Books Received: Summer 2009: Design Observer

New books have been piling up again at Design Observer. For the summer, 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...

	Robert Atwan Convergences: Themes, Texts, and Images for Composition Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008
	Paul Auster & Glenn Thomas The Inner Life of Martin Frost Mark Batty Publisher, 2008
	Jeremy Aynsley Designing Modern Germany Reaktion Books, 2009
	Pia Jane Bijkerk Paris: Made by Hand Little Bookroom, 2009
	Mourad Boutros Talking About Arabic Mark Batty Publisher, 2009
	David Brody & Hazel Clark, editors Design Studies: A Reader Berg Publishers, 2009
	Moniek Bucquoye, Lieven Daenens & Marie Pok Design Art Limited Editions Stichting Kunstboek, 2009
	Ulrike Felsing Dynamic identities: in cultural and public context Lars Müller Publishers, 2009
	Per Olaf Fjeld Sverre Fehn: The Pattern of Thoughts The Monacelli Press, 2009
	Alastair Fuad-Luke Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World Earthscan Publications, 2009
	Simon Garfield The Error World: An Affair with Stamps Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009
	Alexandra Gerstein Experiments in Design: Bloomsbury and the Omega Workshops 1913-19 Fontanka Publishers, 2009
	Bob Gill Words into Pictures Images Publishing Group, 2009
	Steven Heller Alex Steinweiss: Creator of the Modern Album Cover Taschen, 2009
	Wendy Jedlicka Packaging Sustainability: Tools, Systems and Strategies for Innovative Package Design Wiley, 2008
	Laurence Kardish, Kelly Sidley, Michael Taussig & Aernout Mik Aernout Mik The Monacelli Press, 2009
	Jane C. Loeffler The Architecture of Diplomacy: Building America's Embassies Princeton Architectural Press, 1998
	by Ellen Lupton & Julia Lupton Design Your Life: The Pleasures and Perils of Everyday Things St. Martin's Griffin, 2009
	Bruno Munari Design As Art Penguin Global, 2009
	Timothy O'Donnell Sketchbook: Conceptual Drawings from the World's Most Influential Designers Rockport Publishers, 2009
	Sarah Owens Yes Logo: 40 Years of Branding and Design by Michael Peters Black Dog Publishing, 2009
	Dev Patnaik Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy FT Press, 2009
	Phil Patton Cars of the 20th Century: 100 Years of Automotive Ads, 1900-1999 Taschen, 2009
	Sharon Poggenpohl & Keiichi Sato, editors Design Integrations: Research and Collaboration Intellect Ltd., 2009
	Graham Pullin Design Meets Disability The MIT Press, 2009
	Douglas Rushkoff Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back Random House, 2009
	Elena Stanic & Lipavsky Corina Atlas of Graphic Designers Rockport Publishers, 2009
	Rod Sweet & Tim Williams Instructions for the Apocalypse Mark Batty Publisher, 2009
	Jan Tholenaar & Alston W. Purvis Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles, Vol. 1 Taschen, 2009
	Nato Thompson Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism Random House, 2009
	Sherry Turkle Simulation and Its Discontents The MIT Press, 2009
	Armin Vit & Bryony Gomez Palacio Graphic Design, Referenced: A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications, and History of Graphic Design Rockport Publishers, 2009
	Ami Vitale Design for a Living World Editions Assouline, 2009
	Cecilia Widenheim Utopia and Reality: Modernity in Sweden 1900-1960 Yale University Press, 2002