Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas
Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca Snedeker
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Like the bestselling Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, this book is a brilliant reinvention of...
Triumph of the City: How Urban Spaces Make Us Human
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Understanding the modern city and the powerful forces within it is the life's work of Harvard urban...
Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism
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In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj Zizek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains...
The Lie Tree: Illustrated Edition
Chris Riddell and Frances Hardinge
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Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2015, The Lie Tree is a dark and powerful novel from...
Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry
Marvin Minsky, Seymour A. Papert and Leon Bottou
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In 1969, ten years after the discovery of the perceptron -- which showed that a machine could be...
Castaway Tales: From Robinson Crusoe to Life of Pi
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Ever since Robinson Crusoe washed ashore, the castaway story has survived and prospered, inspiring a...
City Folk and Country Folk
Sofia Khvoshchinskaya and Nora Seligman Favorov
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An unsung gem of nineteenth-century Russian literature, City Folk and Country Folk is a seemingly...
Dostoevsky and the Affirmation of Life
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Dostoevsky's philosophy of life is unfolded in this searching analysis of his five greatest works:...
Our Emily Dickinsons: American Women Poets and the Intimacies of Difference
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For Vivian R. Pollak, Emily Dickinson's work is an extended meditation on the risks of social,...
The Methuen Drama Book of Plays from the Sixties: Roots, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, Loot, Early Morning The Ruling Class
Edward Bond, Joe Orton, Arnold Wesker and John Arden
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Five outstanding plays from the British theatre of the 1960s. This volume contains major works by...