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The Fix: How Bankers Lied, Cheated and Colluded to Rig the World's Most Important Number (Bloomberg)

by Liam Vaughan and Gavin Finch  · 22 Nov 2016

Vaughan and Gavin Finch Chapter 2 Tommy Chocolate T homas Alexander William Hayes had always been an outsider. Born in 1979 and raised in the urban sprawl of Hammersmith, West London, Hayes was bright but found it hard to connect with other kids. His parents divorced when he was in primary school

Oryx and Crake

by Margaret Atwood  · 5 May 2003

vanish. There’s an interval of parking lots and warehouses, then barbed wire strung between cement posts, an elaborate gate off its hinges. End of urban sprawl and pleeb city limits, beginning of Compound turfdom. Here’s the last station of the sealed-tunnel bullet train, with its plastic jungle-gym colours

Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut

by Mike Mullane  · 24 Jan 2006  · 506pp  · 167,034 words

oak trees to relieve the otherwise flat, boring terrain of southeast coastal Texas. Johnson Space Center was located in the far south of Houston’s urban sprawl. It was nearly as close to Galveston as it was to Houston’s city center. The community in which many NASA employees lived was the

Do You Dream of Terra-Two?

by Temi Oh  · 15 Mar 2019  · 486pp  · 138,878 words

miserable affair, leaving behind the sweet-smelling tree-lined avenues near Dalton and returning to her hometown on the outskirts of Liverpool. Part of an urban sprawl that had been condemned by the city’s mayor. She’d taken the coach a thousand times from Lime Street Station, and watched from the

Learning to Think: A Memoir

by Tracy King  · 12 Mar 2025  · 248pp  · 84,118 words

away and surrounded by fields. The bluebell woods of Jackie’s courting days were now another council estate, but I was as happy to explore urban sprawl as nature. Little cut-throughs and gullies, dead ends leading to unattended blocks of garages, unexpected corner shops in residential enclaves. I never went back

Next Stop Execution: The Autobiography of Oleg Gordievsky

by Oleg Gordievsky  · 13 Apr 2015  · 438pp  · 146,246 words

was itself a revelation. I had frequently read that London was one of the richest cities in the world — but here was a vast, undistinguished urban sprawl, with street after street of grimy old houses, litter in the gutters, and appalling traffic. To some extent the squalor was redeemed by the little

Growth: A Reckoning

by Daniel Susskind  · 16 Apr 2024  · 358pp  · 109,930 words

building is prohibited. (This is done not, as the name implies, for environmental reasons, but to encourage high-density development within the Belt and stop urban sprawl.) Again, it is entirely plausible that the growth of cities is important for the discovery and spread of new ideas, Paul Romer, for instance, holds

The Good, the Bad and the History

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

a strong bargaining position. All of Patara lay before us and it was vast. ‘They could be anywhere,’ I said, rather defeated by all this urban sprawl. ‘We’ll find them. It’s what we do. Come on.’ Markham and I followed a goat track down into the city. No one seemed

The Last Job: The Bad Grandpas and the Hatton Garden Heist

by Dan Bilefsky  · 22 Apr 2019  · 307pp  · 87,373 words

Hatton Garden. As the 96 bus edged its way through the city, the tree-lined streets of Kent soon gave way to the capital’s urban sprawl. If Reader and the gang could pull off the caper, his children and grandchildren would never have to work again. And he would go down

Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean

by Les Standiford  · 4 Aug 2003  · 259pp  · 73,473 words

the marine research center here for a little R and R. After Grassy Key comes Crawl Key, and next Key Vaca, and the sudden quasi-urban sprawl of Marathon, where actual airplanes are tethered along the narrow runway at highwayside. There is a plethora of motels and restaurants in Marathon, most of

