Non Fiction
HENRY AT WORK: THOREAU ON MAKING A LIVING
Written by Van Belle, Jonathan
What Thoreau can teach us about working--why we do it, what it does to us, and how we can make it more meaningful Henry at Work invites readers to rethink how we work today by exploring an aspect of Henry David Thoreau that has often been overlooked: Thoreau the worker.
RADICAL BY NATURE: THE REVOLUTIONARY LIFE OF ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
Written by Costa, James T
A major new biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natural selection Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist of the Victorian age. His expeditions to remote Amazonia and southeast Asia were the stuff of legend.
PARFIT: A PHILOSOPHER AND HIS MISSION TO SAVE MORALITY
Written by Edmonds, David
From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein's Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilism Derek Parfit (1942-2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of.
SOVIET CENTURY: ARCHAEOLOGY OF A LOST WORLD
Written by Schlögel, Karl
An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live in the USSR? What did it look, feel, smell, and sound like?
PERIOD: THE REAL STORY OF MENSTRUATION
Written by Clancy, Kate
A bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruation Menstruation is something half the world does for a week at a time, for months and years on end, yet it remains largely misunderstood.
INVISIBILITY: THE HISTORY AND SCIENCE OF HOW NOT TO BE SEEN
Written by Gbur, Gregory J
A lively exploration of how invisibility has gone from science fiction to fact Is it possible for something or someone to be made invisible? This question, which has intrigued authors of science fiction for over a century, has become a headline-grabbing topic of scientific research. In this book, science writer and optical physicist Gregory J.
533 DAYS
Written by Nooteboom, Cees
The noted Dutch poet and novelist Cees Nooteboom reflects on the life of the mind through a reexamination of books, music, art, travel, and gardening "Nooteboom's real subject is the one that's defined his career--mainly, the persistent strangeness of existence and its refusal to be fully resolved by religion, philosophy, or science. . . . His journal . . .
DARK PERSUASION: A HISTORY OF BRAINWASHING FROM PAVLOV TO SOCIAL MEDIA
Written by Dimsdale, Joel E
A "highly readable and compelling" account (Science) of brainwashing's pervasive role in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries "Riveting. . . . Dimsdale . . .
WOMAN: THE AMERICAN HISTORY OF AN IDEA
Written by Faderman, Lillian
A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century "Exhaustively researched and finely written."--Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times "An intelligently provocative, vital reading experience. . . .
MAIMONIDES: FAITH IN REASON
Written by Manguel, Alberto
An exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of The Guide of the Perplexed, from one of the world's foremost bibliophiles Moses ben Maimon, or Maimonides (1138-1204), was born in Córdoba, Spain.
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