5 edition of Everyman"s rules for scientific living found in the catalog.
Everyman"s rules for scientific living
Carrie Tiffany
Published
2006
by Picador in London
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Written in English
Edition Notes
Statement | Carrie Tiffany. |
Genre | Fiction. |
Classifications | |
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LC Classifications | PR9619.4.T545 E95 2006b |
The Physical Object | |
Pagination | 255 p. : |
Number of Pages | 255 |
ID Numbers | |
Open Library | OL19715002M |
ISBN 10 | 0330437763, 0330437771 |
ISBN 10 | 9780330437776, 9780330437769 |
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On board the train are experts in various fields. One person will show you how to care for your baby. Another will show you how to sex chickens. Another will speak of cows, even providing an example of a cow that is more trouble than it’s worth.
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Fiction Literature Historical Fiction Publication Details. Carrie Tiffany was born in Yorkshire and grew up in Perth, Western Australia.
Her debut, Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living, won the Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, the Guardia More about Carrie Tiffany. Another book for Australian Literature Month hosted by Reading then you might have suspected that from the kangeroo on the right.
When I was a kid, I asked my mother, who grew up on a farm in southern Indiana what the Roaring Twenties were like for her, imagining I would hear about having lots of money, dancing the Charleston, getting her hair bobbed.
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