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Having always prided herself on blending in with "normal" people despite her cerebral palsy, seventeen-year-old Jean begins to question her role in the world wh

Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety--building i

Exiled from time after a failed love affair, Waldemar "Waldy" Tolliver is forced to confront a difficult betrayal and his ancestral legacy against a backdrop of

Describes how a wide variety of things such as nursery rhymes, the national anthem, anesthesia, cellophane, raisins and dynamite came into being

The 26 stories include topics for/about women, men, children, military, dogs, aviation, politics and sci-fi. Most of the stories are humorous or ironic. Some ma