Genre search:General Nonfiction

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (P.S.)

by Steven D. Levitt
Paperback, 2009
Tags
Economics, Economic theory, Non-Fiction, Business, Cultural criticism, Sociology, Statistics
Series
Freakonomics (1)
Status
Available
Call number
330

A Short History of Nearly Everything

by Bill Bryson
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
Non-Fiction, Evolution, Popular science, Science, Humor, Biology, Chemistry, Astronomy, Physics, History
Status
Available
Call number
500

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot
Paperback, 2011
Tags
Non-Fiction, Ethics, History, Biology, African Americans, Medicine, Science, Racism, Biography, Research
Status
Available
Call number
616.02774092

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

by Isabel Wilkerson
Hardcover, 2020
Collection
Book of the Month
Status
Available
Call number
305.5

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari
Paperback, 2018
Tags
Non-Fiction, Science, Popular science, Anthology, Prehistory, Civilization, Biology, Philosophy, Sociology, World history
Status
Available
Call number
909

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

by Erik Larson
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
Non-Fiction, Biography, Historical figures, World War II, History, European history, Blitz, Person - Winston Churchill, Country - England
Collection
Book of the Month
Status
Available
Call number
940.54

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

by Erik Larson
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
Non-Fiction, American history, USA - Illinois - Chicago, True crime, Crime, Serial killers, Architecture, 19th Century, History
Status
Available
Call number
364.15230977311

How to Be an Antiracist

by Ibram X. Kendi
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
Racism, Race, Black studies, Non-Fiction, Social history, Social justice, Sociology, African Americans, Black Americans, Anti-racism, Race relations — 1 more, White privilege
Status
Available
Call number
305.800973

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

by Robin DiAngelo
Paperback, 2018
Tags
Racism, Race, Anti-racism, Social justice, White privilege, White supremacy, Whiteness, Non-Fiction, Politics, Sociology
Status
Available
Call number
305.8

Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

by Michelle Zauner
Hardcover, 2021
Collection
Book of the Month
Status
Available
Call number
782.42166092

Bossypants

by Tina Fey
Paperback, 2012
Tags
Memoir, Non-Fiction, Comedy, Humor, Autobiography, Feminism
Status
Available
Call number
792.7028092

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

by Jon Krakauer
Hardcover, 1997
Tags
Non-Fiction, Survival stories, Mountains, Adventure, Mountaineering, Country - Nepal, Memoir, Disasters, Nature
Status
Available
Call number
796.522092

Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age

by Dennis Duncan
Hardcover, 2022
Status
Available
Call number
025.3

A People's History of the United States

by Howard Zinn
Paperback, 2015
Tags
Non-Fiction, United States, American history, Social history, Politics
Series
A People's History
Status
Available
Call number
973

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

by Naomi Klein
Paperback, 2015
Tags
Non-Fiction, Climate change, Environment, Capitalism, Global warming, Economics, Politics
Status
Available
Call number
363.738

The Witches: Salem, 1692

by Stacy Schiff
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
17th Century, American history, Witches, History, Witchcraft, USA - Massachusetts, Colonial America, Salem Witch Trials, USA - Massachusetts - Salem, Non-Fiction, USA - New England
Status
Available
Call number
345.74450288

The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness

by Susannah Cahalan
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
Non-Fiction, Psychology, Psychiatry, Mental illness, Mental institutions, History, Science, Insanity
Status
Available
Call number
616.89

Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

by Jared Diamond
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
History, Non-Fiction, Anthropology, Sociology, Politics, Current affairs, Crisis, Political science, Globalization
Collection
Book of the Month
Series
Civilizations Rise and Fall (3)
Status
Available
Call number
303.48409

History Of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

by Karen Armstrong
Hardcover, 1993
Tags
Non-Fiction, Religion, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, History, Religious studies, God, Theology, Comparative religion
Status
Available
Call number
291.211

The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey

by Rinker Buck
Paperback, 2016
Tags
History, American history, American West, Oregon Trail, Memoir, Travel, Pioneers, Non-Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
978

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

by Dee Brown
Paperback, 2007
Tags
Non-Fiction, American history, Native Americans, American West, 19th Century, Indian Wars, Wounded Knee
Status
Available
Call number
978.00497

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

by Kate Summerscale
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
19th Century, Crime, Victorian England, History, Non-Fiction, Murder, True crime, Detectives, Country - England, Mystery
Status
Available
Call number
364.1523094231

Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

by Aminatou Sow
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
Friendship, Non-Fiction, Memoir, Relationships, Sociology
Collection
Book of the Month
Status
Available
Call number
177.62082

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition

by Peter Boxall Editor
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
Non-Fiction, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, History of books, Reference, Literary criticism, Literary history
Series
1001 ... before you die
Status
Available
Call number
011.73

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

by Joseph Campbell
Paperback, 1973
Tags
Non-Fiction, Mythology, Literary criticism, Literary theory, Religion, Folklore, Anthropology, Philosophy, Psychology
Status
Available
Call number
291.13

Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned

by Kenneth C. Davis
Paperback, 2004
Tags
Non-Fiction, American history, History, United States
Series
Don't Know Much About
Status
Available
Call number
973

Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live)

by Eve Rodsky
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
Marriage, Relationships, Non-Fiction, Feminism, Family, Personal development, Self-help
Collection
Book of the Month
Status
Available
Call number
650.1082

