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The Kid

av Sapphire

Orphaned at nine, betrayed by every system, a boy finds his body's only language is dance.

2.70

2 000+

Samtidslitteratur

Skjønnlitteratur

Afroamerikansk

Oppslukende

The Kid

Orphaned at nine, betrayed by every system, a boy finds his body's only language is dance.

av Sapphire 2003 374 sider

2.70

2 000+ vurderinger

Samtidslitteratur

Skjønnlitteratur

Afroamerikansk

Bowling Alone

av Robert D. Putnam • 2000

The clubs emptied and Americans stopped voting. The damage goes deeper than loneliness.

3.85

9 000+

Sosiologi

Politikk

Historie

Bowling Alone

The clubs emptied and Americans stopped voting. The damage goes deeper than loneliness.

av Robert D. Putnam 2000 544 sider

3.85

9 000+ vurderinger

Sosiologi

Politikk

Historie

Liquid Times

av Zygmunt Bauman • 2007

The stable world of careers, communities, and safety nets is gone, replaced by a permanent churn.

3.87

1 000+

Sosiologi

Filosofi

Politikk

Liquid Times

The stable world of careers, communities, and safety nets is gone, replaced by a permanent churn.

av Zygmunt Bauman 2007 128 sider

3.87

1 000+ vurderinger

Sosiologi

Filosofi

Politikk

Evicted

av Matthew Desmond • 2016

Poverty isn't the cause of eviction. Eviction is the cause of poverty, and the market profits.

4.47

100 000+

Sosiologi

Sosial rettferdighet

Fattigdom

Evicted

Poverty isn't the cause of eviction. Eviction is the cause of poverty, and the market profits.

av Matthew Desmond 2016 418 sider

4.47

100 000+ vurderinger

Sosiologi

Sosial rettferdighet

Fattigdom

The New Geography Of Jobs

av Enrico Moretti • 2012

A single innovation job creates five local ones, but only where the cluster already exists.

4.03

2 000+

Økonomi

Business

Sosiologi

The New Geography Of Jobs

A single innovation job creates five local ones, but only where the cluster already exists.

av Enrico Moretti 2012 304 sider

4.03

2 000+ vurderinger

Økonomi

Business

Sosiologi

Det svarte ekkoet

av Michael Connelly • 1992

Harry Bosch's dead comrade pulls him into a bank heist where the FBI is the enemy.

4.14

200 000+

Mysterium

Krim

Detektiv

Det svarte ekkoet

Harry Bosch's dead comrade pulls him into a bank heist where the FBI is the enemy.

av Michael Connelly 1992 482 sider

4.14

200 000+ vurderinger

Mysterium

Krim

Detektiv

The Cross and the Switchblade

av David Wilkerson • 1963

A Life photo pulls a rural pastor into Brooklyn's gangs, armed with prayer and an impossible love.

4.27

60 000+

Kristendom

Kristen

Tro

The Cross and the Switchblade

A Life photo pulls a rural pastor into Brooklyn's gangs, armed with prayer and an impossible love.

av David Wilkerson 1963 176 sider

4.27

60 000+ vurderinger

Kristendom

Kristen

Tro

The Flea Palace

av Elif Shafak • 2002

At a decaying Istanbul apartment building, a pest control van unearths the tenants' tangled secrets.

3.39

7 000+

Skjønnlitteratur

Samtidslitteratur

World Literature

The Flea Palace

At a decaying Istanbul apartment building, a pest control van unearths the tenants' tangled secrets.

av Elif Shafak 2002 448 sider

3.39

7 000+ vurderinger

Skjønnlitteratur

Samtidslitteratur

World Literature

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

av Damilare Kuku • 2024

A dozen women survive Lagos dating: charming men, secret lives, and the cost of starting over.

4.00

9 000+

Noveller

Afrika

Samtidslitteratur

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

A dozen women survive Lagos dating: charming men, secret lives, and the cost of starting over.

av Damilare Kuku 2024

4.00

9 000+ vurderinger

Noveller

Afrika

Samtidslitteratur

Wind Breaker 2

av Satoru Nii • 2021

A lone wolf arrives at a delinquent high school where the strongest defend the weak.

