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September 15, 2008

Books Received: Fall 2008

New books have been piling up again at Design Observer. For the Fall season, we thought we’d share some of the many recently published titles we have received over the past couple of months. Maybe you’ll find a surprise or two…

Ferran Adriá
A Day at elBulli
Phaidon Press, 2008

Stuart Bailey, editor
Dot Dot Dot 15
Princeton Architectural Press, 2007

Stuart Bailey, editor 
Dot Dot Dot 16
Princeton Architectural Press, 2008
Marion Bataille
ABC3D
Roaring Brook Press, 2008
Barry Bergdoll, editor
Home Delivery
The Museum of Modern Art, 2008
Alexis Bhagat & Lize Mogel, editors
An Atlas of Radical Cartography
Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Press, 2008
Robert Blackson
If There Ever Was
Art Editions North, 2007
Mark Boyce
Sizes May Vary
Laurence King Publishers, 2008
Andrea Branzi
Open Enclosures
Thames & Hudson, 2008
Olaf Breidbach
Visions of Nature
Prestel Publishing, 2006
Robert Brunner, Stewart Emery & Russ Hall
Do You Matter? 
FT Press, 2008
Andrea Codrington
Kyle Cooper
Yale University Press, 2003
Lucas Conley
OBD: Obsessive Branding Disorder
Public Affairs, 2008
Gail S. Davidson
House Proud
Assouline, 2008

Avinash K. Dixit & Barry J. Nalebuff
The Art of Strategy
W. W. Norton, 2008

Timothy Donaldson
Shapes for Sounds
Mark Batty Publisher, 2008

Helen A. Cooper, editor
Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness
Yale University Press, 2008
Debórah Dwork
The Terezín Album of Mariánka Zadikow
University of Chicago Press, 2008
Daniel Eatock
Daniel Eatock: Works 1975–2007
Princeton Architectural Press, 2008
Felix Feneon
A Novel in Three Lines
NYRB Classics, 2007
Louise Fili & Lise Apatoff
Italianissimo
The Little Bookroom, 2008
Jonathan Glancey
Lost Buildings
Goodman Books, 2008
Joshua Glenn
The Idler’s Glossary
Biblioasis, 2008
E. H. Gombrich
A Little History of the World
Biblioasis, 2008

Marvin Heiferman
Now Is Then
Princeton Architectural Press, 2007

Jessica Helfand
Scrapbooks: An American History
Yale University Press, 2008

Steven Heller & Lita Talarico
The Design Entrepreneur
Rockport Publishers, 2008

Werner Herzog
Of Walking in Ice
Free Association, 2007


Mies Hora
Official Signs & Icons 2
Ultimate Symbol, 2005

Jennifer Hudson
Process
Laurence King Publishers, 2008
Erik de Jong
Landscapes of the Imagination
NAi Publishers, 2008
Mark Kingwell
Concrete Reveries
Viking Adult, 2008

R. Klanten, N. Bourquin & S.Ehmann, editors
Data Flow
Die Gestalten Verlag, 2008

R. Klanten & M. Hubner, editors
Fully Booked
Die Gestalten Verlag, 2008

Charles Leadbeater 
We–Think
Profile Books, 2008
Daniel Libeskind & Paul Goldberger
Counterpoint
Monacelli Press, 2008
Ellen Lupton
Indie Publishing
Princeton Architectural Press, 2008
Farhad Manjoo
True Enough
Wiley, 2008
Mary Warner Marien
Photography: A Cultural History
Laurence King, 2003
Nadine Monem
Font. The Sourcebook
Black Dog Publishing, 2008

Susan Mossman
Fantastic Plastic
Black Dog Publishing, 2008

Laurie Olin
Olin: Placemaking
Monacelli Press, 2008

Max Page
The City’s End
Yale University Press, 2008

Martin Parr
Small World
Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2002

Phaidon, editors
Le Corbusier Le Grand
Phaidon Press, 2008
Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food
Penguin Press, 2008

Phyllis Richardson
Designed for Kids
Penguin Press, 2008

Mark B. Salter, editor
Politics at the Airport
Princeton Architectural Press, 2008
Penny Sparke
The Modern Interior
Reaktion Books, 2008
Sven Spieker
The Big Archive
MIT Press, 2008
Robert A.M. Stern
The Philip Johnson Tapes
Monacelli Press, 2008
Ann Temkin
Color Chart
Soft Skull Press, 2004
Armin Vit & Bryony Gomez-Palacio
Women Of Design
HOW Books, 2008
Nader Vossoughian
Otto Neurath
NAi Publishers, 2008
Matt Weiland & Sean Wilsey
State by State
Ecco, 2008
B. Wittner, S. Thoma & N. Bourquin, editors
Arabesque
Die Gestalten Verlag, 2008

Jonathan M. Woodham
A Dictionary of Modern Design
Oxford University Press, 2005

Susan Yelavich
Ted Muehling: A Portrait of Don Freeman
Rizzoli, 2008

Yuichi Yokoyama
Travel
PictureBox, 2008

Adam Zagajewski
Eternal Enemies
Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2008

Fareed Zakaria
The Post–American World
W.W. Norton, 2008