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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

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

When Breath Becomes Air

ByPaul Kalanithi

2016 • 577 Readers • 256 pages • 4.4

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

I Can't Breathe

ByMatt Taibbi

2017 • 11 Readers • 304 pages • 4.3

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

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

ByTa-Nehisi Coates

2017 • 85 Readers • 401 pages • 4.5

Manhattan Beach

ByJennifer Egan

2017 • 72 Readers • 438 pages • 3.4

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

Yak and Dove

ByKyo Maclear

2017 • 2 Readers • 56 pages

Noise

Noise: The Political Economy of Music

ByJacques Attali, Brian Massumi

1 Reader

Color

ByVictoria Finlay

2003 • 31 Readers • 3.6

Silence

Silence: Lectures and Writings

ByJohn Cage

3 Readers

Theorizing Sound Writing

ByDeborah A Kapchan

1 Reader

Sound Design

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

ByDavid Sonnenschein

1 Reader

The Soundscape of Modernity

ByEmily Thompson

2002 • 3 Readers • 510 pages • 4

The Audible Past

ByJonathan Sterne

3 Readers

Listen to This

ByAlex Ross

2010 • 8 Readers • 384 pages • 5

Best Music Writing 2011

ByAlex Ross, Daphne Carr

1 Reader

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

The Auditory Culture Reader

ByMichael Bull

1 Reader

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

ByHelen Oyeyemi

2016 • 61 Readers • 325 pages • 2.8

Vitruvius

ByVitruvius,Morris Hicky Morgan(Translator)

-15 • 5 Readers • 368 pages

A Field Guide to Sprawl

ByDolores Hayden

1 Reader

Building Suburbia

ByDolores Hayden

1 Reader

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

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

Japan Style

ByGian Carlo Calza

1 Reader

Designer Maker User

ByDesign Museum

1 Reader

The Red Thread

The Red Thread: Nordic Design

ByOak - The Nordic Journal

1 Reader

Dieter Rams

BySophie Lovell

2011 • 8 Readers • 400 pages • 5

Elemental Living

Elemental Living: Contemporary Houses in Nature

ByPhaidon Press

1 Reader

The Journalist and the Murderer

ByJanet Malcolm

1990 • 21 Readers • 177 pages • 3.7

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

Winter Music

Winter Music: Composing the North

ByJohn Luther Adams, Kyle Gann

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

With Liberty and Justice for Some

ByGlenn Greenwald

2011 • 5 Readers • 290 pages

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

ByThomas Piketty,Arthur Goldhammer(Translator)

2013 • 150 Readers • 685 pages • 4.1

A People's History of the United States

ByHoward Zinn,Kathy Emery,+1 more

1980 • 319 Readers • 642 pages • 4.3

Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus

ByMatt Taibbi

2017 • 11 Readers • 352 pages • 4

H is for Hawk

ByHelen Macdonald

2014 • 151 Readers • 324 pages • 3.9

#1 of 3 in What If?

What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

ByRandall Munroe

2014 • 595 Readers • 320 pages • 4.3

Salt: A World History

ByMark Kurlansky

2002 • 166 Readers • 496 pages • 3.7

Critical Insights

Slaughterhouse 5

ByKurt Vonnegut

1968 • 1,547 Readers • 292 pages • 4.1

Klimax

Silent spring

ByRachel Carson

1962 • 123 Readers • 378 pages • 3.9

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

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

ByDavid Foster Wallace

1997 • 115 Readers • 353 pages • 4.2

Lincoln in the Bardo

ByGeorge Saunders

2017 • 319 Readers • 3.9

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

ByBarbara Kingsolver

2007 • 69 Readers • 383 pages • 3.9

The Psychopath Test

ByJon Ronson

2011 • 158 Readers • 275 pages • 3.7

#1 of 3 in Complete World Knowledge

The Areas of My Expertise

ByJohn Hodgman

2005 • 40 Readers • 4

The Invention of Nature

ByAndrea Wulf

2015 • 66 Readers • 473 pages • 4

#2 of 2 in Liar's Poker

The Big Short

ByMichael Lewis

2010 • 205 Readers • 320 pages • 4.2

The End of Alchemy

ByMervyn A. King

2016 • 7 Readers • 430 pages

Quiet

Quiet the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking

BySusan Cain,Carlo Prosperi(Translator)

2012 • 699 Readers • 354 pages • 4

Experimental Geography

Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism

ByNato Thompson

2 Readers

The Map As Art

The Map As Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography

ByKatharine Harmon, Gayle Clemans

1 Reader

Insanely Simple

Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success

ByKen Segall

3 Readers

The Poetics of Space

ByGaston Bachelard,Maria Jolas(Translator)

1957 • 48 Readers • 282 pages • 4.3

Architecture

Architecture: Form, Space, & Order

ByFrancis D. K. Ching

3 Readers

Master Builders

ByPeter Blake

1 Reader

The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany

ByGraeme Gibson

2005 • 8 Readers • 370 pages

Image of the City

The Image of the City

ByKevin Lynch

14 Readers • 5

A Visual Dictionary of Architecture

ByFrancis D.K. Ching

1995 • 4 Readers • 340 pages

The Architecture of Happiness

ByAlain de Botton

2006 • 30 Readers • 288 pages • 3.9

Experiencing Architecture

BySteen Eiler Rasmussen

1959 • 6 Readers • 256 pages • 4

The Architecture of the City

ByDiane Ghirardo(Translator),Joan Ockman(Translator),+1 more

1966 • 4 Readers • 202 pages

Introduction to Architecture

ByFrancis D.K. Ching

2012 • 2 Readers • 432 pages

Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace

ByDavid Lipsky

2010 • 27 Readers • 320 pages • 4

Earth-Sheltered Houses

ByRob Roy

1 Reader

Truth Against the World

Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture

ByFrank Lloyd Wright

1 Reader

The $50 and Up Underground House Book

ByChris Royer, Mike Oehler

1 Reader

Earth Sheltered Homes

Earth Sheltered Homes: Plans and Designs

ByDonna Ahrens

1 Reader

organic architecture

organic architecture: the architecture of democracy

ByFrank Lloyd Wright

1 Reader

Earth Sheltered Housing Design 1092

ByUnderground Space Center

1 Reader

Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian houses

Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian houses: The case for organic architecture

ByJohn Sergeant

1 Reader

Words Without Music

Words Without Music: A Memoir

ByPhilip Glass

6 Readers • 4.3

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

ByEdward R. Tufte

1983 • 83 Readers • 197 pages • 4.5

Universal Principles of Design: 100 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach Through Design

ByWilliam Lidwell,Jill Butler,+1 more

2003 • 32 Readers • 216 pages • 3.8

Underground Homes

ByLouis Wampler

1 Reader

Visual Explanations

ByEdward R. Tufte

1997 • 32 Readers • 168 pages • 4.2

Common Sense

ByThomas Paine

1776 • 65 Readers • 72 pages • 4.1

Project Gutenberg

The Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution

ByRichard Beeman

2012 • 2 Readers • 178 pages

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