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{ [ BUILD A BETTER MOUSETRAP: MAKE CLASSIC INVENTIONS, DISCOVER YOUR PROBLEM SOLVING GENIUS, AND TAKE THE INVENTOR'S CHALLENGE ] } Kassinger, Ruth G ( AUTHOR ) Aug-19-2002 Paperback

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Ruth Kassinger

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Ruth Kassinger is the award-winning author of eight science and history books for young adults. In addition, her science and health writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, National Geographic Explorer, Health magazine, Science Weekly, and other publications.

Ruth Kassinger's most recent book—her first for an adult audience—is Paradise Under Glass: An Amateur Creates A Conservatory Garden. She chronicles her journey through a midlife crisis by creating a conservatory at her suburban home. Her adventures of her transformation from brown thumb to green, she weaves the history of conservatories from Renaissance orangeries to glass palaces like Kew to today's high-tech plant nurseries in Florida.

Ruth Kassinger lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with her husband, a West Highland terrier, and dozens of tropical plants and trees.

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