A Sting in the Tale

by Dave Goulson  · 24 Apr 2013  · 260pp  · 87,958 words

Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders With America's Mexican Migrants

by Ted Conover  · 10 Jan 2013  · 301pp  · 97,199 words

Rainbow Six

by Tom Clancy  · 2 Jan 1998

The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

by Richard Dawkins  · 1 Jan 2004  · 734pp  · 244,010 words

The Gifted Adult: A Revolutionary Guide for Liberating Everyday Genius(tm)

by Mary-Elaine Jacobsen  · 2 Nov 1999  · 435pp  · 136,906 words

The Gifted Adult: A Revolutionary Guide for Liberating Everyday Genius(tm)

by Mary-Elaine Jacobsen  · 18 Feb 2015  · 435pp  · 136,741 words

The Everything Blueprint: The Microchip Design That Changed the World

by James Ashton  · 11 May 2023  · 401pp  · 113,586 words

The Linguist: A Personal Guide to Language Learning

by Steve Kaufmann  · 15 Jan 2003

DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You

by Misha Glenny  · 3 Oct 2011  · 274pp  · 85,557 words

In the Company of Heroes

by Michael J. Durant and Steven Hartov  · 1 Dec 2006  · 402pp  · 123,199 words

Let My People Go Surfing

by Yvon Chouinard  · 20 Jun 2006  · 201pp  · 64,545 words

Alistair Cooke's America

by Alistair Cooke  · 1 Oct 2008  · 369pp  · 121,161 words

Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer

by Michael Swaine and Paul Freiberger  · 19 Oct 2014  · 459pp  · 140,010 words

Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

by Hunter S. Thompson  · 1 Jan 1966  · 308pp  · 103,890 words

The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess

by Turney Duff  · 3 Jun 2013  · 262pp  · 93,987 words

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

by Jessica Bruder  · 18 Sep 2017  · 273pp  · 85,195 words

Mauritius, Réunion & Seychelles Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet  · 1,429pp  · 189,336 words

The Rough Guide to Vienna

by Humphreys, Rob  · 311pp  · 168,705 words

Iron Sunrise

by Stross, Charles  · 28 Oct 2004  · 462pp  · 142,240 words

Lonely Planet Pocket Nice and Monaco 3 3rd Ed

by Lonely Planet  · 15 Apr 2024  · 122pp  · 31,426 words

Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Countryside - Finding Home in an English Country Garden

by Marchelle Farrell  · 2 Aug 2023  · 217pp  · 76,056 words

The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-Mile Horseback Journey Into the Old West

by Will Grant  · 14 Oct 2023  · 246pp  · 82,965 words

I, Warbot: The Dawn of Artificially Intelligent Conflict

by Kenneth Payne  · 16 Jun 2021  · 339pp  · 92,785 words

Fodor's Hawaii 2013

by Fodor's  · 22 Jul 2012

A New History of the Future in 100 Objects: A Fiction

by Adrian Hon  · 5 Oct 2020  · 340pp  · 101,675 words

The Rough Guide To Devon & Cornwall

by Rough Guides  · 29 Apr 2024  · 558pp  · 147,947 words

Egypt

by Matthew Firestone  · 13 Oct 2010

Fodor's Hawaii 2012

by Fodor's Travel Publications  · 15 Nov 2011

Broken Angels

by Richard Morgan  · 31 Aug 2008  · 570pp  · 151,259 words

Frommer's Hawaii 2009

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

Dead or Alive

by Tom Clancy and Grant (CON) Blackwood  · 7 Dec 2010  · 795pp  · 212,447 words

Small Data: The Tiny Clues That Uncover Huge Trends

by Martin Lindstrom  · 23 Feb 2016  · 295pp  · 89,430 words

The 100 Best Vacations to Enrich Your Life

by Pam Grout  · 14 May 2007  · 304pp  · 87,702 words

Surfaces and Essences

by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander  · 10 Sep 2012  · 1,079pp  · 321,718 words

Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

by General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman and Chris Fussell  · 11 May 2015  · 409pp  · 105,551 words

Canary Islands Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

Frommer's Egypt

by Matthew Carrington  · 8 Sep 2008

The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move

by Sonia Shah

Why the Dutch Are Different: A Journey Into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands: From Amsterdam to Zwarte Piet, the Acclaimed Guide to Travel in Holland

by Ben Coates  · 23 Sep 2015  · 300pp  · 99,410 words

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

by Arlie Russell Hochschild  · 5 Sep 2016  · 435pp  · 120,574 words

Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You

by Scott E. Page  · 27 Nov 2018  · 543pp  · 153,550 words

Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (In a Big Way)

by Roma Agrawal  · 2 Mar 2023  · 290pp  · 80,461 words

The Rough Guide to Sri Lanka

by Rough Guides  · 21 Sep 2018

Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit

by Barry Estabrook  · 6 Jun 2011  · 268pp  · 76,709 words

A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings

by Helen Jukes  · 25 Jul 2018  · 195pp  · 62,082 words

Canary Islands Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet  · 570pp  · 145,712 words

