Affluenza
10 best books like Affluenza (Oliver James): Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, Le Grand Meaulnes, Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There, Das fliegende Klassenzimmer, Half Blood Blues, Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, Bruce Chatwin, Now or Never: Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future, The Ogre, Wil
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
| Author | Jeff Speck |
| ISBN | 0374285810 |
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...
| Author | Alain-Fournier |
| ISBN | 0140182829 |
Dear Henri Alain-Fournier,
Some people claim you had great talent as a novelist. Many more would claim I don't. Is it fair that you died in World War I while I live, free to write this review and feeling like I'm having a bad morning because I didn't have all the usual ingredients for my breakfast...
Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
| Author | David Brooks |
| ISBN | 0684853787 |
Do you believe that spending $15,000 on a media center is vulgar, but that spending $15,000 on a slate shower stall is a sign that you are at one with the Zenlike rhythms of nature? Do you work for one of those visionary software companies where people come to work wearing hiking boots and glacier glasses,...
Das fliegende Klassenzimmer
| Author | Erich Kästner |
| ISBN | 3791530151 |
Seit Jahren sind die Schüler des Internats Kirchberg und der benachbarten Realschule verfeindet. Beide Gruppen denken sich die verrücktesten Streiche aus, um die anderen zu ärgern. Als die Realschüler die Diktathefte der Gymnasiasten klauen und dabei auch noch einen Schüler gefangen nehmen,...
| Author | Esi Edugyan |
| ISBN | 1846687756 |
The aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. Hieronymus Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, is arrested in a cafe and never heard from again. He is twenty years old. A German citizen. And he is black.
Fifty years later, Sid, Hiero's bandmate and the only witness that day, is going back to Berlin....
Happiness: Lessons from a New Science
| Author | Richard Layard |
| ISBN | 0143037013 |
There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. We all want more money, but as societies become richer, they do not become happier. This is not speculation: It's the story told by countless pieces of scientific research. We now have sophisticated ways of measuring how happy people are, and all the evidence...
| Author | Nicholas Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0385498306 |
Award-winning novelist Nicholas Shakespeare has written the definitive biography of one of the most influential literary figures of our time: Bruce Chatwin, whose works' strangely compelling combination of research, first-hand experience, myth, and mystification may have been the real substance...
| Author | Tim Flannery |
| ISBN | 0802118984 |
In Now or Never, the internationally acclaimed author of The Weather Makers returns to the subject of climate change with a book that is at once a forceful call to action and a deeply (and often surprisingly) pragmatic roadmap toward sustainability. Utilizing the most up-to-the-minute data available,...
An international bestseller and winner of the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary award, The Ogre is a masterful tale of innocence, perversion, and obsession. It follows the passage of strange, gentle Abel Tiffauges from submissive schoolboy to "ogre" of the Nazi school at the castle...
| Author | Jeroen Olyslaegers |
| ISBN | 9023498437 |
Het is oorlog. Antwerpen wordt bezet door geweld en wantrouwen. Wilfried Wils acht zichzelf een dichter in wording, maar moet zich tegelijk zien te redden as hulpagent. De mooie Yvette wordt verliefd op hem, haar broer Lode is een waaghals die zijn nek uitsteekt voor joden. Wilfrieds artistieke mentor,...
Sofia si veste sempre di nero
| Author | Paolo Cognetti |
| ISBN | 8875214409 |
Sofia si veste sempre di nero è la nuova prova narrativa di Paolo Cognetti, autore di Manuale per ragazze di successo e Una cosa piccola che sta per esplodere. Nei suoi racconti, cesellati con la finezza di Carver e Salinger, ha saputo rappresentare con sorprendente intensità l’universo femminile....
