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We Make Dolls!: Top Dollmakers Share Their Secrets & Patterns

Jenny Doh

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Making super-cute stitched dolls is a beloved tradition, and today it's more popular than ever. Here...

Carlos Herrera: The Architecture Fo Lines, Light and Luxury

Carlos Herrera and Allan Fis

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This beautiful monograph is the first book in English on Carlos Herrera, a prolific architect with...

Interventions in Education Systems: Reform and Development

C.M. Posner, Christopher Martin, Elsa Guzman and David Scott

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Interventions in Education Systems draws on research conducted in England, Mexico, Singapore and...

Adventures of Steamo the Wonder Crab

Michael Miller, Minhee Choe and Jeffrey Vernon

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This is the story of Steamo, a nine foot tall Magical Crab born in the waters of Fukushima in 2011....

Jeremiah Zagar recommended Pan's Labyrinth (2006) in Movies (curated)

"I saw Pan’s Labyrinth when it played at the New York Film Festival, and it was a euphoric experience. That movie was just the best. I watched it four or five times in the theater. One time I was in Mexico with my family and I was wandering around the streets and saw that it was playing at a theater and I went in. I don’t speak very good Spanish, but the movie worked so well without me knowing what anybody was saying because the visual storytelling is so incredible. We watched it a lot as a reference on We the Animals."

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Claire Danes recommended A Single Man in Books (curated)

A Single Man

Christopher Isherwood | 2010 | Fiction & Poetry

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"I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive. There's one passage in this book, published in 1964, that has really stayed with me — the description of America. The narrator is a British man teaching at a California college. He and a few colleagues are having a conversation, and an American woman is saying how romantic Mexico is. She's critical of America. The protagonist argues with her, talking about the virtues of the United States. He says that its beauty is in its abstraction. I thought that was an amazing insight — possibly true and compelling at least."

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Dana Calvo recommended Traffic (2001) in Movies (curated)

Traffic (2001)

2001 | Drama

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"I was living a little bit of this story in real time, because the film came out while I was living on the border, reporting on drug trafficking in Northern Mexico for the Associated Press. (I was also dating the journalist consultant to the film, a reporter for the New York Times.) The filmmakers got it right. They captured the resignation that countless families caught in the narco racket feel: plata o plomo. Benicio del Toro is magnificent as a doomed local cop, and his performance is as understated and sure-footed as anything I’ve ever seen him in since."

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