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Zeitoun
Dave Eggers
McSweeney's, 2009
Set in New Orleans during Katrina, this nonfiction account of one man's harrowing ordeal in a city dissolving into toxic anarchy could have been unremittingly harsh and depressing, but it reads like a thriller. Very hard to put down. [JL]
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The Jet Age Compendium: Paolozzi at Ambit 1967-1980
David Brittain
Four Corners Books, 2009
One of the compensations of living in London and travelling on its Dickensian subway system is the mosaic-clad walls at Tottenham Court Road station. Designed by Eduardo Paolozzi in 1984, it's hard to imagine them surviving. For those who can’t see Paolozzi’s subterranean wonderwalls, this book on his relationship with the radical magazine Ambit, offers lavish compensation. [AS]
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Collections of Nothing
William Davies King
University of Chicago Press, 2008
Nearly everyone collects something, unless you're William Davies King, in which case you collect, well, pretty much everything — from broken bits of furniture to retro cereal boxes, his tales of aggregating so much stuff are at turns funny, poignant, deeply human and delightfully visual. [JH]
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The Oxford Companion to the Book
Michael F. Suarez & H. R. Woudhuysen

The Good Men Project
T. Matlack, J. Houghton & L. Bean

What Would Google Do?
Jeff Jarvis

Clever: Leading Your Smartest, Most Creative People
Rob Goffee & Gareth Jones

Innovation Tournaments
Christian Terwiesch & Karl Ulrich

How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In
Jim Collins

The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times
Scott D. Anthony

The Age of the Unthinkable
Joshua Cooper Ramo

Discovery-Driven Growth
Rita Gunther McGrath & Ian C. Macmillan

A Clearing in the Woods
Roger Foley

Every Thing Design
Christian Brandle & Glenn Adamson

Signage Systems and Information Graphics: A Professional Sourcebook
Andreas Uebele

Design? Wines!
Gustavo Piqueira & Marco Aurelio Kato

Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams
Klaus Kemp & Keiko Ueki-polet, editors

Unimark International: The Design of Business and the Business of Design
Jan Conradi

For Love and Money: New Illustration
Liz Farrelly & Olivia Triggs

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