Genre search:General Nonfiction

How to be a Bad Birdwatcher

by Simon Barnes
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
nonfiction, birds, birding, collection, essays, hb
Call number
598.07234

Lingo: Around Europe in sixty languages

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

Prairie Spring

by Pete Dunne
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
nature, prairie, hb
Call number
508.3153097

Born to kvetch: Yiddish language and culture in all its moods

by Michael Wex
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
language, yiddish, hb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
439.109

Mammoth: The resurrection of an Ice Age giant

by Richard Stone
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
nonfiction, paleontology, mammoths, hb
Call number
569.67

Marking Time: The epic quest to invent the perfect calendar

by Duncan Steel
Hardcover, 2000
Tags
nonfiction, history, calendars, hb
Call number
529.3

Fifty Places to go Birding Before you die: Birding experts share the world's greatest destinations

by Chris Santella
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
unread, birding, birds, bird finding, reference, hb
Series
Fifty Places
Call number
598.07234

Waiting for Coyote's Call: An eco-memoir from the Missouri River bluff

by Jerry Wilson
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
nonfiction, memoir, ecology, nature, prairie, south dakota, hb
Call number
978.3/3

Reading the Rocks: The autobiography of the earth

by Marcia Bjornerud
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
nonfiction, geology, hb
Call number
551.7

Traffic: Why we drive the way we do (and what it says about us)

by Tom Vanderbilt
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
hb, sociology, traffic
Call number
629.28/3

The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing animals, timeless world

by Diane Ackerman
Hardcover, 1995
Tags
nonfiction, ecology, biology, natural history, animals, butterflies, seals, tamarins, endangered species, hb
Call number
574.529

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

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

H is for Hawk

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

What if?: Serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions

by Randall Munroe
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
xkcd, humor, science, hb
Series
What if? (1)
Call number
500

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 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

Between the World and Me

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

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 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

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

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

Gay is Good: The life and letters of gay rights pioneer Franklin Kameny

by Frank Kameny
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
unread, lgbtq, history, letters, frank kameny, hb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
323.3/264

Lost States: True stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania, and other states that never made it

by Michael J. Trinklein
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
coffee table, geography, us history, us states, trivia, hb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
911.73

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

Nature's Second Chance: Restoring the ecology of Stone Prairie Farm

by Steven I. Apfelbaum
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
nonfiction, memoir, ecology, prairie, rewilding, hb, signed copy
Call number
639.9

The Island of the Colorblind

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

There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos

by Jim Hightower
Hardcover, 1997
Tags
nonfiction, politics, hb
Call number
973.929 21

The Settlement of the Americas: A New Prehistory

by Tom D. Dillehay
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
history, archaeology, native american history, ftppl, couldn't finish, nonfiction, hb, culled
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
970.01/1 21

The Silent Landscape: The scientific voyage of HMS Challenger

by R. M. Corfield
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
nonfiction, ftppl, oceanography, history, hb
Call number
508.3 C797

Artificial Minds

by Stan Franklin
Hardcover, 1997
Tags
nonfiction, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, hb, culled
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
006.3 20

Beyond the Shadow of the Senators: The untold story of the Homestead Grays and the integration of baseball

by Brad Snyder
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
nonfiction, baseball, history, negro leagues, ftppl, hb
Call number
796.357/64/09753 21

A Natural History of the Senses

by Diane Ackerman
Hardcover, 1990
Tags
nonfiction, biology, senses, jane's, hb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
152.1 20

Parts Unknown: A naturalist's journey in search of birds and wild places

by Tim Gallagher
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
nonfiction, birds, endangered species, travel, ftppl, hb
Call number
598.07234

Living on the Wind: Across the hemisphere with migratory birds

by Scott Weidensaul
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
nonfiction, birds, ecology, ftppl, hb
Call number
598.1568 21

Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language

by Steven Pinker
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
nonfiction, linguistics, language, hb
Call number
415 21

Partial Differential Equations : An Introduction

by Walter A. Strauss
Hardcover, 1992
Tags
math, differential equations, partial differential equations, textbook, hb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
515.353 20

The Condor's Shadow: The loss and recovery of wildlife in America

by David Samuel Wilcove
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
ecology, nonfiction, extinction, ftppl, hb
Call number
333.95/42/0973 21

Iron Chef: The official book

by Kaoru Hoketsu
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
nonfiction, food, humor, translated, hb
Call number
791.45/72 21

What's the Matter with Kansas?: How conservatives won the heart of America

by Thomas Frank
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
nonfiction, politics, hb
Call number
978.1/033 22

Sailing Alone Around the World

by Joshua Slocum
Hardcover, 1983
Tags
nonfiction, sailing, memoir, jane's, hb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
910.41

Seaworthy

by Robert J. Adriance
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
sailing, nonfiction, jane's, hb
Collections
Reviewed, Jane's, Previously Owned
Call number
623.88

A Short History of Nearly Everything

by Bill Bryson
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
nonfiction, biography, history of science, ftppl, hb
Call number
500 21

Linear Algebra and its Applications

by Gilbert Strang
Hardcover, 1988
Tags
math, linear algebra, textbook, hb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
512.5 19

Rare and Elusive Birds of North America

by William H. Burt
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
nonfiction, birding, birds, rails, sparrows, photography, hb
Call number
779/.328/097 21

The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior

by David Allen Sibley
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
nonfiction, birding, birds, bird behavior, reference, hb
Call number
598.097
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