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    Michael P. Murphy

    Our World in Ten Buildings: How Architecture Defines Who We Are and How We Live

    From "tomorrow's greatest designer" (The Atlantic), a personal and deeply researched look at how the choices we build into our environment reflect and determine the way we think, connect, and live.We've been led to believe that purposefully designed spaces are something reserved only for...
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  • Men at Work: The Empire State Building and the Untold Story of the Craftsmen Who Built It by Kurtz, Glenn
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    Glenn Kurtz

    Men at Work: The Empire State Building and the Untold Story of the Craftsmen Who Built It

    Who built the Empire State Building? Astonishingly, no list of workmen on this historic landmark was ever compiled. While the names of the owners, architects, and contractors are well known, and Lewis Hine's legendary portraits left us indelible images of the workers, their identities--the...
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  • Foundations: Timeless Design That Feels Personal by Berkus, Nate
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    Nate Berkus

    Foundations: Timeless Design That Feels Personal

    From one of the world's most influential designers, a rich tour-de-force that explores how history, character, and vision come together to make a home at once timeless and personal.Nate Berkus is beloved for his elegant, narrative-driven interiors that are layered and deeply personal. In...
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  • The Black Family Who Built America: The McKissacks, Two Centuries of Daring Pioneers by Daniel, Cheryl McKissack
    Cheryl McKissack Daniel

    The Black Family Who Built America: The McKissacks, Two Centuries of Daring Pioneers

    The riveting story of the McKissack family--the founders of the leading Black design and construction firm in the United States, from its beginnings in the mid-1800s to its thriving status today--in a moving celebration of resilience and innovation.Captured in his native West Africa and...
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  • Saving Michelangelo's Dome: How Three Mathematicians and a Pope Sparked an Architectural Revolution by Kalayjian, Wayne
    Wayne Kalayjian

    Saving Michelangelo's Dome: How Three Mathematicians and a Pope Sparked an Architectural Revolution

    1742: the famous dome atop Saint Peter's Basilica, designed by Michelangelo, is fractured and threatened with collapse. The dome is the pride of Italy and the largest of its kind anywhere in the world. And no one knows how to fix it. This engaging...
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  • House Rules: How to Decorate for Every Home, Style, and Budget by Smith, Myquillyn
    Myquillyn Smith

    House Rules: How to Decorate for Every Home, Style, and Budget

    Finally, a decorating book that transcends trends and applies to every style! You want to create a beautiful, livable home, but you feel stuck. House Rules is your guide to understanding why some rooms look great and other rooms don't look quite right. From...
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  • House Rules: How to Decorate for Every Home, Style, and Budget by Smith, Myquillyn
    Myquillyn Smith

    House Rules: How to Decorate for Every Home, Style, and Budget

    Finally, a decorating book that transcends trends and applies to every style! You want to create a beautiful, livable home, but you feel stuck. House Rules is your guide to understanding why some rooms look great and other rooms don't look quite right. From...
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  • Cities in the Sky: The Quest to Build the World's Tallest Skyscrapers by Barr, Jason M.
    Jason M. Barr

    Cities in the Sky: The Quest to Build the World's Tallest Skyscrapers

    From one of the world's top experts on the economics of skyscrapers--a fascinating account of the ever-growing quest for super tall buildings across the globe.The world's skyscrapers have brought us awe and wonder, and yet they remain controversial--for their high costs, shadows, and overt...
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  • The International House of Dereliction by Davies, Jacqueline
    Jacqueline Davies

    The International House of Dereliction

    In this not-so-scary ghost story from Jacqueline Davies, bestselling author of the Lemonade War series, quirky, tool-wielding Alice Cannoli-Potchnik begins to repair the dilapidated mansion next door--only to discover the old house is home to ghosts, and they need mending, too!Home is where the...
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  • The International House of Dereliction by Davies, Jacqueline
    Jacqueline Davies

    The International House of Dereliction

    In this not-so-scary ghost story from Jacqueline Davies, bestselling author of the Lemonade War series, quirky, tool-wielding Alice Cannoli-Potchnik begins to repair the dilapidated mansion next door--only to discover the old house is home to ghosts, and they need mending, too!Home is where the...
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  • Irreplaceable: How to Create Extraordinary Places That Bring People Together by Kelley, Kevin Ervin
    Kevin Ervin Kelley

    Irreplaceable: How to Create Extraordinary Places That Bring People Together

    Do we still need physical places like grocery stores, restaurants, and office buildings? Or will the "Replacement Economy" led by the tech titans and retail giants wipe out these venues in their rapid ascent to unicorn status? What about museums, universities, and performing arts...
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  • Irreplaceable: How to Create Extraordinary Places That Bring People Together by Kelley, Kevin Ervin
    Kevin Ervin Kelley

