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Ancestral Night

by Elizabeth Bear  · 5 Mar 2019  · 596pp  · 163,351 words

Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, the Untold Story

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Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity

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A Short History of British Architecture: From Stonehenge to the Shard

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also needs areas of privacy and intimacy. As it grew, Poundbury acquired all these. It responded to the new concept not of space-filling but place-making. This was an ethos awash in abstraction but, in essence, it meant treating public spaces with the care shown to private ones, places described as

safer. Across Britain it is showing that new buildings can be beautiful and considerate of their surroundings. Architects are more concerned with the entirety of place-making and the role that old buildings should play in it. They are also more aware of the costs of construction to the environment and the

Home Building Secrets: Save Thousands Building Your Next Home: For the first time homeowner or the second time homeower who did not learn from their first mistakes

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Be Your Own Financial Adviser: The Comprehensive Guide to Wealth and Financial Planning

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The Asperger Love Guide: A Practical Guide for Adults With Asperger's Syndrome to Seeking, Establishing and Maintaining Successful Relationships

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Puppet 3 Cookbook

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Learning Flask Framework

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Blockchain Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction in 25 Steps

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The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume

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Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future

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The Introvert Entrepreneur: Amplify Your Strengths and Create Success on Your Own Terms

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Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime

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This Will Make You Smarter: 150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

by John Brockman  · 14 Feb 2012  · 416pp  · 106,582 words

Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing

by Josh Ryan-Collins, Toby Lloyd and Laurie Macfarlane  · 28 Feb 2017  · 346pp  · 90,371 words

Walled Culture: How Big Content Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Keep Creators Poor

by Glyn Moody  · 26 Sep 2022  · 295pp  · 66,912 words

Unf*ck Your Habitat

by Rachel Hoffman  · 178pp  · 51,244 words

The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World

by Anu Bradford  · 14 Sep 2020  · 696pp  · 184,001 words

Off the Rails: 10,000 Km by Bicycle Across Russia, Siberia and Mongolia to China

by Chris Hatherly and Tim Cope  · 31 Aug 2013  · 382pp  · 118,547 words

The Trade Lifecycle: Behind the Scenes of the Trading Process (The Wiley Finance Series)

by Robert P. Baker  · 4 Oct 2015

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

by Douglas Coupland  · 15 Mar 1991  · 169pp  · 55,866 words

The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win

by Maria Konnikova  · 22 Jun 2020  · 377pp  · 117,339 words

The Complete Thyroid Book

by Kenneth Ain and M. Sara Rosenthal  · 1 Mar 2005  · 385pp  · 117,391 words

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by Steven Higashide  · 9 Oct 2019  · 195pp  · 52,701 words

One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility

by Zack Furness and Zachary Mooradian Furness  · 28 Mar 2010  · 532pp  · 155,470 words

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by Greg Milner  · 4 May 2016  · 385pp  · 103,561 words

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Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

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Writing on the Wall: Social Media - the First 2,000 Years

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Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

by Owen Jones  · 14 Jul 2011  · 317pp  · 101,475 words

More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup of Tea

by Tom Reynolds  · 30 Apr 2009  · 376pp  · 93,160 words

Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything―Even Things That Seem Impossible Today

by Jane McGonigal  · 22 Mar 2022  · 420pp  · 135,569 words

The Reluctant Carer: Dispatches From the Edge of Life

by The Reluctant Carer  · 22 Jun 2022  · 233pp  · 69,745 words

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The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility

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Practical Vim

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Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings

by Jay Barbree, Howard Benedict, Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton and Neil Armstrong  · 1 Jan 1994  · 469pp  · 124,784 words

Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back

by Guy Shrubsole  · 1 May 2019  · 505pp  · 133,661 words

Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War

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Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life

by Kristen R. Ghodsee  · 16 May 2023  · 302pp  · 112,390 words

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

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Bad Actors

by Mick Herron  · 9 May 2022  · 412pp  · 97,696 words

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Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks

by Ken Jennings  · 19 Sep 2011  · 367pp  · 99,765 words

The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication From Ancient Times to the Internet

by David Kahn  · 1 Feb 1963  · 1,799pp  · 532,462 words

Lonely Planet Nicaragua (Travel Guide)

by Lonely Planet, Alex Egerton and Greg Benchwick  · 30 Jun 2013

The Rough Guide to South America on a Budget (Travel Guide eBook)

by Rough Guides  · 1 Jan 2019  · 1,909pp  · 531,728 words

Data and the City

by Rob Kitchin,Tracey P. Lauriault,Gavin McArdle  · 2 Aug 2017

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On the Slow Train Again

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Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World

by Sara C. Bronin  · 30 Sep 2024  · 230pp  · 74,949 words

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by Jodi Taylor  · 21 Jun 2023  · 506pp  · 132,373 words

