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  • The 99% Invisible City

    A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design

    by Roman Mars, Kurt Kohlstedt ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, USA TODAY, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER“[A] diverse and enlightening book . . . The 99% Invisible City is altogether fresh and imaginative when it comes to thinking about urban spaces.”—The New York Times Book Review**“Here is a field guide, a boon, a bible, for the urban curious. Your city’s secret anatomy laid bare—a hundred things you look at but don’t ... Read more

    $18.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • A Natural History of Empty Lots

    Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places

    by Christopher Brown ...
    A genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto for rewilding the city, the self, and society.A Natural History of Empty Lots is a genre-defying work of nature writing, literary nonfiction, and memoir that explores what happens when nature and the city intersect.During the real estate crash of the late 2000s, Christopher Brown purchased an empty lot in an industrial section of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Hitler at Home

    by Despina Stratigakos ...
    A look at Adolf Hitler’s residences and their role in constructing and promoting the dictator’s private persona both within Germany and abroad.Adolf Hitler’s makeover from rabble-rouser to statesman coincided with a series of dramatic home renovations he undertook during the mid-1930s. This provocative book exposes the dictator’s preoccupation with his private persona, which was shaped by the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance

    How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World

    by Paul Robert Walker ...
    “Walker here pairs off proto-architect Filippo Brunelleschi and doormaker Lorenzo Ghiberti in an often engaging version of Quattrocento Smackdown.” —Library JournalJoining the bestsellers Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter, this is a lively and intriguing tale of two artists whose competitive spirit brought to life one of the world’s most magnificent structures and ignited the Renaissance.The dome ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Co-habiting with Ghosts

    Knowledge, Experience, Belief and the Domestic Uncanny

    by Caron Lipman ...
    How does it feel to live in a ’haunted home’? How do people negotiate their everyday lives with the experience of uncanny, anomalous or strange events within the domestic interior? What do such experiences reveal of the intersection between the material, immaterial and temporal within the home? How do people interpret, share and narrate experiences which are uncertain and unpredictable? What does ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Right at Home

    How Good Design Is Good for the Mind: An Interior Design Book

    by Bobby Berk ...
    The design expert and Emmy-nominated TV host of Netflix’s Queer Eye shows you how to set up your space so that it takes care of you. Learn how to follow your happiness to find your style, optimize the function of every room, organize your space, and so much more.The way your home makes you feel matters. After all, it’s your ultimate safe space and needs to be able to host your most intimate ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Commercial Building Construction (PB)

    by David Madsen ...
    Master the latest commercial building construction components and practices in an easy-to-read comprehensive textbookThis hands-on textbook introduces you to commercial building construction methods and materials currently used in the United States and Canada. Easy to read and logically organized to reflect real-world practices, Commercial Building Construction: Materials and Methods includes ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • The Science Fiction anthology

    by Philip K. Dick, Andre Norton, Murray Leinster, Lester del Rey, Harry Harrison, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Fritz Leiber, Ben Bova, knowledge house ...
    This collection brings together some of the most incredible sci-fi stories ever told in one convenient, high-quality, low-priced Kindle volume!This book now contains several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The Sentimentalists, by Murray LeinsterThe Girls from Earth, by Frank RobinsonThe Death Traps of FX-31, by Sewell WrightSong in a minor key, by C.L. MooreSentry of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • At Home

    A Short History of Private Life

    by Bill Bryson ...
    In these pages, the beloved Bill Bryson gives us a fascinating history of the modern home, taking us on a room-by-room tour through his own house and using each room to explore the vast history of the domestic artifacts we take for granted. As he takes us through the history of our modern comforts, Bryson demonstrates that whatever happens in the world eventually ends up in our home, in the paint, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • Walkable City

    How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

    by Jeff Speck ...
    Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability.The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core. But in the typical American city, the car is still king, and downtown is a place that's easy to drive to but often not worth ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Architectural Robotics

    Ecosystems of Bits, Bytes, and Biology

    by Keith Evan Green ...
    How a built environment that is robotic and interactive becomes an apt home to our restless, dynamic, and increasingly digital society.The relationship of humans to computers can no longer be represented as one person in a chair and one computer on a desk. Today computing finds its way into our pockets, our cars, our appliances; it is ubiquitous—an inescapable part of our everyday lives. Computing ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Ecological Design, Tenth Anniversary Edition

    by Sim Van der Ryn, Stuart Cowan ...
    Ecological Design is a landmark volume that helped usher in an exciting new era in green design and sustainability planning. Since its initial publication in 1996, the book has been critically important in sparking dialogue and triggering collaboration across spatial scales and design professions in pursuit of buildings, products, and landscapes with radically decreased environmental impacts. This ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Florida Lighthouses

    by John Hairr ...
    Series series Images of America
    Sporting the second-longest coastline in the United States, Florida has over 8,000 miles of sparkling beaches and waterfront property. This valuablelandscape and the region�s position between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico made Florida key in the early expansion of American trade routes, but the state�s several capes and dangerous reefs, rocks, and shoals made travel quite perilous to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Urban Raptors

