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Posted on entry Elf Help, a Parlor Bookstore Game ::: June 30, 2009, 06:30 PM:
Environmental Health and green issues section,

Starting an organic garden, "Farmer in the Sky" by Robert Heinlein.

For weed control in your organic garden - "The Day of the Triffids" by John Wyndam.

Pest control in urban areas, "Rats" by Frank Herbert.
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Problems of cross-cultural adoptions = "Stranger in a Strange Land," Robert Heinlein

"The Midwich Cuckoos" John Wyndam

and several helpful books dealing with close cross-cultural relationships by Philip Jose Farmer,
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A new look at Freudian beliefs in a religious context. "Pyramids" by Terry Pratchett.

More seriously, a number of the Terry Pratchett books are useful for bibliotherapy.

I would also strongly and seriously recommend a book about language, social structure, gender issues and relationships, "Native Tongue" by Suzette Haden Elgin, (in the British Edition by Femina press; this issue has a sampler of the artifical language that is the subject of the book, and the book would be well worth buying just for that sampler.)
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Posted on entry In Brooklyn, about a mile south of us ::: June 14, 2009, 05:16 PM:
There is a kosher Chinese restaurant in Golders Green, London. That must be a real cultural mix, too - but it's too expensive for me ever to have tried the food.
Posted on entry The man who saved the world ::: September 26, 2008, 07:52 PM:


Until I read this I'd have said that 1983 was not a good year, for me. Britain was in a bad economic state and decisions were forced on me that led to my losing my career and spending 5 years in severe pain.

I had not heard this story before.

I don't think this area would have been a prime target. How much radiation we'd have got initially might have depended on wind direction. We'd have been saturated with it eventually, of course.

Thank you, Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov (and thank God for you.)

I agree that this day should be an international holiday. Would readers blogging the link to this story be a good start?
Posted on entry The Ball of Kirriemuir ::: September 14, 2008, 05:49 AM:
Oh the plums are in the icebox,
but they're not so cool and nice.
They're made into American Pie,
with lots of extra spice...

(Chorus)
Posted on entry The Ball of Kirriemuir ::: September 13, 2008, 09:04 PM:
Oh Nanny Ogg was there as well
a'skyclad in the coven.
She said, now don't tell Esme,
for she's never one for lovin'

singing, who'll slash ye this time ...

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