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Sibley's Birding Basics

ByDavid Allen Sibley

2002 • 4 Readers • 168 pages

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

ByMatthew Desmond

2016 • 241 Readers • 434 pages • 4.6

The Reckonings

ByLacy M. Johnson

New Dark Age

New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

ByJames Bridle

4 Readers

The Art of Creative Research

The Art of Creative Research: A Field Guide for Writers

ByPhilip Gerard

2 Readers

Smokejumper

Smokejumper: A Memoir by One of America's Most Select Airborne Firefighters

ByJason A. Ramos, Julian Smith

2 Readers • 4

Burning Planet

Burning Planet: The Story of Fire Through Time

ByAndrew C. Scott

1 Reader

Mozart's Starling

ByLyanda Lynn Haupt

4 Readers

Boom Town

Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis

BySam Anderson

6 Readers

The Intelligent Web

The Intelligent Web: Search, Smart Algorithms, and Big Data

ByGautam Shroff

1 Reader

Black Hills National Forest

Black Hills National Forest: Harney Peak and the Historic Fire Lookout Towers

ByJan Cerney, Roberta Sago

1 Reader

Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs

ByKen Kocienda

2018 • 63 Readers • 264 pages • 3.8

Eager

Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

ByBen Goldfarb

1 Reader

Machine Learning

Machine Learning: The New AI

ByEthem Alpaydin

1 Reader

Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms

ByHannah Fry

2018 • 69 Readers • 246 pages • 3.6

Birding Without Borders

ByNoah Strycker

2017 • 6 Readers • 336 pages • 4.3

How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone

ByBrian McCullough

2018 • 21 Readers • 384 pages • 4.3

A People's History of Computing in the United States

ByJoy Lisi Rankin

2018 • 6 Readers • 336 pages

Radical Technologies

ByAdam Greenfield

2017 • 10 Readers • 368 pages

Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words

ByJeremy Mynott

2018 • 2 Readers • 480 pages

Mad Scenes and Exit Arias

ByHeidi Waleson

2018 • 1 Reader • 304 pages

Fumbling the Future

ByDouglas K. Smith,Robert C. Alexander

1999 • 2 Readers • 274 pages

Dealers of Lightning

ByMichael A. Hiltzik

1999 • 30 Readers • 448 pages • 4

Habeas Data

ByCyrus Farivar

1 Reader

The Secret Lives of Color

ByKassia St Clair

2017 • 56 Readers • 320 pages • 4.3

Contradictions in the Design

ByMatthew Olzmann

Convenience Store Woman

BySayaka Murata

Mezzanines

ByMatthew Olzmann

A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause

ByShawn Wen

2 Readers

Real Love

BySharon Salzberg

2017 • 7 Readers • 320 pages

We Should All Be Feminists

ByChimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

ByCathy O'Neil

2016 • 185 Readers • 274 pages • 3.8

Technically Wrong

BySara Wachter-Boettcher

2017 • 40 Readers • 240 pages • 4.1

Authoring Autism

ByMelanie Yergeau

2017 • 1 Reader • 312 pages

Broad Band

ByClaire L. Evans

2018 • 51 Readers • 288 pages • 3.7

Rules for Radicals

BySaul D. Alinsky

1971 • 37 Readers • 196 pages • 3.6

Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything

BySteven Levy

1993 • 8 Readers • 336 pages • 4.3

The Mezzanine

ByNicholson Baker

U and I

ByNicholson Baker

1991 • 4 Readers • 192 pages

Stories of Your Life and Others

ByTed Chiang

2002 • 584 Readers • 281 pages • 4.3

Lab Girl

ByHope Jahren

2016 • 117 Readers • 290 pages • 4

It's All Too Much

It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff

ByPeter Walsh

3 Readers

What You are Getting Wrong about Appalachia

ByElizabeth Catte

So Sad Today: Personal Essays

ByMelissa Broder

When Breath Becomes Air

ByPaul Kalanithi

2016 • 577 Readers • 256 pages • 4.4

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

ByAnne Lamott

Running After Antelope

ByScott Carrier

1 Reader

Wrestling with Moses

Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City

ByAnthony Flint

2 Readers

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

ByTa-Nehisi Coates

2017 • 85 Readers • 401 pages • 4.5

I Can't Breathe

ByMatt Taibbi

2017 • 11 Readers • 304 pages • 4.3

Manhattan Beach

