Genre search:General Nonfiction

The library book

by Susan Orlean
Paper Book, 2018
Tags
Libraries, Destruction of Libraries, History of Libraries
Collection
Gifts

The Library Book

by Susan Orlean
Paperback, 2019
Tags
Libraries, Destruction of Libraries, History of Libraries, ZZZ
Collection
Gifts

Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies

by Jared M. Diamond
Paper Book, 1999
Tags
History, Environmentalism, Cajamarca, Incas, Food Production, Disease, Colonialism, Domestication, Zoonoses, Australia, New Guinea — 4 more, Africa, China, Americas, Polynesia
Collection
Greg

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared M. Diamond
Paperback, 1999
Tags
Environmentalism, Cajamarca, Incas, History, Food Production, Disease, Colonialism, Domestication, Zoonoses, Australia, New Guinea — 4 more, Africa, China, Americas, Polynesia
Collection
Gus

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari
Paperback, 2018
Tags
History, Agricultural Revolution, Scientific Revolution, Economics, Industrial Revolution, Religion
Collection
Gifts

The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America

by Erik Larson
Paper Book, 2003
Tags
Occult Crime, Parliament of the World's Religions, Serial Murder
Collection
Don

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

by Jared Diamond
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
Environmentalism, Socioeconomics
Collections
Gus, In Storage

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

by Jared Diamond
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
Environmentalism, Socioeconomics, Easter Island, Anasazi, Maya, Mexico and Central America, Indigenous Peoples, Vikings, Norse and Germanic Studies, Europe, Greenland — 1 more, Bibliography
Collection
Gifts

The God Delusion

by Richard Dawkins
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
Skeptics Against Religion, Adversarial Books, Religion, Fundamentalism, Morality, Darwinism, Ethics, Bible, Creationism, Anthropic Principle, Philosophy — 1 more, Atheism
Collection
Gifts

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

by Mary Beard
Paperback, 2016
Tags
Graeco-Roman World, Roman History, Roman Empire, Romulus, Remus, Bibliography, Julius Caesar
Collection
Gifts

The World Without Us

by Alan Weisman
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
Ecology and Natural History, Extinction, Mayan Civilization, Environmental Crisis, Bibliography
Collection
Gifts

The lost city of Z: a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon

by David Grann
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
South America, Amazonia, Exploration, P.H. Fawcett, Lost City of Z, Lost Civilizations
Collection
Gifts

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann
Paperback, 2006
Tags
North America, Indigenous Peoples, North American Natives, South America, South American Natives, Indigenous, Pre-Columbian
Collection
Don

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann
Paperback, 2006
Tags
Mexico and Central America, Indigenous Peoples, South America, North America, North American Natives, South American Natives, Indigenous, Pre-Columbian
Collection
Gifts

The hidden life of trees : what they feel, how they communicate : discoveries from a secret world

by Peter Wohlleben
Paper Book, 2016
Tags
Ecology and Natural History, Trees, Mycorrhizae, Aerosols, Mycelial Web, Mutualism
Collections
Gifts, In Storage

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate_Discoveries from A Secret World

by Peter Wohlleben
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
Ecology and Natural History, Environmentalism, Trees, Mycorrhizae, Aerosols, Mycelial Web, Mutualism
Collections
Anna, Don

Underland : a deep time journey

by Robert Macfarlane
Paper Book, 2019
Tags
Subterranean Mysteries, Paris Catacombs, Glaciers, Caves, Bronze Age, Nuclear Waste
Collection
Don

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
Paperback, 2015
Tags
Healing Arts, Brain, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Mind-Body, Yoga, Bibliography, Resources, Psychotherapy
Collection
Gifts

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

by Christopher Hitchens
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
Skeptics Against Religion
Collection
Gifts

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Paperback, 2015
Tags
Ecology and Natural History, Botany, Indigenous Teachings, Indigenous Philosophy, Human Ecology, Nature, Human-Plant Relationships, Potawotomi, Potawotami Life & Social Customs, Ecophilosophy
Collection
Anna

Spook : science tackles the afterlife

by Mary Roach
Paper Book, 2006
Tags
Death and Dying, Mediumship, Ectoplasm, NDEs, Near Death Experiences, Search for the Soul, Ghosts and Hauntings, Life After Death, Afterlife, Bibliography
Collection
Gifts

Cleopatra: A Life

by Stacy Schiff
Paperback, 2011
Tags
Cleopatra, Pharaohs and Governance, Egypt, Egyptian History, Women in History, Biographies, Alexandria, Alexander the Great, Rome, Plutarch, Julius Caesar — 8 more, Mark Antony, Cicero, Isis, Octavian, Pompey, Ptolemies, Bibliographies, In Storage
Collections
Whealton, In Storage

Cleopatra: a life

by Stacy Schiff
Paper Book, 2010
Tags
Cleopatra, Pharaohs and Governance, Egypt, Egyptian History, Women in History, Biographies, Alexandria, Alexander the Great, Rome, Plutarch, Julius Caesar — 7 more, Mark Antony, Cicero, Isis, Octavian, Pompey, Ptolemies, Bibliographies
Collection
Gifts

The library : a fragile history

by Andrew Pettegree
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
Libraries, Library History
Collection
Don

