Genre search:General Nonfiction

White fragility : why it's so hard for White people to talk about racism

by Robin J. DiAngelo
Paperback, 2018
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non-fiction, self-help, social science
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Eats, shoots & leaves: the zero tolerance approach to punctuation

by Lynne Truss
Paperback, 2006
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non-fiction, writing and grammar, reference, humor
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The life-changing magic of tidying up : the Japanese art of decluttering and organizing

by Marie Kondō
Hardcover, 2014
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non-fiction, illustrated, reference, self-help
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Into the wild

by Jon Krakauer
Paperback, 1997
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non-fiction, travel, autobiography and biography
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Alexander Hamilton

by Ron Chernow
Paperback, 2005
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non-fiction, cultural history, american history, autobiography and biography
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The botany of desire : a plant's eye view of the world

by Michael Pollan
Paperback, 2001
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non-fiction, nature and environment, natural history, food and drink
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The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales

by Oliver W. Sacks
Paperback, 1985
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non-fiction, neuroscience and psychology, essays
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The Communist manifesto

by Karl Marx
Paperback, 1985
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non-fiction, philosophy and religion, german literature, cultural history
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Dewey : a small-town library cat who touched the world

by Vicki Myron
Hardcover, 2008
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non-fiction, autobiography and biography, books about books, cats
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The mother tongue : English & how it got that way

by Bill Bryson
Paperback, 1990
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non-fiction, american literature, writing and grammar, humor
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A history of the world in 100 objects

by Neil MacGregor
Hardcover, 2011
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non-fiction, world history, cultural history
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Spark joy : an illustrated master class on the art of organizing and tidying up

by Marie Kondo
Hardcover, 2016
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The prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli
Paperback, 1961
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italian literature, non-fiction, philosophy and religion, medieval literature, Penguin Classics
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The art of war

by Sun-tzu
Paperback, 1988
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chinese literature, non-fiction, philosophy and religion
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The spirit catches you and you fall down : a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collison of two cultures

by Anne Fadiman
Paperback, 2012
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american literature, non-fiction, sociology & anthropology, autobiography and biography
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Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world

by J. McIver Weatherford
Paperback, 2004
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non-fiction, cultural history, asian history, autobiography and biography
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Mere Christianity : a revised and amplified edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, Broadcast talks, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality

by C. S. Lewis
Paperback, 2001
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non-fiction, philosophy and religion, essays, english literature
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The histories

by Herodotus
Paperback, 1996
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non-fiction, greek literature, ancient history, ancient literature, Penguin Classics
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Republic

by Plato
Paperback, 1992
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non-fiction, philosophy and religion, greek literature, ancient literature
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The etymologicon : a circular stroll through the hidden connections of the English language

by Mark Forsyth
Paperback, 2012
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non-fiction, cultural history, writing and grammar
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The fatal shore

by Robert Hughes
Paperback, 1986
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novel, australian literature, fiction
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Relativity, the special and the general theory: a popular exposition by Albert Einstein

by Albert Einstein
Paperback, 1961
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non-fiction, physics, astronomy
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The library : an illustrated history

by Stuart Murray
Paperback, 2009
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non-fiction, cultural history, books about books
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The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois
Paperback, 1994
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essays, non-fiction, american literature, Harlem Renaissance, Dover Thrift
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Civilization and its discontents

by Sigmund Freud
Paperback, 2010
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non-fiction, german literature, neuroscience and psychology, political theory, philosophy and religion
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The Civil War : an illustrated history

by Geoffrey C. Ward
Paperback, 1990
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The Horologicon : a day's jaunt through the lost words of the English language

by Mark Forsyth
Paperback, 2013
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non-fiction, humor, reference, cultural history, language and linguistics
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Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World

by Amy Stanley
Hardcover, 2020
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non-fiction, cultural history, asian history
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Pushout : the criminalization of black girls in schools

by Monique Morris
Paperback, 2018
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non-fiction, cultural history, social science
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Discipline and punish : the birth of the prison

by Michel Foucault
Paperback, 1995
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non-fiction, philosophy and religion, postmodernism
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The social contract

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Paperback, 1988
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non-fiction, french literature, philosophy and religion, political theory
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The confessions of St. Augustine

by Saint Augustine
Paperback, 1960
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non-fiction, philosophy and religion, autobiography and biography
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Confessions

by Saint Augustine
Paperback, 1961
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The story of art

by E. H Gombrich
Hardcover, 2001
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non-fiction, art and aesthetics, cultural history, reference
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QED: the strange theory of light and matter

by Richard P. Feynman
Paperback, 1985
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non-fiction, physics
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Homage to Catalonia

by George Orwell
Paperback, 1980
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Hiroshima

by John Hersey
Paperback, 1989
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american literature, non-fiction, asian history
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Pedagogy of the oppressed

by Paulo Freire
Paperback, 2000
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non-fiction, essays, pedagogy, philosophy and religion
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The Nicomachean ethics

by Aristotle
Paperback, 1976
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Penguin Classics, philosophy and religion, non-fiction
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A book of five rings

by Musashi Miyamoto
Hardcover, 1974
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non-fiction, japanese literature, philosophy and religion
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Ways of seeing

by John Berger
Paperback, 1977
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non-fiction, art and aesthetics, cultural history, design and architecture, essays
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Rereadings : seventeen writers revisit books they love

by Anne Fadiman
Hardcover, 2005
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non-fiction, books about books, essays, literary criticism
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The immortal game : a history of chess or how 32 carved pieces on a board illuminated our understanding of war, art, science, and the human brain

by David Shenk
Paperback, 2006
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non-fiction, cultural history, games, hobby and crafts
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The annals of imperial Rome

by Cornelius Tacitus
Paperback, 1973
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Zen mind, beginner's mind

by Shunryū Suzuki
Paperback, 2006
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non-fiction, japanese literature, philosophy and religion
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Ten days that shook the world

by John Reed
Paperback, 1967
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non-fiction, world history
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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave

by Frederick Douglass
Paperback, 2003
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american literature, non-fiction, autobiography and biography, american history
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Ecclesiastical history of the English people : with Bede's letter to Egbert and Cuthbert's letter on the death of Bede

by the Venerable Bede, Saint
Paperback, 1990
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non-fiction, medieval history, english history, medieval literature, english literature, Penguin Classics
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Sister Bernadette's barking dog : the quirky history and lost art of diagramming sentences

by Kitty Burns Florey
Hardcover, 2006
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non-fiction, cultural history, writing and grammar, reference, language and linguistics
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The uses of enchantment : the meaning and importance of fairy tales

by Bruno Bettelheim
Paperback, 1976
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non-fiction, myth and folklore, literary criticism, books about books, cultural history, essays, Vintage Books, author suicide, National Book Award
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