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Istanbul
- Memories of a City
- Written by: Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets, and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home of his imagination.
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the best of nonfiction
- By Koshy Abraham on 08-01-26
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Seeing Like a State
- Written by: James C. Scott
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? Author James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. Centrally managed social plans misfire, Scott argues, when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not - and cannot - be fully understood. Further, the success of designs for social organization depends upon the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as formal, epistemic knowledge.
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A look at high modernist tendencies of state
- By Amazon Customer on 28-11-25
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Seeing Like a State
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
- Release Date: 22-05-18
- Language: English
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Scale
- The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies
- Written by: Geoffrey West
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Geoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to cities, social networks and businesses. Scale addresses big, urgent questions about global sustainability, population explosion, urbanization, ageing, cancer, human life spans and the increasing pace of life but also encourages us to question the world around us.
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Scale
- The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
- Release Date: 18-05-17
- Language: English
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Gang Leader for a Day
- Written by: Sudhir Venkatesh
- Narrated by: Reg Rogers, Stephen J. Dubner
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics. Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatesh managed to gain entrée into the gang, what he...
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Gang Leader for a Day
- Narrated by: Reg Rogers, Stephen J. Dubner
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release Date: 09-01-08
- Language: English
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- Written by: Katherine Boo
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance13
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Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption.
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A true story well told.
- By Placeholder on 08-08-21
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release Date: 01-08-13
- Language: English
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Africa Is Not a Country
- Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa
- Written by: Dipo Faloyin
- Narrated by: Dipo Faloyin
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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Africa Is Not a Country is a kaleidoscopic portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story. You already know these stereotypes. So often Africa is depicted simplistically as an arid red landscape of famines and safaris, uniquely plagued by poverty and strife. In this funny and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective, creating a fresh and multifaceted view of this vast continent.
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Africa Is Not a Country
- Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa
- Narrated by: Dipo Faloyin
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release Date: 07-04-22
- Language: English
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The Elephant, the Tiger and the Cellphone
- Written by: Shashi Tharoor
- Narrated by: Vishal Menon
- Length: 20 hrs
- Unabridged
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For more than four decades after gaining independence, India, with its massive size and population, staggering poverty and slow rate of growth, was associated with the plodding, somnolent elephant, comfortably resting on its achievements of centuries gone by. Then in the early 1990s the elephant...
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Poor Old Ideas of leftist leaning.
- By Diptiranjan Panda on 09-04-23
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The Elephant, the Tiger and the Cellphone
- Narrated by: Vishal Menon
- Length: 20 hrs
- Release Date: 30-07-19
- Language: English
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The 99% Invisible City
- A Field Guide to the Wonders of the Modern Metropolis
- Written by: Roman Mars, 99% Invisible, Kurt Kohlstedt
- Narrated by: Roman Mars
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Roman Mars and co-author Kurt Kohlstedt zoom in on the various elements that make our cities work, exploring the origins and other fascinating stories behind everything from power grids and fire escapes to drinking fountains and street signs. With deeply researched entries and beautiful line drawings throughout, The 99% Invisible City will captivate devoted fans of the show and anyone curious about design, urban environments and the unsung marvels of the world around them. You are about to see stories everywhere, you beautiful nerd. Now get out there.
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The 99% Invisible City
- A Field Guide to the Wonders of the Modern Metropolis
- Narrated by: Roman Mars
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Release Date: 06-10-20
- Language: English
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- Written by: Jane Jacobs, Jason Epstein - introduction
- Narrated by: Donna Rawlins
- Length: 18 hrs
- Unabridged
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Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning....[It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the...
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- Narrated by: Donna Rawlins
- Length: 18 hrs
- Release Date: 13-09-11
- Language: English
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The Devil in the White City
- Written by: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
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While Burnham overcame politics, infighting, personality clashes and Chicago's infamous weather to transform the swamps of Jackson Park into the greatest show on Earth, Holmes built his own edifice just west of the fairground. He called it the World's Fair Hotel. In reality, it was a torture palace, a gas chamber, a crematorium. These two disparate but driven men are brought to life in this mesmerizing, murderous tale of the legendary Fair that transformed America and set it on course for the twentieth century.
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The Devil in the White City
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
- Release Date: 02-05-24
- Language: English
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Old Gods, New Enigmas
- Marx's Lost Theory
- Written by: Mike Davis
- Narrated by: Josh Innerst
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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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 as much as the past. In a series of searching...
