. Phido" letters, a canine horoscope, and a "What Famous Dog Are You Most Like?" quiz, this pocketable ... (Read More)
 
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F in Exams: The Very Best Totally Wrong Test Answers
Richard Benson.
Publisher: Chronicle.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780811878319.  Daedalus Item Code: 38565
 
"F" stands for "funny" in this antidote for anyone who has ever had to struggle through a test. Richard Benson celebrates the creative side of failure in a generous collection of witty, embellished, ... (Read More)
 
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Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity
Lester R. Brown.
Publisher: Norton.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780393344158.  Daedalus Item Code: 29349
 
Food is the new oil, says Lester Brown; and land is the new gold. The author of the Plan B series of books, the president of the Earth Policy Institute, and "one of the pioneers and heroes of global ... (Read More)
 
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: The World's Oldest Joke Book
Dan Crompton, trans.
Publisher: Michael O'Mara.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781843174981.  Daedalus Item Code: 21986
 
Proving that, despite the advances of civilization, our sense of humor hasn't evolved all that much, this book presents some 240 cheeky puns, cheesy one-liners, sexual innuendoes, and more than its ... (Read More)
 
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The Guide to Baby Sleep Positions: Survival Tips for Co-Sleeping Parents
Andy Herald & Charlie Capen.
Publisher: Potter Style.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780449819876.  Daedalus Item Code: 38692
 
If you've ever slept with a baby or toddler in your bed, you will probably find a diagram of your sleepless night in this little book, whether it's the "Snow Angel" (in which Junior's flailing arms ... (Read More)
 
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How to Attract the Wombat
Will Cuppy. Ed Nofziger, illus.
Publisher: Sutton.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780750946100.  Daedalus Item Code: 13365
 
The humorist behind The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, Will Cuppy also produced three classic "How To" books, including this one. It examines curious creatures—Birds Who Can't Even ... (Read More)
 
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I'm Sorry ... My Bad!
Bradley Trevor Greive.
Publisher: Andrews McMeel.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780740773808.  Daedalus Item Code: 10008
 
"I've wanted to apologize for what seems an eternity," opines one of the furry little faces in this book of regret. "What I did was so thoughtless—worse than eating the center out of all the Oreos in ... (Read More)
 
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Ifferisms: An Anthology of Aphorisms That Begin with the Word If
Mardy Grothe.
Publisher: Collins Reference.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780061672309.  Daedalus Item Code: 22313
 
So many aphorisms—pithy, often witty observations about the human experience—begin with the word "If," that Mardy Grothe has dubbed this subcategory "ifferisms," and presents here a highly ... (Read More)
 
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Jim, Who Ran Away From His Nurse and Was Eaten By a Lion: A Cautionary Tale
Hilaire Belloc. Mini Grey, illus.
Publisher: Knopf.   Format: pop-up book.
ISBN: 9780375859700.  Daedalus Item Code: 20569
 
As much for adult fans of Edward Gorey as it is for children 8 and up with a sense of ironic humor, this mock cautionary tale by Hilaire Belloc, originally penned in 1907, is set perfectly with Mini ... (Read More)
 
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