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Why the West Rules--For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future

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Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places

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This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook

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The Preppers Cookbook: Essential Prepping Foods and Recipes to Deliciously Survive Any Disaster

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The Big Book of Words You Should Know: Over 3,000 Words Every Person Should Be Able to Use (And a Few That You Probably Shouldn't)

by David Olsen, Michelle Bevilacqua and Justin Cord Hayes  · 28 Jan 2009  · 663pp  · 119,916 words

The Ministry for the Future: A Novel

by Kim Stanley Robinson  · 5 Oct 2020  · 583pp  · 182,990 words

The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

by J. Kenji López-Alt  · 20 Sep 2015

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by Rick Steves  · 8 Nov 2016  · 920pp  · 237,085 words

Anvil of Stars

by Greg Bear  · 4 Mar 2008  · 623pp  · 155,587 words

I Am a Strange Loop

by Douglas R. Hofstadter  · 21 Feb 2011  · 626pp  · 181,434 words

Arrival City

by Doug Saunders  · 22 Mar 2011  · 366pp  · 117,875 words

Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There

by David Brooks  · 1 Jan 2000  · 142pp  · 18,753 words

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

by Charles Seife  · 31 Aug 2000  · 233pp  · 62,563 words

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by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck  · 14 Sep 2010  · 321pp  · 85,267 words

Understanding Sponsored Search: Core Elements of Keyword Advertising

by Jim Jansen  · 25 Jul 2011  · 298pp  · 43,745 words

Learning SPARQL

by Bob Ducharme  · 22 Jul 2011  · 511pp  · 111,423 words

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

by Barbara Ehrenreich  · 2 Jan 2003  · 200pp  · 72,182 words

Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)

by David Sedaris  · 29 May 2017  · 496pp  · 137,645 words

The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty

by Benjamin H. Bratton  · 19 Feb 2016  · 903pp  · 235,753 words

Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster

by Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz  · 1 Mar 2013  · 567pp  · 122,311 words

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by Brad Feld  · 8 Oct 2012  · 169pp  · 56,250 words

Geography of Bliss

by Eric Weiner  · 1 Jan 2008  · 361pp  · 111,500 words

Power at Ground Zero: Politics, Money, and the Remaking of Lower Manhattan

by Lynne B. Sagalyn  · 8 Sep 2016  · 1,797pp  · 390,698 words

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by Dom Nozzi  · 15 Dec 2003  · 282pp  · 69,481 words

The Road to Wigan Pier

by George Orwell  · 17 Oct 1972  · 208pp  · 74,328 words

Patricia Unterman's San Francisco Food Lover's Pocket Guide

by Patricia Unterman and Ed Anderson  · 1 Mar 2007  · 263pp  · 61,784 words

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Ctrl Alt Delete: Reboot Your Business. Reboot Your Life. Your Future Depends on It.

by Mitch Joel  · 20 May 2013  · 260pp  · 76,223 words

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by Erika Lenkert  · 8 May 2006  · 218pp  · 83,794 words

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by Iain M. Banks  · 14 Jan 2011  · 298pp  · 151,238 words

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by Mikael Colville-Andersen  · 28 Mar 2018  · 293pp  · 90,714 words

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by Iain M. Banks  · 14 Jan 2011  · 225pp  · 121,045 words

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by Leo Hollis  · 31 Mar 2013  · 385pp  · 118,314 words

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by Nick Harkaway  · 18 Oct 2017  · 778pp  · 239,744 words

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by Mohammed Abdul Qadeer  · 10 Mar 2016

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by Iain M. Banks  · 15 Jan 2008  · 576pp  · 174,529 words

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by Lonely Planet and Shawn Low  · 1 Apr 2015  · 3,292pp  · 537,795 words

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by Neal Thompson  · 2 Jan 2004  · 577pp  · 171,126 words

Debunking Economics - Revised, Expanded and Integrated Edition: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?

by Steve Keen  · 21 Sep 2011  · 823pp  · 220,581 words

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by Cory Doctorow  · 2 Oct 2012  · 478pp  · 146,480 words

