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    Series Book 14 - Global Cities
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    Series Book 18 - Global Cities
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  • London: How the City Lives

    Series Book 1 - Global Cities
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  • Beijing: How the City Lives

    Series Book 4 - Voyages & Ventures
    From emperors to noodle vendors, skyscrapers to spirit money, the Global Cities: How the World Really Lives series explores how cities feel – not just how they look on a map. Each volume offers a smart, immersive, and often witty portrait of one global capital, filtered through deep history, lived experience, and local color.–––In this unforgettable literary journey through China’s storied capital ... Read more

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  • Shanghai: How the City Lives

    Global Cities: How the World Really Lives is a vivid, voice-driven series that explores the soul of the world’s most electrifying cities. Blending street-level storytelling with cultural deep dives, each volume unpacks how locals eat, build, argue, flirt, hustle, dream – and how cities become more than the sum of their skylines.–––Shanghai isn’t just a city – it’s a performance in perpetual ... Read more

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  • New York: How the City Lives

    Series Book 2 - Global Cities
    The Global Cities: How the World Really Lives series offers smart, vivid portraits of iconic cities – not as tourists see them, but as locals live them. Blending history, culture, food, and future trends with wit and nuance, each volume explores how people actually move, eat, argue, dream, and survive in the world’s most unforgettable urban jungles.–––What is it really like to live in New York ... Read more

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  • Milan: How the City Lives

    Series Book 12 - Global Cities
    Global Cities: How the World Really Lives is not your average travel series. These are smart, funny, culturally rich deep-dives into the world’s most fascinating cities – equal parts immersive storytelling, urban anthropology, and sharp-eyed love letters. Think Bill Bryson with better shoes and fewer lists.–––Forget gondolas and Vespas – this is Italy with its shirt tucked in. Global Cities: Milan ... Read more

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  • Dubai: How the City Lives

    Series Book 8 - Global Cities
    Global Cities: How the World Really Lives is not your average travel series. These are immersive, witty, and culturally rich deep dives into the beating hearts of modern cities – not guidebooks, not Wikipedia rewrites, but lived portraits full of stories, contradictions, overheard conversations, and sensory overload. One city per volume. Many truths per page.–––Welcome to Dubai – where the desert ... Read more

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  • Singapore: How the City Lives

    Series Book 5 - Global Cities
    Global Cities: How the World Really Lives is a radically entertaining series of literary city portraits – each one part cultural deep dive, part urban field guide, and part love letter to the human details that don’t make the brochure. Think big histories, small rituals, and everything in between, written with wit, texture, and genuine wonder.–––Singapore: a city that has been called everything ... Read more

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  • Seoul: How the City Lives

    Series Book 11 - Global Cities
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  • Frankfurt: How the City Lives

    Series Book 15 - Global Cities
    Global Cities: How the World Really Lives is a captivating series that peels back the polished veneer of famous cities to reveal their true, complex characters. Each volume journeys beyond tourist clichés and guidebook gloss, offering vivid, witty, and deeply human portraits of how people live, work, and shape urban life across the globe.–––Frankfurt is a city of ironies wrapped in glass towers ... Read more

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  • Istanbul: How the City Lives

    Series Book 24 - Global Cities
    Global Cities: How the World Really Lives is a genre-bending nonfiction series that swaps checklists for street-level storytelling. Each volume dives deep into a single city – not as a tourist, but as an accidental local – mixing history, food, architecture, daily absurdities, and overheard conversations into one deliciously readable portrait of place.–––Global Cities: Istanbul is not your average ... Read more

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