Genre search:General Nonfiction

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot
Paperback, 2011
Tags
nonfiction, history, science, medicine, racism
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
616.02774092

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

by Randall Munroe
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
nonfiction, science, physics, humor
Collection
Main
Series
What if? (1)
Status
Checked out
Call number
500

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

by Patrick Radden Keefe
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
nonfiction, history, uk, ireland
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
364.152

What if? 2: additional serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions

by Randall Munroe
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
nonfiction, science, physics, humor
Collection
Main
Series
What if? (2)
Status
Available
Call number
500

Bad Blood: secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

by John Carreyrou
Paperback, 2020
Tags
nonfiction, medicine, science, technology, crime
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
338.7/681761

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

by Trevor Noah
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
nonfiction, biography, south africa, racism
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
791.4502

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
nonfiction, medicine, biology, history
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
ON-ORDER

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time

by Dava Sobel
Paperback, 2011
Tags
nonfiction, history, science
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
526.6209

The Righteous Mind: why good people are divided by politics and religion

by Jonathan Haidt
Paperback, 2012
Tags
nonfiction, sociology, communication
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
201.615

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

by Caitlin Doughty
Paperback, 2015
Tags
nonfiction, memoir, death
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
363.7

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

by James Gleick
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
nonfiction, epistemology, history, science, technology, communication
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
020.9

Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

by Anne Applebaum
Paperback, 2021
Tags
nonfiction, politics
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
321.9

The Secret Life of Groceries: the dark miracle of the American supermarket

by Benjamin Lorr
Paperback, 2020
Tags
nonfiction, business, economics
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
381.4/564130068

The origin of species by means of natural selection, or, The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life

by Charles Darwin
Paper Book, 1958
Tags
nonfiction, science, biology, ecology
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
576.82

Immune: a journey into the mysterious system that keeps you alive

by Philipp Dettmer
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
nonfiction, science, biology, medicine
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
616.07/9

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)

by Richard P. Feynman
Paperback, 1997
Tags
nonfiction, biography, memoir
Collection
Main
Series
Feynman Memoirs
Status
Available
Call number
530.0924

Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World

by Matt Parker
Paperback, 2021
Tags
nonfiction, math, humor, engineering, science, technology, disasters, medicine
Collection
Main
Status
Checked out
Call number
510

Chip War: the fight for the world's most critical technology

by Chris Miller
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
nonfiction, technology, computing, business, usa, china, geopolitics
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
338.476213815

The Coddling of the American Mind: how good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure

by Greg Lukianoff
Paperback, 2019
Tags
nonfiction, sociology
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
306.20973

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

by Richard Ovenden
Paperback, 2022
Tags
nonfiction
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
363.3109

His Majesty's Airship: The life and tragic death of the world's largest flying machine

by S. C. Gwynne
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
nonfiction, technology
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
363.12

Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)

by Tom Vanderbilt
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
nonfiction, anthropology
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
629.283

The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

by Richard Preston
Paperback, 1995
Tags
nonfiction, medicine, biology, science
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
614.57

Silent Spring

by Rachel Carson
Paper Book, 1964
Tags
nonfiction, science, ecology
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
363.7384

The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

by Catherine Nixey
Paperback, 2018
Tags
nonfiction, religion, history, polemic
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
270.1

Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters

by Serhii Plokhy
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
nonfiction, disasters
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
621.48

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

by Jaron Lanier
Paperback, 2019
Tags
nonfiction, internet, communication
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
302.231

Last chance to see

by Douglas Adams
Paper Book, 1991
Tags
nonfiction, science, ecology, biology
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
591.52/9

Dr. Mutter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine

by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
nonfiction, science, history, biography, medicine, philadelphia
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
617.092

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

by Neil Postman
Paperback, 2005
Tags
nonfiction, polemic, epistemology, sociology, communication
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
302.23

Magisteria: the entangled histories of science and religion

by Nick Spencer
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
nonfiction, science, religion
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
261.55

The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning

by Justin E. H. Smith
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
nonfiction, internet, technology
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
004.67809

In Praise of Good Bookstores

by Jeff Deutsch
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
nonfiction
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
341.4500209730904

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

by Thomas S. Kuhn
Paperback, 1970
Tags
science, history, nonfiction, epistemology
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
501

Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919

by Stephen Puleo
Paperback, 2004
Tags
nonfiction, history, boston, business, disasters
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
363.11

Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power

by Anna Merlan
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
nonfiction, usa
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
001.90973

The Skeptics' Guide to the Future: what yesterday's science and science fiction tell us about the world of tomorrow

by Steven Novella
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
nonfiction, science, technology
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
500.0000

Woolly: the true story of the de-extinction of one of history's most iconic creatures

by Ben Mezrich
Paperback, 2017
Tags
nonfiction, science, biology, ecology, technology
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
591.68

The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America

by Matt Kracht
Paperback, 2019
Tags
nonfiction, humor, ecology, biology, reference
Collection
Main
Series
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds (1)
Status
Available
Call number
598.072347

Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life

by Edward O. Wilson
Paperback, 2017
Tags
nonfiction, ecology, science, biology
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
333.95

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

by Edward O. Wilson
Hardcover, 1998
Tags
nonfiction, science, epistemology, sociobiology
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
121

Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society

by Nicholas A. Christakis
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
nonfiction, biology, science, anthropology, sociobiology
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
576.801

A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love

by Richard Dawkins
Paperback, 2004
Tags
nonfiction, essays
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
500

The Trouble with Physics: the rise of string theory, the fall of a science, and what comes next

by Lee Smolin
Paperback, 2006
Tags
nonfiction, science, physics
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
530.14

The Day the World Stops Shopping: how ending consumerism saves the environment and ourselves

by J. B. MacKinnon
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
nonfiction, consumerism
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
339.4/7

The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

by Richard Phillips Feynman
Hardcover, 1998
Tags
nonfiction
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
500

The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice

by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Paperback, 2022
Tags
nonfiction
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
956.9104

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

by Stephen Jay Gould
Paperback, 1990
Tags
nonfiction, science, biology
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
560.9

Faster: the acceleration of just about everything

by James Gleick
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
nonfiction
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
529/.7

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

by Jane Jacobs
Paperback, 1992
Tags
nonfiction, sociology, anthropology, urban planning
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
307.760973
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