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  1. Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel Richard H. Minear & Dr. Seuss A collection of Dr. Seuss’s little-known wartime propaganda cartoons.

    Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel

    Richard H. Minear & Dr. Seuss

    A collection of Dr. Seuss’s little-known wartime propaganda cartoons.
  2. Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator Ryan Holiday “Usually, it is a simple hustle. Someone pays me, I manufacture a story for them, and we trade it up the chain — from a tiny blog to Gawker to a website of a local news network to the Huffington Post to the major newspapers to cable news and back again, until the unreal becomes real. Sometimes I start by planting a story. Sometimes I put out a press release or ask a friend to break a story on their blog. Sometimes I ‘leak’ a document. Sometimes I fabricate a document and leak that. Really, it can be anything, from vandalizing a Wikipedia page to producing an expensive viral video. However the play starts, the end is the same: The economics of the Internet are exploited to change public perception — and sell product.” A fascinating insider’s look at the craft of public opinion manipulation.

    Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

    Ryan Holiday

    “Usually, it is a simple hustle. Someone pays me, I manufacture a story for them, and we trade it up the chain — from a tiny blog to Gawker to a website of a local news network to the Huffington Post to the major newspapers to cable news and back again, until the unreal becomes real. Sometimes I start by planting a story. Sometimes I put out a press release or ask a friend to break a story on their blog. Sometimes I ‘leak’ a document. Sometimes I fabricate a document and leak that. Really, it can be anything, from vandalizing a Wikipedia page to producing an expensive viral video. However the play starts, the end is the same: The economics of the Internet are exploited to change public perception — and sell product.”

    A fascinating insider’s look at the craft of public opinion manipulation.
  3. As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980 Susan Sontag An extraordinary look at the inner world of a genius, oscillating between conviction and insecurity in the most beautifully imperfect and human way possible. From detailed notes on her formidable media diet of literature and film to her intense love affairs and infatuations to her meditations on society’s values and vices, the hefty volume is a true cultural treasure.

    As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

    Susan Sontag

    An extraordinary look at the inner world of a genius, oscillating between conviction and insecurity in the most beautifully imperfect and human way possible. From detailed notes on her formidable media diet of literature and film to her intense love affairs and infatuations to her meditations on society’s values and vices, the hefty volume is a true cultural treasure.
  4. The Book of Probes Eric McLuhan David Carson, considered the greatest graphic designer working today, brings Marshall McLuhan’s “probes” – his signature cryptic aphorisms – to life.

    The Book of Probes

    Eric McLuhan

    David Carson, considered the greatest graphic designer working today, brings Marshall McLuhan’s “probes” – his signature cryptic aphorisms – to life.
  5. The Electric Information Age Book: Mcluhan/Agel/Fiore and the Experimental Paperback (Inventory Books) Jeffrey Schnapp A brief history of The Medium is the Massage and how media theoriest Marshall McLuhan, visionary publisher Jerome Agel, and trailblazing designer Quentin Fiore launched the idea paperback as show business and created a new visual vernacular for the information age.

    The Electric Information Age Book: Mcluhan/Agel/Fiore and the Experimental Paperback (Inventory Books)

    Jeffrey Schnapp

    A brief history of The Medium is the Massage and how media theoriest Marshall McLuhan, visionary publisher Jerome Agel, and trailblazing designer Quentin Fiore launched the idea paperback as show business and created a new visual vernacular for the information age.
  6. 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.
  7. The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories Frank Rose A field guide to the visionaries—and the fans—who are reinventing the art of storytelling.

    The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories

    Frank Rose

    A field guide to the visionaries—and the fans—who are reinventing the art of storytelling.
  8. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood James Gleick Legendary science writer James Gleick explores the past and future information in what’s easily 2011’s most notable book. Flowing from tonal languages to early communication technology to self-replicating memes, Gleick delivers an astonishing 360-degree view of the vast and opportune playground for us modern “creatures of the information,” to borrow vocabulary from Jorge Luis Borges’ much more dystopian take on information in the 1941 classic, “The Library of Babel,” which casts a library’s endless labyrinth of books and shelves as a metaphor for the universe.

    The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

    James Gleick

    Legendary science writer James Gleick explores the past and future information in what’s easily 2011’s most notable book. Flowing from tonal languages to early communication technology to self-replicating memes, Gleick delivers an astonishing 360-degree view of the vast and opportune playground for us modern “creatures of the information,” to borrow vocabulary from Jorge Luis Borges’ much more dystopian take on information in the 1941 classic, “The Library of Babel,” which casts a library’s endless labyrinth of books and shelves as a metaphor for the universe.