Scandinavia

by Andy Symington  · 24 Feb 2012

Explorer's Guide Mexico City, Puebla & Cuernavaca: A Great Destination

by Zain Deane  · 8 Sep 2011  · 490pp  · 114,589 words

The Rough Guide to Devon & Cornwall

by Robert Andrews

Lonely Planet Kenya

by Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet Wales

by Anna Kaminski;Hugh McNaughtan  · 640pp  · 160,013 words

1989 The Berlin Wall: My Part in Its Downfall

by Peter Millar  · 1 Oct 2009  · 220pp  · 88,994 words

The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories

by Ilan Pappé  · 21 Jun 2017  · 356pp  · 97,794 words

Fodor's Costa Rica 2013

by Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.  · 1 Oct 2012

Fodor's Essential Belgium

by Fodor's Travel Guides  · 23 Aug 2022

Caribbean Islands

by Lonely Planet

The Rough Guide to Mexico

by Rough Guides  · 15 Jan 2022

Lonely Planet Peru

by Lonely Planet  · 1,166pp  · 301,688 words

Lonely Planet Eastern Europe

by Lonely Planet, Mark Baker, Tamara Sheward, Anita Isalska, Hugh McNaughtan, Lorna Parkes, Greg Bloom, Marc Di Duca, Peter Dragicevich, Tom Masters, Leonid Ragozin, Tim Richards and Simon Richmond  · 30 Sep 2017

The End of Growth

by Jeff Rubin  · 2 Sep 2013  · 262pp  · 83,548 words

Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of the World

by Michael Schuman  · 8 Jun 2020

Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base

by Annie Jacobsen  · 16 May 2011  · 572pp  · 179,024 words

Stephen Fry in America

by Stephen Fry  · 1 Jan 2008  · 362pp  · 95,782 words

Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)

by Charles Wheelan  · 18 Apr 2010  · 386pp  · 122,595 words

Frommer's England 2011: With Wales

by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince  · 2 Jan 2010

Straight Flush: The True Story of Six College Friends Who Dealt Their Way to a Billion-Dollar Online Poker Empire--And How It All Came Crashing Down . . .

by Ben Mezrich  · 27 May 2013  · 233pp  · 71,342 words

Lonely Planet Greek Islands

by Lonely Planet, Alexis Averbuck, Michael S Clark, Des Hannigan, Victoria Kyriakopoulos and Korina Miller  · 31 Mar 2012

Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World

by Srdja Popovic and Matthew Miller  · 3 Feb 2015  · 202pp  · 8,448 words

The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter

by Peter Singer and Jim Mason  · 1 May 2006  · 400pp  · 129,320 words

USA's Best Trips

by Sara Benson  · 23 May 2010  · 941pp  · 237,152 words

Costa Rica

by Matthew Firestone, Carolina Miranda and César G. Soriano  · 2 Jan 2008

The Rough Guide to Amsterdam

by Martin Dunford, Phil Lee and Karoline Thomas  · 4 Jan 2010  · 537pp  · 135,099 words

The rough guide to walks in London and southeast England

by Helena Smith and Judith Bamber  · 29 Dec 2008

Ireland (Lonely Planet, 9th Edition)

by Fionn Davenport  · 15 Jan 2010

Intertwingled: Information Changes Everything

by Peter Morville  · 14 May 2014  · 165pp  · 50,798 words

The Great Lakes Water Wars

by Peter Annin  · 15 Jun 2018  · 406pp  · 120,933 words

The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

by Joel Bakan  · 1 Jan 2003

The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations

by David Pilling  · 30 Jan 2018  · 264pp  · 76,643 words

The Evolutionary Void

by Peter F. Hamilton  · 18 Aug 2010  · 857pp  · 232,302 words

The Rough Guide to Toronto

by Helen Lovekin and Phil Lee  · 29 Apr 2006  · 257pp  · 56,811 words

Frommer's Israel

by Robert Ullian  · 31 Mar 1998

Egypt Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

The Rough Guide to Ireland

by Clements, Paul  · 2 Jun 2015

Extreme Rambling: Walking Israel's Separation Barrier. For Fun.

