A list of the 20 books I found today, “bargain day” at the county library book sale. Total price: $2.00.
1. The Practical Cogitator: The Thinker’s Anthology
2. Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
3. Say It with Figures, 6th ed. (“A New Edition of the Classic Work in the Field of Social Sciences”)
4. Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
5. Studs Terkel, The Great Divide: Second Thoughts on the American Dream
6. Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
7. Einstein’s Moon: Bell’s Theorem and the Curious Quest for Quantum Reality
8. The Grown-Up’s Guide to Running Away
9. H.R. Hays, From Ape to Angel (“Exploring the folkways, mores, totems, and taboos of primitive peoples past and present ….”)
10. Richard Russo, Empire Falls
11. The Plant Kingdom
12. The Sky Observer’s Guide: A Golden Handbook
13. Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
14. Story Earth: Native Voices on the Environment
15. Christopher Buckley, Boomsday
16. Charles Allen Edmondson, Seashore Treasures (1st Printing, 1949)
17. John Allen Paulos, Innumeracy
18. Teach Yourself Body Language (2d ed.)
19. Dana S. Lamb, Where the Pools Are Bright and Deep (1973)
20. In Bed With the Wrangler (Desire Series)
Can you tell I spent a lot of time in the nature and science section?
