When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency
By: Anna Zivarts
4.69
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
One third of people living in the United States do not have a driver license. Because the majority …
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1. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert
By: John M. Gottman , Nan Silver
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
John Gottman has revolutionized the study of marriage by using rigorous scientific procedures to ob… read more
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2. A Dead Djinn in Cairo
By: P. Djèlí Clark
3.66
Format: 341 pages, ebook
Egypt, 1912. In an alternate Cairo infused with the otherworldly, the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantm… read more
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3. A Perfect Red
By: Amy Butler Greenfield
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
A Perfect Redrecounts the colorful history of cochineal, a legendary red dye that was once one of t… read more
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4. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
By: James C. Scott
4.20
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning t… read more
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"An urban space where the police are the sole agents of order is a very dangerous place."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"The authorized histories of revolutions, as Milovan Djilas points out, “describe the revolution as if it were the fruit of the previously planned action of its leaders."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat…"-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
5. Taproot
By: Keezy Young
1.33
Format: 397 pages, Paperback
Blue is having a hard time moving on. He's in love with his best friend. He's also dead. Luckily, H… read more
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6. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
By: David Wallace-Wells
4.01
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears… read more
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"A state of half-ignorance and half-indifference is a much more pervasive climate sickness than true denial or true fatalism."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"The last time the earth was four degrees warmer, as Peter Brannen has written, there was no ice at either pole and sea level was 260 feet higher."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"The world has, at most, about three decades to completely decarbonize before truly devastating climate horrors begin. You can't halfway your way to a solution to a crisis this large."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"Especially those who have imbibed several centuries of Western triumphalism tend to see the story of human civilization as an inevitable conquest of the earth, rather than the saga of an insecure cul…"-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
7. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
8. 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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9. Star Trek: Year Five, Book 3: Weaker than Man
By: Jackson Lanzing
3.91
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Join the crew of the original Starship Enterprise in these all-new adventures near the end of their… read more
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10. Red Rabbit
By: Alex Grecian
4.18
Format: 455 pages, Hardcover
A folk horror epic about a ragtag posse that must track down a witch through a wild west beset by d… read more
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11. The Shamshine Blind
By: Paz Pardo
3.54
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A beguiling blend of noir detective story and science fiction perfect for fans of Michael Chabon an… read more
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12. Star Trek: Lower Decks #1
By: Ryan North
4.41
Format: 43 pages, Kindle Edition
The hit Paramount+ animated series makes its comics debut with Eisner-winning comics writer Ryan No… read more
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13. City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
By: Megan Kimble
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening investigation into how our ever-expanding urban highways accelerated inequality and … read more
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- urbanism
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14. 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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15. Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis
By: Charles L. Marohn Jr.
4.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Explore the past, present, and future of housing in America, as well as solutions to its most press… read more
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16. A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
By: Max Podemski
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the Haitian-style “shotgun” houses of the 19th century to the lavish high-rises of the 21st ce… read more
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17. Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System
By: Wes Marshall
4.54
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
In the US we are nearing four million road deaths since we began counting them in 1899. The numbers… read more
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18. When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency
By: Anna Zivarts
4.69
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
One third of people living in the United States do not have a driver license. Because the majority … read more
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19. Street Trees of Seattle: An Illustrated Walking Guide
By: Taha Ebrahimi
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The majestic trees of Seattle's neighborhoods take center stage in this illustrated and informative… read more
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20. Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World
By: Sara C. Bronin
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening exploration of one of the little-known levers that control our world—zoning codes—an… read more
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21. Biking Uphill in the Rain: The Story of Seattle from behind the Handlebars
By: Tom Fucoloro
4.50
Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition
The rise of an improbable bike culture in the Emerald CitySeattle was recently named the best bike … read more
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