by Mark Thomas  · 13 Apr 2011  · 359pp  · 104,870 words

The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War

by Tim Butcher  · 2 Jun 2013  · 302pp  · 97,076 words

Hawaii

by Jeff Campbell  · 4 Nov 2009

Fodor's Costa Rica 2012

by Fodor's  · 6 Oct 2011

Robot, Take the Wheel: The Road to Autonomous Cars and the Lost Art of Driving

by Jason Torchinsky  · 6 May 2019  · 175pp  · 54,755 words

Amazing Train Journeys

by Lonely Planet  · 30 Sep 2018

Moon Portugal

by Carrie-Marie Bratley  · 15 Mar 2021  · 743pp  · 193,663 words

Lonely Planet Sri Lanka

by Lonely Planet

Pocket Rough Guide Istanbul (Travel Guide eBook)

by Rough Guides  · 24 May 2019

Lonely Planet Turkey

by Lonely Planet  · 1,236pp  · 320,184 words

Names for the Sea

by Sarah Moss  · 27 Apr 2018

The Passenger

by AA.VV.  · 23 May 2022  · 192pp  · 59,615 words

Pocket Rough Guide Istanbul

by Rough Guides  · 26 Nov 2023

Insight Guides Iceland

by Insight Guides  · 6 Dec 2024  · 415pp  · 110,831 words

Egypt Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers

by Katherine Clarke  · 13 Jun 2023  · 454pp  · 127,319 words

Discover Caribbean Islands

by Lonely Planet

Greece Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet Turkey (Travel Guide)

by Lonely Planet, James Bainbridge, Brett Atkinson, Steve Fallon, Jessica Lee, Virginia Maxwell, Hugh McNaughtan and John Noble  · 31 Jan 2017  · 2,313pp  · 330,238 words

The Rough Guide to New Zealand: Travel Guide eBook

by Rough Guides  · 1 Jan 2024  · 1,383pp  · 367,401 words

Lonely Planet Southern Italy

by Lonely Planet

Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future

by Ian Johnson  · 26 Sep 2023  · 407pp  · 119,073 words

Lonely Planet Malta & Gozo

by Lonely Planet  · 233pp  · 61,033 words

Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write

by Dennis Yi Tenen  · 6 Feb 2024  · 169pp  · 41,887 words

The Rough Guide to Seoul

by Rough Guides  · 26 Sep 2018  · 305pp  · 87,259 words

Lonely Planet Western Balkans

by Lonely Planet, Peter Dragicevich, Mark Baker, Stuart Butler, Anthony Ham, Jessica Lee, Vesna Maric, Kevin Raub and Brana Vladisavljevic  · 1 Oct 2019  · 990pp  · 250,044 words

Lonely Planet Mongolia (Travel Guide)

by Lonely Planet, Trent Holden, Adam Karlin, Michael Kohn, Adam Skolnick and Thomas O'Malley  · 1 Jul 2018

City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

by Megan Kimble  · 2 Apr 2024  · 430pp  · 117,211 words

Coastal California Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

Northern California Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves From the Tyranny of the Automobile

by Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon and Aaron Naparstek  · 21 Oct 2025  · 330pp  · 85,349 words

Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are Thekeys to Sustainability

by David Owen  · 16 Sep 2009  · 313pp  · 92,907 words

Moon Mexico City: Neighborhood Walks, Food & Culture, Beloved Local Spots

by Julie Meade  · 7 Aug 2023  · 527pp  · 131,002 words

The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

by Robert J. Gordon  · 12 Jan 2016  · 1,104pp  · 302,176 words

Lonely Planet Colombia (Travel Guide)

by Lonely Planet, Alex Egerton, Tom Masters and Kevin Raub  · 30 Jun 2015

World Cities and Nation States

by Greg Clark and Tim Moonen  · 19 Dec 2016

Cities in the Sky: The Quest to Build the World's Tallest Skyscrapers

by Jason M. Barr  · 13 May 2024  · 292pp  · 107,998 words

Eastern USA

by Lonely Planet

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

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

Scotland Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

Culture Shock! Costa Rica 30th Anniversary Edition

by Claire Wallerstein  · 1 Mar 2011

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

by James Howard Kunstler  · 31 May 1993

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

by Henry Grabar  · 8 May 2023  · 413pp  · 115,274 words

Age of the City: Why Our Future Will Be Won or Lost Together

by Ian Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin  · 21 Jun 2023  · 248pp  · 73,689 words

