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A Garbageman's Story

by Simon Pare-Poupart ...

Translated by Pablo Strauss ...

**“Raffish and spirited . . . a nonconformist cri de coeur . . . Usually, comparisons to Bourdain are fatuous. This time it’s accurate . . . It’s been a long time since I’ve read so good and rowdy a memoir about blue-collar work.” — Dwight Garner, The New York TimesAN INDIE BESTSELLERA Montreal garbageman's sharp and funny memoir/exposé, in which he attempts to convince people to "stop imagining ... Read more

$10.79 CAD

**“Raffish and spirited . . . a nonconformist cri de coeur . . . Usually, comparisons to Bourdain are fatuous. This time it’s accurate . . . It’s been a long time since I’ve read so good and rowdy a memoir about blue-collar work.” — Dwight Garner, The New York TimesAN INDIE BESTSELLERA Montreal garbageman's sharp and funny memoir/exposé, in which he attempts to convince people to "stop imagining
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The Rent Is Too Damn High

What To Do About It, And Why It Matters More Than You Think

by Matthew Yglesias ...

From prominent political thinker and widely followed Slate columnist, a polemic on high rents and housing costs—and how these costs are hollowing out communities, thwarting economic development, and rendering personal success and fulfillment increasingly difficult to achieve.Rent is an issue that affects nearly everyone. High rent is a problem for all of us, extending beyond personal financial ... Read more

$4.99 CAD

From prominent political thinker and widely followed Slate columnist, a polemic on high rents and housing costs—and how these costs are hollowing out communities, thwarting economic development, and rendering personal success and fulfillment increasingly difficult to achieve.Rent is an issue that affects nearly everyone. High rent is a problem for all of us, extending beyond personal financial
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Women, Walking

Edited by Jane Farrow, Zahra Ebrahim ...

An anthology about moving through the world on foot – as a woman.Women, Walking explores the broad spectrum of women’s experiences and perspectives on walking, from everyday strolls that let the mind breathe to ambitious journeys that test courage and resolve.Co-edited by Zahra Ebrahim and Jane Farrow, this anthology features thirty vignettes, essays, graphic art, poems, and interviews, with ... Read more

$14.39 CAD

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An anthology about moving through the world on foot – as a woman.Women, Walking explores the broad spectrum of women’s experiences and perspectives on walking, from everyday strolls that let the mind breathe to ambitious journeys that test courage and resolve.Co-edited by Zahra Ebrahim and Jane Farrow, this anthology features thirty vignettes, essays, graphic art, poems, and interviews, with
... Read more
Routledge Handbook of Urban Forestry

Edited by Francesco Ferrini, Cecil C. Konijnendijk van den Bosch, Alessio Fini ...

Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
More than half the world's population now lives in cities. Creating sustainable, healthy and aesthetic urban environments is therefore a major policy goal and research agenda. This comprehensive handbook provides a global overview of the state of the art and science of urban forestry.It describes the multiple roles and benefits of urban green areas in general and the specific role of trees, ... Read more

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More than half the world's population now lives in cities. Creating sustainable, healthy and aesthetic urban environments is therefore a major policy goal and research agenda. This comprehensive handbook provides a global overview of the state of the art and science of urban forestry.It describes the multiple roles and benefits of urban green areas in general and the specific role of trees,
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The Devil in the White City

A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America

by Erik Larson ...

**#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile comes the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.“As absorbing a piece of popular history as one will ever hope to find.” —San Francisco ChronicleA ... Read more

$14.99 CAD

**#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile comes the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.“As absorbing a piece of popular history as one will ever hope to find.” —San Francisco ChronicleA
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Against Landlords

How to Solve the Housing Crisis

by Nick Bano ...

When landlords always win and renters pay the price, what can be done?Housing means prosperity and security for some; poverty, precarity and sickness for others. More people live in private rented accommodation than ever before, and rents rise without apparent reason. Homes are smaller every year, and nearly 20 per cent of tenants live in hazardous conditions. Homelessness is at a new high. Yet ... Read more

$10.07 CAD

When landlords always win and renters pay the price, what can be done?Housing means prosperity and security for some; poverty, precarity and sickness for others. More people live in private rented accommodation than ever before, and rents rise without apparent reason. Homes are smaller every year, and nearly 20 per cent of tenants live in hazardous conditions. Homelessness is at a new high. Yet
... Read more
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing

by Hu AnYan ...

Translated by Jack Hargreaves ...

