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Allure
Diana Vreeland et al.
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Alongshore
John R. Stilgoe
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A.L.T. 365+
André Leon Talley
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A. M. Cassandre
Henri Mouron
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American Architecture
Fiske Kimball
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American Architecture and Urbanism
Vincent Scully
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American Buildings and Their Architects, vol. 5: The Impact of European Modernism in the Mid-twentieth Century
William H. Jordy
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The American City from the Civil War to the New Deal
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American Design Ethic
Arthur J. Pulos
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American Fashion
Sarah Tomerlin Lee, ed.
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American Jewelry
Penny Proddow et al.
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American Pastoral
Philip Roth
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American Signs: Form and Meaning on Route 66
Lisa Mahar
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American Sphinx
Joseph Ellis
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American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life
Carrie Barratt et al.
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American Visions
Robert Hughes
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American Wood Type, 1828–1900
Rob Roy Kelly
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The Americans
Robert Frank
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman
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Analogous and Digital
Otl Aicher
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Anatomy for Interior Designers
Francis de N. Schroeder
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And the Sea Is Never Full
Elie Wiesel
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Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner
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Animal Architecture
Karl von Frisch
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Animals in Translation
Temple Grandin et al.
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Animals Make Us Human
Temple Grandin
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
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Annie Leibovitz: Photographs 1970–1990
Annie Leibovitz
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Answered Prayers
Truman Capote
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Ant Farm
Felicity Scott
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The Anti-Aesthetic
Hal Foster, ed.
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Apartments for the Affluent
Alpern Andrew
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Applied Grammatology
Gregory Ulmer
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The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen
Jacques Pépin
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The Arcades Project
Walter Benjamin
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Architectonic Space
Dom Hans van der Laan
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An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles
David Gebhard et al.
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Architectural Ornament
Brent C. Brolin
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Architecture in the Age of Divided Representation
Dalibor Vesely
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Architecture and Politics in Germany: 1918-1945
Barbara Miller Lane
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