Barcelona

by Damien Simonis  · 9 Dec 2010

Smart Cities, Digital Nations

by Caspar Herzberg  · 13 Apr 2017

Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

by Jeff Speck  · 13 Nov 2012  · 342pp  · 86,256 words

Mexico - Mexico City

by Rough Guides  · 267pp  · 74,238 words

Coastal California

by Lonely Planet

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

by David Quammen  · 30 Sep 2012  · 669pp  · 195,743 words

Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities

by Witold Rybczynski  · 9 Nov 2010  · 232pp  · 60,093 words

Lonely Planet Washington, Oregon & the Pacific Northwest

by Lonely Planet  · 1,006pp  · 243,928 words

Spain

by Lonely Planet Publications and Damien Simonis  · 14 May 1997

American Marxism

by Mark R. Levin  · 12 Jul 2021  · 314pp  · 88,524 words

Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism

by Stephen Graham  · 30 Oct 2009  · 717pp  · 150,288 words

On the Grand Trunk Road: A Journey Into South Asia

by Steve Coll  · 29 Mar 2009  · 413pp  · 128,093 words

Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car

by Anthony M. Townsend  · 15 Jun 2020  · 362pp  · 97,288 words

Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit

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

Italy

by Damien Simonis  · 31 Jul 2010

Lectures on Urban Economics

by Jan K. Brueckner  · 14 May 2011

1,000 Places to See in the United States and Canada Before You Die, Updated Ed.

by Patricia Schultz  · 13 May 2007  · 2,323pp  · 550,739 words

The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century

by Alex Prud'Homme  · 6 Jun 2011  · 692pp  · 167,950 words

The Locavore's Dilemma

by Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu  · 29 May 2012  · 329pp  · 85,471 words

Great Britain

by David Else and Fionn Davenport  · 2 Jan 2007

Lonely Planet Morocco (Travel Guide)

by Lonely Planet, Paul Clammer and Paula Hardy  · 1 Jul 2014  · 2,020pp  · 267,411 words

The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America

by Jon C. Teaford  · 1 Jan 2006  · 395pp  · 115,753 words

Greece

by Korina Miller  · 1 Mar 2010

City Parks

by Catie Marron

A Short History of Progress

by Ronald Wright  · 2 Jan 2004  · 225pp  · 54,010 words

Aftermath: Following the Bloodshed of America's Wars in the Muslim World

by Nir Rosen  · 21 Apr 2011  · 1,016pp  · 283,960 words

Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet

by Roger Scruton  · 30 Apr 2014  · 426pp  · 118,913 words

City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age

by P. D. Smith  · 19 Jun 2012

Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

by Charles Montgomery  · 12 Nov 2013  · 432pp  · 124,635 words

You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall

by Colin Ellard  · 6 Jul 2009  · 293pp  · 97,431 words

The Cohousing Handbook: Building a Place for Community

by Chris Scotthanson and Kelly Scotthanson  · 1 Nov 2004  · 305pp  · 73,935 words

Straphanger

by Taras Grescoe  · 8 Sep 2011  · 428pp  · 134,832 words

City on the Verge

by Mark Pendergrast  · 5 May 2017  · 425pp  · 117,334 words

The Great Railroad Revolution

by Christian Wolmar  · 9 Jun 2014  · 523pp  · 159,884 words

Suburban Nation

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

Frommer's California 2009

by Matthew Poole, Harry Basch, Mark Hiss and Erika Lenkert  · 2 Jan 2009

Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain

by John Grindrod  · 2 Nov 2013  · 578pp  · 141,373 words

California

by Sara Benson  · 15 Oct 2010

Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity

by Ha-Joon Chang  · 4 Jul 2007  · 347pp  · 99,317 words

England

by David Else  · 14 Oct 2010

Lonely Planet Mexico

by John Noble, Kate Armstrong, Greg Benchwick, Nate Cavalieri, Gregor Clark, John Hecht, Beth Kohn, Emily Matchar, Freda Moon and Ellee Thalheimer  · 2 Jan 1992

