Genre search:General Nonfiction

And soon I Heard a Roaring Wind: A natural history of moving air

by Bill Streever
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
unread, wind, air, weather, hb
Call number
551.518

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The women who propelled us, from missiles to the moon to Mars

by Nathalia Holt
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
history, space program, history of technology, women's history, hb, history of women in tech
Call number
629.4072

Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a chemical boyhood

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

Spirals in Time: The secret life and curious afterlife of seashells

by Helen Scales
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
seashells, mollusks, natural history, micro natural history, biology, hb
Call number
594.1/477

Damp Squid: The English language laid bare

by Jeremy Butterfield
Paperback, 2009
Tags
language, english language, english usage, tpb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
412

The Triumph of Seeds: How grains, nuts, kernels, pulses, & pips, conquered the plant kingdom and shaped human history

by Thor Hanson
Paperback, 2016
Tags
biology, botany, natural history, seeds, tpb
Call number
581.4/67

Crimes against Logic: Exposing the bogus arguments of politicians, priests, journalists, and other serial offenders

by Jamie Whyte
Paperback, 2005
Tags
logic, logical fallacies, tpb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
160

The Taliban Shuffle: Strange days in Afghanistan and Pakistan

by Kim Barker
Paperback, 2012
Tags
memoir, journalism, afghanistan, pakistan, taliban, tpb
Call number
958.1047

Ten Million Aliens: A journey through the entire animal kingdom

by Simon Barnes
Paperback, 2015
Tags
biology, animals, taxonomy, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
590

Vegetarian India: A journey through the best of Indian home cooking

by Madhur Jaffrey
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
cookbook, vegetarian cookbook, indian cookbook, hb
Call number
641.5954

Afro-vegan: Farm-fresh African, Caribbean & Southern flavors remixed

by Bryant Terry
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
cookbook, vegetarian cookbook, african cookbook, african american cookbook, hb
Call number
641.59/296073

Lingo: Around Europe in sixty languages

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

Dinosaurs without Bones: Dinosaur lives revealed by their trace fossils

by Anthony J. Martin
Paperback, 2015
Tags
paleontology, dinosaurs, trace fossils, tpb
Call number
567.9

H is for Hawk

by Helen Macdonald
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
memoir, falconry, grief, hb
Call number
598.944

Just Mercy: A story of justice and redemption

by Bryan Stevenson
Paperback, 2015
Tags
criminal justice, nonfiction, tpb
Call number
353.4

Visual Explanations: Images and quantities, evidence and narrative

by Edward R. Tufte
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
nonfiction, data presentation, data visualization, jane's, hb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
302.23

SPQR: A history of ancient Rome

by Mary Beard
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
history, ancient history, ancient rome, hb
Call number
937

The Infinite Book: A short guide to the boundless, timeless, and endless

by John D. Barrow
Paperback, 2006
Tags
infinity, philosophy, cosmology, math, tpb
Call number
111.6

Loot: The battle over the stolen treasures of the ancient world

by Sharon Waxman
Paperback, 2009
Tags
art history, museums, antiquities, archaeology, repatriation, tpb
Call number
709.01

The Story of French

by Jean-Benoît Nadeau
Paperback, 2006
Tags
language, history, french language, history of french, tpb
Call number
440.9

In Search of Zarathustra: Across Iran and Central Asia to find the world's first prophet

by Paul Kriwaczek
Paperback, 2004
Tags
religion, travel, history, zoroastrianism, zoroastrians, tpb
Call number
295

How to Read a North Carolina Beach: Bubble holes, barking sands, and rippled runnels

by Orrin H. Pilkey
Paperback, 2004
Tags
natural history, north carolina, beaches, jane's, tpb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
551.45/7/09756

Midnight in Siberia: A train journey into the heart of Russia

by David Greene
Paperback, 2015
Tags
travel, memoir, russia, post-soviet russia, siberia, trans-siberian railroad, tpb
Call number
914.704

The Half-Life of Facts: Why everything we know has an expiration date

by Samuel Arbesman
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
theory of science, information, hb
Call number
501

The Sound Book: The science of the sonic wonders of the world

by Trevor Cox
Paperback, 2015
Tags
science, sound, acoustics, tpb
Call number
534 C8787s

