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Pioneering 19th-Century Astronomer Maria Mitchell on Education and Women in Science
Pioneering 19th-Century Astronomer Maria Mitchell on Education and Women in Science

“No woman should say, ‘I am but a woman!’ But a woman! What more can you ask to be?”

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The Freedom of the Press: George Orwell on the Media’s Toxic Self-Censorship
The Freedom of the Press: George Orwell on the Media’s Toxic Self-Censorship

“The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.”

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How Beloved Chef and Entrepreneur Julia Child Conquered the World: An Illustrated Life Story
How Beloved Chef and Entrepreneur Julia Child Conquered the World: An Illustrated Life Story

“Oh, nuts! I burned the sauce.”

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Stunning Illustrations for Irish Myths and Legends
Stunning Illustrations for Irish Myths and Legends

“I have wished to become a child again that I might find this book.”

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Frida Kahlo’s Politics
Frida Kahlo’s Politics

“I am only a cell in the complex revolutionary mechanism of the peoples for peace in the new nations … united in blood to me.”

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France Is Free: Anaïs Nin and Ernest Hemingway on the Liberation of Paris, August 19, 1944
France Is Free: Anaïs Nin and Ernest Hemingway on the Liberation of Paris, August 19, 1944

“One is stunned before catastrophe, one is stunned by happiness, by peace, by the knowledge of millions of people free from pain and death.”

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Feisty Critique of Le Corbusier, Philip Johnson, Education, and the NYC Skyline
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Feisty Critique of Le Corbusier, Philip Johnson, Education, and the NYC Skyline

“Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don’t have to taste.”

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Salvador Dalí Illustrates Montaigne: Sublime Surrealism from a Rare 1947 Limited Edition, Signed by Dalí
Salvador Dalí Illustrates Montaigne: Sublime Surrealism from a Rare 1947 Limited Edition, Signed by Dalí

Two of history’s most formidable talents, at the intersection of literature at art.

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BBC’s Rare 1981 Andy Warhol Interview
BBC’s Rare 1981 Andy Warhol Interview

The iconic artist on happiness, creative process, the allure of repetition, and the importance of going through the world with kindness.

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Art and Accidental Literature: Lynda Barry + Lord Chesterfield
Art and Accidental Literature: Lynda Barry + Lord Chesterfield

One of yesteryear’s greatest literary icons, under one of today’s greatest artists.

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