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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Creation is a Patient Search (L’atelier de la recherche patiente)
Le Corbusier
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Creating with Paper
Pauline Johnson
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Crash
J. G. Ballard
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The Craftsman
Richard Sennett
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Cradle to Cradle
William McDonough et al.
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The Country Houses of David Adler
Stephen Salny
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
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Costume Patterns and Designs
Max Tilke
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The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
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Conversations with Students
Louis I. Kahn
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Contempt
Alberto Moravia
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The Consumer Society
Jean Baudrillard
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Consider the Lobster
David Foster Wallace
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The Conscience of Words
Elias Canetti
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Confronting Silence
Toru Takemitsu
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Conformismo e Trasgressione
Annamaria Andreoli
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Confieso que he vivido: Memorias (Memoirs)
Pablo Neruda
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Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
Thomas Mann
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Confessions of a Radical Industrialist
Ray C. Anderson et al.
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Conditions
Snøhetta, ed.
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Concrete Island
J. G. Ballard
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The Concrete Dragon
Thomas J. Campanella
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The Concise Townscape
Gordon Cullen
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A Computer Perspective
Charles Eames, Ray Eames; Glen Fleck, ed.
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Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Robert Venturi
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The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard
J. G. Ballard et al.
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The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine
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The Complete Costume History
Auguste Racinet
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A Comparison of Package Designs in Japan and Europe
Japan Package Design Association
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Community and Privacy
Serge Chermayeff et al.
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Communitas
Percival Goodman et al.
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Comme des Garçons
Rei Kawakubo
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The Colossus of Maroussi
Henry Miller
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The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
Michael Ondaatje
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The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
Amy Hempel et al.
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The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
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Collapse
Jared Diamond
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The Cloud of Unknowing
Thomas H. Cook
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