Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City
By: Pablo Sendra
3.54
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto for the Open City: vibrant, disordered, adaptable. In 1970, Richard Sennett publishe…
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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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- architecture
- urban studies
- urban planning
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- cities
"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 Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
3. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
By: Olivia Laing
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
An expertly crafted work of reportage, memoir and biography on the subject of loneliness told throu… read more
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4. Queer
By: William S. Burroughs
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, "Queer" is an enigma - both an unflinching … read more
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5. Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
By: David Harvey
3.14
Format: 54 pages, Hardcover
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6. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
By: Silvia Federici
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism… read more
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7. Vernon Subutex, 2 (Vernon Subutex, #2)
By: Virginie Despentes
3.10
Format: None pages,
QUI EST VERNON SUBUTEX ? Une legende urbaine. Un ange dechu. Un disparu qui ne cesse de ressurgir. … read more
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8. Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
By: Jeff Speck
4.43
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it d… read more
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9. Storm
By: George R. Stewart , Ernest Callenbach
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
A violent storm, affectionately known as Maria, sweeps through California and changes the lives of … read more
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10. Boys Weekend
By: Mattie Lubchansky
4.03
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning cartoonist and editor at The Nib, a hilarious trans-"final girl" horror grap… read more
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11. Motherhood
By: Sheila Heti
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time M… read more
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"Maybe motherhood means honoring one's mother."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"Alone, one feels the whole universe, and none of one's personality."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"To fit oneself into the smallest spaces in the hopes of being loved -that is entirely womanly"-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"The Jewish religion says it's not a child until it's two-thirds out of the woman's body--until the head has completely emerged."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
12. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
By: Katja Hoyer
4.23
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more
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- nonfiction
"Some of the “songs"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
13. Mona
By: Pola Oloixarac
3.30
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed author of Savage Theories and Dark Constellations comes Pola Oloixara… read more
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"There was a niche sort of glamour to it, like being a rare specimen of an endangered species—as though her myste- rious DNA were a tiara encrusted with rare pearls, and the universities each a mas- s…"-Pola Oloixarac, Mona
14. Why Liberalism Failed
By: Patrick J. Deneen
3.86
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth c… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Individualism and statism advance together, always mutually supportive, and always at the expense of lived and vital relations that stand in contrast to both the starkness of the autonomous individua…"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
"Rather than promoting unrealistic standards for behavior - especially self-limitation - that could at best be unreliably achieved, Machiavelli propsed grounding a political philosophy upon readily ob…"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
"One of the main goals of the expansion of commerce is the liberation of embedded individuals from their traditional ties and relationships. The liberal state serves not only the reactive function of …"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
"A main agent of that liberation becomes commerce, the expansion of opportunities and materials by which not only to realize existing desires but even to create new ones we did not know we had. The st…"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
15. Tremor
By: Teju Cole
3.69
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violen… read more
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"I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car."-Teju Cole, Tremor
16. Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
By: Sophie Lewis
3.70
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
What if everyone was family? We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
17. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
By: Kyle Chayka
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more
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18. Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
By: M. Nolan Gray
4.18
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
What if scrapping one flawed policy could bring US cities closer to addressing debilitating housing… read more
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- architecture
- urban studies
- urban planning
- nonfiction
- cities
19. La Petite Dernière
By: Fatima Daas
3.85
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
« Je m'appelle Fatima Daas. Je suis la mazoziya, la dernière. Celle à laquelle on ne s'est pas prép… read more
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"Il n'y a que sur les photos qu'on est heureux."-Fatima Daas, La Petite Dernière
"Islam meant believing in God, loving Him, fearing Him, obeying Him. I got the first stages right."-Fatima Daas, La Petite Dernière
20. Drowned Country (The Greenhollow Duology, #2)
By: Emily Tesh
3.98
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
This second volume of the Greenhollow duology once again invites readers to lose themselves in the … read more
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21. What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
By: Emma Dabiri
4.41
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER In the spirit of We Should All Be Feminists and How to Be an Antiracist, a… read more
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- nonfiction
"This racialized ordering of the world is endemic to a system that has inculcated us all with a scarcity mindset, which is a great deal at odds with the abundance that truly exists in the world."-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
"Racial categories were invented to enshrine the idea of white supremacy. They are the product of Eurocentrism and colonialism. To act in ways that reinforce their fixedness rather than undermine them…"-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
"Universal healthcare, free education, access to decent and affordable housing, safe working conditions, and occupations that provide a sense of fulfillment and meaning are all pretty basic and fundam…"-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
"Investment in the absoluteness of racial categories is in fact a conservative, fearful choice. What would be truly radical would be to sound the death knoll for the fiction that white people constitu…"-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
22. Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine
By: Nicola Twilley
3.94
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley trace the history and the future of quarantine methods and tactics… read more
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23. Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto
By: Aaron Bastani
3.70
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
A different kind of politics for a new kind of society--beyond work, scarcity and capitalism In … read more
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- philosophy
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"We have a world to win"-Aaron Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto
24. Feminist City: A Field Guide
By: Leslie Kern
3.92
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly… read more
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- urban planning
- nonfiction
- cities
"En su ensayo “Merodeo callejero: una aventura londinense"-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide
"La figura del flâneur, famosa por su rol en la obra de Charles Baudelaire, remite a un caballero que es un “espectador apasionado"-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide
"La separación de los espacios en función del género significaba que la producción podía alinearse con el mundo de los hombres, y el consumo, con el de las mujeres."-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide
"Lorna Day, directora de Diseño Urbano en Toronto, se enteró hace poco de que los lineamientos de la ciudad para calcular los efectos del viento partían de una “persona estándar"-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide
25. The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger
By: Bhaskar Sunkara
4.02
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
"The collection strikes a blackly comic but erudite tone."–Sophia Nguyen, The Washington PostKissin… read more
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26. A Month in Siena
By: Hisham Matar
4.04
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
When Hisham Matar was nineteen years old he came across the Sienese School of painting for the firs… read more
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27. Dissidents among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia
By: Ilya Budraitskis
3.96
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
What happened to the left in Russia? Ilya Budraitskis, one of Russia’s most prominent leftist po… read more
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28. Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City
By: Pablo Sendra
3.54
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto for the Open City: vibrant, disordered, adaptable. In 1970, Richard Sennett publishe… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
- urban studies
- urban planning
- nonfiction
- cities
- urban design
29. Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing
By: John Boughton
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Municipal Dreams presents an alternative history of the United Kingdom. This history begins in the… read more
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- urban planning
- nonfiction
30. The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life
By: Richard Sennett
3.88
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
“[Sennett] has ended up writing the best available contemporary defense of anarchism. . . . The iss… read more
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- philosophy
- urban studies
- urban planning
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31. War in the Age of Trump
By: Patrick Cockburn
3.99
Format: 324 pages, ebook
In this successor to his bestselling The Rise of Islamic State, which was translated into 16 langua… read more
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