Genre search:General Nonfiction

Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds

by Charles Mackay
Paperback, 1995
Tags
nonfiction, history, sociology, stupidity, financial bubbles, tpb
Collection
Previously Owned
Series
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (omnibus)
Call number
001.9

Genius

by James Gleick
Paperback, 1992
Tags
nonfiction, biography, feynman, tpb
Call number
530.092 B 20

Climbing Mount Improbable

by Richard Dawkins
Hardcover, 1996
Tags
nonfiction, biology, evolution, hb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
575.0162 20

What Do YOU Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character

by Richard P. Feynman
Paperback, 1989
Tags
nonfiction, memoir, feynman, tpb
Series
Feynman Memoirs
Call number
530.092 B 20

Why people believe weird things: Pseudoscience, superstition, and other confusions of our time

by Michael Shermer
Hardcover, 1997
Tags
nonfiction, rationality, pseudoscience, superstition, hb, coverguess unavailable
Call number
133

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the nature of history

by Stephen Jay Gould
Paperback, 1990
Tags
nonfiction, paleontology, evolution, biology, burgess shale, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
560.9 19

Nathaniel's Nutmeg, or, The true and incredible adventures of the spice trader who changed the course of history

by Giles Milton
Paperback, 2000
Tags
history, indonesia, nutmeg, spices, spice trade, tpb
Call number
338.17383

Outwitting History: The amazing adventures of a man who rescued a million Yiddish books

by Aaron Lansky
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
nonfiction, books, book about books, memoir, yiddish, hb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
002.075

Winter World: The ingenuity of animal survival

by Bernd Heinrich
Paperback, 2004
Tags
nonfiction, natural history, animal behavior, biology, tpb
Call number
591.43

The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008

by Paul Krugman
Paperback, 2009
Tags
nonfiction, economics, tpb
Call number
330.9

The Believing Brain: From ghosts and gods to politics and conspiracies--how we construct beliefs and reinforce them as truths

by Michael Shermer
Paperback, 2011
Tags
nonfiction, arc, early reviewer, psychology, belief, skepticism, tpb
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
153.4

The Food of a Younger Land: A portrait of American food -- before the national highway system, before chain restaurants, and before frozen food, when the nation's food was seasonal, regional, and traditional -- from the lost WPA files

by Mark Kurlansky
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
nonfiction, history, food, food history, hb
Series
The Food of a Younger Land
Call number
394.120973

Buzz : the nature and necessity of bees

by Thor Hanson
Ebook, 2018
Tags
ebook, unread, natural history, insects, bees
Collection
E-books
Call number
595.79/9

Bill Bryson's African diary

by Bill Bryson
Hardcover, 2002
Tags
africa, kenya, travel, memoir, ftpml, hb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
916.76204/43

In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum physics and reality

by John R. Gribbin
Paperback, 1984
Tags
nonfiction, physics, quantum, tpb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
530.1/2/09 19

Byzantium: The surprising life of a medieval empire

by Judith Herrin
Paperback, 2009
Tags
nonfiction, history, medieval history, byzantium, istanbul was constantinople, tpb
Call number
949.502

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science

by Richard Holmes
Paperback, 2010
Tags
history, history of science, biography, tpb
Call number
509.4109033

Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in natural history

by Stephen Jay Gould
Paperback, 1995
Tags
nonfiction, biology, essays, tpb, natural history
Series
Reflections in Natural History (7)
Call number
575 20

Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language

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

Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The discovery that revolutionizes home baking

by Jeff Hertzberg
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
cookbook, baking, bread, hb
Collections
Reviewed, Jane's
Call number
641.8/15

A Splendid Exchange: How trade shaped the world

by William J. Bernstein
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
nonfiction, history, economics, trade, globalization, hb
Call number
382.09

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

The World of Downton Abbey

by Jessica Fellowes
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
tv, downton abbey, historical fiction, hb
Series
Downton Abbey (Companion Book 1), Downton Abbey (books) (World of Downton Abbey)
Call number
791.457 F 2011

Is That a Fish in your Ear? : The amazing adventure of translation

by David Bellos
Paperback, 2012
Tags
translation, linguistics, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
418.02

