The Society Pages is an online, multidisciplinary social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. The Society Pages' mission is to bring social scientific knowledge and information to broader public visibility and influence.
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And the choices are a bit eccentric; men who were famous for their interesting and numerous notebooks are well-represented but also included are a few from the past and present that just happened to cross our path during the course of our research. Where images of the notebooks were available they have been shown; in their absence a description will have to do.
Read more: http://artofmanliness.com/2010/09/13/the-pocket-notebooks-of-20-famous-men/#ixzz0zYHzA7ur