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Breaking In: Advice from 100 Advertising Rockstars
Breaking In: Advice from 100 Advertising Rockstars

Phoenix from the ashes of advertising, or what the big idea has to do with collaboration.

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Edward Burtynsky’s Oil
Edward Burtynsky’s Oil

What vintage airplanes have to do with Chinese bridges and tire retirement.

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The Language of Graphic Design
The Language of Graphic Design

100 years of visual communication on a silver platter.

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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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Tina Fey Makes Google’s Eric Schmidt Really, Really Uncomfortable
Tina Fey Makes Google’s Eric Schmidt Really, Really Uncomfortable

What ladyparts have to do with Mark Twain and making Google blush.

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Writer’s Block in Stop-Motion, Shakespeare-Style
Writer’s Block in Stop-Motion, Shakespeare-Style

What Romeo and Juliette have to do with William Shatner and modern justice.

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Tweets from Tahrir: Rare Record of a Revoltuion
Tweets from Tahrir: Rare Record of a Revoltuion

What Gladwell’s fallacies have to do with changing media models and political paradigms.

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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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