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On Loving Animals: A Visual Study of Affection and Its Extremes
On Loving Animals: A Visual Study of Affection and Its Extremes

What in-bred pugs and retired show cats have to do with the human capacity for selflessness and solipsism.

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Tom Gauld’s Both: If Edward Gorey Did Contemporary Quirk-Comics
Tom Gauld’s Both: If Edward Gorey Did Contemporary Quirk-Comics

What a morally outraged sweetcorn kernel has to do with some not-so-bright astronauts and Mexican wrestlers.

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Comic Books for Grown-Ups: 10 Masterpieces of Graphic Nonfiction
Comic Books for Grown-Ups: 10 Masterpieces of Graphic Nonfiction

Seeing the world in six-panel strips, or what Allen Ginsberg has to do with the wonders of zygotes.

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Where Children Sleep: James Mollison’s Poignant Photographs
Where Children Sleep: James Mollison’s Poignant Photographs

What the Amazon rainforest has to do with the Kaisut Desert and Fifth Avenue luxury.

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Photography Speaks: 150 Photographers On Their Art
Photography Speaks: 150 Photographers On Their Art

What cubism and Lewis Carroll have to do with the foundations of modern photojournalism.

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Library of Dust: Reflections on Life Through the Unclaimed Dead
Library of Dust: Reflections on Life Through the Unclaimed Dead

Psychiatry’s ghosts, the poetry of the metaphysical, or what tree bark has to do with chemical corrosion.

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Future Science: Essays from the Cutting Edge
Future Science: Essays from the Cutting Edge

Going beyond biology’s limits, or how laboratory advances will change the way we think about the law.

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In The Plex: How Google Changed Our Lives and Everything Else
In The Plex: How Google Changed Our Lives and Everything Else

What red gym balls have to do with censorship, privacy and organizing all the world’s information.

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Letters to Children from Cultural Icons on the Love of Libraries
Letters to Children from Cultural Icons on the Love of Libraries

A reading manifesto from Dr. Seuss, or what space ships have to do with fairy godmothers and civil rights.

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New McSweeney’s Children’s Book Uses Thermal Ink for Secret Images
New McSweeney’s Children’s Book Uses Thermal Ink for Secret Images

Old-school storytelling gets new-school tools, or how heat-sensitive ink is giving the iPad a run for its money.

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