Provenance

by Ann Leckie  · 25 Sep 2017  · 352pp  · 109,653 words

vN: The First Machine Dynasty (The Machine Dynasty Book 1)

by Madeline Ashby  · 28 Jul 2012  · 343pp  · 93,544 words

Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

by Anthony M. Townsend  · 29 Sep 2013  · 464pp  · 127,283 words

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by Peter Gutmann

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by Dan Gretton

Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking About Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives

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The Mad Man: Or, the Mysteries of Manhattan

by Samuel R. Delany  · 1 Jun 2015  · 647pp  · 201,252 words

The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport: Second Edition

by David Levinson and Kevin Krizek  · 17 Aug 2015  · 257pp  · 64,285 words

Lonely Planet Chile & Easter Island (Travel Guide)

by Lonely Planet, Carolyn McCarthy and Kevin Raub  · 19 Oct 2015

Fodor's Costa Rica 2012

by Fodor's  · 6 Oct 2011

The Hero With a Thousand Faces

by Joseph Campbell  · 14 Apr 2004

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by Leo Hollis  · 334pp  · 103,106 words

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by Isabella Noble and Regis St Louis  · 15 Nov 2022  · 541pp  · 135,952 words

Legacy

by Greg Bear  · 1 Jan 1995  · 523pp  · 149,772 words

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by Jeremiah Moss  · 19 May 2017  · 479pp  · 140,421 words

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

by David Graeber  · 1 Jan 2010  · 725pp  · 221,514 words

Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World

by Gaia Vince  · 22 Aug 2022  · 302pp  · 92,206 words

Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe's Lost Country

by Simon Winder  · 22 Apr 2019

Idoru

by William Gibson  · 2 Jan 1996  · 301pp  · 74,571 words

It's Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street: A Jerusalem Memoir

by Emma Williams  · 7 Nov 2012  · 466pp  · 150,362 words

The the Rough Guide to Turkey

by Rough Guides  · 15 Oct 2023

The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

by Jake Bittle  · 21 Feb 2023  · 296pp  · 118,126 words

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by Fodor's Travel Guides  · 29 Nov 2022  · 373pp  · 107,111 words

Lonely Planet Southern Italy

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The Rough Guide to Sweden (Travel Guide eBook)

by Rough Guides  · 1 Nov 2019

Lonely Planet Kenya

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Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City

by Richard Sennett  · 9 Apr 2018

The Rough Guide to Wales

by Rough Guides  · 14 Oct 2024  · 882pp  · 240,215 words

Scotland Travel Guide

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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape

by James Howard Kunstler  · 31 May 1993

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Explore Everything

by Bradley Garrett  · 7 Oct 2013  · 273pp  · 76,786 words

The New Tourist: Waking Up to the Power and Perils of Travel

by Paige McClanahan  · 17 Jun 2024  · 206pp  · 78,882 words

The Rough Guide to Mexico

by Rough Guides  · 15 Jan 2022

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by Lonely Planet Publications and Damien Simonis  · 14 May 1997

World Travel: An Irreverent Guide

by Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever  · 19 Apr 2021  · 366pp  · 110,374 words

Celebrating the Third Place: Inspiring Stories About the Great Good Places at the Heart of Our Communities

by Ray Oldenburg  · 30 Nov 2001  · 215pp  · 71,155 words

The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community

by Ray Oldenburg  · 17 Aug 1999

McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

by Misha Glenny  · 7 Apr 2008  · 487pp  · 147,891 words

Great Britain

by David Else and Fionn Davenport  · 2 Jan 2007

The system of the world

by Neal Stephenson  · 21 Sep 2004  · 1,199pp  · 384,780 words

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke and Don Roberts  · 9 Mar 2012

Frommer's Paris 2013

by Kate van Der Boogert  · 24 Sep 2012

Frommer's Hawaii 2009

by Jeanette Foster  · 2 Jan 2008  · 675pp  · 344,555 words

Lonely Planet Norway (Travel Guide)

by Lonely Planet and Donna Wheeler  · 1 Apr 2015  · 1,510pp  · 218,417 words

Frommer's Mexico 2009

by David Baird, Lynne Bairstow, Joy Hepp and Juan Christiano  · 2 Sep 2008  · 803pp  · 415,953 words

Frommer's London 2009

by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince  · 25 Aug 2008

England

by David Else  · 14 Oct 2010

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