Genre search:General Nonfiction

Eat the Buddha: Life and death in a Tibetan town

by Barbara Demick
Paperback, 2020
Tags
china, tibet, history, nonfiction, tpb
Call number
951/.38

Nature Obscura: A city's hidden natural world

by Kelly Brenner
Paperback, 2020
Tags
natural history, ecology, urban biology, urban ecology, seattle, unread, tpb
Call number
577.5/6

Caste: The origins of our discontents

by Isabel Wilkerson
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
history, american history, hb, unread
Call number
305.5/122

The breath of a wok : unlocking the spirit of Chinese wok cooking through recipes and lore

by Grace Young
Ebook, 2004
Tags
cookbook, chinese cookbook, woks, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
641.5951

Rice

by Michael Twitty
Ebook, 2021
Tags
cookbook, african american cookbook, rice, ebook
Collection
E-books
Series
Savor the South Cookbooks (25)
Call number
641.6/318

How to be an Antiracist

by Ibram X. Kendi
Ebook, 2019
Tags
sociology, american culture, racism, anti-racism, unread
Call number
305.800973

Four Lost Cities: A secret history of the urban age

by Annalee Newitz
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
history, anthropology, archaeology, cities, çatalhöyük, pompeii, angkor, cahokia, hb
Call number
930.1

Xi'an famous foods : Western Chinese cooking from New York's favorite noodle shop

by Jason Wang
Ebook, 2020
Tags
cookbook, chinese cookbook, xian famous, noodles, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
641.5951

South to Freedom: Runaway slaves to Mexico and the road to the Civil War

by Alice L. Baumgartner
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
history, african american history, underground railroad, mexican history, hb
Call number
306.3/62

The Rise: Black cooks and the soul of American food

by Marcus Samuelsson
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
cookbook, african american, hb
Call number
641.5929

The Perfectionists: How precision engineers created the modern world

by Simon Winchester
Ebook, 2018
Tags
history, history of engineering, history of technology, precision, gears!, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
620/.009

How to be Less Stupid About Race: On racism, white supremacy and the racial divide

by Crystal Marie Fleming
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
politics, race, racism, nonfiction, american culture, white supremacy, unread, hb
Call number
305.800973

A Black Women's History of the United States

by Daina Ramey Berry
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
history, american history, african american history, women's history, hb, unread
Call number
305.48/896073

My two Souths: Blending the flavors of India into a southern kitchen

by Asha Gomez
Ebook, 2016
Tags
cookbook, american cookbook, southern cookbook, indian cookbook, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
641.5954

Burma: Rivers of flavor

by Naomi Duguid
Ebook, 2012
Tags
cookbook, southeast asian cookbook, south asian cookbook, burmese cookbook, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
641.59591

The book of eels: Our enduring fascination with the most mysterious creature in the natural world

by Patrik Svensson
Paperback, 2020
Tags
natural history, translation, biology, eels, tpb
Call number
597.43

Tomboy: The surprising history and future of girls who dare to be different

by Lisa Selin Davis
Paperback, 2020
Tags
gender, tpb, unread
Call number
305

The Food of Sichuan

by Fuchsia Dunlop
Ebook, 2019
Tags
cookbook, ebook, chinese cookbook, sichuan cookbook
Collection
E-books
Call number
641.5951

Lakota America: A new history of Indigenous power

by Pekka Hämäläinen
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
history, american history, native american history, lakota, hb
Call number
970.980

Slime: How algae created us, plague us, and just might save us

by Ruth Kassinger
Ebook, 2019
Tags
biology, botany, natural history, micro natural history, algae, seaweed, kelp, ebook, unread
Collection
E-books
Call number
579.8

When We Rise: My life in the movement

by Cleve Jones
Paperback, 2016
Tags
jane's, memoir, lgbtq, tpb
Call number
306.76/6092B

Cool Beans: 125 recipes for the world's most versatile plant-based protein

by Joe Yonan
Ebook, 2020
Tags
cookbook, vegetarian cookbook, vegan cookbook, beans, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
641.6/565

How To: Absurd scientific advice for common real-world problems

by Randall Munroe
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
xkcd, humor, hb
Call number
502

Thing explainer : complicated stuff in simple words

by Randall Munroe
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
xkcd, science, humor, nonfiction, hb
Call number
500

Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet

by Claire L. Evans
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
history, history of technology, women's history, internet history, hb, signed copy, history of women in tch
Call number
004.092/2B