**An Economist Best Book of 2025A Financial Times Best Book of 2025A Sunday Times Best Book of 2025**"Hu Anyan’s I Deliver Parcels in Beijing, translated by Jack Hargreaves, offers an unvarnished dispatch from the front lines of the gig economy...The Cinderella bit of it is that now he can add a new title: internationally best-selling author." —Leah Greenblatt, The New York Times Book Review<stron ... Read more

$16.55 CAD

**An Economist Best Book of 2025A Financial Times Best Book of 2025A Sunday Times Best Book of 2025**"Hu Anyan’s I Deliver Parcels in Beijing, translated by Jack Hargreaves, offers an unvarnished dispatch from the front lines of the gig economy...The Cinderella bit of it is that now he can add a new title: internationally best-selling author." —Leah Greenblatt, The New York Times Book Review<stron
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London Labour and the London Poor

by Henry Mayhew ...

London Labour and the London Poor originated in a series of newspaper articles written by the great journalist Henry Mayhew between 1849 and 1850. A dozen years later, it had grown into the fullest picture we have of labouring people in the world's greatest city in the nineteenth century: a four volume account of the hopes, customs, grievances and habits of the working-classes that allows them to ... Read more

$12.99 CAD

London Labour and the London Poor originated in a series of newspaper articles written by the great journalist Henry Mayhew between 1849 and 1850. A dozen years later, it had grown into the fullest picture we have of labouring people in the world's greatest city in the nineteenth century: a four volume account of the hopes, customs, grievances and habits of the working-classes that allows them to
... Read more
Can't Even

How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

by Anne Helen Petersen ...

A BEST BOOK OF THE FALL AS SEEN IN: Apartment Therapy • Book Riot • Business Insider • BuzzFeed • Daily Nebraskan • Entertainment Weekly • Esquire • Fortune •<... ... Read more

$13.99 CAD

A BEST BOOK OF THE FALL AS SEEN IN: Apartment Therapy • Book Riot • Business Insider • BuzzFeed • Daily Nebraskan • Entertainment Weekly • Esquire • Fortune •<...
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Detroit City Is the Place to Be

The Afterlife of an American Metropolis

by Mark Binelli ...

Once 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 the future. Urban planners, land speculators, neopastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists—all have been drawn to ... Read more

$15.83 CAD

Once 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 the future. Urban planners, land speculators, neopastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists—all have been drawn to
... Read more
The Trampoline Effect: Redesigning Our Social Safety Nets

by Gord Tulloch ...

"Needy," "high-risk," "vulnerable," "slow." When the words people use to describe themselves are the same as the labels in their case files, what does that say about how our social welfare systems shape the identity and possibilities of those who use them?In 2014, three disability organizations asked an international team of designers and social scientists to help them understand and address lived ... Read more

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"Needy," "high-risk," "vulnerable," "slow." When the words people use to describe themselves are the same as the labels in their case files, what does that say about how our social welfare systems shape the identity and possibilities of those who use them?In 2014, three disability organizations asked an international team of designers and social scientists to help them understand and address lived
... Read more
New Urban Worlds

Inhabiting Dissonant Times

by AbdouMaliq Simone, Edgar Pieterse ...

It is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa. What is less clear is how this will be managed and deployed as a multi-polar world system is being born. The full implications of this challenge cry out to be understood because city building (and retrofitting) cannot but be an undertaking entangled in ... Read more

$24.99 CAD

It is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa. What is less clear is how this will be managed and deployed as a multi-polar world system is being born. The full implications of this challenge cry out to be understood because city building (and retrofitting) cannot but be an undertaking entangled in
... Read more
Very Vancouver

Uncovering the Soul of a West Coast City

by Christopher Cheung ...

A fascinating odyssey through Vancouver’s diverse neighborhoods, revealing the hidden stories that have shaped Canada’s most misunderstood cityVancouver journalist Christopher Cheung has spent most of his career chasing the stories that no one else was covering, taking readers beneath the surface of the “city of glass” to expose the beating, multicultural heart of a place that has too easily been ... Read more

$11.51 CAD

A fascinating odyssey through Vancouver’s diverse neighborhoods, revealing the hidden stories that have shaped Canada’s most misunderstood cityVancouver journalist Christopher Cheung has spent most of his career chasing the stories that no one else was covering, taking readers beneath the surface of the “city of glass” to expose the beating, multicultural heart of a place that has too easily been
... Read more
Shift Change

Scenes from a Post-industrial Revolution

by Stephen Dale ...

