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The Best Food Books of 2011
The Best Food Books of 2011

From farm life to molecular gastronomy, or what The Beatles have to do with the history of menu design.

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The 11 Best History Books of 2011
The 11 Best History Books of 2011

What African drum languages have to do with women’s emancipation, radioactivity, and the future of the web.

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Marginalia and the Yin-Yang of Reading and Writing
Marginalia and the Yin-Yang of Reading and Writing

The bibliophile’s property rights, or why the osmosis of agreement and disagreement belongs in a book’s margins.

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The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Visual Micro-Tales of Our Shared Humanity
The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Visual Micro-Tales of Our Shared Humanity

Reclaiming the poetics of short-form in the age of the empty soundbite.

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What Does It Mean To Be Human? 300 Years of Definitions and Reflections
What Does It Mean To Be Human? 300 Years of Definitions and Reflections

What Aristotle has to do with the women’s suffrage movement, Darwin, and M. C. Escher.

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Philip K. Dick on Beauty, Suffering, and the Nature of the Universe
Philip K. Dick on Beauty, Suffering, and the Nature of the Universe

What a woman with a fish necklace has to do with Blade Runner and the “terrible law of the universe.”

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Maira Kalman + Daniel Handler Illustrate a Breakup Through Significant Objects
Maira Kalman + Daniel Handler Illustrate a Breakup Through Significant Objects

What sugar and a pinhole camera have to do with the ephemeral ephemera of impossible love.

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Alter Ego: Portraits of Gamers Next to Their Avatars
Alter Ego: Portraits of Gamers Next to Their Avatars

The real humanity of virtual worlds, or what imaginary public personas reveal about private personhood.

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The 11 Best Science Books of 2011
The 11 Best Science Books of 2011

From Infinity to Fibonacci, or what religious mythology has to do with the inner workings of field science.

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Gay in America: A Photographic Tapestry of Faceted Humanity
Gay in America: A Photographic Tapestry of Faceted Humanity

A cultural leap forward, or what Alaskan fishermen, Oregonian fathers, and NYC artists have in common.

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