Journalist Ted Botha became obsessed with mongo (defined as any discarded object that is retrieved) when he moved to New York. Decorating his apartment with the furniture and objects he found on Manhattan's streets, he soon realized he wasn't the only person finding things of value in the garbage, and he began meeting all kinds of collectors. Mongo is Botha's remarkable record of his travels among these varied and eccentric people-an appropriately addictive tribute to this longtime, universal phenomenon.
Ambling Into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush by Frank Bruni, ISBN 0060937823
The "New York Times" reporter introduces readers to a George W. Bush they have never seen--or understood--before, providing them with an eloquent, lively portrait of a man who was in many ways oddly suited to the office he sought and ended up inhabiting at a time of profound national crisis.
Ambling Into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush by Frank Bruni, ISBN 0060937823
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Trials of an Inventor: Life and Discoveries of Charles Goodyear by Bradford Peirce, ISBN 1410205452
Originally published in 1866, shortly after the death of Charles Goodyear, the remarkable history of this great man and his invention of rubber making. In addition to the technical information, this biography provides a fascinating and detailed personal and business history. His was a life of many problems, including pawning his furniture for bread, a stay in a French debtor's prison, and many other troubles.
Trials of an Inventor: Life and Discoveries of Charles Goodyear by Bradford Peirce, ISBN 1410205452
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