4.38

1 000+

Manga

Ungdomsbøker

Action

Wind Breaker 2

A lone wolf arrives at a delinquent high school where the strongest defend the weak.

av Satoru Nii 2021 192 sider

4.38

1 000+ vurderinger

Manga

Ungdomsbøker

Action

Nomad Century

av Gaia Vince • 2022

The tropics are becoming unlivable. A mass migration northward is an opportunity, not a crisis.

3.84

1 000+

Vitenskap

Miljø

Klimaendringer

Nomad Century

The tropics are becoming unlivable. A mass migration northward is an opportunity, not a crisis.

av Gaia Vince 2022 269 sider

3.84

1 000+ vurderinger

Vitenskap

Miljø

Klimaendringer

Evenings and Weekends

av Oisín McKenna • 2024

London swelters. A whale beaches in the Thames. Three friends choose between desire and survival.

3.75

60 000+

Samtidslitteratur

Skjønnlitteratur

Skeiv

Evenings and Weekends

London swelters. A whale beaches in the Thames. Three friends choose between desire and survival.

av Oisín McKenna 2024 352 sider

3.75

60 000+ vurderinger

Samtidslitteratur

Skjønnlitteratur

Skeiv

The Warmth of Other Suns

av Isabel Wilkerson • 2010

Three lives: a sharecropper, a picker, a surgeon. Their flight from the South rewired America.

4.48

100 000+

Historie

Rase

Afroamerikansk

The Warmth of Other Suns

Three lives: a sharecropper, a picker, a surgeon. Their flight from the South rewired America.

av Isabel Wilkerson 2010 622 sider

4.48

100 000+ vurderinger

Historie

Rase

Afroamerikansk

Triumph of the City

av Edward L. Glaeser • 2011

Poverty flocks to cities because cities are the escape route. The economic case for density.

3.91

6 000+

Økonomi

Sosiologi

Urban

Triumph of the City

Poverty flocks to cities because cities are the escape route. The economic case for density.

av Edward L. Glaeser 2011 352 sider

3.91

6 000+ vurderinger

Økonomi

Sosiologi

Urban

Tattoos on the Heart

av Gregory Boyle • 2009

Gang programs fail because they're conditional. One LA priest bet on love that refuses to quit.

4.49

30 000+

Memoarer

Religion

Spiritualitet

Tattoos on the Heart

Gang programs fail because they're conditional. One LA priest bet on love that refuses to quit.

av Gregory Boyle 2009 240 sider

4.49

30 000+ vurderinger

Memoarer

Religion

Spiritualitet

Smart Cities

av Anthony M. Townsend • 2013

Corporations are selling smart cities. A movement of civic hackers has a better blueprint.

3.61

500+

Teknologi

Byer

Politikk

Smart Cities

Corporations are selling smart cities. A movement of civic hackers has a better blueprint.

av Anthony M. Townsend 2013 400 sider

3.61

500+ vurderinger

Teknologi

Byer

Politikk

The Power Broker

av Robert A. Caro • 1974

How one unelected man built New York, bulldozed entire communities, and answered to no one.

4.53

29 000+

Historie

Biografi

Politikk

The Power Broker

How one unelected man built New York, bulldozed entire communities, and answered to no one.

av Robert A. Caro 1974 1246 sider

4.53

29 000+ vurderinger

Historie

Biografi

Politikk

The Economy of Cities

av Jane Jacobs • 1969

Cities didn't follow farms; farms followed cities. That reversal explains every economic boom.

4.09

1 000+

Økonomi

Urban

Sosiologi

The Economy of Cities

Cities didn't follow farms; farms followed cities. That reversal explains every economic boom.

av Jane Jacobs 1969 288 sider

4.09

1 000+ vurderinger

Økonomi

Urban

Sosiologi

Poverty Safari

av Darren McGarvey • 2017

Poverty isn't just broke. It's trauma, addiction, and a mind that fights its own rescue.

4.01

6 000+

Politikk

Memoarer

Sosiologi

Poverty Safari

Poverty isn't just broke. It's trauma, addiction, and a mind that fights its own rescue.

av Darren McGarvey 2017 257 sider

4.01

6 000+ vurderinger

Politikk

Memoarer

Sosiologi

Scorpions

av Walter Dean Myers • 1995

A Harlem boy inherits his brother's gang and a gun, learning their true cost.

