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architecture.

Sharing Architecture Pattern Language: Towns, Building, Construction, A American Motel, The Once Upon a Playground Kowloon City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City Staircase, Volume 1: History and Theories, The Staircase, Volume 2: Studies of Hazards, Falls, and Safer Design, The Home from Nowhere Adobe: Building and Living with Earth Southwest Style: A Homelover's Guide to Architecture and Design Death and Life of Great American Cities, The Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter Learning From Las Vegas Japan Style: Architecture Interiors Design Kiosk: The Last Modernist Booths Across Central and Eastern Europe

art.

Relational Aesthetics Lee Miller Factory records: the complete graphic album Designed by Peter Saville 50 Modern Artists You Should Know Boggs: A Comedy of Values Best Word Book Ever Stamps of Mass Destruction and Other Postal Disasters: Volume 2 Interrogation Machine: Laibach and NSK Baroness Elsa: gender, dada, and everyday modernity : a cultural biography Art of Baroness Elsa Women In Dada Barbara Kruger F.A.T. Manual, The Navajo Blanket, The American Photobooth Wood Works: Constructions by Robert Indiana Get Your War On Get Your War On II Hyperbole and a Half Adulthood is a Myth Are We Having Fun Yet? In Me Own Words Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands Stonehenge Cookbook, The Advanced Acoustic Armaments Cookbook, The Signs of Life American Surfaces Comparative Morphologies Nagel: The Art of Patrick Nagel Solutions and Other Problems Uncanny: The Art & Design of Shawn Wolfe Free Activation Series Vol 3 Subway Ceramics Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective What Art Is Brillo Box Archive, The Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers Are We There Yet? Inflight Handmade This Side Up Cardboard Color for Philosophers Drawing the Head and Hands Fun with a Pencil Figure Drawing For All It's Worth Successful Drawing Eye of the Painter, The Creative Illustration Cutting Across Media: Appropriation Art, Interventionist Collage, and Copyright Law Public Works: Artists' Interventions 1970s - Now Charles Bell: The Complete Works 1970-1990 Jenny Holzer Superrealist Painting & Sculpture Neue Slowenische Kunst Fiat: All Money Is Ours NSK: From Kapital to Capital Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, The Man Who Created Nancy Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art, 1965-1975 How to Read Donald Duck Lulu in Hollywood Sign Painting Walker Evans: Polaroids Store Front: the Disappearing Face of New York Blade Runner Sketchbook Punchdrunk Encyclopaedia, The Thee Almighty and Insane

artdeco.

Art Nouveau And Art Deco Bookbinding: French Masterpieces 1880-1940 Japanese Art Deco Streamline: American Art Deco Graphic Design Art Deco 1910-1939 Art deco package collection Italian Art Deco: Graphic Design Between The Wars American Art Deco: Architecture and Regionalism American Art Deco Spirit and Splendour of Art Deco, The

artstreet.

Art and Science of Billboard Improvement Exterior Interior Act2 WK Interact 25 New York Street Life WK Act 4 Guerilla Art Faile Temple Faile Works on Wood World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti, The San Francisco Street Art UFO Street Art from Around the World Nuevo Mundo: Latin American Street Art Street Art San Francisco Art of Rebellion: World of Street Art, The Space Invader: Invasion De Paris Street Art Contemporary Prints Swoon Urban Theater, The Copyright in Street Art and Graffiti Subway Art Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art Banksy: Existencilism

candy.

Candy: A Century Of Panic And Pleasure Candy And Me: A Love Story Candy Freak Candy Men: The Story of Switzer's Licorice Chicago's Sweet Candy History Emperors of Chocolate, The Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams Sweets: A History Of Candy Sweet Memories Sweet Talk: The Secret History Of Confectionery Sugarplums And Sherbet: The Prehistory of Sweets Refined Tastes Sanders Confectionery Chewing Gum in America 1850-1920: The Rise of an Industry

catalogs.

B. A. Stevens Billiard and Bar Supplies Trade Catalogs Insider's Guide to Old Books Magazines Newspapers and Trade Catalogs, The Johnson Smith Catalog (1929) Johnson Smith Catalog (1938) Johnson Smith Catalog (1951) Johnson Smith Catalog (1979) Sears Your Grocery Store 1918 Feb Great King Novelty Co Catalog 79, The Evolution of Our Drummer, The

design.

