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Modern Man in the Making, p. 45. The top half of this graphic from Modern Man in the Making (1939) shows that, between 1840 and 1930, the percentage of British living in cities doubled while birth and death rates fell roughly in half. This indicates…

With its striking blue-toned figure, this Two-Gun Kid cover encapsulates what made Atlas Comics artist Joe Maneely the "absolute favorite" of editor and writer Stan Lee. As Sean Howe details, Maneely "was speedy and astonishingly versatile, handling…

Two students working on attaching the handrail to the bookwheel. From left to right: Reese Salen, Matthew Nygren.

An image of two students with the finished bookwheel. From left to right: Ian Kurtz, Reese Salen.

An image of a Tufts style Acorn press.

An image of the title page of Alonso de Molina's 1555 Aquí comiença un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana.

An image of three students using CNC (computer numerical control) machine to cut wood for the bookwheel. From left to right: Matthew Nygren, Reese Salen, Ian Kurtz.

This copy of volume 1 of Robert Burns' poetry has a double fore-edge painting. Fan the pages to the left and you will see Struthers Steps, Kilmarnock. Fan the pages to the right and you see the clay cottage where Burns was born in Alloway, Ayrshire,…

This copy of volume 1 of Robert Burns' poetry has a double fore-edge painting. Fan the pages to the left and you will see Struthers Steps, Kilmarnock. Fan the pages to the right and you see the clay cottage where Burns was born in Alloway, Ayrshire,…

The fore-edge painting decorating this edition of Shakespeare's poems shows the house on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, where Shakespeare was born in 1564