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Walter Pichler
Walter Pichler et al.
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Walter Gropius e la Bauhaus
Giulio Carlo Argan
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Walden, or Life in the Woods
Henry David Thoreau
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Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
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Voices of the Old Sea
Norman Lewis
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The Voices of Silence
André Malraux
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Vogue’s Book of Houses, Gardens, People
Valentine Lawford
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Visual Thinking
Rudolf Arnheim
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Visual Explanations
Edward R. Tufte
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Edward R. Tufte
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Vision in Motion
László Moholy-Nagy
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Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and Histories of Art
Griselda Pollock
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The Visible Word
Herbert Spencer
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The Visible and the Invisible
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Vindication: A Novel
Frances Sherwood
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Villa Triste
Patrick Modiano
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle
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The Venturesome Economy
Amar Bhidé
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Venice for Pleasure
J. G. Links
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Venezia Minore
Egle Renata Trincanato et al.
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Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (Friday)
Michel Tournier
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The Velvet Room
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James
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Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray
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The Vampire Lestat
Anne Rice
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V&A Pattern: Boxed Set
Yueh-Siang Chang et al.
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Utzon
Richard Weston
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The Urban Villagers
Herbert J. Gans
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Urban Traffic: A Function of Land Use
R. B. Mitchell et al.
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Uppercase 3
Alison and Peter Smithson
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Unspecial Effects for Graphic Designers
Bob Gill
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Unobtrusive Measures
Eugene Webb
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Unless It Moves the Human Heart
Roger Rosenblatt
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The Unknown Craftsman
Soetsu Yanagi
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The Unfashionable Human Body
Bernard Rudofsky
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(un)Fashion
Tibor and Maira Kalman
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The Unexpurgated Beaton
Hugo Vickers, ed.
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Underwear: Fashion in Detail
Eleri Lynn
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Understanding Media
Marshall McLuhan
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Understanding Comics
Scott McCloud
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