Symbol Sourcebook Sign Painters Design of Everyday Things Henderson's Sign Painter Reinventing the Wheel Collapsible: The Genius of Space-saving Design Borrowed Design: Use and Abuse of Historical Form Emigre 9: 4AD Records Emigre 17: Wise Guys (Piet Schruders & Edward Fella) Emigre 29: Designers Republic Tibor Kalman: Design and Undesign Tibor Kalman, Perverse Optimist Az of the Designers Republic To Z of the Designers Republic, A Designers Republic 3D 2D Japanese Modern: Graphic Design Between the Wars Islamic Geometric Design Islamic Ornamental Design Art of the Islamic Tile, The Arabic for Designers Mmm Skyscraper I Love You Merz to Emigre and Beyond: Avant-Garde Magazine Design of the Twentieth Century Retro Packaging Seal Collection W A Dwiggins: A Life in Design Total Package, The Open Here: The Art of Instructional Design Color Charts

food.

Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat Vanilla Twinkie, Deconstructed Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil Banana Man Who Ate Everything, The Citrus: A History Fruit Hunters, The Automat, The Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice Kitchen Confidential World Atlas of Coffee, The Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin Heat Fast Food Nation Ultra-Processed People Physics of Filter Coffee, The Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts, and Hooks Us

history.

Car Hops and Curb Service Route 66 The Mother Road Black Fire Horrible Prettiness Norton I Emperor of the United States Flapper Banvard's Folly Hard Times Air Loom Gang, The Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers: and other odd events on the way to scientific discovery Ghost Signs Detroit's Michigan Central Station Key System, The Key System Album Key Route: Transbay Commuting by Train and Ferry, The Lost Amusement Parks of the North Jersey Shore Lost Amusement Parks of New York City: Beyond Coney Island Blackouts Arcades Project, The 1920: The Year That Made The Decade Roar Thirties: A Time to Remember, The Retro Hell: Life in the 70s and 80s, from Afros to Zotz Buying for the Home: Shopping for the Domestic from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Sutro's Glass Palace Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design, A Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life 1876-1915 Pale Rider: the Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History, The Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It

humor.

Harpo Speaks Michael Palin: Diaries 1969-1979 Michael Palin Diaries 1980-1988 Michael Palin Diaries 1988-1998 How I Escaped My Certain Fate Vacationland Medallion Status Modest Proposals Self-Help for the Bleak Liartown: The First Four Years Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on Their Craft Sure I'll Join Your Cult Great Falls, MT: Fast Times, Post-Punk Weirdos, and a Tale of Coming Home Again Strong Female Character Wishful Drinking

japan.

Japanese-English/English-Japanese Dictionary Kanji Pict-O-Graphix Interesting Products Will Continue To Sell: 面白い商品は売れ続ける！―ロングセラーを狙うなら笑いをとれ Still There: まだある Still There; Collected: まだある

machines.

Pinball: The Lure of the Silver Ball Pinball! Toaster Project, The Addiction by Design Postscript Reference Manual Postscript Tutorial and Cookbook Postscript Language Program Design Real World Postscript Postscript by Example Machine Age in America, 1918-1941, The Learning Python Python Data Analytics MongoDB in Action MongoDB: The Definitive Guide MongoDB Applied Design Patterns Command and Control Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph, The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous 18th Century Chess-Playing Machine, The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking A Spy Through The Maze Of Computer Espionage, The Arcade Britannia: A Social History of the British Amusement Arcade High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape On Automata-Making

miscellaneous.

Artificial Kingdom: A Treasury Of The Kitsch Experience, The Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper Mojave Phone Booth, The Vending Machines: An American Social History Ingenious Pursuits Punch: The Lively Youth of a British Institution 1841-1851 Pranks! Arbitrary Stupid Goal Lipstick Traces Join Me Lost in the Cosmos Talk is Cheap Matthias Buchinger, the Greatest German Living Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women Dice: Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck Cards as Weapons Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz Other Side of Ethel Mertz, The Words and Music Positively Fifth Street For Richer For Poorer Once More with Feeling Eudaemonic Pie, The Predictors, The Homo Ludens Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture Typhoid Mary Nothing Like It in the World Low Life In the Land of Invented Languages Invisible Hook, The Box, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Oranges Uncommon Carriers Do The Fucking Work Beauty and the Biz Wild Highway Bad Wisdom Urban Experiment Becoming Trader Joe Secret Life of Groceries, The Little Weirds You've Been Played Games: Agency as Art Amoralman Becoming Wild History of the Decline and Fall of the Raterpillar Tractor Co Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Spaceflight, The Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race Belching Out the Devil: Global Adventures with Coca-Cola For God, Country, and Coca-Cola: The Definitive History Of The Great American Soft Drink And The Company That Makes It Access All Areas: A User's Guide to the Art of Urban Exploration Infinite City Japanese Cabinetry: The Art & Craft of Tansu Toy Bop: Kids Classics of the 50s & 60s Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams Other Paris: an Illustrated Journey Through a City's Poor and Bohemian Past, The New Kind of Science, A Rat Scabies and the Holy Grail Expect Resistance: A Field Manual Among the Thugs Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie Ton Beau de Marot, Le Zanies: the world's greatest eccentrics Up in the Old Hotel McSorley's Wonderful Saloon Old Mr. Flood Bottom of the Harbor, The Joe Gould's Secret Joe Gould's Teeth Flâneur: The Art of Wandering the Streets of Paris Beach Beneath the Street: the Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices, The Fireworks: A History and Celebration Pedal and Path: Across the Continent Awheel and Afoot Strange Lives of One Man, The Penn & Teller's Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends Watching Television: A Pantheon Guide to Popular Culture Asian Popular Culture Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan's Next Generation Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism, The Bullshit Jobs Vending Machines: Coined Consumerism Forty Years A Gambler On The Mississippi Wee Homes Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Olson and Learned to Love Being Hated Where There is no Dentist Inconspicuous Consumption Um Dame Curtsey's Book of Guessing Contests Experimental Geography Model Patient: My Life as an Incurable Wise-Ass Island To Oneself, An Last Chance to See Disappearing Spoon, The City of Quartz Adventure, An On Bullshit

