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Favorite NON-fiction

Ruhlen, Rachel Louise (UMC-Student) RuhlenR at missouri.edu
Sat Jan 25 13:28:02 PST 2003


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Lias [mailto:anrwlias at hotmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 8:35 AM
> To: dragaera at dragaera.info
> Subject: Favorite NON-fiction
> 
> 
> Okay, maybe favorite fiction lists have been done, but no one 
> (that I've 
> noticed) has been listing their favorite non-fiction authors 
> or works.  
> So...

Isaac Asimov (_The Human Body_ has a great quote about how, while a
girl's neck anatomically resembles a giraffe's more closely than that of
a swan, one should probably not point that out.)

Rachel Carson

Lewis Thomas (_Lives of a Cell_)

My latest favorite...
John Riddle, author of _Eve's Herbs_, a book about pre-modern
contraception.

Rachel