ByJennifer Egan

2017 • 72 Readers • 438 pages • 3.4

Books Are Made Out of Books

Books Are Made Out of Books: A Guide to Cormac McCarthy's Literary Influences

ByMichael Lynn Crews

1 Reader

The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World

ByAlexander J. Kent

7 Readers • 272 pages

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

ByJane Jacobs

1961 • 88 Readers • 458 pages • 4

Halls of Fame

ByJohn D'Agata

1 Reader

The Civil Contract of Photography

ByAriella Aïsha Azoulay

1 Reader

Citizen

ByClaudia Rankine

Yak and Dove

ByKyo Maclear

2017 • 2 Readers • 56 pages

So You've Been Publicly Shamed

ByJon Ronson

Noise

Noise: The Political Economy of Music

ByJacques Attali, Brian Massumi

1 Reader

Color

ByVictoria Finlay

2003 • 31 Readers • 3.6

The Soundscape of Modernity

ByEmily Thompson

2002 • 3 Readers • 510 pages • 4

Silence

Silence: Lectures and Writings

ByJohn Cage

3 Readers

Sound Design

Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema

ByDavid Sonnenschein

1 Reader

Theorizing Sound Writing

ByDeborah A Kapchan

1 Reader

Best Music Writing 2011

ByAlex Ross, Daphne Carr

1 Reader

The Audible Past

ByJonathan Sterne

3 Readers

Listen to This

ByAlex Ross

2010 • 8 Readers • 384 pages • 5

Why We Write

ByMeredith Maran(Editor)

2013 • 3 Readers • 228 pages • 4.5

October

ByChina Miéville

2017 • 41 Readers • 369 pages • 3.8

Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories

ByKaren Russell

2013 • 54 Readers • 243 pages • 3.7

The Soundscape

ByR. Murray Schafer

1993 • 4 Readers • 320 pages • 4.5

The Gulf

ByJack Emerson Davis

2017 • 7 Readers • 608 pages • 5

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

ByHelen Oyeyemi

2016 • 61 Readers • 325 pages • 2.8

The Auditory Culture Reader

ByMichael Bull

1 Reader

#1 of 1 in Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)

ByRobin Sloan

Vitruvius

ByVitruvius,Morris Hicky Morgan(Translator)

-15 • 5 Readers • 368 pages

Organization Space

Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways, and Houses in America

ByKeller Easterling

2 Readers

Extrastatecraft

Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space

ByKeller Easterling

4 Readers

Building Suburbia

ByDolores Hayden

1 Reader

A Field Guide to Sprawl

ByDolores Hayden

1 Reader

Elemental Living

Elemental Living: Contemporary Houses in Nature

ByPhaidon Press

1 Reader

Japan Style

ByGian Carlo Calza

1 Reader

Designer Maker User

ByDesign Museum

1 Reader

Dieter Rams

BySophie Lovell

2011 • 8 Readers • 400 pages • 5

Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture

ByEditors of Phaidon Press

1 Reader

The Gardener's Garden

ByToby Musgrave, Lindsey Taylor, Bill Noble, Madison Cox

1 Reader

The Red Thread

The Red Thread: Nordic Design

ByOak - The Nordic Journal

1 Reader

The Journalist and the Murderer

ByJanet Malcolm

1990 • 21 Readers • 177 pages • 3.7

Winter Music

Winter Music: Composing the North

ByJohn Luther Adams, Kyle Gann

1 Reader

The Place Where You Go to Listen

The Place Where You Go to Listen: In Search of an Ecology of Music

ByJohn Luther Adams

1 Reader

Terms and Conditions

ByR. Sikoryak

2 Readers • 2

#1 of 2 in The Shapes Trilogy

Triangle

ByMac Barnett

2017 • 11 Readers • 46 pages • 4.1

Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment

ByReyner Banham

1 Reader

A People's History of the United States

ByHoward Zinn,Kathy Emery,+1 more

1980 • 319 Readers • 642 pages • 4.3

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

ByThomas Piketty,Arthur Goldhammer(Translator)

2013 • 150 Readers • 685 pages • 4.1

With Liberty and Justice for Some

ByGlenn Greenwald

2011 • 5 Readers • 290 pages

#1 of 3 in Complete World Knowledge

The Areas of My Expertise

ByJohn Hodgman

2005 • 40 Readers • 4

Insanely Simple

Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success

ByKen Segall

3 Readers

The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

BySteven Johnson

2006 • 133 Readers • 299 pages • 3.8

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