The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Atomic Radiation

Adafruit Industries spotted this fantastic book from 1964. There's one available on ABE.com for $7, but probably not for long.

• [Cicada]

  I wonder what the differences between this and the guide for unintelligent women would be.

• [teleny]

  It probably deals with the fact that in 1959, radioactivity from above-ground testing fallout was increasingly being found in dairy and breast milk. Odd to think that a certain birth cohort will bear on their bones, long after they’re dead, a radioactive “tattoo” telling the world that they were born in the late 50′s….

• [pho queen]

  i’d buy it for the cover art. but really, its just a bridget riley rip off, or at least highly inspired by bridget riley.

• [IWood]

  I carry all knowledge of atomic radiation in my penis. Therefore! I do not need this book.

  (also)

• [IWood]

  About Margot Bennett.

  She was a crime writer, and also wrote for television in the 60s. The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Atomic Radiation was one of the last books she published.

  Obviously, she knew too much.

• [schmod]

  Could this have been part of a series?

• [Anonymous]

  I immediately saw the cover illustration as a woman’s breast and the guide to radiation, well…I haven’t looked it up to see what it’s really about. I guess the title and the illustration was like a Rorschach tet for me.

• [Anonymous]

  this cover art exists (in slightly modified form) for another penguin book with radiation in the title. i don’t know the name off-hand, but it shouldn’t be hard to turn up.

• [Brother Provisional]

  Great cover art.

• [jennygg]

  The unintelligent woman’s guide would be the one for men!

• [Cicada]

  @#7- Yeah, that dumbass Heisenberg couldn’t even figure out how to solve for Psi…

• [Big Z]

  #5

  It’s either
  Rorschach test
  or
  Rorschach teat

• [jhorsager]

  I’m currently working on the screenplay adaption of this book. I smell Oscar…

• [hisdevineshadow]

  Alert Carrie McLaren, she obviously needs it.

• [Anonymous]

  Just an FYI – Two copies of this book can still be found on BookFinder.com for about the same price.

  http://www.bookfinder.com/search/?author=Bennett%2C+Margot&title=The+Intelligent+Woman's+Guide+to+Atomic+Radiation&lang=en&st=xl&ac=qr

• [Lobster]

  I’d be more impressed if Marie Curie wrote this.

• [Big Z]

  I posted for #5

  It’s either

  Rorschach test
  or
  Rorschach teat

• [Big Z]

  #5

  It’s either
  Rorschach test
  or
  Rorschach teat

• [Teresa Nielsen Hayden]

  Or Rosalyn Yalow.