Category: Health and Safety
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You Can Survive the Atomic Bomb!
How to Survive an Atomic Bomb Gerstell 1950 My generation was taught to hide under our school desk in order to dodge “the Bomb”. Every school kid practiced civil defense drills, just like a fire drill. Evidently your average school desk is resistant to atomic rays. This book contains lots…
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Fix Your Nerves with Jesus
How to have Freedom from Fear, Worry and Your Case of Nerves Allen 1954 Isn’t this cover awesome in its awfulness? I think the best part is if you are free from worry, one half of your face will be smooth and young looking. This little number came from a…
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Isn’t Depression Cute?
How to Beat the Blahs Littauer 1979 As a long sufferer of the “blahs”, this book is beyond awful. For the time, this was probably how most folks thought about depression. Basically, with a little lipstick and a new outfit, you can beat depression. You just need to grab those…
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Down with the Sickness
Germs make me sick: A Health Handbook for Kids Donahue and Capellaro 1975 Submitter: This is a cute little book, that sadly is very out of date. Although I am no longer working in a public library, I have to imagine people would be asking for information on Enterovirus D-68…
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Biology Coloring Book
The Biology Coloring Book Griffin 1986 Submitter: I am starting at a PreK-8 small private school with a media center jam packed with gems like this. I’m not entirely sure what the focus of this book is or how it got into the collection. It’s not necessarily a bad book.…
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Your Friday Funny: Nuclear War Fun Book
The Nuclear War Fun Book Langer and Thomas 1982 Didn’t have any cool fiction to share this week, but I did find this in my pile of weird books. I really didn’t expect to find this book still hanging around in a library, but I was wrong. WorldCat has a…
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