The Red Queen: Sex and the evolution of human nature

by Matt Ridley
Paperback, 1995
Tags
nonfiction, biology, evolution, tpb
Call number
599.93/8 21

More Book Lust: Recommended reading for every mood, moment, and reason

by Nancy Pearl
Paperback, 2005
Tags
reference, books, book about books, reading suggestions, tpb
Series
Book Lust (2)
Call number
011.73

Brainiac: Adventures in the curious, competitive, compulsive world of trivia buffs

by Ken Jennings
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
trivia, jeopardy, harmless obsessions, hb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
793

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 unfolding of language: An evolutionary tour of mankind's greatest invention

by Guy Deutscher
Paperback, 2006
Tags
linguistics, language, history of language, language change, santathing, nonfiction, tpb
Call number
401

Uncommon Carriers

by John McPhee
Paperback, 2007
Tags
transportation, shipping, collection, essays, tpb
Call number
388.044

We Survived the End of the World: Lessons from Native America on Apocalypse and Hope

by Steven Charleston
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
history, philosophy, spirituality, native american, early reviewer, hb, coverguess unavailable
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
191.089

The Radioactive Boy Scout: The true story of a boy and his backyard nuclear reactor

by Ken Silverstein
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
nonfiction, biography, engineering, nuclear energy, hb
Call number
621.483092 21

Reading the OED: One man, one year, 21,730 pages

by Ammon Shea
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
hb, nonfiction, dictionary, book about books, harmless obsessions, my year of doing something weird
Call number
423.028

The Cloudspotter's Guide: The science, history, and culture of clouds

by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Paperback, 2006
Tags
meteorology, clouds, tpb
Call number
551.576

A Sand County Almanac: With essays on conservation

by Aldo Leopold
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
nonfiction, ecology, nature, coffee table, hb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
508.73 21

Desert Queen: The extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell: adventurer, adviser to kings, ally of Lawrence of Arabia

by Janet Wallach
Paperback, 2005
Tags
nonfiction, biography, gertrude bell, iraq, saudi arabia, middle east, tpb, ftpml
Call number
956/.02/092B

The Power of Babel: A natural history of language

by John H. McWhorter
Paperback, 2001
Tags
nonfiction, linguistics, language, language change, tpb
Call number
417.7

Tender at the Bone: Growing up at the table

by Ruth Reichl
Paperback, 1999
Tags
nonfiction, memoir, food, tpb
Series
Ruth Reichl at the Table (1)
Call number
641.5092

Faster: The acceleration of just about everything

by James Gleick
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
nonfiction, time, hb
Call number
529.7 21

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

The Victorian Internet

by Tom Standage
Paperback, 1998
Tags
nonfiction, history, technology, telegraph, tpb, coverguess unavailable
Call number
384.109 21

Gathering Moss: A natural and cultural history of mosses

by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Paperback, 2003
Tags
botany, mosses, natural history, essays, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
588.2

The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning computers, minds, and the laws of physics

by Roger Penrose
Paperback, 1991
Tags
nonfiction, cognitive science, not recommended, tpb
Collections
Reviewed, Previously Owned
Call number
006.3 20

Don't Sleep, there are Snakes: Life and language in the Amazonian jungle

by Daniel Leonard Everett
Paperback, 2009
Tags
unread, language, piraha, anthropology, tpb
Call number
305.898/9

The Agile Gene: How nature turns on nurture

by Matt Ridley
Paperback, 2004
Tags
nonfiction, biology, genetics, ftpml, tpb
Call number
155.7

Washington's Gay General: The Legends and Loves of Baron von Steuben

by Josh Trujillo
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
history, biography, american history, american revolution, graphic novel, lgbtq, von steuben, coverguess unavailable
Call number
973.3092

The Sibley Guide to Birds

by David Allen Sibley
Paperback, 2000
Tags
nonfiction, birding, birds, bird identification, field guide
Call number
598.097

Linked: How everything is connected to everything else and what it means for business, science, and everyday life

by Albert-László Barabási
Paperback, 2003
Tags
unread, nonfiction, complexity, networks, tpb
Call number
003

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
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