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

by Naomi Klein  · 15 Sep 2014  · 829pp  · 229,566 words

Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life

by Adam Greenfield  · 29 May 2017  · 410pp  · 119,823 words

Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

by Ha-Joon Chang  · 26 Dec 2007  · 334pp  · 98,950 words

Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders

by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton  · 19 Sep 2016  · 1,048pp  · 187,324 words

Vertical: The City From Satellites to Bunkers

by Stephen Graham  · 8 Nov 2016  · 519pp  · 136,708 words

The Driver: My Dangerous Pursuit of Speed and Truth in the Outlaw Racing World

by Alexander Roy  · 13 Oct 2008  · 446pp  · 108,844 words

Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution

by Janette Sadik-Khan  · 8 Mar 2016  · 441pp  · 96,534 words

Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

by Edward L. Glaeser  · 1 Jan 2011  · 598pp  · 140,612 words

Aerotropolis

by John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay  · 2 Jan 2009  · 603pp  · 182,781 words

The New Class Conflict

by Joel Kotkin  · 31 Aug 2014  · 362pp  · 83,464 words

The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream Is Moving

by Leigh Gallagher  · 26 Jun 2013  · 296pp  · 76,284 words

Central America

by Carolyn McCarthy, Greg Benchwick, Joshua Samuel Brown, Alex Egerton, Matthew Firestone, Kevin Raub, Tom Spurling and Lucas Vidgen  · 2 Jan 2001

Road to ruin: an introduction to sprawl and how to cure it

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

Capitalism in America: A History

by Adrian Wooldridge and Alan Greenspan  · 15 Oct 2018  · 585pp  · 151,239 words

Frommer's Oregon

by Karl Samson  · 26 Apr 2010  · 389pp  · 210,632 words

The Architecture of Happiness

by Alain de Botton  · 10 Dec 2008  · 159pp  · 48,021 words

Frommer's California 2007

by Harry Basch, Mark Hiss, Erika Lenkert and Matthew Richard Poole  · 6 Dec 2006  · 769pp  · 397,677 words

France (Lonely Planet, 8th Edition)

by Nicola Williams  · 14 Oct 2010

The Rent Is Too Damn High: What to Do About It, and Why It Matters More Than You Think

by Matthew Yglesias  · 6 Mar 2012  · 58pp  · 18,747 words

Istanbul Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

Cities Are Good for You: The Genius of the Metropolis

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

Gnomon

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

Southeast Asia on a Shoestring Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet  · 30 May 2012

Lonely Planet China (Travel Guide)

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

The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know About Food Is Wrong

by Barry Glassner  · 15 Feb 2007  · 300pp  · 65,976 words

Pandora's Star

by Peter F. Hamilton  · 2 Mar 2004  · 1,234pp  · 356,472 words

To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism

by Evgeny Morozov  · 15 Nov 2013  · 606pp  · 157,120 words

The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class?and What We Can Do About It

by Richard Florida  · 9 May 2016  · 356pp  · 91,157 words

Lonely Planet France

by Lonely Planet Publications  · 31 Mar 2013

The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us

by Joel Kotkin  · 11 Apr 2016  · 565pp  · 122,605 words

Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities

by Diana Leafe Christian  · 1 Jan 2003

The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London

by Judith Flanders  · 14 Oct 2012  · 683pp  · 203,624 words

The City: A Global History

by Joel Kotkin  · 1 Jan 2005

USA Travel Guide

by Lonely, Planet

Fodor's California 2014

by Fodor's  · 5 Nov 2013  · 1,540pp  · 400,759 words

Once the American Dream: Inner-Ring Suburbs of the Metropolitan United States

by Bernadette Hanlon  · 18 Dec 2009

Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

by Alan Weisman  · 23 Sep 2013  · 579pp  · 164,339 words

The Rough Guide to England

by Rough Guides  · 29 Mar 2018

Mobility: A New Urban Design and Transport Planning Philosophy for a Sustainable Future

by John Whitelegg  · 1 Sep 2015  · 224pp  · 69,494 words

Public Places, Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design

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