Genre search:General Nonfiction

Don't Think of an Elephant! : Know your values and frame the debate: The essential guide for progressives

by George Lakoff
Paperback, 2004
Tags
nonfiction, politics, political science, jane's, tpb, can't find our copy
Collection
Jane's
Call number
320.51/3/0973 22

Unruly Places: Lost spaces, secret cities, and other inscrutable geographies

by Alastair Bonnett
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
geography, maps, obscure places, hb
Call number
910

Last Chance to See

by Douglas Adams
Hardcover, 1991
Tags
nonfiction, travel, ecology, animals, endangered species, nature, hb
Call number
591.529 20

Zeitoun

by Dave Eggers
Paperback, 2010
Tags
nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, tpb, new orleans, hurricane katrina, ftpml
Call number
305.892/7076335

The Discoverers

by Daniel J. Boorstin
Hardcover, 1991
Tags
nonfiction, history, history of science, hb
Series
Boorstin's Histories (1)
Call number
909 19

Hijab Butch Blues

by Lamya H.
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
memoir, lgbtq, muslim, hb
Call number
920

Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the making of the modern world, 1471 to the Second World War

by Howard W. French
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
history, african history, hb, unread
Call number
960.22

Stitch 'n Bitch : the Knitter's Handbook

by Debbie Stoller
Paperback, 2003
Tags
knitting, nonfiction, jane's, tpb
Collection
Jane's
Series
Stitch 'n Bitch (1)
Call number
746.43/2 21

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

No god but God: The origins, evolution, and future of Islam

by Reza Aslan
Paperback, 2011
Tags
history, religion, history of religion, islam, tpb
Call number
297

Proving Ground: The untold story of the six women who programmed the world's first modern computer

by Kathy Kleiman
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
history, history of technology, history of computing, women's history, eniac, hb, history of women in tech
Call number
004.092/2

Empires of the Word: A language history of the world

by Nicholas Ostler
Paperback, 2006
Tags
nonfiction, language, linguistics, history, world history, history of language, tpb
Call number
409

The Book on the Bookshelf

by Henry Petroski
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
nonfiction, history, books, book about books, hb
Call number
022.409 21

The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

by Jared Diamond
Paperback, 1992
Tags
nonfiction, anthropology, biology, tpb
Call number
573.2 20

The Devil's Highway

by Luis Alberto Urrea
Paperback, 2005
Tags
arizona, southwest, mexico, border region, immigration, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
304.873072

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

Annals of the Former World

by John McPhee
Paperback, 1998
Tags
nonfiction, geology, north america, omnibus, pulitzer, pulitzer prize, tpb
Series
Annals of the Former World (5-volume set)
Call number
557.3 21

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

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

Napoleon's Buttons: 17 molecules that changed history

by Penny Le Couteur
Paperback, 2004
Tags
chemistry, molecules, tpb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
540

The Weather Machine: A journey inside the forecast

by Andrew Blum
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
meteorology, history, weather, hb
Call number
551.63

Semicolon: The past, present, and future of a misunderstood mark

by Cecelia Watson
Paper Book, 2019
Tags
language, english language, punctuation, grammar, semicolon, tpb, santathing
Collection
Recently Read
Call number
428.2/3

Rain: A natural and cultural history

by Cynthia Barnett
Paperback, 2014
Tags
early reviewer, weather, rain, arc, needs review, tpb
Call number
551.577

Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City

by Russell Shorto
Paperback, 2014
Tags
history, netherlands, amsterdam, tpb
Call number
949.2

Moby Dyke: An obsessive quest to track down the last remaining lesbian bars in America

by Krista Burton
Paper Book, 2023
Tags
jane's, lgbtq
Call number
306.76/630973[B]

Word freak : heartbreak, triumph, genius, and obsession in the world of competitive scrabble players

by Stefan Fatsis
Paperback, 2001
Tags
tpb, scrabble, harmless obsessions, ftpml
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
793.73

