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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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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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Own a Warhol for $5: Warhol’s Obscure 1959 Children’s Book
Own a Warhol for $5: Warhol’s Obscure 1959 Children’s Book

Priceless art at a petty price, or what spades have to do with the secret nooks of the art world.

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Ethnic Diversity in Russia 100 Year Ago, Restored in Color
Ethnic Diversity in Russia 100 Year Ago, Restored in Color

From peasants to emirs, or nomads have to do with the political cornerstones of world history.

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A Brief History of Film Title Sequence Design in 2 Minutes
A Brief History of Film Title Sequence Design in 2 Minutes

What elementary school geometry has to do with the cornerstones of creativity in cinema.

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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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Driving with Plato: Life Lessons from History’s Greatest Minds
Driving with Plato: Life Lessons from History’s Greatest Minds

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The Book of Symbols: Carl Jung’s Catalog of the Unconscious
The Book of Symbols: Carl Jung’s Catalog of the Unconscious

Why Sarah Palin identifies with the grizzly bear, or what the unconscious knows but doesn’t reveal.

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7 (More) Little-Known Children’s Books by Celebrated Authors of Literature for Grownups
7 (More) Little-Known Children’s Books by Celebrated Authors of Literature for Grownups

What a magical car engine has to do with social justice, a parrot named Arturo and the history of jazz.

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Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight
Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight

What Bob Dylan has to do with civic pride and Ancient Rome’s views on the purpose of art.

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