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Here at Snook we love books. So much so that we didn’t manage to keep it to a top 5 as originally planned. So, for World Book Day here are 13 books about design and the world that we love:
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1. Hope In The Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities — Rebecca Solnit
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2. The Craftsman — Richard Sennett
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3. Design as Politics — Tony Fry
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4. Good Services — Lou Downe
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5. The Death & Life of the Great American Cities — Jane Jacobs
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6. Braiding Sweetgrass — Robin Wall Kimmerer
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7. Exhalation — Ted Chiang
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8. Doughnut Economics — Kate Raworth
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9. From What is to What If — Rob Hopkins
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10. Radical Help — Hilary Cottam
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11. Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers — Leonard Koren
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12. Thinking in Systems — Deborah H. Meadows
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13. Dark Matter & Trojan Horses — Dan Hill