3.8

2 000+

Ungdomsbøker

Afroamerikansk

Krim

Scorpions

A Harlem boy inherits his brother's gang and a gun, learning their true cost.

av Walter Dean Myers 1995 216 sider

3.8

2 000+ vurderinger

Ungdomsbøker

Afroamerikansk

Krim

Acceleration

av Graham McNamee • 2003

In the lost and found, a guilt-ridden teen uncovers a killer's diary and a countdown to murder.

3.74

5 000+

Ungdomsbøker

Thriller

Mysterium

Acceleration

In the lost and found, a guilt-ridden teen uncovers a killer's diary and a countdown to murder.

av Graham McNamee 2003 210 sider

3.74

5 000+ vurderinger

Ungdomsbøker

Thriller

Mysterium

Money Hungry

av Sharon G. Flake • 2001

Raspberry's money obsession is a wall she builds against the homelessness she barely escaped.

4.10

4 000+

Ungdomsbøker

Mellomtrinnet

Samtidslitteratur

Money Hungry

Raspberry's money obsession is a wall she builds against the homelessness she barely escaped.

av Sharon G. Flake 2001 188 sider

4.10

4 000+ vurderinger

Ungdomsbøker

Mellomtrinnet

Samtidslitteratur

Against the smart city

av Adam Greenfield • 2013

Smart cities sell efficiency but deliver surveillance. The real operating system is people.

3.96

132

Urban

City

Teknologi

Against the smart city

Smart cities sell efficiency but deliver surveillance. The real operating system is people.

av Adam Greenfield 2013 152 sider

3.96

132 vurderinger

Urban

City

Teknologi

The Beautiful Struggle

av Ta-Nehisi Coates • 2008

Between Black Panther discipline and Baltimore's street code, a boy fights to write his own story.

4.08

11 000+

Memoarer

Selvbiografi

Rase

The Beautiful Struggle

Between Black Panther discipline and Baltimore's street code, a boy fights to write his own story.

av Ta-Nehisi Coates 2008 240 sider

4.08

11 000+ vurderinger

Memoarer

Selvbiografi

Rase

Tactical Urbanism

av Mike Lydon • 2014

How to hack your city with paint, planters, and pop-up parks, and prove change is possible now.

3.99

315

Byer

Urban

Design

Tactical Urbanism

How to hack your city with paint, planters, and pop-up parks, and prove change is possible now.

av Mike Lydon 2014 256 sider

3.99

315 vurderinger

Byer

Urban

Design

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised

av Carmelo Anthony • 2021

Grief unnamed, a mother's open door, a blacktop sanctuary: surviving the projects before the NBA.

4.07

1 000+

Memoarer

Sport

Biografi

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised

Grief unnamed, a mother's open door, a blacktop sanctuary: surviving the projects before the NBA.

av Carmelo Anthony 2021 208 sider

4.07

1 000+ vurderinger

Memoarer

Sport

Biografi

City of Gold

av Jim Krane • 2009

Dubai's skyline was built by men who will never be allowed to call it home.

3.97

500+

Historie

Politikk

Økonomi

City of Gold

Dubai's skyline was built by men who will never be allowed to call it home.

av Jim Krane 2009 368 sider

3.97

500+ vurderinger

Historie

Politikk

Økonomi

Marry Me, Stranger

av Novoneel Chakraborty • 2014

A stalker in Mumbai knows her childhood nickname and demands she marry a stranger.

3.97

4 000+

Thriller

Mysterium

Spenning

Marry Me, Stranger

A stalker in Mumbai knows her childhood nickname and demands she marry a stranger.

av Novoneel Chakraborty 2014 268 sider

3.97

4 000+ vurderinger

Thriller

Mysterium

Spenning

Flesh and Stone

av Richard Sennett • 1996

Why Western cities silence the body, and how the body fights back in stone.

4.28

500+

Historie

Arkitektur

Urban

Flesh and Stone

Why Western cities silence the body, and how the body fights back in stone.

av Richard Sennett 1996 432 sider

4.28

500+ vurderinger

Historie

Arkitektur

Urban

Startup Communities

av Brad Feld • 2012

Startup communities are built, not copied. The entrepreneur's guide to growing one in your own city.

