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

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

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

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 Structure of Scientific Revolutions

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

The Abolition of Man

by C. S. Lewis
Paper Book, 1947
Tags
nonfiction, polemic, relativism
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
370.1

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

Silent Spring

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

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 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

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

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

by Edward R. Tufte
Hardcover, 1992
Tags
nonfiction, visualization
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
001.4226

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

Last chance to see

by Douglas Adams
Paper Book, 1991
Tags
nonfiction, science, ecology, biology
Collection
Main
Series
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (X)
Status
Available
Call number
591.52/9

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

Hiroshima

by John Hersey
Paper Book, 1989
Tags
history, war, japan, usa
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
940.54/25

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

Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative

by Edward R. Tufte
Hardcover, 1997
Tags
nonfiction, visualization
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
302.23

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

by Richard P. Feynman
Paperback, 1988
Tags
nonfiction, science, physics
Collection
Main
Status
Checked out
Call number
539.756

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

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

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

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

Future Shock

by Alvin Toffler
Paperback, 1970
Tags
nonfiction
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
303.4

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

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

Escape from Freedom

by Erich Fromm
Paperback, 1983
Tags
nonfiction
Collection
Main
Series
International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction
Status
Available
Call number
323.44

Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, delusion, and the appetite for wonder

by Richard Dawkins
Hardcover, 1998
Tags
nonfiction
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
501

The Sickness unto Death: a Christian psychological exposition for upbuilding and awakening

by Sren Kierkegaard
Paperback, 1980
Tags
nonfiction
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
248/.3

The Theory of the Leisure Class

by Thorstein Veblen
Hardcover, 1934
Tags
nonfiction, anthropology, consumerism
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
305.5

The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects

by Marshall McLuhan
Hardcover, 1967
Tags
nonfiction, communication, sociology
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
302

The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

by Stephen Jay Gould
Paper Book, 1980
Tags
nonfiction, science, biology, essays
Collection
Main
Series
Reflections in Natural History (2)
Status
Available
Call number
575.01

The Sea Around Us

by Rachel L Carson
Hardcover, 1952
Tags
nonfiction, science, biology, ecology
Collection
Main
Series
Life of the Sea Trilogy (2)
Status
Available
Call number
551.46

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

Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

by Neil Postman
Paperback, 1993
Tags
nonfiction, polemic, technology, sociology
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
303.483

The Mismeasure of Man

by Stephen Jay Gould
Paperback, 1996
Tags
nonfiction, science, history, anthropology, racism
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
150

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

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 Audubon Society field guide to North American wildflowers, eastern region

by William A. Niering
Paper Book, 1979
Tags
nonfiction, reference, ecology, science, biology
Collection
Main
Series
Audubon Society Field Guide
Status
Available
Call number
582/.13/0974

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

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

Faster: the acceleration of just about everything

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

How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

by Stewart Brand
Paperback, 1995
Tags
nonfiction, history, architecture
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
720

The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

by Stephen Jay Gould
Hardcover, 1985
Tags
nonfiction, science, biology
Collection
Main
Series
Reflections in Natural History (4)
Status
Available
Call number
508

Strength to love

by Jr. Martin Luther King
Paper Book, 1963
Tags
nonfiction
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
252/.0613

Molecular Biology of the Cell

by Alexander Johnson Alberts, Julian Bruce
Paperback, 2002
Tags
nonfiction, science, biology, textbook
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
571.6

Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science

by Alan D. Sokal
Paper Book, 1998
Tags
nonfiction, epistemology, relativism, science, communication
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
501

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

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

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

The Human use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society

by Norbert Wiener
Paperback, 1954
Tags
nonfiction, science, sociology, technology
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
303.4/83
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