The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

by Bill Bryson
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
travel, uk, britain, humor, hb
Series
Bill Bryson's Complete Notes (3)
Call number
914.104/8612

How We Got to Now: Six innovations that made the modern world

by Steven Johnson
Paperback, 2015
Tags
nonfiction, history, history of technology, tpb
Call number
338.064

Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
memoir, hb, african american
Call number
305.800973

The Mercury 13: The untold story of thirteen American women and the dream of space flight

by Martha Ackmann
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
space travel, history of technology, space program, women's history, mercury 13, history of women in tech
Call number
629.45/0082/0973

Italian Vegetarian Cooking

by Paola Gavin
Paperback, 1994
Tags
cookbook, vegetarian cookbook, italian cookbook, tpb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
641.5/636/0945

The Underground Girls of Kabul: In search of a hidden resistance in Afghanistan

by Jenny Nordberg
Paperback, 2015
Tags
sociology, gender, afghanistan, bacha posh, cross-dressing, tpb
Call number
305.309581

The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the myth of the Scandinavian utopia

by Michael Booth
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
travel, history, scandinavia, norway, sweden, denmark, finland, iceland, hb
Call number
948.071

A Field Guide to Awkward Silences

by Alexandra Petri
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
humor, collection, essays, hb
Call number
070.92B

The Secret Life of Pronouns: What our words say about us

by James W. Pennebaker
Paperback, 2011
Tags
language, linguistics, english language, psychology, pronouns, tpb
Call number
425.55

Colliding Continents: A geological exploration of the Himalaya, Karakoram, & Tibet

by Mike Searle
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
geology, orogeny, himalayas, hb
Call number
555.496

Starter Vegetable Gardens: 24 no-fail plans for small organic gardens

by Barbara Pleasant
Paperback, 2010
Tags
jane's, gardening, vegetable gardening, tpb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
635

Keeping heart on Pine Ridge: Family ties, warrior culture, commodity foods, rez dogs, and the sacred

by Victor Glover
Paperback, 2004
Tags
unread, jane's, native american, ogalala, lakota, sioux, pine ridge, tpb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
978.3004/9752

The Wounded Knee Massacre: From the viewpoint of the Sioux

by James H. McGregor
Paperback, 2007
Tags
unread, tpb, jane's, oral history, american history, native american, lakota, sioux, coverguess unavailable
Collection
Jane's
Call number
973.8

The Reef: A passionate history: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to climate change

by Iain McCalman
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
unread, coral reefs, great barrier reef, hb
Call number
994.3

Persian Fire: The first world empire and the battle for the West

by Tom Holland
Paperback, 2006
Tags
nonfiction, history, ancient history, ancient greece, persia, tpb
Call number
935.05

The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the origins of music in the world's wild places

by Bernard L. Krause
Paperback, 2013
Tags
biology, zoology, sound, tpb
Call number
780

The New Wild: Why invasive species will be nature's salvation

by Fred Pearce
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
early reviewer, ecology, invasive species, needs review, hb
Call number
578.6/2

Rust: The longest war

by Jonathan Waldman
Paperback, 2015
Tags
microhistory, engineering, chemistry, rust, corrosion, tpb
Call number
620.11223

Rez Life: An Indian's journey through reservation life

by David Treuer
Paperback, 2012
Tags
american history, native american, ojibwe, tpb
Call number
323.1197

The New Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness

by Michelle Alexander
Paperback, 2011
Tags
criminal justice, sociology, racism, african american, prisons, incarceration, tpb
Call number
364.973

The radical King

by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
early reviewer, collection, speeches, essays, excerpts, american history, martin luther king jr, hb, needs review
Call number
323.092

The Filter Bubble: What the internet is hiding from you

by Eli Pariser
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
nonfiction, personalization, echo chambers, hb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
004.67/8

Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to email, the tangled story of English spelling

by David Wolman
Paperback, 2010
Tags
english language, spelling, orthography, tpb
Call number
421.52

The Elgin Affair: The abduction of antiquity's greatest treasures and the passions it aroused

by Theodore Vrettos
Hardcover, 1997
Tags
history, archaeology, sculpture, antiquities, elgin marbles, hb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
733.309385

Rain: A natural and cultural history

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