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A User's Guide to the Past, Present, and Future of Urban Life
by P.D. Smith
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by Robert Macfarlane
Published Aug 2020
Read ReviewsFrom the best-selling, award-winning author of Landmarks and The Old Ways, a haunting voyage into the planet's past and future.
by Mark Kurlansky
Published Mar 2018
Read ReviewsA city of tropical heat, sweat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky.
by Simon Winchester
Published Oct 2016
Read ReviewsPacific is a paean to this magnificent sea of beauty, myth, and imagination that is transforming our lives.
by Orhan Pamuk
Published Sep 2016
Read ReviewsA modern epic of coming of age in a great city, a brilliant tableau of life among the newcomers who have changed the face of Istanbul over the past fifty years.
by Elizabeth Becker
Published Feb 2016
Read ReviewsElizabeth Becker investigates global travel industry practices in an eye-opening examination of this $6.5 trillion phenomenon.
by Diane Ackerman
Published Sep 2015
Read ReviewsA beguiling, optimistic engagement with the changes affecting every part of our lives, The Human Age is a wise and beautiful book that will astound, delight, and inform intelligent life for a long time to come.
Detroit City Is the Place to Be
by Mark Binelli
Published Nov 2013
Read ReviewsOnce America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. With an eye for both the darkly absurd and the radically new, we glimpse a future Detroit that is smaller, less segregated, greener, economically diverse, and better functioning - what might just be the first post-...
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
by Toby Wilkinson
Published Jan 2013
Read ReviewsIn this landmark work, one of the worlds most renowned Egyptologists tells the epic story of this great civilization, from its birth as the first nation-state to its final absorption into the Roman Empirethree thousand years of wild drama, bold spectacle, and unforgettable characters.
by David McCullough
Published May 2012
Read ReviewsThe Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring - and until now, untold - story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work.
by Stephan Faris
Published Sep 2009
Read ReviewsA vivid and illuminating portrayal of the surprising ways that climate change will affect the world in the near futurepolitically, economically, and culturally
by Alan Weisman
Published Aug 2008
Read ReviewsIn The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanitys impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us.
by Elizabeth Royte
Published Aug 2006
Read ReviewsA brilliant exploration into the soiled heart of the American trash can.
by Richard Fortey
Published Nov 2005
Read ReviewsA fascinating geological exploration of the earth's distant history as revealed by its natural wonders.
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