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George, Be Careful: A Greek Florist's Kid in the Roughhouse World of Advertising
George Lois
Saturday Review Press, 1972
Do you need a little snap to get you through the week? Lois recounts hilarious moments from his life in advertising from the late 1950s through the 1970s. From literally hanging out of a window to get the attention of a client, overturning a desk in disgust or lunching at The Four Seasons, this is an insider’s look at a culture that is now no more than a vestige. [AHL]
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Re-Inventing Construction
Edited by Ilka and Andreas Ruby
Ruby Press/Holcim Foundation, 2010
An engrossing compendium that expands upon a recent conference in Mexico City sponsored by the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction. An international roster of contributors explores how innovative technologies and complex systems thinking can reduce our carbon footprint. [NL]
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Wolf Hall: A Novel
Hilary Mantel
Henry Holt, 2009
Last year’s Man Booker prizewinner is a gorgeously rendered tapestry of an exhaustively fictionalized subject: those lusty Tudors. As Henry VIII courts Anne Boleyn against the backdrop of the Holy Roman Empire, saintly Thomas More is presented as an ascetic crabapple and Thomas Cromwell — a villain in how many Hollywood renditions? — captures our hearts. We’ve been endlessly told the end of the story (enter axe), and yet this novel remains a page-turner. [JL]
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Mabel O. Wilson

Maynard L. Parker: Modern Photography and the American Dream
Jennifer A. Watts, Editor

Meme Wars
Kalle Lasn and Adbusters

Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America
Amy F. Ogata

Souvenir Nation
William L. Bird Jr.

Building: Inside Studio Gang Architects
Jeanne Gang and Zoë Ryan, Editors

The Where, the Why, and the How: 75 Artists Illustrate Wondrous Mysteries of Science
Jenny Volvovski, Julia Rothman, Matt Lamothe

John Heartfield and the Agitated Image
Andrés Mario Zervigón

The Address Book
Sophie Calle

Brooklyn Makers: Food, Design, Craft and Other Scenes from the Tactile Life
Jennifer Causey

Curiosity and Method: Ten Years of Cabinet Magazine
Various

Sky High
Germano Zullo

Norman Bel Geddes Designs America
Donald Albrecht

The Complete Engraver: Monograms, Crests, Ciphers, Seals, and The Etiquette of Social Stationary
Nancy Sharon Collins

Between Page and Screen
Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse

Design for Emotion
Trevor van Gorp and Edie Adams

Material Manifestations
Rensselaer Architecture, Shaker Museum Mt. Lebanon

The Yeti Story
Stefan G. Bucher

A Topology of Everyday Constellatons
Georges Teyssot

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Rick Poynor

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