Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
By: Jody Rosen
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twent…
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1. The High Cost of Free Parking
By: Donald C. Shoup
3.79
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
American drivers park for free on nearly ninety-nine percent of their car trips, and cities require… read more
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2. It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels
By: Robert Penn
4.12
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
Robert Penn has saddled up nearly every day of his adult life. In his late twenties, he pedaled 25,… read more
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3. The Rider
By: Sam Garrett , Tim Krabbé
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
A literary sports classic, finally available in the U.S. Originally published in the Netherlands in… read more
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4. Empire of Cotton: A Global History
By: Sven Beckert
3.67
Format: 363 pages, Hardcover
The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, a… read more
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5. The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
By: William Egginton
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
6. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.45
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
7. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By: Henry Grabar
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- urbanism
- audiobook
8. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape
By: Henry Dimbleby
4.39
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
You may not be aware of this - not consciously, at least - but you do not control what you eat. Eve… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
By: James Vincent
3.86
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful to… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
11. The Second Life of Tiger Woods
By: Michael Bamberger
3.90
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From Michael Bamberger, author most recently of the New York Times bestseller Men in Green, the int… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Golf is like everything else. You plan. Then real life intervenes."-Michael Bamberger, The Second Life of Tiger Woods
"All the while, an intensely personal real-time documentary was being shot, with the help of seventy-five CBS cameras, about a man, private by nature but famous by deed, trying to reclaim a lost life …"-Michael Bamberger, The Second Life of Tiger Woods
"The scream is the great multitasker of human expression. It covers agony, ecstasy, relief, frustration. It's especially useful when you're at a loss for words. Tiger did a lot of screaming that after…"-Michael Bamberger, The Second Life of Tiger Woods
12. Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
By: Alexandra Lange
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they… read more
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"These early successes were a boon to developers, who could now confidently double their shopping area and add the final technological breakthrough that made a mall a mall: air-conditioning."-Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
"People often tell me that they get lost in malls. Malls are a habitat. Some of us are natives. If you grew up hiking, you know to look for blazes. If you grew up with malls, you know to look for the …"-Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
13. Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
By: Charles L. Marohn Jr.
4.26
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Discover insider secrets of how America's transportation system is designed, funded, and built - an… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- urbanism
- transport
- audiobook
14. Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
By: Lyndsie Bourgon
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A gripping account of the billion-dollar timber black market -- and how it intersects with environm… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Organizations like the World Bank and Interpol have estimated that the global scale of illegal logging generates somewhere between $51 billion and $157 billion annually. Thirty percent of the world's…"-Lyndsie Bourgon, Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
"Scientists have stumbled on the remains of ancient woods in this way, locating root systems that continue to support the forest long after the body of the tree has disappeared. In this sense the tree…"-Lyndsie Bourgon, Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
"Forest sociologist Robert Lee says city dwellers are more likely to feel guilt toward nature, which he attributes to disconnection from nature rather than empathy toward it: "They are very likely to …"-Lyndsie Bourgon, Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
"Automation, globalization, and increased education requirements - compounded by failures in government and institutions - have given rise to a generation of disconnected and fearful people. The numbe…"-Lyndsie Bourgon, Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
15. Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
By: Jody Rosen
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twent… read more
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- history
- travel
- politics
- nonfiction
- urbanism
- transport
- sports
- cycling
- bicycles
- audiobook
16. Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It
By: Daniel Knowles
4.27
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A high-octane polemic against cars—which are ruining the world, while making us unhappy and unhealt… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- urbanism
- audiobook
17. The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport
By: Joshua Robinson
4.41
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
🎧Listening Length = 10 hours and 40 minutes NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Wall Street Journal rep… read more
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- nonfiction
- sports
- history
- audiobook
18. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By: Jonathan Blitzer
4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives
By: Melissa Bruntlett
4.41
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In 2019, mobility experts Melissa and Chris Bruntlett began a new adventure in Delft in the Netherl… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- urbanism
- transport
- cycling
20. Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality
By: Melissa Bruntlett
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In car-clogged urban areas across the world, the humble bicycle is enjoying a second life as a legi… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- urbanism
- transport
- cycling
21. There Are No Accidents
By: Jessie Singer
4.33
Format: None pages, None
A journalist recounts the surprising history of accidents and reveals how they’ve come to define al… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- urbanism
- audiobook
"It is an act of love to demand accountability for the dead. And it takes rage to prevent the same accidents from happening again."-Jessie Singer, There Are No Accidents
"Blame and the punishment that follows may satisfy the thirst for vengeance. But we cannot punish and learn at the same time. Punishment keeps in place the belief that the system is safe and the human…"-Jessie Singer, There Are No Accidents
22. Beryl
By: Jeremy Wilson
4.51
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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- history
- cycling
23. Take Back the Game: How Money and Mania Are Ruining Kids Sports—and Why It Matters
By: Linda Flanagan
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards 2022 A close look at how big money and high s… read more
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- sports
- nonfiction
24. American Flannel: How a Band of Entrepreneurs Are Bringing the Art and Business of Making Clothes Back Home
By: Steven Kurutz
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
“I can confidently say this will be one of my favorite books of 2024.” —Stephen King, bestselling a… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
25. Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities
By: Veronica O. Davis
4.41
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
Transportation planners, engineers, and policymakers in the US face the monumental task of righting… read more
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- nonfiction
- urbanism
- transport
26. Het recht van de snelste
By: Thalia Verkade
4.18
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Winnaar van de Brusseprijs voor het beste journalistieke boek van 2020. Steekt een hert de weg … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- urbanism
27. Godwin
By: Joseph O'Neill
3.60
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The odyssey of two brothers crossing the world in search of an African soccer prodigy who might cha… read more
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- audiobook
28. Cyclettes
By: Tree Abraham
3.85
Format: None pages, ebook
Some people “live to ride”, while others simply ride to live. In Cyclettes , author and designer Tr… read more
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- history
- cycling
29. The Art of Cycling: Philosophy, Meaning, and a Life on Two Wheels
By: James Hibbard
3.90
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A meditative love letter to the sport of cycling, revealing how cycling can shed new light on age-o… read more
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- sports
- nonfiction
- cycling
30. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
By: Nicola Twilley
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific my… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
31. Have Fun Out There Or Not: The Semi-Rad Running Essays
By: Brendan Leonard
4.49
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
When Brendan Leonard decided to get serious about running in 2015, it only lasted a few weeks-the "… read more
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