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  • Anjan Chatterjee The best books on the science of art and aesthetics Book cover of How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration Book cover of Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why Book cover of Feeling Beauty: The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience Book cover of Understanding the Beauty Appreciation Trait: Empirical Research on Seeking Beauty in All Things Book cover of Brain, Beauty, and Art: Essays Bringing Neuroaesthetics Into Focus
  • Kevin Nute The best books on Japanese aesthetics Book cover of The Book of Tea Book cover of The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty Book cover of In Praise of Shadows Book cover of Space and Illusion in the Japanese Garden Book cover of Wabi, Sabi, Suki: The Essence of Japanese Beauty
  • Noël Carroll The best philosophy books that surveys the arts Book cover of Poetics Book cover of Art Book cover of Aesthetics: Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism Book cover of Languages of Art Book cover of After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History
  • Rebecca Jones-Howe The best books to accompany your sad girl aesthetic Book cover of My Sweet Audrina Book cover of Rebecca Book cover of Life of the Party Book cover of The Girls Book cover of Let Love Come Last
  • Nick Prior The best books on popular music, technology, and society Book cover of How Music Works Book cover of Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music Book cover of Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer Book cover of Why Music Matters Book cover of K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher from 2004 - 2016
  • Frank Jacobus The best design sensing books Book cover of The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding Book cover of Art As Experience Book cover of Visual Thinking Book cover of Language of Vision Book cover of The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling and the Making of Cultures
  • José P. Zagal The best books for loving, learning, and caring about games Book cover of The Beauty of Games Book cover of Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made Book cover of Games: Agency As Art Book cover of Everybody Wins: Four Decades of the Greatest Board Games Ever Made Book cover of A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II
  • Jeff Lyons The best books for learning the craft of story development Book cover of The Anatomy of Genres: How Story Forms Explain the Way the World Works Book cover of Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere) Book cover of Poetics Book cover of The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers Book cover of The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers
  • David Baboulene The best books about how stories work and how to write your story to its best effect Book cover of Poetics Book cover of Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting Book cover of Mythologies Book cover of The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller Book cover of The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies
  • Gregory Camp The best books about film music Book cover of Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen Book cover of Hollywood Harmony: Musical Wonder and the Sound of Cinema Book cover of Music by Max Steiner: The Epic Life of Hollywood's Most Influential Composer Book cover of Free and Easy? A Defining History of the American Film Musical Genre Book cover of Hearing the Movies: Music and Sound in Film History
  • David Sonnenschein The best books on the power of music and sound on the brain, emotions and audiovisual storytelling Book cover of This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession Book cover of The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music Book cover of Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World Book cover of Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain Book cover of Music, the Brain and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination
  • David Airey The best books on visual branding Book cover of The Art of Looking Sideways Book cover of Branding: In Five and a Half Steps Book cover of A Smile in the Mind: Witty Thinking in Graphic Design Book cover of Now Try Something Weirder: How to Keep Having Great Ideas and Survive in the Creative Business Book cover of The Process: A New Foundation in Art and Design
  • Lynne B. Sagalyn The best books to excite a passion for understanding cities Book cover of Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change Book cover of The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011 Book cover of Icons and Aliens: Law, Aesthetics, and Environmental Change Book cover of Capital City: New York City and the Men Behind America's Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860-1900 Book cover of Miami
  • Rachael Taylor The best books to increase your creative productivity Book cover of The Green Sketching Handbook: Relax, Unwind and Reconnect with Nature Book cover of The Secret Lives of Color Book cover of Oh Joy!: 60 Ways to Create & Give Joy Book cover of Conscious Creativity: Look, Connect, Create Book cover of Wreck This Journal: Now in Color
  • Laura Dushkes The best books about architecture for non-experts Book cover of Understanding Architecture Book cover of The Architecture of Happiness Book cover of Architecture of the Absurd: How "Genius" Disfigured a Practical Art Book cover of Cubed: The Secret History of the Workplace Book cover of The Women Who Changed Architecture
  • James E. Crisp The best history books written from hidden, elusive, and mysterious sources Book cover of Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America Book cover of Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History Book cover of Myth, Memory, and Massacre: The Pease River Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker Book cover of The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past Book cover of Author Unknown: On the Trail of Anonymous
  • Rebecca Weeks The best books about history on screen Book cover of Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History Book cover of Engaging the Past: Mass Culture and the Production of Historical Knowledge Book cover of Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision Book cover of The History on Film Reader Book cover of Screening Nostalgia: Populuxe Props and Technicolor Aesthetics in Contemporary American Film
  • Rob Boddice The best books on what your emotions are and where they come from Book cover of The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions Book cover of How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain Book cover of The Ascent of Affect: Genealogy and Critique Book cover of Empathy: A History Book cover of Pity Transformed
  • David Joselit The best books on art and globalization Book cover of Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria Book cover of Van Gogh on Demand: China and the Readymade Book cover of Making Art Global: The Third Havana Biennial 1989, Exhibition Histories Vol. 2 Book cover of Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War Book cover of Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method
  • Ellen Winner The best books about the value of children’s art Book cover of Children's Drawings (Le Dessin Enfantin) Book cover of Artful Scribbles: The Significance of Children's Drawings Book cover of The Innocent Eye Book cover of Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye Book cover of Nadia Revisited: A Longitudinal Study of an Autistic Savant
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