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  1. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus by Bill Wasik & Monica Murphy How a tiny cluster of genes and proteins gave rise to zombie and vampire mythology.

    Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus

    by Bill Wasik & Monica Murphy

    How a tiny cluster of genes and proteins gave rise to zombie and vampire mythology.
  2. The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption Clay A. Johnson An intelligent manifesto for optimizing the 11 hours we spend consuming information on any given da in a way that serves our intellectual, creative, and psychological well-being.

    The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption

    Clay A. Johnson

    An intelligent manifesto for optimizing the 11 hours we spend consuming information on any given da in a way that serves our intellectual, creative, and psychological well-being.
  3. Tres Riches Heures De Mrs Mole Ronald Searle On New Year’s Eve 1969, Monica Searle was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer. Experimental at the time, chemotherapy — the course of action Monica’s doctor recommended — was a leap of faith. After each treatment, her husband Ronald made Monica a Mrs. Mole drawing “to cheer every dreaded chemotherapy session and evoke the blissful future ahead.”

    Tres Riches Heures De Mrs Mole

    Ronald Searle

    On New Year’s Eve 1969, Monica Searle was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer. Experimental at the time, chemotherapy — the course of action Monica’s doctor recommended — was a leap of faith. After each treatment, her husband Ronald made Monica a Mrs. Mole drawing “to cheer every dreaded chemotherapy session and evoke the blissful future ahead.”
  4. Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual Michael Pollan Michael Pollaan’s timelessly sensible blueprint to a healthy relationship with food, now delivered with iconic illustrator Maira Kalman’s characteristically colorful and child-like yet irreverent aesthetic. This new edition also features 19 additional food rules, including Place a bouquet of flowers on the table and everything will taste twice as good and When you eat real food, you don’t need rules.

    Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual

    Michael Pollan

    Michael Pollaan’s timelessly sensible blueprint to a healthy relationship with food, now delivered with iconic illustrator Maira Kalman’s characteristically colorful and child-like yet irreverent aesthetic. This new edition also features 19 additional food rules, including Place a bouquet of flowers on the table and everything will taste twice as good and When you eat real food, you don’t need rules.