In this volume, 253 archetypal patterns consisting of problem statements, discussions, illustrations, and solutions provide lay persons with a framework for engaging in architectural design.

The Inernet revolution has come. Some say it has gone. In this book, Lawrence Lessig explains how the revolution has produced a conuterrevolution of potentially devastating power and effect.

Richard Florida traces the fundamental theme that runs through a host of seemingly unrelated changes in American society: the growing role of creativity in the economy. He describes a society in which the creative ethos is increasingly dominant.

An exploration of Los Angeles, told with passion, wit and a sharp eye for the absurd, the unjust and the dangerous. The author tells a lurid tale of greed, manipulation, power and prejudice that has made LA one of the most cosmopolitan and class-divided cities in the United States.

It used to be easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture, but now the bos are all mixed up and it is impossible to tell an espresso-sipping artist from a cappucino-gulping banker. Read how the Bobos define our age.

Presents the hazards of individual and social complacency about economic inequality. This title challenges why we worship work and productivity when so many of the goods we produce are superfluous, and why we grudge spending on public works while ignoring extravagance in the private sector.