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The 3D Type Book: A Typographic Treasure
The 3D Type Book: A Typographic Treasure

What wire fences have to do with noodle soup and the male reproductive system.

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Everything Is Going To Be OK: Aesthetic Anesthesia for the Soul
Everything Is Going To Be OK: Aesthetic Anesthesia for the Soul

An antidote to cynicism by way of typography, or what it’s all right to have everything you want.

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Why We Love: Five Revelatory Books on the Psychology of the Heart
Why We Love: Five Revelatory Books on the Psychology of the Heart

What Oscar Wilde has to do with Hippocrates and the neurochemistry of romance.

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5 (More) Children’s Books for Grown-Ups
5 (More) Children’s Books for Grown-Ups

What escaping boredom has to do with altruism theory and the Egyptian revolution.

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Gilbert Tuhabonye on Genocide, Running and Forgiveness
Gilbert Tuhabonye on Genocide, Running and Forgiveness

What the human capacity for evil has to do with the divine gift of joy.

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How Cancer Became Cancer and What Its Future Holds: A Pulitzer-Winning Biography of the Dreaded Disease
How Cancer Became Cancer and What Its Future Holds: A Pulitzer-Winning Biography of the Dreaded Disease

A comprehensive and eloquent scientific and sociocultural history of the ubiquitous disease wins the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction.

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Quakebook: Twitter-Sourced Anthology for and by Japan
Quakebook: Twitter-Sourced Anthology for and by Japan

What Yoko Ono, William Gibson and Kings of Leon have in common.

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The Ancient Book of Myth and War
The Ancient Book of Myth and War

What Roman warriors have to do with Pixar and medieval Middle-Eastern legends.

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A Brief History of the Pun
A Brief History of the Pun

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Bent Objects: The Secret Life of Everyday Things
Bent Objects: The Secret Life of Everyday Things

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