Genre search:General Nonfiction

National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southwestern States

by Peter Alden
Paperback, 1999
Tags
nonfiction, field guide, birds, mammals, plants, reptiles, amphibians, southwest, arizona, new mexico, nevada — 2 more, utah, national wildlife refuges
Series
Audubon Society Field Guide
Call number
508.79 21

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

Tomboy: The surprising history and future of girls who dare to be different

by Lisa Selin Davis
Paperback, 2020
Tags
gender, tpb, unread
Call number
305

A Black Women's History of the United States

by Daina Ramey Berry
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
history, american history, african american history, women's history, hb, unread
Call number
305.48/896073

Rust: The longest war

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

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

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

Rain: A natural and cultural history

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Re-origin of Species: A second chance for extinct animals

by Torill Kornfeldt
Paperback, 2018
Tags
biology, genetics, de-extinction, extinction, extinct species, mammoths, passenger pigeons, arc, early reviewer, reviewed
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
591.68

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

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

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

Gender Outlaws: The next generation

by Kate Bornstein
Paperback, 2010
Tags
gender, lgbtq, transgender, tpb
Call number
306.76/8

The Genius of Birds

by Jennifer Ackerman
Paperback, 2016
Tags
biology, animal intelligence, birds, bird behavior, tpb
Call number
598

The Oregon Trail: A new American journey

by Rinker Buck
Paperback, 2016
Tags
travel, american history, oregon trail, tpb
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
978

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

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

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

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

Language visible: Unraveling the mystery of the alphabet from A to Z

by David Sacks
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
language, alphabet, hb
Call number
411

Sparrows of the United States and Canada: The photographic guide

by David Beadle
Paperback, 2003
Tags
field guide, birds, bird identification, sparrows, tpb
Call number
598.8/83097

Early Spring: An ecologist and her children wake to a warming world

by Amy Seidl
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
nonfiction, ecology, early reviewer, hb
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
363.73874

Climbing Mount Improbable

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

Cosmos

by Carl Sagan
Hardcover, 1980
Tags
nonfiction, astronomy, popular-level, hb
Call number
520

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are

by Carl Sagan
Hardcover, 1992
Tags
nonfiction, anthropology, evolution, hb
Collections
Jane's, Previously Owned
Call number
304.5 20

The Blind Watchmaker

by Richard Dawkins
Hardcover, 1986
Tags
nonfiction, biology, evolution, hb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
576.82

Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard MIR

by Bryan Burrough
Hardcover, 1998
Tags
nonfiction, space, ftppl, mir, hb
Call number
363.12492 21

Full Moon

by Michael Light
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
nonfiction, space, photography, moon, coffee table, ftppl, hb
Call number
629.45/4/0973022 21

Betty Crocker's Cookbook : Everything You Need to Know to Cook Today

by Betty Crocker
Hardcover, 2000
Tags
cookbook, basic cookbook, hb
Call number
641.5

Faster: The acceleration of just about everything

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

America (the book) : a citizen's guide to democracy inaction

by Jon Stewart
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
humor, satire, history, us history, american history, politics, hb
Call number
818.5407

A Supremely Bad Idea: Three mad birders and their quest to see it all

by Luke Dempsey
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
nonfiction, birding, birds, hb
Call number
598.072/3473

Beyond the Horizon: The first human-powered expedition to circle the globe

by Colin Angus
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
nonfiction, travel, adventure, early reviewer, hb
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
910.410922

The Archimedes Codex: How a medieval prayer book is revealing the true genius of antiquity's greatest scientist

by Reviel Netz
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
history, ancient history, history of science, math, archimedes, archimedes palimpsest, nonfiction, hb
Call number
532.25

Women

by Annie Leibovitz Photographer
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
jane's, photography, coffee table, hb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
779/.24

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

More Tales of a Low-Rent Birder

by Pete Dunne
Hardcover, 1994
Tags
collection, nonfiction, essays, birding, birds, hb
Call number
598.072347

Chasing Kangaroos: A continent, a scientist, and a search for the world's most extraordinary creature

by Tim Flannery
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
nonfiction, australia, biology, kangaroos, hb
Call number
599.222 FLA

Circumference: Eratosthenes and the ancient quest to measure the globe

by Nicholas Nicastro
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
early reviewer, history of science, eratosthenes, geodesy, nonfiction, hb
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
526.1092

Shadowbirds: A quest for rails

by William H. Burt
Hardcover, 1994
Tags
hb, nonfiction, birds, birding, rails
Call number
598.31

The Book of Lost Books: An incomplete history of all the great books you will never read

by Stuart Kelly
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
nonfiction, books, book about books, history, hb
Call number
002.09
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