4.01

2 000+

Business

Entreprenørskap

Ledelse

Startup Communities

Startup communities are built, not copied. The entrepreneur's guide to growing one in your own city.

av Brad Feld 2012 188 sider

4.01

2 000+ vurderinger

Business

Entreprenørskap

Ledelse

A Moment of Silence

av Sister Souljah • 2015

Midnight kills a predator to save his sister. In jail, his only weapon is silence.

4.32

1 000+

Romantikk

Urban

Afroamerikansk

A Moment of Silence

Midnight kills a predator to save his sister. In jail, his only weapon is silence.

av Sister Souljah 2015 544 sider

4.32

1 000+ vurderinger

Romantikk

Urban

Afroamerikansk

Call of the Mall

av Paco Underhill • 2004

Your local mall was engineered to keep you spending. A retail anthropologist maps exactly how.

3.63

1 000+

Business

Sosiologi

Psykologi

Call of the Mall

Your local mall was engineered to keep you spending. A retail anthropologist maps exactly how.

av Paco Underhill 2004 240 sider

3.63

1 000+ vurderinger

Business

Sosiologi

Psykologi

The Sins of the Fathers

av Lawrence Block • 1976

A disgraced ex-cop turned PI investigates a murdered call girl after the accused hangs himself.

3.87

12 000+

Mysterium

Krim

Noir

The Sins of the Fathers

A disgraced ex-cop turned PI investigates a murdered call girl after the accused hangs himself.

av Lawrence Block 1976 182 sider

3.87

12 000+ vurderinger

Mysterium

Krim

Noir

The Basketball Diaries

av Jim Carroll • 1978

A New York basketball prodigy keeps a diary as the court gives way to the needle.

3.99

31 000+

Memoarer

Selvbiografi

Narkotika

The Basketball Diaries

A New York basketball prodigy keeps a diary as the court gives way to the needle.

av Jim Carroll 1978 224 sider

3.99

31 000+ vurderinger

Memoarer

Selvbiografi

Narkotika

The Big Truck that Went By

av Jonathan M. Katz • 2013

When the world rushed to save Haiti, it brought a cholera epidemic with it.

4.12

1 000+

Historie

Politikk

Sosiologi

The Big Truck that Went By

When the world rushed to save Haiti, it brought a cholera epidemic with it.

av Jonathan M. Katz 2013 320 sider

4.12

1 000+ vurderinger

Historie

Politikk

Sosiologi

Capital City

av Samuel Stein • 2019

Gentrification is not a market outcome. It is policy, written by the real estate industry.

3.92

1 000+

Politikk

Økonomi

Byer

Capital City

Gentrification is not a market outcome. It is policy, written by the real estate industry.

av Samuel Stein 2019 202 sider

3.92

1 000+ vurderinger

Politikk

Økonomi

Byer

The Hour of the Star

av Clarice Lispector • 1977

An invisible Rio typist wants to be noticed; a fortune-teller promises she will be.

4.11

58 000+

Klassikere

Skjønnlitteratur

Litteratur

The Hour of the Star

An invisible Rio typist wants to be noticed; a fortune-teller promises she will be.

av Clarice Lispector 1977 96 sider

4.11

58 000+ vurderinger

Klassikere

Skjønnlitteratur

Litteratur

A Renegade History of the United States

av Thaddeus Russell • 2010

America's founders feared pleasure. Its drunkards, prostitutes, and gangsters made freedom real.

3.81

1 000+

Historie

Politikk

Sosiologi

A Renegade History of the United States

America's founders feared pleasure. Its drunkards, prostitutes, and gangsters made freedom real.

av Thaddeus Russell 2010 400 sider

3.81

1 000+ vurderinger

Historie

Politikk

Sosiologi

Radicalized

av Cory Doctorow • 2019

When her smart toaster bricks itself, a refugee discovers the whole building is a corporate jail.

4.03

8 000+

Science fiction

Dystopi

Noveller

Radicalized

When her smart toaster bricks itself, a refugee discovers the whole building is a corporate jail.

av Cory Doctorow 2019 304 sider

4.03

8 000+ vurderinger

Science fiction

Dystopi

Noveller

Radical Cities

av Justin McGuirk • 2014

The slums and squatter towers of Latin America are the world's most daring urban experiments.

4.27

434

Arkitektur

Byer

Latin America

Radical Cities

The slums and squatter towers of Latin America are the world's most daring urban experiments.

av Justin McGuirk 2014 304 sider

4.27

434 vurderinger

Arkitektur

Byer

Latin America

God Hates Us All

av Hank Moody • 2009

A cynical young man deals pot from the Chelsea Hotel, chasing love while avoiding adulthood.

