Dover Publications is well known for affordable reprints of some marvellous old books. The Book of Signs (by Rudolf Koch) is an example of a Dover book that's a terrific source of clip art suitable for web sites, since Dover explicitly allows the use of a certain number of illustrations from the book without permission. This note serves to provide the requested credit.

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With a provocative title like When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, you might expect George Carlin to be more down on religion in his latest book. He does have some choice words about religion, but overall, religion has a minor place in the book. Most of his rants discuss our fascination with and overuse of euphemisms. Other rants seem purposely provocative. And many comments are bluntly insightful.

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For some time, I had wanted to write about The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown, but one thing held me back. When Sylvana gave me a copy of the book for my birthday, I finally read the thing, and I no longer had an excuse.

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