Hamilton’s industrial age is over. In the steel capital of Canada, there are no more skies lit red by foundries at sunset, no more traffic jams at shift change. Instead, an urban renaissance is taking shape. But who wins and who loses in the city’s not-too-distant future? Is it possible to lift a downtrodden, post-industrial city out of poverty in a way that benefits people across the social ... Read more

$17.99 CAD

Hamilton’s industrial age is over. In the steel capital of Canada, there are no more skies lit red by foundries at sunset, no more traffic jams at shift change. Instead, an urban renaissance is taking shape. But who wins and who loses in the city’s not-too-distant future? Is it possible to lift a downtrodden, post-industrial city out of poverty in a way that benefits people across the social
... Read more
Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities

Transformations and Continuities

Edited by Heather A. Howard, Craig Proulx ...

Series series Indigenous Studies
Since the 1970s, Aboriginal people have been more likely to live in Canadian cities than on reserves or in rural areas. Aboriginal rural-to-urban migration and the development of urban Aboriginal communities represent one of the most significant shifts in the histories and cultures of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. The essays in Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities: Transformations and ... Read more

$38.87 CAD

Since the 1970s, Aboriginal people have been more likely to live in Canadian cities than on reserves or in rural areas. Aboriginal rural-to-urban migration and the development of urban Aboriginal communities represent one of the most significant shifts in the histories and cultures of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. The essays in Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities: Transformations and
... Read more
Local

The New Face of Food and Farming in America

by Douglas Gayeton ...

Combining stunning visuals with insights and a lexicon of more than 200 agricultural terms explained by today’s thought leaders, Local showcases and explores one of the most popular environmental trends: rebuilding local food movements.When Douglas Gayeton took his young daughter to see the salmon run—a favorite pastime growing up in Northern California—he was devastated to find that a combination ... Read more

$24.99 CAD

Combining stunning visuals with insights and a lexicon of more than 200 agricultural terms explained by today’s thought leaders, Local showcases and explores one of the most popular environmental trends: rebuilding local food movements.When Douglas Gayeton took his young daughter to see the salmon run—a favorite pastime growing up in Northern California—he was devastated to find that a combination
... Read more
香港散步學

by 黃宇軒 ...

城市永遠都在變幻中。「城市漫遊者」漫無目的地浪蕩，甚至故意在城市迷路，細意觀察路上的變化，貪婪地用眼睛吸收，也儲起眼前所觸發的一切奇思妙想。「你不能踏入同一座城市兩次」——享受完「看到更多」的趣味後，就可進一步察覺眼前的空間：今天跟昨天有什麼不同、有什麼「期間限定」的東西忽然存在、有什麼在誕生和有什麼在瓦解⋯⋯享受「看到變化」的趣味。「散步學」的真義是，帶著這些框架走在街上的你，絕對會在散步時遇上我沒有提及的各種事物，會因為城市在持續變幻而碰到我不可能碰到的，或許會走到路線之外的空間、會產生出這本書沒有談及的聯想與地方知識。「散步學」就是跟著這本書的路線去行去看去想，然後超越這本書，繼續去行去看去想。 ... Read more

$14.58 CAD

城市永遠都在變幻中。「城市漫遊者」漫無目的地浪蕩，甚至故意在城市迷路，細意觀察路上的變化，貪婪地用眼睛吸收，也儲起眼前所觸發的一切奇思妙想。「你不能踏入同一座城市兩次」——享受完「看到更多」的趣味後，就可進一步察覺眼前的空間：今天跟昨天有什麼不同、有什麼「期間限定」的東西忽然存在、有什麼在誕生和有什麼在瓦解⋯⋯享受「看到變化」的趣味。「散步學」的真義是，帶著這些框架走在街上的你，絕對會在散步時遇上我沒有提及的各種事物，會因為城市在持續變幻而碰到我不可能碰到的，或許會走到路線之外的空間、會產生出這本書沒有談及的聯想與地方知識。「散步學」就是跟著這本書的路線去行去看去想，然後超越這本書，繼續去行去看去想。
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Squirrel Hill

The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood

by Mark Oppenheimer ...

A piercing portrait of the struggles and triumphs of one of America's renowned Jewish neighborhoods in the wake of unspeakable tragedy that highlights the hopes, fears, and tensions all Americans must confront on the road to healing.Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, is one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in the country, known for its tight-knit community and the profusion of multigenerational families ... Read more

$18.99 CAD

A piercing portrait of the struggles and triumphs of one of America's renowned Jewish neighborhoods in the wake of unspeakable tragedy that highlights the hopes, fears, and tensions all Americans must confront on the road to healing.Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, is one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in the country, known for its tight-knit community and the profusion of multigenerational families
... Read more
The Fall of Public Man (40th Anniversary Edition)

by Richard Sennett ...

