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Raising Steaks: The Life and Times of American Beef
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3.37 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are
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3.78 avg rating — 194 ratings
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Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America
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Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals
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Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks
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The Grammar of Ornament
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The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture
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Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast
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And Now The Shipping Forecast: A tide of history around our shores
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Don't Call It That: A Naming Workbook
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The Noble Approach: Maurice Noble and the Zen of Animation Design
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No Nails, No Lumber: The Bubble Houses of Wallace Neff
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3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
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All the Buildings in New York
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation
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3.66 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China
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3.60 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
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4.31 avg rating — 9,150 ratings
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Spectacular Mexico: Design, Propaganda, and the 1968 Olympics (A Quadrant Book)
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3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Gold Rush Port: The Maritime Archaeology of San Francisco's Waterfront
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3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Andrea Geyer: Queen of the Artists' Studios: Art in General New Commissions Program Book Series Vol. XII
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture
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3.91 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Trees in Paradise: A California History
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4.18 avg rating — 301 ratings
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Flickering Light: A History of Neon
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3.37 avg rating — 27 ratings
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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3.99 avg rating — 100,287 ratings
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The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream
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4.26 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
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4.01 avg rating — 2,665 ratings
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We Lose Every Week: The History of Football Chanting
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3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Automat: The History, Recipes, and Allure of Horn & Hardart's Masterpiece
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4.05 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Luis Barragan's: Gardens of El Pedregal
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4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Electronic Library: The Promise and the Process
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Indian Films in Soviet Cinemas: The Culture of Movie-going after Stalin
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3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Architecture in Play: Intimations of Modernism in Architectural Toys
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Inventing Kindergarten
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4.26 avg rating — 77 ratings
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The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids
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3.80 avg rating — 350 ratings
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Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
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City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles
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Dodger Stadium (CA)
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Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America
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4.05 avg rating — 2,645 ratings
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American Chinatown: A People's History of Five Neighborhoods
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3.66 avg rating — 244 ratings
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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
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3.96 avg rating — 5,499 ratings
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Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis
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Cemeteries (Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks)
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Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness
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4.01 avg rating — 1,847 ratings
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On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
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4.16 avg rating — 27,912 ratings
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I Don't Know What to Say : How to Help and Support Someone Who is Dying
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Langstroth on the Hive and The Honeybee; The Classic Beekeepers Manual
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La Charte d'Athènes
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Delayed Response: The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World
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Under One Roof: Lessons I Learned from a Tough Old Woman in a Little Old House
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4.05 avg rating — 373 ratings
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Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary
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4.04 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
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Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World
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Thermal Delight in Architecture
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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
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Gardens Are for People
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Futebol Nation: A Footballing History Of Brazil
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Shocking Brazil: Six Games That Shook the World Cup
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The Essential Whole Earth Catalog
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Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History
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3.84 avg rating — 2,676 ratings
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The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States
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4.27 avg rating — 96 ratings
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On the Construction, Organization, and General Arrangements of Hospitals for the Insane: With Some Remarks On Insanity and Its Treatment
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Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals
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The Doctors' Case Against the Pill
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On the Pill: A Social History of Oral Contraceptives, 1950-1970
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Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City
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Switching to Solar
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New Homes for Today
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How to use graphic design to sell things, explain things, make things look better, make people laugh, make people cry, and (every once in a while) change the world
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Usonia, New York: Building a Community with Frank Lloyd Wright
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The Secret Lives of Color
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The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933
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The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness
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A hundred years of photography: 1839-1939
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The Limits to Growth
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The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space (Apogee Books Space)
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How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks
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The Code-Breakers
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Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
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Berlin Under the Swastika
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A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class
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Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
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The Frozen Water Trade: A True Story
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The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
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The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies
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The Remarkable Life of William Beebe: Explorer and Naturalist
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Micronations: the Lonely Planet guide to self-proclaimed nations
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Looking Backwards
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Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune
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Revolution of Forms: Cuba's Forgotten Art Schools
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Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit
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White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
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The Sonic Boom: How Sound Transforms the Way We Think, Feel, and Buy
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Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream
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Barbed Wire: The Fence that Changed the West
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The Devil's Rope: A Cultural History of Barbed Wire
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Tunneling to the Future: The Story of the Great Subway Expansion That Saved New York
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The Calendar : The 5000 Year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens and What Happened to the Missing Ten Days
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On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America
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The Ghost Army of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, and Other Audacious Fakery
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