New books have been piling up again at Design Observer. We thought we'd share some of the many recently published titles we have received over the past couple of months — with a few older titles just stumbled upon. Maybe you'll find a surprise or two...
  | Dan Ariely Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions Harper Collins, 2008 Elizabeth Armstrong The Birth of Cool: California Art, Design and Culture at Midcentury Prestel Publishing, 2007 |
 | Barbara Bloom, Dave Hickey & Susan Tallman The Collections of Barbara Bloom Steidl/ICP, 2008 |
 | Mel Bochner Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings and Interviews, 1965–2007 The MIT Press, 2008 |
 | Ricky Burdett & Deyan Sudjic The Endless City Phaidon Press, 2008 |
 | Stefanie Burger, Jorre Both & Cees W. de Jong New Poster Art Thames & Hudson, 2008 |
 | Jean M. Burks Shaker Design: Out of this World Yale University Press, 2008 |
 | R. V. Branham Curse and Berate in 69+ Languages Soft Skull Press, 2008 |
 | Pauline Van Mourik Broekman, Damian Jaques & Simon Worthington Mute Magazine Eight Books, 2008 |
 | Rob Carter Meggs: Making Graphic Design History Wiley, 2007 |
 | Lucy Creagh, Helena Kaberg & Barbara Miller Lane, editors Modern Swedish Design: Three Founding Texts The Museum of Modern Art, 2008 |
 | Daab Books Broadcast Design Daab/Mul Edition, 2007 |
 | Graham Davis The Designer's Toolkit: Thousands of Color Combinations Chronicle Books, 2008 |
  | Michael Dooley & Steven Heller Teaching Motion Design: Course Offerings and Class Projects from the Leading Undergraduate and Graduate Programs Allworth Press, 2008 Nathan Dunne, editor Tarkovsky Black Dog Publishing, 2008 |
 | Johanna Drucker & Emily McVarish Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide Prentice Hall, 2008 |
 | Gabrielle Esperdy Modernizing Main Street: Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal University of Chicago Press, 2008 |
  | Ed Fella & Geoff McFetridge Two Lines Align: Drawings and Graphic Design Redcat, 2008 Robert S. P. Fripp & R. Roger Remington Design and Science: The Life and Work of Will Burtin Ashgate, 2007 |
   | Joseph Grima & Karen Wong, editors Shift: SANAA and the New Museum Lars Müller Publishers, 2008 Juergen Gulbins & Uwe Steinmueller Fine Art Printing for Photographers: Exhibition Quality Prints with Inkjet Printers Rocky Nook, 2008 Robert Poque Harrison Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition University of Chicago Press, 2008 |
 | K. Michael Hays & Dana A. Miller Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe Yale University Press, 2008 |
 | Steven Heller Iron Fists: Branding the 20th-Century Totalarian State Phaidon Press, 2008 |
 | Steven Heller & Mirko Ilic Icons of Graphic Design, Second Edition Thames & Hudson, 2008 |
  | Hesign, editor The Master of Design: Pierre Bernard Page One Publishing, 2007 Roxanne Jubert Typography and Graphic Design: From Antiquity to the Present Flammarion, 2006 |
 | Christina Kiaer Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism (Life and Mind Series) The MIT Press, 2008 |
 | William Davies King Collections of Nothing University of Chicago Press, 2008 |
 | Sanford Kwinter & Cynthia Davidson, editor Far from Equilibrium: Essays on Technology and Design Culture Actar, 2008 |
 | Alix Lambert Crime Fuel Publishing, 2008 |
 | Tod Lippy, editor Esopus 10 Esopus Foundation, 2008 |
 | Ellen Lupton & Phillips Jennifer Cole Graphic Design: The New Basics Princeton Architectural Press, 2008 |
 | Josh MacPhee & Favianna Rodriguez, editors Reproduce and Revolt Soft Skull Press, 2008 |
 | Josh MacPhee Stencil Pirates Soft Skull Press, 2004 |
 | Alberto Manguel The Library at Night Yale University Press, 2008 |
 | Daniel Mason Materials, Process, Print: Creative Ideas for Graphic Design Laurence King Publishers, 2007 |
  | Susan Meiselas Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History Random House, 1997 Grant McCracken Transformations: Identity Construction in Contemporary Culture Indiana University Press, 2008 |
  | Craig Mod & Ashley Rawlings, editors Art Space Tokyo Chin Music Press, 2008 Laurent Pflughaupt Letter by Letter Princeton Architectural Press, 2008 |
  | Phaidon Editors Area 2 Phaidon Press, 2008 Ramon Prat & Tomoko Sakamoto Super Holland Design Actar, 2007 |
 | Christian de Portzamparc & Philippe Sollers Writing and Seeing Architecture University Of Minnesota Press, 2008 |
 | Graham Rawle Woman's World: A Novel Counterpoint, 2008 |
 | Robynne Raye & Michael Strassburger Modern Dog: 20 Years of Poster Art Chronicle Books, 2008 |
 | Darrel Rees How to be an Illustrator Laurence King Publishers, 2008 |
 | Robert J. Richards The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought University of Chicago Press, 2008 |
 | Joseph Rosa Figuration in Contemporary Design Art Institute of Chicago, 2008 |
 | Elizabeth Royte Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It Bloomsbury USA, 2008 |
 | Zoe Ryan Graphic Thought Facility Art Institute of Chicago, 2008 |
 | Sam Sarowitz Translating Hollywood Mark Batty Publisher, 2008 |
 | William S. Saunders, editor Nature, Landscape, and Building for Sustainability: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader University of Minnesota Press, 2008 |
 | Jutta Schickore The Microscope and the Eye: A History of Reflections, 1740-1870 University of Chicago Press, 2007 |
 | Paul Schimmel, editor Murakami Rizzoli, 2007 |
 | Dean Schwarz & Geraldine Schwarz, editors Marguerite Wildenhain and the Bauhaus: An Eyewitness Anthology South Bear Press, 2007 |
 | Felicity Scott Ant Farm: Living Archive Actar, Columbia Gsapp, 2008 |
   | Richard Sennett The Craftsman Yale University Press, 2008 Adrian Shaughnessy Cover Art By: New Music Graphics Laurence King Publishers, 2008 Aaris Sherin SustainAble: A Handbook of Materials and Applications for Graphic Designers and Their Clients Rockport Publishers, 2008 |
 | Stoltze Design 1,000 Music Graphics: A Compilation of Packaging, Posters and Other Sound Solutions Rockport Publishers, 2008 |
 | Sherry Turkle Falling for Science: Objects in Mind The MIT Press, 2008 |
 | Tom Vanderbilt Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us) Knopf, 2008 |
  | Anthony Vidler Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism The MIT Press, 2008 Rob Walker Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are Random House, 2008 |
 | David Watkin Thomas Hope: Regency Designer Yale University Press, 2008 |
 | Luke Wroblewski Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks Rosenfeld Media, 2008 |
 | Indi Young Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior Rosenfeld Media, 2008 |
