One-Word Wonders
NPR has a nice piece about books that are "micro-histories, books that explore a specific -- sometimes absurdly so -- subject in depth."
Some of the fascinating ones already out there are:
Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance, by Henry Petroski
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach
I really like this idea, so I thought of some more that should be out there:
Barney - A History of Pooing on the White House Lawn
Jenna - An Expose of What Your Daughters Are Really Up To
Nu-ku-ler - A Syllogism of Waging War Against Proper Pronunciation
Home-erectus - A Summation of What it Takes to be a White House Reporter
If you guys can think of any others, please, feel free to add them in the comments!
Some of the fascinating ones already out there are:
Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance, by Henry Petroski
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach
I really like this idea, so I thought of some more that should be out there:
Barney - A History of Pooing on the White House Lawn
Jenna - An Expose of What Your Daughters Are Really Up To
Nu-ku-ler - A Syllogism of Waging War Against Proper Pronunciation
Home-erectus - A Summation of What it Takes to be a White House Reporter
If you guys can think of any others, please, feel free to add them in the comments!
posted by cookie christine @ 3/24/2005
1 Comments:
At March 24, 2005,
Anonymous said…
"Compassionate" - Feeling somewhere in the far recesses of your head that what you are doing, however harmful to real people, is for a concept you hold of the "greater good," even if that good seems to acrue only to the wealthy people that paid for your campaign.
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