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New Materials May-October : Biography to History

new books

Biography
Nordi’s Gift
A Heaven in the Eye

Dance
My body, the Buddhist – Deborah Hay
Martha Graham : sixteen dances in photographs

Decorative Arts
American vernacular : new discoveries in folk, self-taught, and outside sculpture
Looking forward, glancing back : Northwest Designer Craftsmen at 50
The quilt : beauty in fabric and thread

Design
100 habits of successful graphic designers : insider secrets on working smart and staying creative
SPD’s solid gold : 40 years of award-winning magazine design
Visual Power, Volumes 1 and 3
The design encyclopedia
Phaidon design classics., Volumes 1, 2, and 2
The politics of the artificial : essays on design and design studies
Making and breaking the grid : a graphic design layout workshop

DIY and Handicrafts
Unexpected Knitting
A Handweaver’s Source Book : a selection of 146 patterns from the Laura M. Allen collection.

Drawing, Illustration
The drawing book : a survey of drawing, the primary means of expression

Environmental Science
Ecological design
An Inconvenient Truth : the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it
Global Warming
Alternative energy

Film Studies
Anatomy of film
From reverence to rape : the treatment of women in the movies

Geography
Lie of the land : the secret life of maps

History
The decline and fall of practically everybody
History as art and as science; twin vistas on the past.
What is history?
On History
An encyclopedia of world history, ancient, medieval and modern, chronologically arranged.
Dictionary of Third World terms
Citizens : a chronicle of the French Revolution
Comparative photography: a century of change in Egypt and Israel
The machine in the garden : technology and the pastoral ideal in America
The debt : what America owes to Blacks

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