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Abstracting Craft, The Practiced Digital Hand
by Malcolm McCullough
Reviewed by Kevin Murray

The Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination
by Johanna Drucker
Reviewed by Cliff Pickover

America & the Daguerreotype
edited by John Wood
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold

American Venus: The Extraordinary Life of Audrey Munson, Model and Muse
by Diane Rozas and Anita Bourne Gottehrer
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

Architecture and Cubism
Eve Blau and Nancy J. Troy, eds.
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

Art@Science
by Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau
Reviewed by Annick Bureaud

Asteroids: Their Nature and Utilization, 2nd Edition
edited by Charles T. Kowol
Reviewed by Kasey Rios Asberry

Batchelors
by Rosalind E. Krauss
Reviewed by Fred Andersson

Becoming a Graphic Designer: A Guide to Careers in Design
by Steven Heller and Teresa Fernandes
Reviewed by Roy Behrens

Behind the Picture: Art and Evidence in the Italian Renaissance
by Martin Kemp
Reviewed by David Topper

Being Digital
by Nicholas Negroponte
Reviewed by Tim Druckery

Birth of Artistic Integrity
by Ye.V. Sintzov
Reviewed by Bulat M. Galeyev

The Blue Rider
edited by W. Kandinsky and F. Mark
Reviewed by Bulat M. Galeyev

Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoos
by Margot Mifflin
Reviewed by Mike Mosher

The Body and the Self
by Jose Luis Bermudez, Anthony Marcel, and Naomi Eilan
Reviewed by Rudolf Arnheim

On Book Design
by Richard Hendel
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens


Can Man Live Without Wonder?
by Varvara Stepanova
Reviewed by Youry Nazarov

Cassette Culture
by Peter Manuel
Reviewed by Gerald Hartnett

Catalogue Raisonne of Nicolas De Stael
Reviewed by Harry Rand

Catching Ourselves in the Act: Situated Activity, Interactive Emergence, Evolution, and Human Thought
by Horst Hendriks-Jansen
Reviewed by Cliff Pickover

Chaos and Wise Women: Book/Event Review
Reviewed by Trudy Myrrh Reagan

Chemistry Imagined: Reflections on Science
by Roald Hoffmann
Reviewed by Dr. Jose Elguero

Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace
by Pierre Levy
Reviewed by Kevin Murray

Contemporary Art and the Genetic Code
edited by Charles T. Kowol
Reviewed by Kasey Rios Asberry

Counterpunch and Designing Books
by Fred Smeijers, Jost Hochuli and Robin Kinross
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold

Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature
by Espen J. Aarseth
Reviewed by Judy Malloy

Data Trash: the Theory of the Virtual Class
by Arthur Kroeker and A Weinstein
Reviewed by Thom Gillespie

Design Culture: An Anthology of Writing from the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design
Steven Heller and Marie Finamore, eds.
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design
by Steven Heller and Karen Pomeroy
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

Digital Mantras: The Languages of Abstract and Virtual Worlds
by Steven R. Holtzman
Reviewed by Paul Hertz

Dimensions of Creativity
by Margaret A. Boden
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold

Duchamp: Passim, A Marcel Duchamp Anthology
by Anthony Hill
Reviewed by Douglas Kahn

Einstein's Miraculous Year: Five Papers That Changed the Face of Physics
edited and introduced by John Stachel
Reviewed by David Topper

Electric Sound: The Past and Promise of Electronic Culture
by Timothy Druckrey
Reviewed by Andreas Broeckmann

Electronic Music
by Joel Chadabe
Reviewed by Marc Battier

Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience
by Francisco J Varela, Evan Thompson, Eleanor Rosch
Reviewed by Simon Penny

An Encyclopedia of Archetypal Symbolism,
Volume 2: The Body
by George R. Elder
Reviewed by Istvan Hargittai

Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse
by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
Reviewed by Richard Kade

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Seat of Genius, Chairs: 1895-1955
by Penny Fowler and Mary Anna Easton
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

The Future of Software
edited by Derek Leebaert
Reviewed by Kevin Murray

Garner Tullis and the Art of Collaboration
by David Carrier
Reviewed by Fred Andersson

The Glory of Van Gogh
by Nathalie Heinich
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold

Gombrich and the Philosophies of Science of Popper and Polanyi
by Sheldon Richmond
Reviewed by Istvan Hargittai

Gombrich on Art and Psychology
by Richard Woodfield
Reviewed by Istvan Hargittai

The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure
edited by Ian Foster & Carl Kesselman
Reviewed by Curtis E.A. Karnow

Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity
by John H Holland
Reviewed by Roger F. Malina

High Noon on the Electronic Frontier: Conceptual Issues in Cyberspace
edited by Peter Ludlow
Reviewed by Stephen Wilson

Higher Superstition: The Flight from Science and Reason
by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold

At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
by Stuart Kauffman
Reviewed by Roger F. Malina

In the Eye of the Beholder the Science of Face Perception
by Vicki Bruce and Andy Young
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold

Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations
by Thomas A. Stewart
Reviewed by Richard Kade

Is C Actually Red? (Ist C Rot? Eine Kultur - und Wissenschaftsgeshichte zum Problem der wechselseitigen Beziehung zwischen Ton und Farbe: von Aristoteles bis Goethe
by Joerg Jewansky
Reviewed by S.V. Sintzova and R.F. Saifullin

