City
Cities pulse with life, ambition, and complexity — and the books in this genre explore them from every angle, whether tracing the hidden systems that keep urban life running, uncovering the social forces that shape who belongs and who doesn't, or simply wandering their streets through unforgettable stories. From towering skyscrapers to overlooked alleyways, these pages bring the built world to life.
City Rezumate de cărți
The Real Book of Real Estate
The overlooked real estate play: make money from zoning approvals instead of renovation.
Business
Finanțe
Bani
Dezvoltare personală
Antreprenoriat
The Real Book of Real Estate
The overlooked real estate play: make money from zoning approvals instead of renovation.
Business
Finanțe
Bani
Dezvoltare personală
Antreprenoriat
Rebel Cities
Capitalism doesn't just happen in cities. It happens through them, and the rent is coming due.
Politică
Economie
Sociologie
Marxism
Capitalism
Rebel Cities
Capitalism doesn't just happen in cities. It happens through them, and the rent is coming due.
Politică
Economie
Sociologie
Marxism
Capitalism
The Thief Lord
Two runaway brothers join Venice's child thieves and discover a magical secret on a hidden island.
Fantasy
Middle Grade
Aventură
Mister
Young Adult
The Thief Lord
Two runaway brothers join Venice's child thieves and discover a magical secret on a hidden island.
Fantasy
Middle Grade
Aventură
Mister
Young Adult
Charming as a Verb
His neighbor catches his dog-walking hustle and demands a social makeover to keep quiet.
Young Adult
Contemporană
Romantic
Coming Of Age
Liceu
Charming as a Verb
His neighbor catches his dog-walking hustle and demands a social makeover to keep quiet.
Young Adult
Contemporană
Romantic
Coming Of Age
Liceu
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
Homelessness rates don't track mental illness or poverty. They track rent and vacancy rates.
Sociologie
Economie
Politică
Justiție socială
Statistics
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
Homelessness rates don't track mental illness or poverty. They track rent and vacancy rates.
Sociologie
Economie
Politică
Justiție socială
Statistics
Against the smart city
Smart cities sell efficiency but deliver surveillance. The real operating system is people.
Urban
City
Tehnologie
Politică
Sociologie
Against the smart city
Smart cities sell efficiency but deliver surveillance. The real operating system is people.
Urban
City
Tehnologie
Politică
Sociologie
Workhorse
At a glossy magazine, an ambitious outsider borrows the insiders' clothes and codes. The debt grows.
Ficțiune literară
Contemporană
Media
Cărți despre cărți
Work
Workhorse
At a glossy magazine, an ambitious outsider borrows the insiders' clothes and codes. The debt grows.
Ficțiune literară
Contemporană
Media
Cărți despre cărți
Work
Engineering in Plain Sight
An illustrated field guide to the engineering secrets embedded in every street, pole, and bridge.
Știință
Tehnologie
Arhitectură
Referință
Design
Engineering in Plain Sight
An illustrated field guide to the engineering secrets embedded in every street, pole, and bridge.
Știință
Tehnologie
Arhitectură
Referință
Design
Speedboat
A reporter drifts through parties, lovers, and city chaos, searching for whatever might hold weight.
Ficțiune literară
Clasice
American
Secolul al XX-lea
City
Speedboat
A reporter drifts through parties, lovers, and city chaos, searching for whatever might hold weight.
Ficțiune literară
Clasice
American
Secolul al XX-lea
City
Engineers of Dreams
America's bridges were built by dreamers, rivals, and the hard lessons of catastrophic failure.
Istorie
Arhitectură
Biografie
Știință
Tehnologie
Engineers of Dreams
America's bridges were built by dreamers, rivals, and the hard lessons of catastrophic failure.
Istorie
Arhitectură
Biografie
Știință
Tehnologie
Who's Your City?
Forty regions hold two-thirds of the world's wealth. Your zip code now outweighs your resume.
Economie
Sociologie
Business
City
Globalization
Who's Your City?
Forty regions hold two-thirds of the world's wealth. Your zip code now outweighs your resume.
Economie
Sociologie
Business
City
Globalization
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
A decade of time-lapse footage on New York plazas upended every assumption about what draws a crowd.
