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Built to Last: The Illustrated Secrets of Mankind’s Greatest Structures
Built to Last: The Illustrated Secrets of Mankind’s Greatest Structures

What gargoyles and mosques have to do with King Edward I and the secrets of Ancient Rome.

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Concord Free Press: Free Their Books and Their Minds Will Follow
Concord Free Press: Free Their Books and Their Minds Will Follow

Free press, priceless words, or what Paul Revere has to do with the future of grassroots publishing.

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The Lost Thing: A Whimsical Story about Belonging by Shaun Tan
The Lost Thing: A Whimsical Story about Belonging by Shaun Tan

What a bizarre, fantastical creature can teach us about human nature and social concerns.

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A Tribute to René: Haunting Motion-Graphics Homage to René Magritte
A Tribute to René: Haunting Motion-Graphics Homage to René Magritte

What a non-pipe has to do with transfixing time and tracing the roots of modern advertising.

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Linda McCartney’s Tender Photographs of The Beatles and Other Icons
Linda McCartney’s Tender Photographs of The Beatles and Other Icons

What the Queen’s speech has to do with Jimi Hendrix’s fro and John Lennon in color.

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Fuzz & Fur: Japan’s Peculiar Subculture of Fur-Suit Mascots
Fuzz & Fur: Japan’s Peculiar Subculture of Fur-Suit Mascots

What ancient Japanese castles have to do with costumed gadget-sellers and the legacy of anime.

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Spomenik: Eerie Retrofuturistic Monuments of the Eastern Bloc
Spomenik: Eerie Retrofuturistic Monuments of the Eastern Bloc

The ghosts of communism, or what alien architecture has to do with societal memory and Serbia’s mountains.

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7 Essential Books on Optimism
7 Essential Books on Optimism

What the love of honey has to do with ancient wisdom, our capacity for hope, and the future of technology.

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Slavoj Žižek’s Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in One Minute
Slavoj Žižek’s Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in One Minute

What vintage film archives have to do with electro-shocking dogs and the global economic meltdown.

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Nabokov’s Legacy: Bequeathing Butterfly Theory
Nabokov’s Legacy: Bequeathing Butterfly Theory

Getting schooled in the arts and sciences, or what literature has to do with lepidoptery.

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