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The Maker Library Network bibliography is a selection of key reference and inspirational books about making. These books are a starting point for each Maker Librarian to grow their own specialist collection.

100 Chairs in 100 Days in 100 Ways

Martino Gamper

Dent de Leone, 2007

A History of the World in 100 objects

Neil McGregor

Penguin, 2012

Ex Libris, Libraries and Books

Chanan de Lange

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2011

Makers: The New Industrial Revolution

Chris Anderson

Random House Business, 2013

Power of Making

Daniel Charny

V&A Publishing, 2011

Process: 50 Product Designs from Concept to Manufacture

Jennifer Hudson

Laurence King,2008 2 edition (25 April 2011)

Shaping Things

Bruce Sterling

MIT Press, 2005

Stuff

Daniel Miller

Polity Press, 2009

The Art of Tinkering

Karen Wilkinson

Weldon Owen, 2014

The Craftsman

Richard Sennett

Penguin, 2009

Design as Art

Bruno Munari

Penguin Classics, 2008 (1st edition 1971)

Lightness

Adriaan Beukers

010 Uitgeverij; 4th Revised edition (July 2005)

Open Design Now

Bas Van Abel et alt

2012 BIS Publishers B.V.; 1st edition (1 April 2011)

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12 August 2015

Gareth Owen Lloyd's Book Selection

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21 June 2015

GRAS' Book Selection

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1 June 2015

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13 May 2015

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