Nurse Books: Career romances for young moderns… That is a great collection of book covers about nurses with 264 unique volumes. The titles aren’t so funny as the usual pulp books, however the synopsis, like the one above for Strange Triangle, make them worth it: Nurse Carol Bliss was finally going to marry the man [...]
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August 17th, 2006
Nurse Books
August 17th, 2006
1000 Nudes
Two weeks ago I was a naughty girl and bought a lovely book called 1000 Nudes – A History of Erotic Photography from 1839-1939. It was love at first sight: I look at “him” and I knew that we belong to each other. Actually, before that I knew about “him”: 1000 Nudes is a TASCHEN [...]
August 16th, 2006
Jules Verne
Before Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein and even before H. G. Wells there was Jules Verne. The French writer was a pioneer of the science-fiction genre. Verne was noted for writing about cosmic, atmospheric, and underwater travel before air travel and submarines were commonplace and before practical means of space travel had [...]
July 9th, 2006
Expressionist Films’ Party
Now you can make your own German Expressionist Film party with the videos in public domain available at Archive, thanks to K-otic (be careful with the shoutbox pop-up). The last addition was Faust, the F. W. Murnau‘s masterpiece based on the popular German tale, immortalized by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. If you never watched it [...]
June 17th, 2006
Arthur Rackham
I have no idea of how many versions, by different artists, I saw to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Lots of great works, but I didn’t remember of the almost dark and fantastic illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Rackham is often considered to be among the greatest book illustrators of all time. Major works of Arthur Rackham [...]
June 16th, 2006
Happy Bloomsday!
Happy Bloomsday Everybody! From the beginning. If you have no idea of what it is, fix it reading this article. Ok, now follow some of my suggestions to Bloomsday of last year. If you never read Ulysses and you are in the mood to start a new book, start reading it at the Project Gutenberg [...]
June 14th, 2006
Books for Cooks
Are you searching for new recipes? Try Books for Cooks! Book images, information, history and, of course, recipes, from the Medieval food until the 1900s food. This unique collection of cookery books will transport you back in time. It will take you to medieval banqueting tables laden with peacocks and pastry ships; to the medicine [...]
June 14th, 2006
Gallery of images from historic children’s books
Gallery of images from historic children’s books: from the 1760′s book A little pretty pocket-book intended for the instruction and amusement of little Master Tommy… to the 1881′s book Clever cats. The gallery could it be bigger and it could have more images, but it’s ok, I can find more images later. (via Hemaworstje) Related [...]
May 31st, 2006
The Pulp Canon: Lurid new covers for classic books
The Slate asked to a handful of designers to create lurid new book jackets for classics from The Iliad to Animal Farm. Check the results here. Yes, you got me, I can’t resist to pulp book covers. As Slate says, “Classic pulp covers are glorious and garish, rich with saturated color and sexual innuendo“, and [...]
May 30th, 2006
Turning the pages
The The British Library is doing an excellent work in a project called Turning the Pages™. Turning the Pages is the award-winning interactive program that allows museums and libraries to give members of the public access to precious books while keeping the originals safely under glass. Turning the Pages allows visitors to virtually ‘turn’ the [...]