J.M.W. Turner: Romantic Painter of the Industrial Revolution
by William S. Rodner
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold

Kant After Duchamp
by Thierry de Duve
Reviewed by Mark A. Cheetham

Lab 3 - Jahrbuch 1996/97 fuer Kunst und Apparate
by Walther Koenig
Reviewed by Andreas Broeckmann

Liners in Battledress: Wartime Camouflage and Color Schemes for Passenger Ships
by David Williams
Reviewed by Roy Behrens

The Loom of God: Mathematical Tapestries at the Edge of Time
by Clifford A. Pickover
Reviewed by Istvan Hargittai

Mass Media and Society
Edited by James Curran and Michael Gurevitch
Reviewed by Molly B. Hankwitz

Methods of Predicting the Development of Art Perspectives
by V.M. Petrov and L.G. Boyagyeva
Reviewed by Svetlana Sintzova

Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from our Microbial Ancestors
by Lynn Margulis & Dorian Sagan
Reviewed by Kasey Rios Asberry

Monkey Painting
by Thierry Lenain
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

Música de invenção (Invention Music)
by Augusto de Campos
Reviewed by Carlos Palombini

Musical Instrument Design
Practical Information for Instrument Design
by Bart Hopkin
Reviewed by Josh Firebaugh

Nanotechnology
Edited by B.C. Crandall
Reviewed by Istvan Hargittai

Old Wine, New Flasks: Reflections on Science and Jewish Tradition
by Roald Hoffman and Shira Leibowitz Schmidt
Reviewed by Kevin Murray

Painting the Heavens: Art and Science in the Age of Galileo
by by Eileen Reeves
Reviewed by David Topper

Les Particules Elementaires
by Michel Houellebecq
Reviewed by Roger Malina

A Passion for Wings: Aviation and the Western Imagination
by Thierry de Duve
Reviewed by Michael Dashkin

Paul McCarthy
by Ralph Rugoff, Kristine Stiles, Giacinto Di Pietrantoni
Reviewed by Sonya Rapoport

Perception and Imaging
by Richard D. Zakia
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Reviewed by Roger Malina

Picturing Modernism; and Laszlo Moholy Nagy: Biographical Writings
by Eleanor M. Hight
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

Picturing Science, Producing Art
edited by Caroline A. Jones and Peter Galison
Reviewed by David Topper

Play With Your Food
by Joost Elffers
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

The Poetics of Perspective
by James Elkins
Reviewed by Tony Green

On Reflection
by Jonathan Miller
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold

Resisting the Virtual Life
edited by James Brook and Iain A. Boal
Reviewed by Simon Penny

Le revoilé avec les indications qui manquaient
by Frank Popper
Reviewed by Annick Bureaud

Les Riches Heures de l'Alphabet
by Henri Chopin and Paul Zumthor
Reviewed by Marc Battier

Road to Pleiades and Crystal of Aquarius
by Yury Linnik
Reviewed by Bulat M.Galeyev

Scientific Instruments, 1500-1900: An Introduction
by Gerald L'E. Turner
Reviewed by David Topper

Seeing Jazz: Artists and Writers on Jazz
Smithsonian Institution
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

A Short History of the Shadow
by Victor I. Stoichita
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

Sol Power: The Evolution of Solar Architecture
by Sophia and Stefan Behling
Reviewed by Eva Belik Firebaugh

Some Cities
by Victor Burgin
Reviewed by Molly B. Hankwitz

Stairways to the Stars: Skywatching in Three Great Ancient Cultures
by Anthony Aveni
Reviewed by David Topper

Symmetry: A Unifying Concept
by Istvan Hargittai and Magdolna Hargittai
Reviewed by Michele Emmer

Terence Conran on Design
by Terence Conran with Elizabeth Wilhide
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

Thinking Things Through: An Introduction to Philosophical Issues and Achievements
by Clark Glymour
Reviewed by David Carrier

To Light Such a Candle
by Keith J. Laidler
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold

Le Ton bon de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Reviewed by Richard Kade

Twentieth-Century Design; and The Photograph
by Jonathan W. Woodham
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

Unpacking Duchamp: Art in Transit
by Dalia Judovitz
Reviewed by Molly B. Hankwitz

Van Gogh, Fields and Flowers
by Debra N. Mancoff
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold

Van Gogh 100
edited by Joseph D. Masheck
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold

Vi - en dokumentation of kulturrôdgiveri / We - a Documentation of Cultural Affairs
by Staffan Mossenmark and Joergen Svensson
Reviewed by Fred Andersson

Visualizing with CAD: An AUTOCAD Exploration of Geometric and Architectural Forms
by Daniela Bertol
Reviewed by Michele Emmer

Walter Benjamin's Other History: Of Stones, Animals, Human Beings and Angels
by Beatrice Hanssen
Reviewed by Mike Mosher

What Painting Is: How to Think About Oil Painting, Using the Language of Alchemy
by James Elkins
Reviewed by David Topper

The XML & SGML CookBook: Recipes for Structured Information
by Tony Robbin
Reviewed by Kasey Rios Asberry

Your Future Self: A Journey to the Frontiers of Molecular Medicine
by Hank Whittenmore
Reviewed by Istvan Hargittai


Acknowledgments
The above reviews were coordinated by Kasey Rios Asberry and formatted by Xavier Malina.