    Ecology and Conservation of Birds of Prey in Cities

    Edited by Clint W. Boal, Cheryl R. Dykstra ...
    Raptors are an unusual success story of wildness thriving in the heart of our cities—they have developed substantial populations around the world in recent decades. But there are deeper issues around how these birds make their urban homes. New research provides insight into the role of raptors as vital members of the urban ecosystem and future opportunities for protection, management, and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Retrofitting Suburbia, Updated Edition

    Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs

    by Ellen Dunham-Jones, June Williamson ...
    Updated with a new Introduction by the authors and a foreword by Richard Florida, this book is a comprehensive guide book for urban designers, planners, architects, developers, environmentalists, and community leaders that illustrates how existing suburban developments can be redesigned into more urban and more sustainable places. While there has been considerable attention by practitioners and ... Read more

    $44.00 USD

  • The Story of the Country House

    A History of Places and People

    by Clive Aslet ...
    The fascinating story of the evolution of the country house in Britain, from its Roman precursors to the presentThe Story of the Country House is an authoritative and vivid account of the British country house, exploring how they have evolved with the changing political and economic landscape. Clive Aslet reveals the captivating stories behind individual houses, their architects, and occupants, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A City for Children

    Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950

    by Marta Gutman ...
    Series series Historical Studies of Urban America
    American cities are constantly being built and rebuilt, resulting in ever-changing skylines and neighborhoods. While the dynamic urban landscapes of New York, Boston, and Chicago have been widely studied, there is much to be gleaned from west coast cities, especially in California, where the migration boom at the end of the nineteenth century permanently changed the urban fabric of these newly ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • American Eden

    From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards: What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are

    by Wade Graham ...
    “American Eden moves luminously through landscapes of history, literature, biography, and design theory. . . . fusing sharp-edged analysis and graceful American prose.” —Kevin Starr, author of Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge“Informative and absolutely engrossing.” —Ross King, author of Brunelleschi's DomeGarden designer and historian Wade Graham offers a unique vision ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Structural Engineering for Architects

    A Handbook

    by Peter Evans, Pete Silver, Will McLean ...
    This book provides an understanding of the fundamental theories and practice behind the creation of architectural structures. It aids the development of an intuitive understanding of structural engineering, bringing together technical and design issues.The book is divided into four sections: 'Structures in nature' looks at structural principles found in natural objects. 'Theory' covers general ... Read more

    $4.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Border Crossings

    A Journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway

    by Emma Fick ...
    An illustrated travelogue that brilliantly captures artist and illustrator Emma Fick’s epic train journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway—from Beijing through Mongolia to Moscow—including more than 200 watercolor illustrations and handwritten text that includes cultural and historical information as well as invaluable travel tips.In May 2015, on a trip through the Baltics and Scandinavia, artist and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD $8.99 USD

  • Museum Space

    Where Architecture Meets Museology

    by Kali Tzortzi ...
    Museums are among the iconic buildings of the twenty-first century, as remarkable for their architectural diversity as for the variety of collections they display. But how does the architecture of museums affect our experience as visitors? This book proposes that by seeing space as common ground between architecture and museology, and so between the museum building and its display, we can ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • How Infrastructure Works

    Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

    by Deb Chachra ...
    **NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdom and humanity, How Infrastructure Works is a masterpiece.” —Ed Yong, author of An Immense WorldA new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us**Infrastructure is a marvel, meeting our basic needs and enabling lives of astounding ease and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Movement

    how to take back our streets and transform our lives

    by Thalia Verkade, Marco te Brömmelstroet ...
    Translated by Fiona Graham ...
    Our dependence on cars is damaging our health — and the planet’s. Movement asks radical questions about how we approach the biggest urban problem, reflecting on the apparent successes of Dutch cities.Making our communities safer, cleaner, and greener starts with asking the fundamental question: who do our streets belong to?Although there have been experiments in decreasing traffic in city centres, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Real Life of the Parthenon

    by Patricia Vigderman ...
    Series series 21st Century Essays
    Ownership battles over the marbles removed from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin have been rumbling into invective, pleading, and counterclaims for two centuries. The emotional temperature around them is high, and steering across the vast past to safe anchor in a brilliant heritage is tricky. The stories around antiquities become distorted by the pull of ownership, and it is these stories that urge ... Read more

    $15.99 USD