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A Child of the East End is an eye-opening, heartfelt and atmospheric portrait of life in the East End after the war, and is perfect for fans of My East End by Gilda O'Neill, Four Meals for Fourpence by Grace Foakes and Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth. Life in Cockney London was tough in the...

One of The Economist’s Best Books of 2023 The secrets to successfully planning and delivering ambitious, complex projects on any scale—from home renovation to space exploration—by the world's leading expert on megaprojects. Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a...

Postwar New York City famously expired in a tableau of burning Bronx tenements, subway graffiti, crushing debt, and the tabloid headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead.” The city reemerged from the ashes to reach new heights, whether in stock averages or the gleaming pencil towers punctuating midtown. But at ground level, the city’s basic institutions—its housing, its schools, its public safety—were cracking. The city was rebuilt on a foundation of deep inequality.

From acclaimed artist and Instagram star Guadalupe Rosales comes this moonlit memoir, a visually stunning, poignant account of growing up in ’90s Los Angeles that weaves stories with snapshots and social media moments. “A vibrant and wild time capsule of a ’90s girlhood in East L.A...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST...

Budapest has always been an important place. Almost at the centre of Europe, it is at the crossroads of geographical regions and of civilizations, at the intersection of ancient trade routes. Mountains that gradually slope into gentle hills converge on a great river, the Danube, and the regions...

This New York Times bestseller intimately depicts urban life in a gripping book that slips behind cold statistics and sensationalism to reveal the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour. One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century In her extraordinary...

"A casually wondrous experience; it made me feel like the city was unfolding beneath my feet.” —Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror In place-names lie stories. That’s the truth that animates this fascinating journey through the names of New York City’s streets and parks, boroughs and...

Uncover how a single machine drove modern urban history and redefined personal freedom across changing social classes. Whether navigating your morning commute or taking a reflective road trip, this thought-provoking narrative transforms ordinary traffic into a gripping exploration of power and...

Notre - Dame Le fiamme e la rinascita in sei articoli di Repubblica: Incendio Notre-Dame cantiere sotto accusa, di Anais Ginori; Notre-Dame il tesoro perduto, di Corrado Augias; Notre-Dame 48 ore per capire se i danni sono irreparabili, di Ettore Livini; Dentro Notre-Dame, di Anais Ginori; Il fuoco e lo stupore, di Francesco Bonami; La sindaca di Parigi Hidalgo: "Su Notre-Dame correremo. Ora appalti come per i Giochi e in cinque anni ce la faremo", di Anais Ginori.

Genova, due mesi dopo. Il racconto in sei articoli di Repubblica: Il veleno nel decreto Genova, di Sergio Rizzo; I cantieri senza regole del partito dell'onestà, di Gianluca Di Feo; Ponte, il muro di Castellucci: "Non so perché è crollato", di Marco Mensurati e Fabio Tonacci; Ponte Morandi, gli sfollati a casa per recuperare gli oggetti della vita, di Maurizio Maggiani.

Liguria, un altro viadotto a rischio. "Chiudete o finirà come il Morandi": ecco l'Italia delle strade a pezzi, di Giuseppe Filetto e Marco Preve; Dissesto, la solitudine della Liguria. Allarme porti: "Così si chiude", di Maurizio Crosetti; Nel Paese dell'eterna burocrazia un cantiere su due è bloccato, di Sergio Rizzo; I ponti mettono paura, la procura fa chiudere un pezzo di autostrada, di Giuseppe Filetto e Marco Lignana; Venti ponti a rischio. Conte: revoca vicina per Autostrade, di Giuseppe Filetto e Marco Lignana;

Bauman examina desde la sociología cinco conceptos básicos en torno a los cuales ha girado la narrativa de la condición humana: emancipación, individualidad, tiempo/espacio, trabajo y comunidad; conceptos que están hoy vivos y muertos al mismo tiempo. Bauman distingue una modernidad...

The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics. Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatesh managed to gain entrée into the gang, what he...

When Orwell went to the north of England in the thirties to find out how industrial workers lived, he not only observed but shared in their experience. He stayed in cramped, dreary lodgings and subsisted on the scant, cheerless diet of the poor. He went down into the coal mines and walked...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of...

Warum positives Denken uns nicht weiterbringt, Schimpfen aber schon. Dieses Hörbuch ist ein Aufruf zum Widerstand gegen die Ideologie unserer Zeit: den Zwang des Glücks. Ratgeber und Duschbäder fordern uns auf, positiv zu sein. Wir sollen Scheitern als Chance begreifen und ständig unser Selbst entfalten. Doch der Terror des Positiven nervt, belastet uns alle und schwächt den Zusammenhalt: Wir betrachten Glück als Prestige und verstehen politische Probleme als persönliches Versagen. Das zeigt nicht nur die psychologische Forschung, sondern auch die Geschichte.

Bloomsbury presents A Block in Time by Christiane Bird, read by Alex Picard. Gotham meets The Island at the Center of the World in this dazzling history of a single block in Manhattan from the Age of Exploration to the present. This is the story of New York City, told through the prism of one...

America's most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has become an internationally recognized brand in recent decades - celebrated and scorned as one of the hippest destinations in the world. In Brooklyn: The Once and Future City, Thomas J. Campanella unearths long-lost threads of the urban past, telling the rich history of the rise, fall, and reinvention of one of the world’s most resurgent cities.

The country's leading transport expert describes how the driverless vehicle revolution will transform highways, cities, workplaces and laws not just here, but across the globe. Our time at the wheel is done. Driving will become illegal, as human drivers will be demonstrably more dangerous than...