Paris Reborn: Napoléon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Quest to Build a Modern City
8 best books like Paris Reborn: Napoléon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Quest to Build a Modern City (Stephane Kirkland): The City in the Middle of the Night, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing, The Mueller Report: Presented with Related Materials by The Washington Post, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading, How To Read Water: Clues & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea, One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon, The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
The City in the Middle of the Night
Author | Charlie Jane Anders |
ISBN | 0765379961 |
"If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams... And from there, it's easy to control our entire lives."
Set on a planet that has fully definitive, never-changing zones of day and night, with ensuing extreme climates of endless, frigid darkness and blinding, relentless light, humankind...
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Author | Bill Bryson |
ISBN | 0385539304 |
In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe.
Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human...
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
Author | Robert A. Caro |
ISBN | 0525656340 |
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books
For the first time in his long career, Robert...
The Mueller Report: Presented with Related Materials by The Washington Post
Author | The Washington Post |
ISBN | 1982129735 |
The only book with exclusive analysis by the Pulitzer Prize–winning staff of The Washington Post, and the most complete and authoritative available.
Read the findings of the Special Counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, complete with accompanying...
Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
Author | Lucy Mangan |
ISBN | 0224098853 |
When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one.
She was whisked away to Narnia – and Kirrin Island – and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens...
How To Read Water: Clues & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea
The book includes over 700 clues, signs and patterns. You'll learn how to:Interpret ponds like a PolynesianSpot dangerous water in the pitch black with the help of a clock faceRead the sea like a VikingForecast the weather from wavesFind your way with puddlesDecipher wave patterns on beachesDecode...
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon
Author | Charles Fishman |
ISBN | 1501106295 |
The remarkable story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic mission to reach the moon.
President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress that the United States should land a man on the Moon by 1970. No group was more...
The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
Author | Christopher Hitchens |
At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as “the four horsemen,” the heralds of religion's unraveling—Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett—sat down together over cocktails. What followed was a rigorous, pathbreaking, and...