Genre search:General Nonfiction

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

The Story of Libraries: From the invention of writing to the computer age

by Frederick Andrew Lerner
Paperback, 2009
Tags
nonfiction, history, libraries, tpb
Call number
027.009

Locust: The devastating rise and mysterious disappearance of the insect that shaped the American frontier

by Jeffrey Alan Lockwood
Paperback, 2004
Tags
nonfiction, natural history, locusts, grasshoppers, agriculture, american history, tpb
Call number
632.726

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

Madagascar - The Eighth Continent: Life, death, and discovery in a lost world

by Peter Tyson
Paperback, 2013
Tags
madagascar, travel, natural history, tpb
Call number
916.910456

Cahokia: Ancient America's great city on the Mississippi

by Timothy R. Pauketat
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
history, archaeology, cahokia, native american history, mississippian culture, hb
Series
Penguin Library of American Indian History
Call number
977.3/86

Parenting Beyond Pink & Blue: How to raise your kids free of gender stereotypes

by Christia Spears Brown
Paperback, 2014
Tags
borrowed from library, parenting, gender, tpb
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
649.1

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

Finding Zero: A mathematician's odyssey to uncover the origins of numbers

by Amir D. Aczel
Paperback, 2015
Tags
numbers, history of numbers, history of mathematics, zero, memoir, early reviewer, arc, tpb
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
513.5

Chance: A guide to gambling, love, the stock market & just about everything else

by Amir D. Aczel
Paperback, 2004
Tags
math, probability, randomness, tpb, culled
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
519.2

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

by Jack Weatherford
Paperback, 2004
Tags
history, nonfiction, mongolia, genghis khan, tpb
Call number
950.21092B

Down to the Last Pitch: How the 1991 Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves gave us the Best World Series of all time

by Tim Wendel
Paperback, 2014
Tags
baseball, minnesota twins, atlanta braves, 1991 world series, signed copy, tpb
Call number
796.357

Devil in the Mountain: A search for the origin of the Andes

by Simon Lamb
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
geology, orogeny, andes, hb
Call number
558

1177 BC: The year civilization collapsed

by Eric H. Cline
Paperback, 2015
Tags
history, bronze age, ancient history, archaeology, tpb
Call number
930.1/56

The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the hunt for the Higgs Boson leads us to the edge of a new world

by Sean M. Carroll
Paperback, 2013
Tags
physics, particle physics, higgs boson, tpb
Call number
539.721

The Girls of Atomic City: The untold story of the women who helped win World War II

by Denise Kiernan
Paperback, 2014
Tags
history, american history, wwii, manhattan project, women's history, oral history, tpb
Call number
976.873

The Demon under the Microscope: From battlefield hospitals to Nazi labs, one doctor's heroic search for the world's first miracle drug

by Thomas Hager
Paperback, 2006
Tags
medicine, history, history of medicine, pharmaceuticals, tpb, coverguess unavailable
Call number
615.2723

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

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

The Beautiful Struggle

by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Paperback, 2008
Tags
memoir, baltimore, african american, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
975.2/6004960730092B

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the prison of belief

by Lawrence Wright
Paperback, 2013
Tags
religion, scientology, history, tpb, jane's
Collection
Jane's
Call number
299.936

Hair Story: Untangling the roots of Black hair in America

by Ayana D. Byrd
Paperback, 2001
Tags
history, african american, hair, tpb
Call number
306.4

Sahara: A natural history

by Marq De Villiers
Hardcover, 2002
Tags
unread, sahara, desert, hb
Call number
508.66

Naming Nature: The clash between instinct and science

by Carol Kaesuk Yoon
Paperback, 2009
Tags
biology, taxonomy, history of science, tpb
Call number
570.14

The Happy Atheist

by P. Z. Myers
Paperback, 2014
Tags
essays, religion, atheism, tpb
Call number
211.8