The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu: and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts

by Joshua Hammer
Paper Book, 2016
Tags
Libraries, Librarians, Timbuktu, Mali, Islam, Al Qaeda, Travelogues
Collection
Don

The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

by Ian Mortimer
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
Dark and Middle Ages, History, England, Great Britain, British Isles, Medieval, Guidebook
Collection
Anna

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

by Reza Aslan
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
Christianity, Historical Jesus, Bibliography, Zealots
Collection
Gifts

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

by Peter Frankopan
Paperback, 2017
Tags
Central Asia and Silk Road, Trade, History
Collection
Don

Going clear : Scientology, Hollywood, and the prison of belief

by Lawrence Wright
Paper Book, 2013
Tags
New Religious Movements, Scientology
Collection
Gifts

The witches : Salem, 1692

by Stacy Schiff
Paper Book, 2015
Tags
Salem Witch Trials, Witchcraft, Salem Witches, Salem Village
Collection
Anna

A brief history of everyone who ever lived : the human story retold through our genes

by Adam Rutherford
Paper Book, 2017
Tags
Human Genetic History, Genomes, Human Genetics, Inbreeding, Race, Genetic Diseases, Cro Magnons, Denisovans, Neanderthals, Australopithecus, Homo — 12 more, British Genetic Map, Iceland, Black Death, Richard III, Jack the Ripper, Francis Galton, Eugenics, Eons, Introns, Pseudogenes, Microsatellites, Human History
Collection
Anna

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

by S. C. Gwynne
Paperback, 2011
Tags
North America, Comanches, Quanah Parker, Native Americans, Captivity, American West, Texas, Bibliography
Collection
Gifts

Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"

by Zora Neale Hurston
Paper Book, 2018
Tags
Afro-Diasporic Religions, Africa, Slavery, Slave Trade, Africatown
Collection
Don

The better angels of our nature : why violence has declined

by Steven Pinker
Paper Book, 2011
Tags
Peace & Conflict Resolution, Violence, History, Charts
Collection
Don

How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (The Hinges of History)

by Thomas Cahill
Paperback, 1996
Tags
Ireland, Dark and Middle Ages, British Isles, Eire, History, Medieval, Irish Civilization, Irish Monks, Scriptoria, Transmission of Texts, Manuscripts — 1 more, Monastic Libraries
Collections
Gifts, In Storage

How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (The Hinges of History)

by Thomas Cahill
Paperback, 1996
Tags
Ireland, British Isles, Eire, Irish History, History, Medieval, Irish Civilization
Collection
Gifts

Clanlands: whisky, warfare, and a Scottish adventure like no other

by Sam Heughan
Paper Book, 2020
Tags
Scotland, Highlands, Scottish Folklore, Paganism, British Isles, Europe
Collection
Anna

Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

by Megan Rosenbloom
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
Libraries, Anthropodermic Books, Tanning Human Leather
Collection
Don

The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance

by Ross King
Paperback, 2022
Tags
Libraries, Vespasiano da Bisticci, Hermetica, Plato, Cosmo de Medici, Marsilio Ficino, Florence
Collection
Don

Atlas obscura: an explorer's guide to the world's hidden wonders

by Joshua Foer
Paper Book, 2016
Tags
Fortean Travel Guides, Atlas, General Occult, Hauntings, Monsters, UFOs, Witchcraft, Fairies, Illustrated, ZZZ
Collection
Don

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Turning Points in Ancient History)

by Eric H. Cline
Paperback, 2015
Tags
Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent, Late Bronze Age, Sea Peoples, Egypt, Mycenaeans, Minoans, Hittites, Babylon
Collection
Don

Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Paperback, 1980
Tags
Sacred Geometry and Architecture, Earth Mysteries and Archaeo-Astronomy, Mathematics, Philosophy
Collection
Don

The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science

by Seb Falk
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
Dark and Middle Ages, Science and Technology, Medieval Science, Planetary Motions, Clock Mechamisms, Astrolabe, Epicycles, Astronomy
Collection
Don

Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge

by Richard Ovenden Autore
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
Libraries, Burning Books, Destruction of Archives, Warfare, Alexandria, Sarajevo, Stasi, Milton
Collection
Don

A History of God

by Karen Armstrong
Hardcover, 1994
Tags
Comparative and Western Religion, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Mysticism
Collection
Gifts

Papyrus: the invention of books in the ancient world

by Irene Vallejo Moreu
Paper Book, 2022
Tags
Libraries, Papyrus, Writing, Egypt, Greece, Rome
Collection
Don

Misquoting Jesus : the story behind who changed the Bible and why

by Bart D. Ehrman
Paper Book, 2005
Tags
Christianity, Scriptures, Jesus, Bibles, Errors, ZZZ
Collection
Gus

Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

by Bart D. Ehrman
Paperback, 2007
Tags
Christianity, Jesus, Bibles, Errors
Collection
Don

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love

by Dava Sobel
Paperback, 2000
Tags
Fiction, Historical Fiction, Galileo

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee-an Indian History of the American West

by Dee Brown
Paperback, 1972
Tags
North America, Indigenous Peoples, Wounded Knee, American History
Collections
Gifts, In Storage
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