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Ask HN: What's your favorite coffee table book?

by tucif on 7/14/21, 11:38 PM with 6 comments

Looking for "coffee table books" from which you can learn something by reading just a couple of pages, optionally with some imagery.

Something in the lines of: Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe (xkcd), The secret lives of color by Kassia St.Clair.

  • by a3n on 7/15/21, 12:15 AM

    The Edward Tufte books from his course.

    https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/courses

  • by ggm on 7/15/21, 12:14 AM

    "the whole earth catalog"

    "the rudiments of wisdom" by Tim Hunkin

    "A Museum of Early American Tools" by Eric Sloane

    "Pillar to Post" by Osbert Lancaster

    "Prehistoric Man" by Zdenek Burian

  • by ncmncm on 7/15/21, 5:14 AM

    Earth From Above and variations are all winners.