3.46

4 000+

Skjønnlitteratur

Samtidslitteratur

Amerikansk

God Hates Us All

A cynical young man deals pot from the Chelsea Hotel, chasing love while avoiding adulthood.

av Hank Moody 2009 200 sider

3.46

4 000+ vurderinger

Skjønnlitteratur

Samtidslitteratur

Amerikansk

Reliquary

av Douglas Preston • 1997

When headless corpses surface in New York, the trail dives underground, where a mutant cult breeds.

4.04

50 000+

Thriller

Skrekk

Mysterium

Reliquary

When headless corpses surface in New York, the trail dives underground, where a mutant cult breeds.

av Douglas Preston 1997 464 sider

4.04

50 000+ vurderinger

Thriller

Skrekk

Mysterium

Glory in Death

av J.D. Robb • 1995

A tough detective chases a serial killer whose trail leads straight to the man she loves.

4.27

73 000+

Romantisk spenning

Mysterium

Romantikk

Glory in Death

A tough detective chases a serial killer whose trail leads straight to the man she loves.

av J.D. Robb 1995 296 sider

4.27

73 000+ vurderinger

Romantisk spenning

Mysterium

Romantikk

Speedboat

av Renata Adler • 1976

A reporter drifts through parties, lovers, and city chaos, searching for whatever might hold weight.

3.75

7 000+

Skjønnlitteratur

Klassikere

Amerikansk

Speedboat

A reporter drifts through parties, lovers, and city chaos, searching for whatever might hold weight.

av Renata Adler 1976 192 sider

3.75

7 000+ vurderinger

Skjønnlitteratur

Klassikere

Amerikansk

The Warriors

av Sol Yurick • 1965

After a gang truce shatters in gunfire, six boys fight their way home across New York.

3.37

2 000+

Krim

Klassikere

Skjønnlitteratur

The Warriors

After a gang truce shatters in gunfire, six boys fight their way home across New York.

av Sol Yurick 1965 212 sider

3.37

2 000+ vurderinger

Krim

Klassikere

Skjønnlitteratur

The Pleasures of the Damned

av Charles Bukowski • 2007

A hard-drinking poet buries his tenderness in the grit of L.A.'s gutters and bars.

4.35

7 000+

Poesi

Klassikere

Litteratur

The Pleasures of the Damned

A hard-drinking poet buries his tenderness in the grit of L.A.'s gutters and bars.

av Charles Bukowski 2007 557 sider

4.35

7 000+ vurderinger

Poesi

Klassikere

Litteratur

Streetfight

av Janette Sadik-Khan • 2016

Paint, data, and political nerve: beating the car-first status quo.

4.26

2 000+

Urban

Design

Politikk

Streetfight

Paint, data, and political nerve: beating the car-first status quo.

av Janette Sadik-Khan 2016 368 sider

4.26

2 000+ vurderinger

Urban

Design

Politikk

Ethic 3

av Ashley Antoinette • 2018

A street king's revenge cost him his family. Her faith is the only way back.

4.54

5 000+

Romantikk

Urban

Afroamerikansk

Ethic 3

A street king's revenge cost him his family. Her faith is the only way back.

av Ashley Antoinette 2018 264 sider

4.54

5 000+ vurderinger

Romantikk

Urban

Afroamerikansk

Perfect Chemistry

av Simone Elkeles • 2008

A gang member's bet to seduce the golden girl turns real the moment they become chemistry partners.

4.04

200 000+

Romantikk

Ungdomsbøker

Moderne romantikk

Perfect Chemistry

A gang member's bet to seduce the golden girl turns real the moment they become chemistry partners.

av Simone Elkeles 2008 368 sider

4.04

200 000+ vurderinger

Romantikk

Ungdomsbøker

Moderne romantikk

Municipal Dreams

av John Boughton • 2018

Britain built some of the world's best public housing, then spent 40 years dismantling it.

3.92

500+

Historie

Politikk

Arkitektur

Municipal Dreams

Britain built some of the world's best public housing, then spent 40 years dismantling it.

av John Boughton 2018 336 sider

3.92

500+ vurderinger

Historie

Politikk

Arkitektur

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