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Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World © 2014 Mark Miodownik 272 pages Stuff Matters begins...

Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell © Phil Lapsley 2013 416 pages WANTED HARVARD M...

The Ministry of Guidance Invites You Not to Stay © 2010 Hooman Majd 272 pages Hooman Majd left Iran for the first time as a young boy...

Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory © 2017 Michael Korda 544 pages Judging by most World War 2 histories, th...

"It takes a lot of sand to wear this costume, which is 80 per cent cellophane. The other 10 percent is bathing suit. It's t...

Mirrors of the Unseen :  Journeys in Iran © 2006 Jason Elliot 432 pages Readers uninterested in the origins and history of Is...

At some point in 1997 I saw this cover in a now-defunct WaldenBooks and was intrigued, both by the shoes and that oddly simple title: “D...