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7 Must-Read Books on Time
7 Must-Read Books on Time

What the second law of thermodynamics has to do with Saint Augustine, landscape art, and graphic novels.

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A Graphic Novel Biography of Richard Feynman
A Graphic Novel Biography of Richard Feynman

Safe-cracking the quantum physics way, or what the Challenger disaster has to do with bongo drums.

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Young Hemingway’s Letters: A Rare Glimpse of the Author’s Tender Side
Young Hemingway’s Letters: A Rare Glimpse of the Author’s Tender Side

Rediscovering one of literature’s greatest personas through the vulnerable pieces of his personhood.

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The Anatomy of Influence: Mapping the Labyrinth of Literature
The Anatomy of Influence: Mapping the Labyrinth of Literature

What Leo Tolstoy can teach us about curation.

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What Translation Reveals about the Human Condition
What Translation Reveals about the Human Condition

How to get a tarantula off your southwest leg, or what Astérix has to do with religion and the Manhattan grid.

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A Visual Ethnography of the World’s Last Nomadic Peoples
A Visual Ethnography of the World’s Last Nomadic Peoples

From Morocco to Mongolia, or what we can learn about climate change from Inuit whale hunters.

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Rare Images from the Golden Age of Circus, 1870-1950
Rare Images from the Golden Age of Circus, 1870-1950

From Ancient Egypt to Lady Gaga, or what P. T. Barnum has to do with Stanley Kubrick.

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Nurturing Walls: Indian Women’s Stunning Tribal Art Tradition
Nurturing Walls: Indian Women’s Stunning Tribal Art Tradition

What baby birds and tattooed camels have to do with motherhood and the authenticity of public art.

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Every Page of Moby-Dick, Illustrated
Every Page of Moby-Dick, Illustrated

Illustrated insights on love, hate, God, capitalism, and the rest of life via Herman Melville and found paper.

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Poets Ranked by Beard Weights
Poets Ranked by Beard Weights

Calculating aptitude by way of facial hair, or what Walt Whitman’s “hibernator” has to do with phrenology.

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