music.

Manual, The Manual: How To Build A People's Pyramid The Hard Way, The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid 45 17 Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl Hacienda: How Not To Run A Club Substance: Inside New Order Techno Rebels Girl in a Band Fingers Crossed Bedsit Disco Queen Naked at the Albert Hall Incredibly Strange Music Volume I Incredibly Strange Music Volume II Beatles Day by Day Homogenic OK Computer Exile in Guyville Pink Moon Loveless Velvet Underground and Nico, The Blue Lines Dig Me Out Avalon Double Nickels on the Dime Computer World Moon Pix Different for Girls KLF: Chaos, Magic And The Band Who Burned A Million Pounds, The Our Band Could Be Your Life Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung Dieter Meier: Works 1968-2012 and the Yello Years I'll Never Write My Memoirs Facing the Other Way Once in a Lifetime: The Crazy Days of Acid House and Afterwards Creation Stories: Riots, Raves, and Running a Label Fair Use: The Story of the Letter U and the Numeral 2 How Soon is Now: The Madmen and Mavericks Who Made Independent Music, 1975-2005 Japrocksampler: How The Post-War Japanese Blew Their Minds On Rock 'n' Roll Do Not Sell At Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records Wichita Lineman: Searching in the Sun for the World's Greatest Unfinished Song I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution

politics.

I Could Tell You But Then You Have To Be Destroyed By Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World Boobytraps Fear and Loathing: On The Campaign Trail '72 IBM and the Holocaust Number Go Up Debt: The First 5000 Years Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, The Charlie Wilson's War Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism, The Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work Direct Action and Sabotage Sabotage in the American Workplace Silent Spring Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights Terrorism and America Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times

reference.

Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, The Hoaxes and Scams Big Secrets Bigger Secrets Biggest Secrets When Deciphering is Yesterday's Earth Macros Areas of My Expertise, The More Information Than You Require That is All Straight Dope, The More of the Straight Dope Return of the Straight Dope Triumph of the Straight Dope Straight Dope Tells All, The Working Alone Moving Heavy Things Steal as Much as You Can How To Sharpen Pencils Make the Bread, Buy the Butter Urban Survival Handbook, The SAS Survival Guide How to Stay Alive in the Woods How to Shit in the Woods Priceless Recipes, The Backstage Handbook Chicago Manual of Style Dictionary of American Regional English Volume 1: A-C Dictionary of American Regional English Volume 2: D-H Dictionary of American Regional English Volume 3: I-O Dictionary of American Regional English Volume 4: P-Z Bias-Free Word Finder, The Longman Practical Stylist, The

travel.

Eighty Days Around the World in 80 Days with Michael Palin Fugitives and Refugees Pecked to Death by Ducks Round Ireland with a fridge Girl Around the World Japanese Way: Aspects of Behavior, Attitudes, and Customs of the Japanese, The

type.

Speedball Text Book Speedball 10th Edition Text Book Elements of Typographic Style, The Book Typography New Typography, The Precision Type Font Reference Guide Adobe Type Library Reference Book Arcade Game Typography Pioneers of Modern Typography Stencil Type Typography Sketchbooks Deco Type Futurist Typography and the Liberated Text Let's Write Letters with Gummed Tape! Graphique de la Rue: the signs of Paris Arabic Typography: A Comprehensive Sourcebook Typography: Macro and Microaesthetics Publi Fluor Culture Typography: How Culture Affects Typography Culture Typography 2: Examples In Font Pairings

writing.

Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson Zines! Volume I Zines! Volume II Flappers 2 Rappers Elements of Eloquence, The Wish You Were Here: The Biography of Douglas Adams 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams