Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit
By: Christof Spieler
4.24
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
What are the best transit cities in the US? The best Bus Rapid Transit lines? The most useless rail…
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1. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
By: Michael Lewis
4.30
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top … read more
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- nonfiction
"Time is a variable continuum."-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight,"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"Long Beach Savings was the first existing bank to adopt what was called the “originate and sell"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"When you’re a conservative Republican, you never think people are making money by ripping other people off,"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
2. The Penelopiad
By: Margaret Atwood
3.72
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
Now that all the others have run out of air, it's my turn to do a little story-making. In Homer'… read more
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"the gods often mumble"-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Boys with their first beards can be a thorough pain in the neck."-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked"-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?"-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
3. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more
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4. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
By: Mary Roach
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable t… read more
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- nonfiction
5. Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives
By: Jarrett Walker
2.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Public transit is a powerful tool for addressing a huge range of urban problems, including traffic … read more
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- urban planning
- nonfiction
- urbanism
- transport
- cities
6. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more
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- nonfiction
7. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
By: Richard Rothstein
2.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more
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- nonfiction
8. The Design of Everyday Things
By: Donald A. Norman
4.11
Format: 559 pages, Paperback
Anyone who designs anything to be used by humans -- from physical objects to computer programs to c… read more
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- nonfiction
9. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
By: Carlo Rovelli , Simon Carnell , Erica Segre
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Hardcover
Everything you need to know about the beauty of modern physics in less than 100 pages. In seven bri… read more
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- nonfiction
10. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
By: Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
3.00
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
The world's foremost producer of personal development and motivational audio programs gives you the… read more
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11. Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe
By: Nick Mann , Theodore Gray
3.37
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
The Elementshas become an international sensation, with over one million copies in-print worldwide.… read more
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12. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
By: Randall Munroe
4.14
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, … read more
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- nonfiction
"A darkened Sun would liberate us from the parsnip threat."-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
"So Yoda sounds like our best bet as an energy source. But with world electricity consumption pushing 2 terawatts, it would take a hundred million Yodas to meet our demands. All things considered, swi…"-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
"But what about gender and sexual orientation? And culture? And language? We could keep using demographics to try to narrow things down further, but we would be drifting away from the idea of a random…"-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
13. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
By: Richard P. Feynman , Freeman Dyson , Jeffrey Robbins
3.64
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The Pleasure of Finding Things Outis a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. F… read more
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14. Scott Pilgrim, Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
By: Bryan Lee O'Malley
4.40
Format: 205 pages,
Scott Pilgrim's life is totally sweet. He's 23 years old, he's in a rockband, he's "between jobs" a… read more
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15. Yerba Buena
By: Nina LaCour
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The debut adult novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour, following two wo… read more
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- contemporary
"How special it was, that first sip, and each sip that came after. How it had settled and warmed her, made her feel that she was welcome. That's what Sara did."-Nina LaCour, Yerba Buena
"I was a vase. The thought struck her as she gazed at the wall of them. She had been a vessel; it was true. She'd stepped into this shop, introduced herself, asked for a job, hoped it would fill her. …"-Nina LaCour, Yerba Buena
16. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)
By: Randall Munroe
4.37
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to th… read more
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- nonfiction
17. The Apollo Murders (Apollo Murders, #1)
By: Chris Hadfield
3.92
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
An exceptional debut thriller and “exciting journey” into the dark heart of the Cold War and the sp… read more
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18. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath
By: Peter Zeihan
4.18
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting… read more
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- nonfiction
19. The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
By: Benjamin Lorr
3.95
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
This book is an investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store. What… read more
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- nonfiction
20. Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
By: Lulu Miller
4.16
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
A wondrous debut from an extraordinary new voice in nonfiction, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a dark and … read more
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- nonfiction
"There is grandeur in this view,"-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
"In every organism at which you gaze, there is complexity you will never comprehend."-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
"We are specks, flickering in and out of existence, with no significance to the cosmos."-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
"When people have this feeling of personal inefficiency, compulsive collecting helps them in feeling better."-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
21. Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
By: Gad Saad
3.94
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
The West’s commitment to freedom, reason, and true liberalism has never been more seriously threate… read more
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- nonfiction
"We envy people whose traits compete with our desirability as a mate."-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
"Any human endeavor rooted in the pursuit of truth must rely on fact and not feelings."-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
"To be a truly wise person requires that we recognize those domains best served by our intellect versus those best guided by our emotions."-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
"There is no "black mind" or "white mind", no "white male of knowing", there is only one truth, and we find it through the scientific method."-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
22. The House of Hidden Meanings
By: RuPaul
3.84
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and persona… read more
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"We all have that magic within us - But it's the faculty to harness it - to turn something seemingly meaningless into something special, to be loose and spontaneous with it - that makes life most wort…"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"But in that time the RuPaul idea was born, and people outside of my world were inspired to talk about me and androgyny and drag in a way that was unprecedented. Not long after that, the questions cam…"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"Life is full of dualities: night and day, black and white, yin and yang, good and evil, birth and death, love and fear. You can't have one without the other. It takes two to create the magnetic pull …"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"There are ideological precepts that people will fight or even kill for. But those things are never really what they seem to be. As much as people will claim a hard moral line, that line becomes very …"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
23. AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
By: Kai-Fu Lee
4.10
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee—one of the world’s most respected experts on AI and China—reveals that China has sud… read more
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- nonfiction
"When I launched my AI career in 1983, I did so by waxing philosophic in my application to the Ph.D. program at Carnegie Mellon. I described AI as “the quantification of the human thinking process, th…"-Kai-Fu Lee, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
24. Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
By: Eric Klinenberg
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An eminent sociologist and bestselling author offers an inspiring blueprint for rebuilding our frac… read more
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- urban planning
- nonfiction
- urbanism
- cities
"Democracy must begin at home, and its home is the neighborly community."-Eric Klinenberg, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
"Even the Internet, which was supposed to deliver unprecedented cultural diversity ad democratic communication, has become an echo chamber where people see and hear what they already believe."-Eric Klinenberg, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
"Today, our communities are full of children whose future, like Jelani's, will be formed in the places where they go to learn about themselves and the world they'll inherit. They deserve palaces. Whet…"-Eric Klinenberg, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
"The accessible physical space of the library is not the only factor that makes it work well as social infrastructure. The institution's extensive programming, organized by a professional staff that u…"-Eric Klinenberg, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
25. The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power
By: Noam Chomsky
4.19
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Two of our most celebrated intellectuals grapple with the uncertain aftermath of the American colla… read more
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- nonfiction
26. The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
By: Deirdre Mask
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacit… read more
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- nonfiction
27. 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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- urban studies
- urban planning
- nonfiction
- urbanism
- transport
- cities
28. The Battle of Lincoln Park: Urban Renewal and Gentrification in Chicago
By: Daniel Kay Hertz
4.17
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
“A brief, cogent analysis of gentrification in Chicago … an incisive and useful narrative on the pu… read more
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- urban planning
- nonfiction
- urbanism
29. Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit
By: Steven Higashide
4.27
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Imagine a bus system that is fast, frequent, and reliable—what would that change about your city? B… read more
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- urban planning
- nonfiction
- urbanism
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- cities
30. Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit
By: Christof Spieler
4.24
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
What are the best transit cities in the US? The best Bus Rapid Transit lines? The most useless rail… read more
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