    Irreplaceable: How to Create Extraordinary Places That Bring People Together

    Do we still need physical places like grocery stores, restaurants, and office buildings? Or will the "Replacement Economy" led by the tech titans and retail giants wipe out these venues in their rapid ascent to unicorn status? What about museums, universities, and performing arts...
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  • The Colosseum by Walker, Joan
    Joan Walker

    The Colosseum

    Byron and Hitler were equally entranced by Rome's most famous monument, the Colosseum. Mid-Victorians admired the hundreds of varieties of flowers in its crannies and occasionally shuddered at its reputation for contagion, danger, and sexual temptation. Today it is the highlight of a tour...
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  • The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape by Kunstler, James Howard
    James Howard Kunstler

    The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape

    In elegant and often hilarious prose, Kunstler depicts our nation's evolution from the Pilgrim settlements to the modern auto suburb in all its ghastliness. The Geography of Nowhere tallies up the huge economic, social, and spiritual costs that America is paying for its car-crazed...
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  • Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Twain, Mark
    Mark Twain

    Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

    Bound on a lecture trip around the world, Mark Twain turns his keen satiric eye to foreign lands in Following the Equator. This vivid chronicle of a sea voyage on the Pacific Ocean displays Twain's eye for the unusual, his wide-ranging curiosity, and his...
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  • Humanize: A Maker's Guide to Designing Our Cities by Heatherwick, Thomas
    Thomas Heatherwick

    Humanize: A Maker's Guide to Designing Our Cities

    From one of the world's most innovative designers comes a fiercely passionate manifesto on why so many places have become miserable and boring and how we can make them better for everyone--featuring hundreds of photographs and illustrations that will change how you see the...
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  • Bartleby and Me: Reflections of an Old Scrivener by Talese, Gay
    Gay Talese

    Bartleby and Me: Reflections of an Old Scrivener

    "Literary Legend" (New York) Gay Talese retraces his pioneering career, marked by his fascination with the world's hidden characters.In the concluding act of this gloriously unique capstone book, Talese introduces readers to one final unforgettable story: the strange and riveting all new tale of...
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  • Monumental Controversies: Mount Rushmore, Four Presidents, and the Quest for National Unity by Senie, Harriet F.
    Harriet F. Senie

    Monumental Controversies: Mount Rushmore, Four Presidents, and the Quest for National Unity

    In recent years the United States has witnessed major controversies surrounding past American presidents, monuments, and sites. Consider Mount Rushmore, which features the heads of the nation's most revered presidents--George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. Is Rushmore a proud national achievement...
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  • Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis by Binelli, Mark
    Mark Binelli

    Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis

    Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for...
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  • Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis by Binelli, Mark
    Mark Binelli

    Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis

    Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for...
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  • Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality by Delaine, Christina
    Christina Delaine

    Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality

    In car-clogged urban areas across the world, the humble bicycle is enjoying a second life as a legitimate form of transportation. City officials are rediscovering it as a multi-pronged (or -spoked) solution to acute, twenty-first-century problems, including affordability, obesity, congestion, climate change, inequity, and...
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  • The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design by Mars, Roman
    Roman Mars

    The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design

    A beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, from the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible podcast Have you ever wondered what those bright, squiggly graffiti marks on the sidewalk mean? Or stopped to consider why you don't...
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  • The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe by Gabriele, Matthew
    Matthew Gabriele

    The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe

    A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle Ages, showing the beauty and communion that flourished alongside the dark brutality--a brilliant reflection of humanity itself.The word medieval conjures images of the Dark Ages--centuries of ignorance, superstition, stasis, savagery,...
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  • The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe by Gabriele, Matthew
    Matthew Gabriele

    The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe

    A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle Ages, showing the beauty and communion that flourished alongside the dark brutality--a brilliant reflection of humanity itself.The word medieval conjures images of the Dark Ages--centuries of ignorance, superstition, stasis, savagery,...
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  • Monumental Jesus: Landscapes of Faith and Doubt in Modern America by Grubiak, Margaret M.
    Margaret M. Grubiak

    Monumental Jesus: Landscapes of Faith and Doubt in Modern America

    The American landscape is host to numerous works of religious architecture, sometimes questionable in taste and large, if not titanic, in scale. In her lively study of satire and religious architecture, Margaret Grubiak challenges how we typically view such sites by shifting the focus...
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