"Super-young, super-cool, and fast becoming known as one of the hottest literary talents of multicultural Europe, [Faiza] Guène takes us on a tour of the tough suburbs of Paris and Algeria, where having the wrong-colour passport sentences you to a half-life. A funny, intimate, and timely book by one of the stars of tomorrow." —Sunday Telegraph (UK)

“Our Lot is a sobering account of the origins of our current mortgage crisis. Katz methodically, and with great precision, traces the roots of homeownership in American society. Leaving few stones unturned, Our Lot provides an incisive analysis of the rational and speculative decisions that have made America so susceptible to the twists and turns of the housing industry. The book is a timely historical account, but its lessons are clear and penetrating for the contemporary era.” —Sudhir Venkatesh (Gang Leader for a Day) more...

"Robert Harbison is not one of those historians who tries to blast you out of the water with his authority—his is a gentle voice, full of knowledge and wit, thoughtful and contemplative. As you read this book you feel not that you are being lectured at, but, as the title suggests, that you are traveling in time; and Harbison makes a fine traveling companion. Whatever you are doing with old buildings, whether visiting them, reading about them, looking at pictures of them or even just remembering them, you will want to have this book near at hand." —Paul Shepheard (What Is Architecture?) more...