Tag search:nonfiction

Inscribing Meaning: writing and graphic systems in African art

by Christine Mullen Kreamer
Paperback, 2007
Tags
nonfiction, art
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
709

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

The Various and Ingenious Machines of Agostino Ramelli: A Classic Sixteenth-Century Illustrated Treatise on Technology

by Agostino Ramelli
Hardcover, 1987
Tags
nonfiction, technology, history, engineering, mechanics
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
621.8

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

Future Shock

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

Introduction to Appropriate Technology: Toward a simpler life-style

by R. J. Congdon
Paperback, 1977
Tags
nonfiction, technology
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
338.91/172/4

Turn signals are the facial expressions of automobiles

by Donald A Norman
Paperback, 1992
Tags
nonfiction, technology, design
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
600

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 Myth of the Machine

by Lewis Mumford
Hardcover, 1966
Tags
nonfiction
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
901.9

Faster: the acceleration of just about everything

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

The Waste Makers

by Vance Packard
Paperback, 1967
Tags
nonfiction, sociology, business, economics, advertising, design, consumerism
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
339.4

The Japan That Can Say No (As Excerpted From the Congressional Record)

by Shintaro Ishihara
Paperback, 1990
Tags
nonfiction, geopolitics, japan, usa
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
327.52073

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

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 Mechanical Bride: folklore of industrial man

by Marshall McLuhan
Hardcover, 1951
Tags
nonfiction, communication, sociology, art
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
659.1

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

Mr Tompkins Explores the Atom

by George Gamow
Hardcover, 1945
Tags
nonfiction, science, physics
Collection
Main
Series
Mr Tompkins (2)
Status
Available
Call number
541.2

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

Datamania: Le grand pillage de nos données personnelles

by Audric Gueidan
Paperback, 2023
Tags
nonfiction, comics, internet, technology
Collection
Main
Status
Available

Penrose tiles to trapdoor ciphers

by Martin Gardner
Hardcover, 1989
Tags
nonfiction, math
Collection
Main
Series
Mathematical Games (13)
Status
Available
Call number
793.7/4

Made in the Middle Ages

by Christine Price
Hardcover, 1962
Tags
nonfiction, history, children's
Collection
Main
Series
History of Arts and Crafts (1)
Status
Available
Call number
745.5

The Dynamics of Soviet Society

by W. W. Rostow
Paperback, 1954
Tags
nonfiction
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
914.7

Schrödinger: Life and Thought

by Walter J. Moore
Paperback, 1992
Tags
nonfiction, biography, science, physics
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
530.092

Gadget Nation: A Journey Through the Eccentric World of Invention

by Steve Greenberg
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
nonfiction, technology, design, invention
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
609

What Technology Wants

by Kevin Kelly
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
nonfiction, technology, determinism
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
303.48/3

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

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 Unity of Nature

by Freiherr von Carl Friedrich Weizsäcker
Paperback, 1980
Tags
nonfiction, science, epistemology
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
530/.01

In the Name of Eugenics: genetics and the uses of human heredity

by Daniel J. Kevles
Paperback, 1995
Tags
nonfiction, science, biology, medicine
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
304.5

Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences

by Edward Tenner
Hardcover, 1996
Tags
nonfiction, technology, sociology, engineering
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
303.483

The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit

by John V. Petrocelli
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
nonfiction, epistemology
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
153.4

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

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 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

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

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

Subprime attention crisis: advertising and the time bomb at the heart of the Internet

by Tim Hwang
Paperback, 2020
Tags
nonfiction, internet, advertising, communication, business
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
659.14/4

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 Double Helix: a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA

by James D. Watson
Paperback, 1980
Tags
nonfiction, science, biology, memoir
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
574.87/3282

American Islam: the struggle for the soul of a religion

by Paul Barrett
Paperback, 2007
Tags
nonfiction, religion, islam, usa
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
297.0973/090511

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

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

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 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

White Goats and Black Bees: A Year in the Life of Two Americans Who Bought a Farm in Ireland

by Donald Grant
Hardcover, 1974
Tags
nonfiction, ireland
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
941.9

The Golden Bough: a study in magic and religion

by Sir James George Frazer
Hardcover, 1960
Tags
nonfiction, anthropology, religion, history
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
291

A Factotum in the Book Trade

by Marius Kociejowski
Paper Book, 2022
Tags
nonfiction, memoir
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
381.45002092

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

What's the Matter with Delaware? how the first state has favored the rich, powerful, and criminal-and how it costs us all

by Hal Weitzman
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
nonfiction, business
Collection
Main
Status
Available
Call number
343.0523
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