Looking for "coffee table books" from which you can learn something by reading just a couple of pages, optionally with some imagery.<p>Something in the lines of: Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe (xkcd), The secret lives of color by Kassia St.Clair.
The Edward Tufte books from his course.<p><a href="https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/courses" rel="nofollow">https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/courses</a>
"the whole earth catalog"<p>"the rudiments of wisdom" by Tim Hunkin<p>"A Museum of Early American Tools" by Eric Sloane<p>"Pillar to Post" by Osbert Lancaster<p>"Prehistoric Man" by Zdenek Burian