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A Feminist Alphabet Created To Teach Kids About Important Women In History

Anna Randal for Art-Sheep Something shockingly true is that the gist of young children\’s education is the base of our world\’s future. And even though the educational system dramatically differs amongst countries, most kids end up learning about a man-centered and very \”troubled\” world. Kate Schatz\’s and Miriam Klein Stahl\’s latest project is a breath […]

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Shredded Books Turned Into Brand New Ones By Book Conservationist Nobuo Okano

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Ezra H. Murray for Art-Sheep Japanese artisan Nobuo Okano has been restoring shredded books for 33 years now, bringing back them back into life and making them look like new. When one of his customers presented him with an old Japanese-English dictionary that looked like it had survived a lot of rough years, Okano worked

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\”How A Baby Is Made\” is The Most Traumatizing Children\’s Book in the World

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Anna Randal for Art-Sheep Our first reaction when we saw this was, WHAT THE HECK IS THIS? Our second reaction was of course, this is gold, because how couldn\’t it be when its title is \”How A Baby Is Made\”. Danish writer and psychotherapist Per Holm Knudsen first published this gem in 1975 under Piccolo

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Vladimir Nabokov discusses Lolita part 2 of 2

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Here’s Nabokov talking about his novel Lolita on a 1950s CBC program \”Close Up.” The interview is at the height of the controversy surrounding the book, which was banned due to its theme of child molestation. When asked his intentions in writing it, Nabokov replies: “I don’t wish to touch hearts and I don’t even

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Arthur Miller Interviewed About Marilyn Monroe In 1987

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In a 1987 interview, Arthur Miller talks about his marriage to Marilyn Monroe. In addition to thoughtful insight into Monroe’s psychology, he discusses the reception of After The Fall, a play he wrote about his relationship with Monroe.

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\”The Married Kama Sutra\”: A Hilarious Sex Anti-Guide Describing Married Life

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Melissa Faithful for Art-Sheep The Married Kama Sutra: The World\’s Least Erotic Sex Manual is the hilarious anti-guide for a quality sexless life for married couples. Written by Simon Rich and Farley Katz, the book offers hilariously-put tips on married life, explaining the… positions a couple takes in their everyday life. This enjoyable illustrated series

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323 Year-Old Guide Of Color Mixing And Hues Containing More Than 800 Hand-Painted Pages

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Samuel Masters for Art-Sheep A lot of people are familiar with the Pantone Color Guide, published for the first time in 1963 and containing a great variety of different color shades. However, very few are aware of the existence of a very similar book written in Dutch by a man simply known as \”A. Boogert\”,

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Flannery O’ Connor reading ”A Good Man is Hard to Find” part 2/3

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Here’s Flannery O’Connor reading her short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find\” at Vanderbilt University in 1959.

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Interview with Raymond Chandler 3 of 4

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In 1958, Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond series, interviewed crime writer Raymond Chandler for the BBC. This is the only recording of Chandler’s voice. Listening to their conversation is like eavesdropping on two master genre writers talk shop.

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Evan Lorenzen Creates Adorable \”Little Books\” In The Size Of A Thumbnail

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Evan Lorenzen is an illustrator and animator based in Denver, Colorado. Amongst his paintings and animated works, he recently developed several series of micro handmade–books not bigger than the size of a thumbnail. The themes he uses for his petit books vary from life’s little pleasures to major life events, satirizing their content in the

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