Vegetables Unleashed

by José Andrés
Ebook, 2019
Tags
ebook, cookbook, vegetarian cookbook
Collection
E-books
Call number
641.65

Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension

by Matt Parker
Ebook, 2014
Tags
ebook, math, popular level, recreational math, coverguess mismatch
Collection
E-books
Call number
510

We Fed an Island: The true story of rebuilding Puerto Rico, one meal at a time

by José Andrés
Ebook, 2018
Tags
nonfiction, disaster relief, world central kitchen, puerto rico, hurricane maria, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
363.34

Taste of Persia: A cook's travels through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, and Kurdistan

by Naomi Duguid
Ebook, 2016
Tags
cookbook, persian cookbook, armenia, azerbaijan, georgia, iran, caucasus, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
641.5955

The Canon: A whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science

by Natalie Angier
Ebook, 2007
Tags
nonfiction, science, popular-level, history of science, ebook, coverguess mismatch
Collection
E-books
Call number
500

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the elements of good cooking

by Samin Nosrat
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
food, cookbook, food science, flavor theory, hb
Call number
641.5

Because Internet: Understanding the new rules of language

by Gretchen McCulloch
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
linguistics, english language, internet language, take that prescriptivists, hb
Call number
302.231

Love and Resistance: Out of the closet into the Stonewall era

by Kay Tobin
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
photography, american history, lgbtq, hb, unread
Call number
306.76/6

Spineless: The science of jellyfish and the art of growing a backbone

by Juli Berwald
Paperback, 2017
Tags
science, biology, jellyfish, invertebrates, didn't finish, tpb
Call number
593.5/3

Feathers: The evolution of a natural miracle

by Thor Hanson
Paperback, 2011
Tags
birds, feathers, natural history, biology, evolution, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
598.147

The Re-origin of Species: A second chance for extinct animals

by Torill Kornfeldt
Paperback, 2018
Tags
biology, genetics, de-extinction, extinction, extinct species, mammoths, passenger pigeons, arc, early reviewer, reviewed
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
591.68

Code Girls: The untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II

by Liza Mundy
Paperback, 2018
Tags
women's history, american history, wwii, cryptanalysis, tpb, history of women in tech
Call number
940.54/86730922

Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World

by Michael Lewis
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
unread, hb, financial bubbles
Call number
330.90511

Other Minds: the octopus, the sea, and the deep origins of consciousness

by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
hb, biology, animal intelligence, cephalopods, invertebrates
Call number
612.8

The World in a Grain: The story of sand and how it shaped civilization

by Vince Beiser
Ebook, 2018
Tags
nonfiction, microhistory, sand, unread, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
620.1/91

Wicked Plants: The weed that killed Lincoln's mother & other botanical atrocities

by Amy Stewart
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
nonfiction, botany, plants, hb
Series
Wicked Things (1)
Call number
581.6/5

The Silk Roads: A new history of the world

by Peter Frankopan
Paperback, 2016
Tags
history, world history, asia, tpb, couldn't finish
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
909

Why Buildings Fall Down: How structures fail

by Matthys Levy
Paperback, 1994
Tags
nonfiction, architecture, engineering, disasters, building collapse, civil engineering, tpb, unread
Call number
690/.21

The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America's forgotten black pioneers and the struggle for equality

by Anna-Lisa Cox
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
hb, american history, african american history, northwest territory, westward expansion, signed copy
Call number
977.0496073

Banana: The fate of the fruit that changed the world

by Dan Koeppel
Paperback, 2009
Tags
tpb, food, agriculture, microhistory, bananas
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
634.772

Cooked: A natural history of transformation

by Michael Pollan
Paperback, 2013
Tags
cooking, food, bread, stews, braises, barbecue, fermentation, brewing, tpb
Call number
641.5

Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in ice age America

by Craig Childs
Paperback, 2018
Tags
nonfiction, ice age, travel, archaeology, tpb
Call number
551.7/92

Far from Land: The mysterious lives of seabirds

by Michael Brooke
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
birds, seabirds, albatrosses, petrels, penguins, alcids, shearwaters, frigatebirds, hb
Call number
598.177

How to Taste: The curious cook's handbook to seasoning and balance, from umami to acid and beyond--with recipes

by Becky Selengut
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
food, cooking, flavor theory, hb
Call number
641.5973

Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the disappearing religions of the Middle East

by Gerard Russell
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
religion, middle east, druze, zoroastrians, mandeans, yazidi, copts, samaritans, kalasha, history, hb
Call number
200.956
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