The Last Lingua Franca: English until the return of Babel

by Nicholas Ostler
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
linguistics, english language, linguas franca, hb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
420.9

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

Gulp: Adventures on the alimentary canal

by Mary Roach
Paperback, 2013
Tags
biology, anatomy, digestive system, tpb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
612.3

Surviving Paradise: One year on a disappearing island

by Peter Rudiak-Gould
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
hb, memoir, micronesia, marshall islands
Call number
996.83

Descartes' Bones: A skeletal history of the conflict between faith and reason

by Russell Shorto
Paperback, 2009
Tags
tpb, nonfiction, philosophy, descartes, enlightenment
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
194

The Sixth Extinction: An unnatural history

by Elizabeth Kolbert
Paperback, 2014
Tags
early reviewer, ecology, extinction, mass extinction, arc, pulitzer, pulitzer prize
Call number
576.84

One Summer: America, 1927

by Bill Bryson
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
history, us history, twentieth century, hb
Call number
973.91

Eat your Vegetables: Bold recipes for the single cook

by Joe Yonan
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
cookbook, vegetarian cookbook, vegetables, hb, signed copy
Call number
641.6/5

Bountiful: Vegetable and fruit recipes inspired by our garden

by Todd Porter
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
cookbook, vegetables, hb
Call number
641.6/5

Escape from Camp 14: One man's remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the West

by Blaine Harden
Paperback, 2013
Tags
nonfiction, north korea, memoir, tpb
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
365.45092 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

Mastering the Art of French Cooking (2 Volume Set)

by Julia Child
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
cookbook, french cookbook, boxed set, hb, coverguess mismatch
Collection
Jane's
Series
Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Set 1-2)
Call number
641

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

Below stairs : the classic kitchen maid's memoir that inspired Upstairs, downstairs and Downton Abbey

by Margaret Powell
Paper Book, 2012
Tags
memoir, downton abbey, england, domestic service, culled
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
641.5092B

Between parent and child : the bestselling classic that revolutionized parent-child communication

by Haim G. Ginott
Paperback, 2003
Tags
parenting, communication, tpb
Call number
649.1

Flotsametrics and the Floating World: How one man's obsession with runaway sneakers and rubber ducks revolutionized ocean science

by Curtis C. Ebbesmeyer
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
memoir, oceanography, ocean currents, hb
Call number
551.46/2

I don't know: In praise of admitting ignorance and doubt (except when you shouldn't)

by Leah Hager Cohen
Paperback, 2013
Tags
early reviewer, psychology, doubt, uncorrected proof
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
177.3

Masters of the Planet: The search for our human origins

by Ian Tattersall
Paperback, 2013
Tags
nonfiction, anthropology, paleontology, human origins, early reviewer, tpb, needs review
Call number
599.938

The Devil's Highway

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

The Mind at Night: The new science of how and why we dream

by Andrea Rock
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
nonfiction, sleep, dreams, hb
Call number
154.63

Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving

by Judi Kingry
Paperback, 2006
Tags
cookbook, reference, canning, preserving, tpb
Call number
641

The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The quest to crack an ancient code

by Margalit Fox
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
language, decipherment, linear b, hb
Call number
487.1

The Naming of Names: The search for order in the world of plants

by Anna Pavord
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
unread, nonfiction, botany, taxonomy, hb
Call number
580.14

The Ig Nobel Prizes 2: An all-new collection of the world's unlikeliest research

by Marc Abrahams
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
science, humor, collection, hb
Collection
Previously Owned
Series
The Ig Nobel Prizes (2)
Call number
502.07

Mycophilia: Revelations from the weird world of mushrooms

by Eugenia Bone
Paperback, 2011
Tags
nonfiction, botany, fungi, mushrooms, tpb
Call number
579.60973

Straight: The surprisingly short history of heterosexuality

by Hanne Blank
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
gender, lgbtq, history, hb
Call number
306.76/409
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