Thermal Delight in Architecture (Mit Press)
By: Lisa Heschong
3.94
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Our thermal environment is as rich in cultural associations as our visual, acoustic, olfactory, and…
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1. The Death and Life of Great American Cities
By: Jane Jacobs
4.30
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arroganc… read more
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"We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
2. The Elephant Vanishes
By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin , Alfred Birnbaum
3.83
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679750536 With the same deadpan mania and genius for disloca… read more
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"Memory is like fiction: or else it' fiction that's like memory."-Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes
"Sometimes when I think about entities—like in “separate entities"-Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes
"Memory is like fiction: or else it's fiction that's like memory."-Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes
"The moment I see her, there’s a rumbling in my chest, and my mouth is as dry as a desert."-Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes
3. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None
4.30
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more
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"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
4. In Praise of Shadows
By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more
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- architecture
- nonfiction
5. Experiencing Architecture
By: Steen Eiler Rasmussen
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Profusely illustrated with fine instances of architectural experimentation through the centuries, E… read more
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- nonfiction
- design
6. Woolgathering
By: Patti Smith
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
A great book about becoming an artist, Woolgatheringtells of a youngster finding herself as she lea… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
By: Georges Perec , John Sturrock
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Georges Perec, author of the highly acclaimed Life: A User's Manual, was only forty-six when he die… read more
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- architecture
- nonfiction
8. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more
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- nonfiction
9. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
By: Nicholas Carr
3.28
Format: 437 pages, Paperback
"Is Google making us stupid?" When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Mont… read more
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10. Invisible Cities
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more
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11. The Finisher (Vega Jane, #1)
By: David Baldacci
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Welcome to Wormwood: a place where curiosity is discouraged and no one has ever left. Until one gir… read more
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12. The Architecture of Happiness
By: Alain de Botton
3.57
Format: None pages,
One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our en… read more
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13. Edenbrooke (Edenbrooke, #1)
By: Julianne Donaldson
3.41
Format: None pages, Paperback
Marianne Daventry will do anything to escape the boredom of Bath and the amorous attentions of an u… read more
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14. Come Close
By: Sappho
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
'Yes, we did many things, then - all Beautiful ...' Lyrical, powerful poems about love, sexuality, … read more
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15. The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield: A Tragedy of the Gilded Age
By: H.W. Brands
3.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Even before he was shot dead on the stairway of the tony Grand Central Hotel in 1872, financier Jam… read more
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16. Devotion
By: Patti Smith
3.97
Format: 649 pages, Hardcover
From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative … read more
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17. A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
By: Vernor Vinge
4.14
Format: 613 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that … read more
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"We're endangered by our own success."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
"I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
"Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
"Ravna became a librarian. "The ultimate dilettante!" Lynne had teased."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
18. The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses
By: Juhani Pallasmaa
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Since the book's first publication, interest in the role of the body and the senses has been emergi… read more
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19. The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.13
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, under… read more
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"The next day, my birthday, was one of the most charmed of my life."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent fifty years traveling the world, and in every posting he had sought out high…"-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
20. Brave New World
By: Aldous Huxley
3.99
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vi… read more
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"Pain was a fascinating horror"-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Ending is better than mending."-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"The more stitches, the less riches."-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"If one's different, one's bound to be lonely."-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
21. Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
By: Chinua Achebe
3.73
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is wr… read more
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"Let us not reason like cowards,"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"There is no story that is not true."-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"عندما يضئ القمر يشعر الكسيح برغبة قوية إلى المشي"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"إذا نظر امرؤ إلى فم ملك, ظن أنه لم يرضع قط من ثدي أمه"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
22. The Poetics of Space
By: Gaston Bachelard , Maria Jolas , Étienne Gilson , John R. Stilgoe
3.46
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since its first publication in English in 1964, French philosopher Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Sp… read more
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23. Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)
By: Tove Ditlevsen
4.37
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
Called a masterpiece by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in… read more
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"Every person has their own truth just as every child has their own childhood."-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)
"My classmates find me unceasingly, overwhelmingly comical, and I've gotten used to the clown role and even find a sad comfort in it, because together with my confirmed stupidity, it protects me again…"-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)
24. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
By: Morgan Housel
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more
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25. Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To
By: David A. Sinclair
4.15
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
It’s a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we’ve been taugh… read more
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26. Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
By: Bob Goff
4.44
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
New York Times Bestseller! What happens when we give away love like we're made of it? In his… read more
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"Love isn’t something we fall into; love is someone we become."-Bob Goff, Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
"There’s a difference between good judgment and living in judgment."-Bob Goff, Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
"Sadly, whenever I make my opinions more important than the difficult people God made, I turn the wine back into water."-Bob Goff, Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
"What is it that you don't think you can do? What do you think is too big for you? Or too scary, or too risky? Sometimes God whispers it, and sometimes, he shouts it. Whatever the volume, I bet he's a…"-Bob Goff, Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
27. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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28. A Book of Days
By: Patti Smith
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winnin… read more
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29. Unwinding Anxiety
By: Judson Brewer
3.91
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
A step-by-step plan clinically proven to break the cycle of worry and fear that drives anxiety and … read more
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30. Thermal Delight in Architecture (Mit Press)
By: Lisa Heschong
3.94
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Our thermal environment is as rich in cultural associations as our visual, acoustic, olfactory, and… read more
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31. The Place of Houses
By: Charles Willard Moore
3.72
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
With a new epilogue Richly illustrated with houses large and small, old and new, with photographs,… read more
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