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

by Resmaa Menakem
Paperback, 2017
Status
Available
Call number
305.896

Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times (The Midwife Trilogy)

by Jennifer Worth
Paperback, 2012
Tags
Memoir, Non-Fiction, Autobiography, Country - England - London, Midwifery, Nurses, 20th Century - 1950s, Poverty, Social history
Series
Midwife Trilogy (1)
Status
Available
Call number
618.2

Europe: A History

by Norman Davies
Paperback, 1998
Tags
Non-Fiction, History, Europe, European history, Ancient Greece, Renaissance, Medieval Europe, Reference
Status
Available
Call number
940

The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois
Paperback, 2016
Tags
American Literature, Black American Literature, Black studies, Black Americans, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Race, Race relations, Essays, Sociology, Racism — 4 more, Civil rights, American history, 20th Century, Politics
Status
Available
Call number
973.0496073

The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution

by Peter Hessler
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
Non-Fiction, Narrative non-fiction, Country - Egypt, History, Middle East, Middle Eastern history, Politics
Status
Available
Call number
962.056

A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors

by Michael Farquhar
Paperback, 2001
Tags
Non-Fiction, Humor, European history, Royal families, Princesses, Monks and clergy, Monarchy, Scandal, Sexuality, British history, Church and papacy
Status
Available
Call number
920.02

Calendar: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year

by David Ewing Duncan
Paperback, 1999
Tags
Non-Fiction, Astronomy, Time, History, Science, Cultural studies, Social history
Status
Available
Call number
529.309

An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably Didn't

by Judy Jones
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
Non-Fiction, Education, Trivia, History, Reference
Status
Available
Call number
031.02

Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy (Penguin Classics)

by Karl Marx
Paperback, 1992
Tags
Series - Penguin Classics, Communism, Capitalism, Marxism, Economics, Labor, Economic theory, Political theory, Political criticism, Literary criticism, Socialism — 2 more, Person - Karl Marx, 19th Century
Collection
Penguin Classics
Series
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (1)
Status
Available
Call number
335.41

Remarkable Books: The World's Most Historic and Significant Works (DK Great)

by DK
Hardcover, 2017
Status
Available
Call number
002.09

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (Penguin Classics)

by Friedrich Nietzsche
Paperback, 1990
Status
Available
Call number
193

Critique of Pure Reason

by Immanuel Kant
Paperback, 2004
Tags
Philosophy, Person - Immanuel Kant, Critical theory, 18th Century, Metaphysics, German Idealism, German philosophy, Epistemology, Enlightenment, Non-Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
121

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

by Frederick Douglass
Paperback, 1982
Tags
Series - Penguin Classics, 19th Century, American Literature, Black American Literature, Autobiography, Slavery, American history, Black Americans
Collection
Penguin Classics
Status
Available
Call number
973.8092

The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales

by Bruno Bettelheim
Paperback, 1989
Tags
Non-Fiction, Psychology, Fairy tales, Literary criticism, Psychoanalysis, Literary theory
Status
Available
Call number
398.45

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin
Paperback, 2016
Tags
American Literature, Founding Fathers, Autobiography, American history, Memoir, Non-Fiction, 18th Century, American Revolution, Politics
Status
Available
Call number
973.3092

Reflections on the Revolution in France (Oxford World's Classics)

by Edmund Burke
Paperback, 2009
Tags
18th Century, French Revolution, Political theory, Philosophy, English Literature, History, Country - France, Conservatism, Politics
Status
Available
Call number
944.04

A Treasury of Great American Scandals: Tantalizing True Tales of Historic Misbehavior by the Founding Fathers and Others Who Let Freedom Swing

by Michael Farquhar
Paperback, 2003
Tags
American history, Non-Fiction, Humor, Social history, Historical figures, Founding Fathers, POTUS, Scandal, Politics
Status
Available
Call number
973.099

What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England

by Daniel Pool
Paperback, 1994
Tags
Non-Fiction, 18th Century, 19th Century, Victorian England, Social history, Cultural studies, Manners and customs, Reference, Person - Charles Dickens, Person - Jane Austen, Regency England
Status
Available
Call number
820.9008

50 Facts that Should Change the World 2.0

by Jessica Williams
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
Non-Fiction, American culture, Social history, Current affairs, Globalization, Politics, Poverty, Sociology, Economics, Consumerism, Cultural studies — 4 more, Environment, Journalism, Social justice, Political science
Status
Available
Call number
973

Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation

by Roland Barthes
Paperback, 2013
Tags
Cultural studies, Cultural theory, Non-Fiction, Critical theory, Philosophy, Semiotics, Literary criticism, Mythology, Sociology, Person - Roland Barthes, Essays — 3 more, Structuralism, Linguistics, Language
Status
Available
Call number
081

From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers

by Marina Warner
Paperback, 1996
Tags
Non-Fiction, Literary criticism, Fairy tales, Feminism, Folklore, Mythology, Cultural studies, Cultural criticism, Fantasy
Status
Available
Call number
398.2

The Elements of a Home: Curious Histories behind Everyday Household Objects, from Pillows to Forks (Home Design and Decorative Arts Book, History Buff Gift)

by Amy Azzarito
Hardcover, 2020
Status
Available
Call number
645

A Treasury of Deception: Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers, and the Extraordinary True Stories of History's Greatest Hoaxes, Fakes and Frauds

by Michael Farquhar
Paperback, 2005
Tags
History, Humor, Social history, Historical figures, Criminals, Crime, Hoaxes, Miscellanea, Deception, Fraud, Non-Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
001.95
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