Big Little Books

Phil Nowlan and Dick Calkins, "Buck Rogers An Autobiography," in Nowlan, Calkins, and Yager, The Collected Works of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, xv-xxiii Bill Borden, with Steve Posner, The Big Book of Big Little Books (San Francisco Chronicle Books, 1997). 

Borden, Bill, with Steve Posner. The Big Book of Big Little Books. San Francisco Chronicle Books, 1997. 

In March 1610, Galileo published his amazing observations in Sidereus Nuncius (The Starry Messenger). It was a little book that made big impact. In addition to revelation about the Solar system, the Moon s cratered face and the moons of... 

What happens during hydrolysis is that the OH forms and the elemicin propyl alcohol drops out of solution and forms its own oil layer. Of course one won t see this because the solution is a big old brown mess, lousy with emulsion particles. Emulsions suck But can be dealt with effectively by adding a little acid or base, or filtration and the like. Anyway, after a little work up one gets some really pure phenylpropyl compound. And if Strike had Strike s way. Strike would have that OH stuck right on the middle (beta) carbon of the species. Work could then progress on using that OH to get an amphetamine (Sob Strike had so much about that subject that Strike was prepared to put in this book ). 

Poor Mona, I don t believe she was half as bad as she made herself out to be, an certainly from that day to this I ve never heard a complaint or a murmur cross her lips. She s been sick, too, most all the time, an there s been many a day when she d ought to be home in bed but off she d go an stand on her comer an peddle her apples because the old woman that lived with her was sicker than she an they wouldn t have no money, come rent day, unless Mona went out an earned it for em. Talk about the heroes that done such wonderful things that folks has to write whole books about em I tell you what, child, there s many a hero hid away in the dirty little side-streets and alley-ways of every big city only folks don t know about em. To my mind, Mona was one of them heroes so sweet an patient, pretty well on in years herself, an all crippled with the rheumatism, but goin out day after day to sell her apples a slavin an a killin herself for a woman a little older an a little sicker than she was. An all this because the old woman had been kind to her in her hour of greatest need. 

Isabella s book was little in size but big on advice. One recipe instructed on how to join metaphorically body, soul, and spirit in a process combining fixed camphor, quicksilver, and sulphur so as to create a universal medicine. But to this Isabella also added instruc-... 

GladweU, Malcolm. The Tipping Point How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Back Bay Books, Boston, 2002. 

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