Arhitectură
Design
Sociologie
Psihologie
City
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
A decade of time-lapse footage on New York plazas upended every assumption about what draws a crowd.
Arhitectură
Design
Sociologie
Psihologie
City
Zoned in the USA
The detached home with its own yard is globally rare. American zoning manufactured it at scale.
Istorie
Politică
Arhitectură
Sociologie
Antropologie
Zoned in the USA
The detached home with its own yard is globally rare. American zoning manufactured it at scale.
Istorie
Politică
Arhitectură
Sociologie
Antropologie
The Origins of the Urban Crisis
Detroit collapsed from job loss and housing segregation decades before the 1967 riot finished it.
Istorie
Sociologie
Economie
Politică
Racism
The Origins of the Urban Crisis
Detroit collapsed from job loss and housing segregation decades before the 1967 riot finished it.
Istorie
Sociologie
Economie
Politică
Racism
You, Again
A cynical comic and a romantic chef collide in Brooklyn, then spend years denying their chemistry.
Romantic
Romantism contemporan
Contemporană
Romantic Comedy
Contemporary Fiction
You, Again
A cynical comic and a romantic chef collide in Brooklyn, then spend years denying their chemistry.
Romantic
Romantism contemporan
Contemporană
Romantic Comedy
Contemporary Fiction
Puppy Love
A teen dog walker caught between the boyfriend she's outgrowing and the handyman hiding a fortune.
Young Adult
Romantic
Contemporană
Chick Lit
Romantism contemporan
Puppy Love
A teen dog walker caught between the boyfriend she's outgrowing and the handyman hiding a fortune.
Young Adult
Romantic
Contemporană
Chick Lit
Romantism contemporan
Arts & Entertainments
His sex tape with a celebrity ex leaks; a reality show devours his family and future.
Ficțiune literară
Romane
Club de lectură
Contemporană
Umor
Arts & Entertainments
His sex tape with a celebrity ex leaks; a reality show devours his family and future.
Ficțiune literară
Romane
Club de lectură
Contemporană
Umor
All the Lovers in the Night
A Tokyo proofreader's solitary life unravels when a physics teacher starts talking about light.
Ficțiune literară
Contemporană
Japonia
Women
Adult
All the Lovers in the Night
A Tokyo proofreader's solitary life unravels when a physics teacher starts talking about light.
Ficțiune literară
Contemporană
Japonia
Women
Adult
A Better Life
A Brooklyn family opens its home to a migrant, and gratitude curdles into slow-motion occupation.
Ficțiune literară
Contemporană
Club de lectură
Politică
Ficțiune pentru adulți
A Better Life
A Brooklyn family opens its home to a migrant, and gratitude curdles into slow-motion occupation.
Ficțiune literară
Contemporană
Club de lectură
Politică
Ficțiune pentru adulți
Startup
A New York startup journalist discovers the CEO's harassment, and the story could destroy them all.
Contemporană
Umor
Adult
Ficțiune literară
Business
Startup
A New York startup journalist discovers the CEO's harassment, and the story could destroy them all.
Contemporană
Umor
Adult
Ficțiune literară
Business
Open City
A psychiatrist walks Manhattan, collecting others' stories, until one makes him face his own.
Ficțiune literară
Contemporană
New York
City
Romane
Open City
A psychiatrist walks Manhattan, collecting others' stories, until one makes him face his own.
Ficțiune literară
Contemporană
New York
City
Romane
Last Night in Brooklyn
A woman caught between old Brooklyn and new follows a fashion designer's IPO into glamour and ruin.
Ficțiune literară
Contemporană
Ficțiune istorică
Ficțiune pentru adulți
Afro-american
Last Night in Brooklyn
A woman caught between old Brooklyn and new follows a fashion designer's IPO into glamour and ruin.
Ficțiune literară
Contemporană
Ficțiune istorică
Ficțiune pentru adulți
Afro-american
The Yacoubian Building
A fading Cairo building: three tenants test what dignity costs when the state is the landlord.
Ficțiune literară
Literatură
Egipt
Orientul Mijlociu
Africa
The Yacoubian Building
A fading Cairo building: three tenants test what dignity costs when the state is the landlord.
Ficțiune literară
Literatură
Egipt
Orientul Mijlociu
Africa
