Rebel Cities - Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution (Rapport x Mike)(Paperback / softback)

Rebel Cities - Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution (Rapport x Mike)(Paperback / softback)

A brilliant historical narrative of London, Paris and New York in the Age of Revolution, just as they were transforming into the great global cities we know them to be

Dogopolis: How Dogs and Humans Made Modern New York, London, and Paris (Pearson Chris)(Paperback)

Dogopolis presents a surprising source for urban innovation in the history of three major cities: human-canine relationships. Stroll through any American or European city today and you probably won't get far before seeing a dog being taken for a walk. It's expected that these domesticated animals

Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution (Duncan Mike)(Pevná vazba)

From the massively popular podcaster and New York Times bestselling author comes the story of the Marquis de Lafayette's lifelong quest to protect the principles of democracy, told through the lens of the three revolutions he participated in: the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the

Cycling London to Paris 'a Trail of Two Cities': The Classic Dover/Calais Route and the Avenue Verte (Wells Mike)(Paperback)

Guidebook to the London to Paris Bike Ride, including both the 500km traditional route, which makes use of cycle tracks and quiet roads plus a ferry crossing from Dover, and the 400km Avenue Verte, a waymarked route via Newhaven/Dieppe which makes greater use of dedicated cycle paths. Each takes

No. 91/92: notes on a Parisian commute (Elkin Lauren)(Paperback / softback)

Bestselling author of Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London, joins the crowds commuting by bus in the city of love. Written in iPhone notes and inspired by Perec and Ernaux, this chronicle of the everyday in a year marked by terrorism and her loss of a pregnancy

Flneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London (Elkin Lauren)(Paperback)

FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAYA New York Times Notable Book of 2017 The fl neur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the fl neuse who captures the imagination of

Disrupted - Ludicrous Misadventures in the Tech Start-up Bubble (Lyons Dan)(Paperback / softback)

The definitive and hilarious New York Times bestselling expose of a new age of excess in Silicon

Viking London (Williams Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

London was reborn in the fires of the Viking Age, transformed by immigrants and natives, kings and commoners, warriors and

Tale of Two Cities, A (Dickens Charles)(Paperback / softback)

When millions suffer under oppression, when resentment boils into bloody insurrection, when triumph leads to savage vengeance - can one individual life matter? In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens sets the intensely personal dramas of Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, and Sydney Carton against the

Flaneuse - Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London (Elkin Lauren)(Paperback / softback)

Flaneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from French. Feminine form of flaneur [flanne-euhr], an idler. In this book, the author defines her as 'a determined resourceful woman keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city, and the liberating possibilities of a good

A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York (Huston Anjelica)(Paperback)

Anjelica Huston's 'gorgeously written' (O, The Oprah Magazine) memoir is 'an elegant, funny, and frequently haunting reminiscence of the first two decades of her life...A classic' (Vanity Fair). In her first, dazzling memoir, Anjelica Huston shares the story of her deeply unconventional early

Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (Harvey David)(Paperback)

Long before Occupy, cities were the subject of much utopian thinking. They are the centers of capital accumulation as well as of revolutionary politics, where deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Do the financiers and developers control access to urban resources or do

Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx's Lost Theory (Davis Mike)(Paperback)

Is revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene?Marx has returned, but which Marx? Recent biographies have proclaimed him to be an emphatically nineteenth-century figure, but in this book, Mike Davis's first directly about Marx and Marxism, a thinker comes to light who speaks to the present

Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation

A New York Times bestselling author and tech columnist's counter-intuitive guide to staying relevant - and employable - in the machine age by becoming irreplaceably human.It's not a future scenario any more. We've been taught that to compete with automation and AI, we'll have to become more like

Television Cities: Paris, London, Baltimore (Brunsdon Charlotte)(Paperback)

In Television Cities Charlotte Brunsdon traces television's representations of metropolitan spaces to show how they reflect the medium's history and evolution, thereby challenging the prevalent assumptions about television as quintessentially suburban. Brunsdon shows how the BBC's presentation of

The Age of Innocence (Wharton Edith)(Paperback)

Edith Wharton's acclaimed novel of love, duty, and half-known truths in Gilded Age New York society, with a foreword by bestselling author Elif Batuman Dutiful Newland Archer, an eligible young man from New York high society, is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a suitable match from

Husband Hunters - Social Climbing in London and New York (de Courcy Anne)(Paperback / softback)

Night Flowers: From Avant-Drag to Extreme Haute-Couture (Damien Frost)(Pevná vazba)

It is a familiar sight late night in the centers of major cities like London and New York: the rush of people sneaking drunken kisses and fumbling exchanges before stumbling home. But travelling the opposite direction there is a select few who only come out after midnight. The 'Night Flowers' is an

Down and Out in Paris and London (Orwell George)(Paperback / softback)

Deals with the underworld of society. In this book, the author documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris' vile 'Hotel X', surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps,

Cities in Ruins: The Politics of Modern Poetics (Enjuto Rangel Cecilia)(Paperback)

The attacks in New York on September 11, 2001, and in Madrid on March 11, 2004, provoked diverse political reactions, but the imminence of the ruins triggered a collective historical awakening. In Cities in Ruins, Cecilia Enjuto Rangel argues that the portrayal in poetry of the modern city as a

Snow White in New York (French Fiona)(Paperback)

Pulsating with the rhythm and vibrancy of the Jazz Age, this dazzling picture book is set in New York City in the 1920s. The story may be familiar, but the cast of characters will surprise you. Snow White is a beautiful jazz baby, protected by seven hot jazzmen. Instead of a wicked stepmother, her

Paris Revealed - The Secret Life of a City (Clarke Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

PARIS - one of the most visited cities in the world. BUT do you know

Golden Hour (Williams Beatriz)(Paperback / softback)

From the New York Times bestselling author: a dazzling WWII epic spanning London, New York and the Bahamas and the most infamous couple of the age, the Duke and Duchess of

Liberty or Death: The French Revolution (McPhee Peter)(Paperback)

In this strikingly new account of the impact of the French Revolution in Paris, across the French countryside, and around the globe, the author draws startling conclusions about life during the years of upheaval and the Revolution's perplexing, fascinating legacy