A landmark study of urban society, reissued for the 40th anniversary of the original publication with a new epilogue by the author.A sweeping, farsighted study of the changing nature of public culture and urban society, The Fall of Public Man spans more than two centuries of Western sociopolitical evolution and investigates the causes of our declining involvement in political life. Richard Sennett ... Read more

$17.99 CAD

A landmark study of urban society, reissued for the 40th anniversary of the original publication with a new epilogue by the author.A sweeping, farsighted study of the changing nature of public culture and urban society, The Fall of Public Man spans more than two centuries of Western sociopolitical evolution and investigates the causes of our declining involvement in political life. Richard Sennett
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Longtime Californ'

A Documentary Study of an American Chinatown

by Victor Nee, Brett De Bary ...

Beginning with the immigrants who left poverty-ridden villages in China to try for a better livelihood in America, the narratives and extensive interviews of Longtime Californ’ tell the true story of the Chinese in America. A young Chinese girl tells of being sold into slavery, brought to America, and rescued by a missionary; men of Chinatown recall the awful conditions and long waits on Angel ... Read more

$7.99 CAD

Beginning with the immigrants who left poverty-ridden villages in China to try for a better livelihood in America, the narratives and extensive interviews of Longtime Californ’ tell the true story of the Chinese in America. A young Chinese girl tells of being sold into slavery, brought to America, and rescued by a missionary; men of Chinatown recall the awful conditions and long waits on Angel
... Read more
Making a Scene

Urban Landscapes, Gentrification, and Social Movements in Sweden

by Kimberly A. Creasap ...

In the three largest cities in Sweden, social movement “scenes”—networks of social movement actors and the places they inhabit—challenge threats such as gentrification. The geography of the built environment influences their ability to lay claim to urban space and to local political processes. In Making a Scene, Kimberly Creasap emphasizes that it is the centrality, concentration, and visibility ... Read more

$25.28 CAD

In the three largest cities in Sweden, social movement “scenes”—networks of social movement actors and the places they inhabit—challenge threats such as gentrification. The geography of the built environment influences their ability to lay claim to urban space and to local political processes. In Making a Scene, Kimberly Creasap emphasizes that it is the centrality, concentration, and visibility
... Read more
The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins

Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots

by Brenda Stevenson ...

Helicopters patrolled low over the city, filming blocks of burning cars and buildings, mobs breaking into storefronts, and the vicious beating of truck driver Reginald Denny. For a week in April 1992, Los Angeles transformed into a cityscape of rage, purportedly due to the exoneration of four policemen who had beaten Rodney King. It should be no surprise that such intense anger erupted from ... Read more

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Helicopters patrolled low over the city, filming blocks of burning cars and buildings, mobs breaking into storefronts, and the vicious beating of truck driver Reginald Denny. For a week in April 1992, Los Angeles transformed into a cityscape of rage, purportedly due to the exoneration of four policemen who had beaten Rodney King. It should be no surprise that such intense anger erupted from
... Read more
Sleepers

by Lorenzo Carcaterra ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The extraordinary true story of four men who take the law into their own hands.This is the story of four young boys. Four lifelong friends. Intelligent, fun-loving, wise beyond their years, they are inseparable. Their potential is unlimited, but they are content to live within the closed world of New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen. And to play as many pranks as they can ... Read more

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The extraordinary true story of four men who take the law into their own hands.This is the story of four young boys. Four lifelong friends. Intelligent, fun-loving, wise beyond their years, they are inseparable. Their potential is unlimited, but they are content to live within the closed world of New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen. And to play as many pranks as they can
... Read more
They Also Serve

The Butler's Tale - the remarkable true story of a butler's life below stairs

by Tom Quinn ...

Series series True Stories of Life Below Stairs
The must-read memoir from Bob Sharpe, a butler in interwar London. Perfect for fans of Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs'I remember my first day in the big house. It wasn't a great aristocratic mansion such as Chatsworth or anything like it, but I reckon there were twenty bedrooms, two or three book rooms and endless billiard rooms, drawing rooms and sitting rooms - not to mention all the ... Read more

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The must-read memoir from Bob Sharpe, a butler in interwar London. Perfect for fans of Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs'I remember my first day in the big house. It wasn't a great aristocratic mansion such as Chatsworth or anything like it, but I reckon there were twenty bedrooms, two or three book rooms and endless billiard rooms, drawing rooms and sitting rooms - not to mention all the
... Read more

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