“Andrew Blum plunges into the unseen but real ether of the Internet in a journey both compelling and profound. You will never open an email in quite the same way again.” – Tom Vanderbilt, New York Times bestselling author of Traffic. Andrew Blum is a correspondent for Wired magazine, and through Tubes ($20) he takes us on a fascinating and utterly engaging tour behind the scenes of all our leaves and reveals the beating and dark heart that is the Internet. This is a remarkable journey through our supposedly brave new world of technology this is the Soul of a New Machine for our generation. Fascinating and thought provoking.
Quite simply, The Big Butt Book ($40) is a book of butts. There is something about butts, bums, tushies, derrieres, that we simply can’t get enough of. The Karma Sutra told us how to spank them, Italians touch them for luck before placing bets, and Americans are having them cosmetically enhanced at an alarming rate. […]