The Cooking Gene: A journey through African-American culinary history in the Old South

by Michael Twitty
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
african american history, cooking, african american, hb
Call number
641.59296073

The Wild Trees: A story of passion and daring

by Richard Preston
Paperback, 2008
Tags
nonfiction, trees, tpb, coverguess unavailable
Call number
585.509794

Long Walk to Freedom: The autobiography of Nelson Mandela

by Nelson Mandela
Paperback, 1995
Tags
autobiography, south africa, africa, nelson mandela, tpb
Call number
968.06/4/092

The Beak of the Finch: A story of evolution in our time

by Jonathan Weiner
Paperback, 1994
Tags
nonfiction, biology, evolution, birds, galapagos, darwin's finches, pulitzer prize, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
598.8830438

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

Lingo: Around Europe in sixty languages

by Gaston Dorren
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
linguistics, languages, european languages, hb
Call number
410

Let me be Frank: A book about women who dressed like men to do shit they weren't supposed to do

by Tracy Dawson
Paperback, 2022
Tags
nonfiction, history, women's history, gender, hb
Collection
Recently Read
Call number
306.77/8

Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew

by Michael W. Twitty
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
memoir, african american, judaism, food, culture, hb
Call number
641.5676

Europe: A History

by Norman Davies
Hardcover, 1996
Tags
nonfiction, history, europe, hb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
940 20

A Man on the Moon: The voyages of the Apollo astronauts

by Andrew Chaikin
Paperback, 1995
Tags
nonfiction, jane's, space, space program, space exploration, history, moon, apollo, tpb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
629.45/4/0973

Coyote America: A natural and supernatural history

by Dan Flores
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
natural history, micro natural history, coyotes, hb
Call number
599.77/25

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the meanings of life

by Daniel C. Dennett
Paperback, 1995
Tags
nonfiction, unread, evolution, philosophy, tpb
Call number
146.7

A Queer History of the United States

by Michael Bronski
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
lgbtq, history, us history, nonfiction, hb
Call number
306.76/60973

On Savage Shores: How indigenous Americans discovered Europe

by Caroline Dodds Pennock
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
history, world history, native american history, european history, hb, unread
Collection
Recently Read
Call number
970.004/97

The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the world of Chinese food

by Jennifer 8 Lee
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
nonfiction, history, food, food history, chinese food, hb
Call number
641.5951

A More Perfect Heaven: How Nicolaus Copernicus revolutionized the cosmos

by Dava Sobel
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
early reviewer, history, history of science, hb
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
520.92

Cadillac Desert: The American West and its disappearing water

by Marc Reisner
Paperback, 1993
Tags
nonfiction, ecology, water, water politics, desertification, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
333.91/00978

The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the evolution of human intelligence

by Carl Sagan
Hardcover, 1977
Tags
nonfiction, jane's, unread, hb, coverguess mismatch
Collection
Jane's
Call number
153

The Island of the Colorblind

by Oliver Sacks
Hardcover, 1997
Tags
nonfiction, neurology, anthropology, hb
Call number
617.759/09966 20

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

by Issa Rae
Paperback, 2016
Tags
humor, essays, memoir, tpb
Call number
305.48

Arctic Dreams: Imagination and desire in a northern landscape

by Barry Lopez
Paperback, 1996
Tags
nonfiction, arctic, polar regions, history, ecology, natural history, tpb
Call number
508.98

The Creators

by Daniel J. Boorstin
Hardcover, 1992
Tags
nonfiction, history, hb, culled, coverguess mismatch
Series
Boorstin's Histories (2)
Call number
909 20

Last Child in the Woods: Saving our children from nature-deficit disorder

by Richard Louv
Paperback, 2008
Tags
nonfiction, nature, parenting, sociology, tpb
Call number
155.418

Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a chemical boyhood

by Oliver W. Sacks
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
memoir, chemistry, hb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
540.92
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