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thelearningbrain:

If you’ve never tried Yasiv.com to discover new books based on ones you like, you should. 

Visual Book Selector - multi-attribute selection and filtering of the Guardian 1000 novels everyone must read

by Neoformix

The Emotional Life of Books (Romy Achituv; data from the Garden Library for Refugees and Migrant Workers) 

via Fathom

the wheel of emotions

Data Soliloquies

by Martin John Callanan & Richard Hamblyn

Data Soliloquies is a book about the extraordinary cultural fluidity of scientific data. A wide array of graphs, charts, computer models and other forms of visual advocacy have become inescapable fixtures of public science presentations, though they are often treated as if they were neutral ‘found objects’ rather than elaborate narrative constructions containing high levels of statistical uncertainty. Through a mix of essays and artworks, this witty and engaging book — the result of a collaboration between Richard Hamblyn and Martin John Callanan during their terms as writer and artist in residence at the UCL Environment Institute — examines the theatricality of scientific data display, while critiquing some of the poorly designed statistical wallpaper that surrounds so much public science debate.

nathanielstuart:

“I think this is about a gigantic robot who goes on fire and he doesn’t like himself. It has a sad ending. It looks like a book for teens. The title means fire, a really really really big fire since the number is 451, that would mean it was really hot. So the robot must get really hot. Maybe that is why he is so sad.”

Six-year-old girl tries to guess the plots of classic novels based on their covers | io9

STN Database Archive - book sales in 1780s France (books, authors, languages, professions)

quiteaspectacle:

owen gatley’s autumn/winter catalogue cover for pan macmillan.

The Three Astronauts, Umberto Eco and ill. Eugenio Carmi - part of a semiotics primer trilogy

via Brain Pickings

Portland (from the text and covers of Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Lathe of Heaven and DVD covers from Dante’s Peak and Volcano

by Matthew Picton