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Include books by the same authorIndia: A Portrait
Patrick French · 416 pages
Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the new century, India is fast undergoing one of the most momentous transformations the world has ever seen. In this panoramic book, Patrick French chronicles that epic change, telling human stories to explain a larger national narrative. Melding on-the-ground reports with a deep knowledge of
Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
Rebecca Solnit, Ben Pease, Shizue Seigel · 161 pages
**"What makes a place?"** *Infinite City*, Rebecca Solnit's brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning, culture and history in one locale, the San Francisco Bay Area. Aided by artists, writers and cartographers, Solnit has compiled twenty-two gorgeous color maps, each of which illuminates San Francisco and its surroundings as exp
The Bridge: A Journey Between Orient and Occident
Geert Mak · 155 pages
"Istanbul's Galata Bridge has spanned the Golden Horn since the sixth century AD, connecting the old city with the more Western districts to the north. But the bridge is a city in itself, peopled by merchants and petty thieves, tourists and fishermen, and at the same time a microcosmic reflection of Turkey as the link between Asia and Europe." "Geert Mak introduces us to the woman who sells lotter
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
Colin Dickey · 320 pages
Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong
Jean-Benoit Nadeau, Julie Barlow · 359 pages
Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975
Michel Foucault · 368 pages
El curso sobre *Los anormales*, dictado en el Collége de France entre enero y marzo de 1975, prolonga los análisis que Michel Foucault consagró desde 1970 a la cuestión del saber y el poder: poder disciplinario, poder de normalización, biopoder. A partir de múltiples fuentes teológicas, jurídicas y médicas, Foucault enfoca el problema de esos individuos peligrosos a quienes, en el siglo XIX, se
The People of the Abyss
Jack London · 224 pages
Book of Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902. He wrote the experiences of living in the East End for months, staying in workhouses or sleeping on the streets. The conditions he experienced and wrote would be the same as would have supported an estimated 500,000 poor in London at the time.
De la démocratie en Amérique
Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont · 436 pages
Factory Girls: Voices From The Heart Of Modern China
Leslie T. Chang · 425 pages
An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China.China has 130 million migrant workers--the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing, tells the story of these workers primarily through the lives of two young women,
India Calling: An Intimate Portrait Of A Nation's Remaking
Anand Giridharadas
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile
Taras Grescoe
"Taras Grescoe rides the rails all over the world and makes an elegant and impassioned case for the imminent end of car culture and the coming transportation revolution"I am proud to call myself a straphanger," writes Taras Grescoe. The perception of public transportation in America is often unflattering--a squalid last resort for those with one too many drunk-driving charges, too poor to afford i
Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis
Mark Binelli · 333 pages
"The fall and maybe rise of Detroit, America's most epic urban failure, from local native and Rolling Stone reporter Mark BinelliOnce 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
City of Lies
Ramita Navai · 301 pages
"Rich, absorbing, and exotic, City of Lies travels up and down Vali Asr Street, Tehran's pulsing thoroughfare, from the lavish shopping malls of Tajrish through the smog that lingers over the alleyways and bazaars of the city's southern districts. Ramita Navai gives voice to ordinary Iranians forced to live extraordinary lives: the porn star, the aging socialite, the assassin and enemy of the stat
La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life
Elaine Sciolino · 338 pages
Reveals the role of seduction in French culture while explaining how crucial the game of seduction is to understanding France, identifying seduction as a key ideology that shapes how the French conduct business, politics, and relationships.
China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa
Howard W. French · 304 pages
India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern India
Akash Kapur · 292 pages
"A portrait of incredible change and economic development, of social and national transformation told through individual lives. The son of an Indian father and an American mother, Akash Kapur spent his formative years in India and his early adulthood in the United States. In 2003, he returned to his birth country for good, eager to be part of its exciting growth and modernization. What he found w
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
J. Anthony Lukas · 666 pages
Describes events in the lives of three families during the 1968 Boston school integration crisis.
Poor People
William T. Vollmann · 464 pages
“The book struggles to confront poverty in all its hopelessness and brutality, its pride and abject fear, its fierce misery and its quiet resignation. ‘Poor People’ allows the poor to speak for themselves, explaining the causes and consequences of their impoverishment in their own cultural, social, and religious terms.” -Publisher
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
George Packer · 448 pages
World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction
Immanuel Wallerstein · 109 pages
La Bella Figura: A Field Guide to the Italian Mind
Beppe Severgnini · 240 pages
Join the bestselling author of Ciao, America! on a lively tour of modern Italy that takes you behind the seductive face it puts on for visitors--la bella figura--and highlights its maddening, paradoxical true self You won't need luggage for this hypothetical and hilarious trip into the hearts and minds of Beppe Severgnini's fellow Italians. In fact, Beppe would prefer if you left behind the baggag