Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction | One of Time Magazines's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 | Longlisted for the 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards "An entertaining quest to trace the origins and implications of the names of the roads on which we reside." —Sarah Vowell, The New York Times Book Review When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacity to ensure that the postman can deliver mail or a traveler won’t get lost. But street addresses were not invented to help you find your way; they were created to find you. In many parts of the world, your address can reveal your race and class. In this wide-ranging and remarkable book, Deirdre Mask looks at the fate of streets named after Martin Luther King Jr., the wayfinding means of ancient Romans, and how Nazis haunt the streets of modern Germany. The flipside of having an address is not having one, and we also see what that means for millions of people today, including those who live in the slums of Kolkata and on the streets of London. Filled with fascinating people and histories, The Address Book illuminates the complex and sometimes hidden stories behind street names and their power to name, to hide, to decide who counts, who doesn’t—and why.

Living alone in her Stockholm apartment, a ninety-six-year-old woman reminisces through the pages of a long-kept address book before starting to write down stories from her past, unlocking family secrets in unexpectedly beneficial ways.

After finding a lost address book, the artist sets out to understand its owner by randomly interviewing contacts to learn more about the personality and past of its owner.

A compilation of over 2,000 entries noting address, phone numbers and email information on celebrities.

An address book in which each alphabetical divider-page opens with a detail from a Van Gogh painting and is followed overleaf by an image of the complete work and a quotation from one of the artist's letters. The spiral binding enables the book to be laid open at any page.

Revisit your favorite childhood heroes with these adventurous address books. Complete with outrageous padded fabric covers reminiscent of super hero costumes and chock-full of enthralling Superman and Wonder Woman memorabilia, these compact little books make an unbeatable place to keep the addresses and phone numbers of all your super friends.

Adresboekje geïllustreerd met covers van klassieke homo-pulpromans.