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Old Gods, New Enigmas
- Marx's Lost Theory
- Narrated by: Josh Innerst
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release Date: 28-04-26
- Language: English
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Humanise
- A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World
- Written by: Thomas Heatherwick
- Narrated by: Thomas Heatherwick
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Thomas Heatherwick shows how design has a profound effect on our mental and physical health, the climate, as well as the peace and cohesion of societies. He shows how a flawed idea of utility and 'efficiency' has engulfed our towns and cities and hardened into a form of bland minimalism. But it doesn't have to be this way: there are other ways to build - with the power to lift our spirits, engage and connect us.
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A simple guide to humanising our space
- By SHANTESH K. on 28-10-23
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Humanise
- A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World
- Narrated by: Thomas Heatherwick
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Release Date: 05-10-23
- Language: English
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There Are No Children Here
- The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
- Written by: Alex Kotlowitz
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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This national best-seller chronicles the true story of two brothers coming of age in the Henry Horner public housing complex in Chicago. Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers are 11 and nine years old when the story begins in the summer of 1987. Living with their mother and six siblings, they struggle against grinding poverty, gun violence, gang influences, overzealous police officers, and overburdened and neglectful bureaucracies. Immersed in their lives for two years, Kotlowitz brings us this classic rendering of growing up poor in America’s cities.
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There Are No Children Here
- The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Release Date: 30-04-10
- Language: English
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Walkable City
- How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
- Written by: Jeff Speck
- Narrated by: Jeff Speck
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability. The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core. But in the typical American city, the car is still king, and downtown is a place that’s easy to drive to but often not worth arriving at. Making walkability happen is relatively easy and cheap; seeing exactly what needs to be done is the trick.
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Walkable City
- How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
- Narrated by: Jeff Speck
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Release Date: 01-02-13
- Language: English
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Vienna
- How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
- Written by: Richard Cockett
- Narrated by: Gareth Richards
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens—every aspect of our history, science, and culture is in some way shaped by Vienna. Richard Cockett gives us the entirety of an extraordinary story of how one city made the modern world—and how we all remain inescapably Viennese.
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Vienna
- How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
- Narrated by: Gareth Richards
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
- Release Date: 26-12-23
- Language: English
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The Cross and the Switchblade
- Written by: David Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Raymond Todd
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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Led by incredible faith, Wilkerson left his country pulpit in 1958 for the streets of New York City, where a murder trial of seven teenaged boys churned society's antipathy toward them. Even Wilkerson was bewildered by his sense of compassion, but in spite of doubt, he followed the Spirit's prompting to help the boys. This is the amazing story of his journey, and of the mighty power of God to accomplish the impossible.
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The Cross and the Switchblade
- Narrated by: Raymond Todd
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release Date: 06-11-08
- Language: English
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Life After Cars
- Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
- Written by: Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon, Aaron Naparstek
- Narrated by: Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the hosts of The War on Cars podcast, a searing indictment of how cars ruin everything—and what we can do to fight back When the very first cars rolled off production lines, they were a technological marvel, predicted to make life easier and better for all Americans...
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Life After Cars
- Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
- Narrated by: Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release Date: 21-10-25
- Language: English
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Uberland
- How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work
- Written by: Alex Rosenblat
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. Upending our understanding of work in the digital age, Uberland paints a future where any of us might be managed by a faceless boss. Based on award-winning technology ethnographer Alex Rosenblat's experience of riding over 5,000 miles with Uber drivers, daily visits to online forums, and face-to-face discussions with senior Uber employees, Uberland goes beyond the headlines to reveal the complicated politics of popular technologies that are manipulating both workers and consumers.
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A good book to understand Platform economy
- By Shipra on 23-04-19
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Uberland
- How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release Date: 23-10-18
- Language: English
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Four Lost Cities
- A Secret History of the Urban Age
- Written by: Annalee Newitz
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii in Italy, the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia, and the indigenous metropolis Cahokia, which stood beside the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today.
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Four Lost Cities
- A Secret History of the Urban Age
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release Date: 09-02-21
- Language: English
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Smart Cities
- Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
- Written by: Anthony Townsend
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future. We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, where mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones, machines dominate a new "internet of things," and more people live in cities than in the countryside.
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Good Reading
- By Korath V Mathew on 03-04-21
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Smart Cities
- Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Release Date: 17-12-13
- Language: English
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