Criticism
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The God Delusion
$19.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERIn the seminal text on atheism in the twenty-first centuy, renowned scientist Richard Dawkins examines the irrationality of believing in God and the g… [more below]
- Author: Dawkins, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0618918248
- Language: English
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New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham’s Jazz Age Architecture
$29.95 Add to cartA native New Yorker and twenty-year veteran of the New York City Landmarks Commission, Anthony W. Robins is the author of books on Grand Central Terminal, the World Trade Center, and the art and archi… [more below]
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Robins, Anthony W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1438463960
- Language: English
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The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids–Featuring the Author’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Essays
$20.99 Add to cart**From the Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism ** Now Updated with New Material**
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“[Lange] might be the most influential design critic writing now.” –The Los Angeles Review of Books- Author: Lange, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1639739289
- Language: English
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The Limit of the Useful
$34.95 Add to cartThe first English-language translation of an essential, early work key to understanding the French philosopher’s later thought.
In the decade prior to the publication of Inner Experience (L’exp?ience- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047330
- Language: English
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Josef Koudelka: Diaries
$60.00 Add to cartA rare glimpse into the mind and artistic process of one of the world’s greatest photographers.
Distilled from sixty-nine journals kept over the course of fifty-plus years, Josef Koudelka: Diaries offe
- Author: Koudelka, Josef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1597115932
- Language: English
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Shelter Cookbook
$40.00 Add to cartAn inspiring guide to the history and legacy of Lloyd Kahn’s 1970s countercultural self-build manuals
DIY architect, publisher and pioneer of the self-build movement, Lloyd Kahn (born 1935) is a legend
- Author: Banchini, Leopold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 3959054904
- Language: English
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We the Bacteria: Notes Toward Biotic Architecture
$25.00 Add to cartHow architecture must learn to coexist with bacterial life, from the authors of the bestselling Are We Human?
This provocative book is a manifesto for an alternative architectural philosophy. It treats
- Author: Colomnia, Beatriz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 303778783X
- Language: English
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Shifting Grounds: The Ground Between Form and Practice in Beirut
$34.95 Add to cartThe book investigates spatial practices at the ground level of Beirut – Appropriation, Commoning, Production, and Activism – that fill the gap between the city’s capital-driven development and the asp… [more below]
- Author: Aramouny, Carla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1638401241
- Language: English
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Our World in Ten Buildings: How Architecture Defines Who We Are and How We Live
$30.00 Add to cartFrom “tomorrow’s greatest designer” (The Atlantic), a personal and deeply researched look at how the choices we build into our environment reflect and determind the way we think, connect, and live.
We- Author: Murphy, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1668056550
- Language: English
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Design and Disability: 10 Tales of Accessible Design
$35.00 Add to cartThis visually rich book celebrates design ingenuity, making the point that inclusive design is better for all
This visually rich book celebrates design ingenuity, acknowledging the significant contri- Author: Kane, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1838510575
- Language: English
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Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists
$26.95 Add to cartIn Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern disciplines–psychoanalysis and historicis… [more below]
- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Copjec, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 1781688885
- Language: English
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The Domestic Stage: When Fashion Image Comes Home
$60.00 Add to cartSince the 1990s, fashion imagery has evolved from the aspirational and glamorous into an experimental genre created by interdisciplinary artists, art directors, and photographers. The domestic space o
- Author: Murray, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0500028443
- Language: English
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Horror of Philosophy: Vols. 1-3
$39.95 Add to cartEugene Thacker’s three cult-classic volumes of supernatural horror come together in this new Zer0 Books omnibus, revised with updated material, offering an essential resource for thinking about the un… [more below]
- Author: Thacker, Eugene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1803415908
- Language: English
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At the Limits of the Gaze: Selected Writings by Takuma Nakahira
$29.95 Add to cartThe first English-language collection of Takuma Nakahira’s influential writings on photography.
At the Limits of the Gaze collects the writings of photographer and critic Takuma Nakahira in English for
- Series: Aperture Ideas
- Author: Nakahira, Takuma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1597115789
- Language: English
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Lair: Radical Homes and Hideouts of Movie Villains (Trade Edition)
$27.00 Add to cartNOW IN TRADE EDITION!
*50 Books 50 Covers AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts), Winner, Book Category
*Official Selection Award of the 10th Edition of the Festival International du Livre D’Art e- Series: Design + Film
- Author: Oppenheim, Chad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1962098222
- Language: English
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Radical Universalism: Beyond Identity
$17.95 Add to cartA compelling philosophical exploration of the concept of universalism and its role–or lack thereof–in contemporary politics. This accessible study challenges the prioritization of identity politics … [more below]
- Author: Boehm, Omri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1681379856
- Language: English
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Rewriting Alberti
$34.95 Add to cartA fresh, groundbreaking analysis of renowned Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti’s five built works, suggesting a new relationship of form to meaning.
Much has been written about Renaissance a- Series: Writing Architecture
- Author: Eisenman, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0262553716
- Language: English
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The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids–Featuring the Author’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Essays
$20.99 Add to cart**From the Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism ** Now Updated with New Material**
From bui
“[Lange] might be the most influential design critic writing now.” –The Los Angeles Review of Books- Author: Lange, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1639739289
- Language: English
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A Philosophy of War: Why We Fight
$17.95 Add to cartThe best-selling author of A Philosophy of Walking returns to address the eternal subject of human conflict
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine seems to many like a throwback to another age, rattling Europe- Author: Gros, Frédéric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1804296023
- Language: English
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Designing Futures: Speculation, Critique, Innovation
$45.00 Add to cartThe ability to imagine different possible futures and the will to influence the course of events are deeply human. These ideas about the future can also determine which of the many possible futures wi… [more below]
- Author: Mandir, Eileen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1529435056
- Language: English
