The Goldsmiths library has impressed me, but I’ve noticed the most haggled books happen to be related to post colonial studies, cultural imperialism (see above) and anything by Foucault, Barthes, Hall, Papanek, etc etc. The one I’m currently reading, a 1991 edition of Tomlinson’s Cultural Imperialism, contains highlighted passages, notes in pen and pencil, underlines and doodles (mostly flowers). It’s also falling apart (but not as bad as Design for the Real World, where I spent a good time reading and scotch taping the pages back in - unfortunately all three versions at the library had pages falling out.) But seriously, isn’t this cover awesome?
