Structure of the Visual Book was written “to elaborate on the potential of the book format, whether text, images, or a combination…” My copy is the third edition of this…
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I believe this is one of the most famous artist’s books of all time. I first heard about it in school but it was expensive and out of print at…
The Conference of the Birds — A Sufi Fable by Farid ud-Din Attar — is “A Philosophical Religious Poem in Prose”. It’s some hybrid of prose poem, religious allegory, fable(s),…
This one’s been on our shelves for a while; for years all I’ve known about it is that it’s some sort of classic, about the life of a cat, and…
The title alludes to what makes this book so interesting: its atypical treatment of history. In this book, a sort of blend of history and philosophy, De Landa “traces the…
Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle is an “excursion into the ways we conceptualize the past…” Its subject is the “discovery of ‘deep time’” via three documents “marking the transitions in our…
A small, salient book about hope. Solnit is an excellent writer, critic, essayist, commentator. She here argues that an “embrace of uncertainty” is more useful than “either passive optimism or…
The Warmth of Other Suns “chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the south for northern and western cities…
A book that takes us behind the scenes of how and why words and sentences work, in precise detail. It’s meant to serve as inspiration and example for writers, presenting…
The Elements of Typographic Style is a landmark text of typography. “Far more than a style guide”, it’s also a “brief history…encyclopedia…[and] richly informative tour” of this fascinating field. Bringhurst…