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Punk: Chaos to Couture
Andrew Bolton and Richard Hell
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013

Alone in the Forest
By Gita Wolf and Andrea Anastasio; Illustrated by Bhajju Shyam
Tara Books, 2013

Facts are Sacred
Simon Rogers
Faber and Faber, 2013

The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs: A Scientific Mystery
Sandra Markle
Millbrook Pr, 2012

The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and Politics in 17th-Century China
Edited by Peter C. Sturman and Susan S. Tai
Prestel, 2012

Interviewing Users
Steve Portigal
Rosenfeld Media, 2013

Things Come Apart: A Teardown Manual for Modern Living
Todd McLellan
Thames & Hudson, 2013

The Essential Robert Indiana
Martin Krause and John Wilmerding
Prestel, 2013

Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building Breakthroughs
Larry Keeley and Helen Walters
Wiley, 2013

Close-Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics
Laura Kurgan
Zone Books, 2013

Vernier: Fashion, Femininity and Form
Robin Muir and Becky Conekin
Hirmer Publishers, 2012

Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums
Mabel O. Wilson
University of California Press, 2012

Maynard L. Parker: Modern Photography and the American Dream
Jennifer A. Watts, Editor
Yale University Press, 2012

Meme Wars
Kalle Lasn and Adbusters
Seven Stories Press, 2012

Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America
Amy F. Ogata
University of Minnesota Press, 2013

Souvenir Nation
William L. Bird Jr.
Princeton Architectural Press, 2013

Building: Inside Studio Gang Architects
Jeanne Gang and Zoë Ryan, Editors
Yale University Press, 2012

The Where, the Why, and the How: 75 Artists Illustrate Wondrous Mysteries of Science
Jenny Volvovski, Julia Rothman, Matt Lamothe
Chronicle Books, 2012

John Heartfield and the Agitated Image
Andrés Mario Zervigón
University of Chicago Press, 2012

The Address Book
Sophie Calle
Siglio Books, 2012

Brooklyn Makers: Food, Design, Craft and Other Scenes from the Tactile Life
Jennifer Causey
Princeton Architectural Press, 2012

Curiosity and Method: Ten Years of Cabinet Magazine
Various
Cabinet, 2012

Sky High
Germano Zullo
Chronicle Books, 2012

Norman Bel Geddes Designs America
Donald Albrecht
Abrams, 2012

The Complete Engraver: Monograms, Crests, Ciphers, Seals, and The Etiquette of Social Stationary
Nancy Sharon Collins
Princeton Architectural Press, 2012

Between Page and Screen
Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse
Siglio, 2012

Design for Emotion
Trevor van Gorp and Edie Adams
Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 2012

Material Manifestations
Rensselaer Architecture, Shaker Museum Mt. Lebanon
Rensselaer Architecture, 2012

The Yeti Story
Stefan G. Bucher
HarperCollins, 2012

A Topology of Everyday Constellatons
Georges Teyssot
MIT Press, 2013

An Intellectual's Visual Miscellany
Daniel P. Murphy, PhD
F+W Media, 2012

Content Everywhere
Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Rosenfeld Media, 2012

See What I Mean : How to Use Comics to Communicate Ideas
Kevin Cheng
Rosenfeld Media, 2012

Work For Money, Design For Love
David Airey
New Riders, 2013

I Used To Be A Design Student
Frank Philippin and Billy Kiosoglou
Laurence King, 2013

Eye On A Century
Various
Yale University Press, 2012

Philosophy of Design
Ove Arup
Prestel, 2012

The Cinema of Me
Alisa Lebow
Columbia University Press, 2012

Infinity Mirror Room—Phalli's Field
Jo Applin
MIT Press, 2012

Ken Garland: Structure and Substance
Adrian Shaughnessy
Unit Editions London, 2012

"Dialog" : What Makes a Great Partnership
Ken Carbone and Leslie Smolan
Pointed Leaf Press, LLC, 2012

Guaranteed to Last: L.L. Bean's Century of Outfitting America
Jim Gorman
Melcher Media, 2012

A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald
Errol Morris
The Penguin Press, 2012

Collage Culture: Examining the 21st Century's Identity Crisis
Aaron Rose and Mandy Kahn
JRP|Ringier, 2012

Sustainable Design: A Critical Guide
David Bergman
Princeton Architectural Press, 2012

In Search of the Miraculous: Or, One Thing Leads to Another
Milton Glaser
Overlook Duckworth, 2012

Bunch of Amateurs: A Search for the American Character
Jack Hitt
Crown, 2012

Portfolio Design
Harold Linton
W. W. Norton & Company, 2012

Toward a Minor Architecture
Jill Stoner
The MIT Press, 2012

Up on the Roof: New York's Hidden Skyline Spaces
Alex MacLean
Princeton Architectural Press, 2012

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