How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: Critical Thinking in the Age of Bias, Contested Truth, and Disinformation
By: Thomas C. Foster
3.02
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skil…
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1. Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla
By: David Kilcullen
3.97
Format: 570 pages, Hardcover
When Americans think of modern warfare, what comes to mind is the US army skirmishing with terroris… read more
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- nonfiction
2. Napoleon's Hemorrhoids: ... and Other Small Events That Changed History
By: Phil Mason
3.86
Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition
Hilarious, fascinating, and a roller coaster of dizzying, historical what-ifs, Napoleon's Hemorrhoi… read more
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3. Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
By: Kory Stamper
3.37
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Do you have strong feelings about the word "irregardless"? Have you ever tried to define the word "… read more
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4. The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time
By: Will Durant , John Little
5.00
Format: 64 pages,
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5. Here Is New York
By: E.B. White , Barbara Cohen , Roger Angell , None
4.11
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E.B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential l… read more
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6. The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms
By: Mark Strand , Eavan Boland
0.00
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Poetry's Ingredients: Mark Strand and Eavan Boland Explore Form Explaining beauty is hard work. But… read more
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7. Dear Fahrenheit 451: A Librarian's Love Letters and Break-Up Notes to the Books in Her Life
By: Annie Spence
3.94
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
A Gen-X librarian's snarky, laugh-out-loud funny, deeply moving collection of love letters and brea… read more
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8. Under the Feet of Jesus
By: Helena María Viramontes
3.93
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
With the same audacity with which John Steinbeck wrote about migrant worker conditions in The Grape… read more
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9. Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction
By: Tracy Kidder , Richard Todd
3.53
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Good Proseis an inspiring book about writing--about the creation of good prose--and the record of a… read more
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11. Prairie Lotus
By: Linda Sue Park
4.29
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Prairie Lotus is a book about a girl determined to fit in and realize her dreams: getting an educat… read more
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12. Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
By: Amanda Montell
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The word "bitch" conjures many images for many people but is most often meant to describe an unplea… read more
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"Language pedantry is snobbery and snobbery is prejudice,"-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"One of the burdens of being a woman is the imperative to be nice."-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"Hitler wasn’t any less fascist because he could write a coherent sentence."-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"Anytime language reform happens, it has to happen in the context of social change,"-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
13. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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- nonfiction
"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
14. Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
By: Dennis Duncan
3.68
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Most of us give little thought to the back of the book—it’s just where you go to look things up. Bu… read more
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- nonfiction
- books about books
- writing
- audiobook
"[Citing "Alice in Wonderland"] the White Knight insists on singing Alice a song which he introduces as follows: 'The name of the song is called "Haddocks' Eyes".' 'Oh, that's the name of the song, is…"-Dennis Duncan, Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
15. Untouchable: How Powerful People Get Away With It
By: Elie Honig
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An exploration of America’s two-tier justice system, explaining how the rich, the famous, and the p… read more
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- audiobook
16. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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- audiobook
17. Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism
By: Richard Dawkins
4.05
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Should we believe in God? In this new book, written for a new generation, the brilliant science wri… read more
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- audiobook
"These beliefs contradict each other, so they can’t be all right"-Richard Dawkins, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism
"If I’d been born in ancient Greece, I’d worship Zeus and Aphrodite"-Richard Dawkins, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism
"But failure to disprove something is not a good reason to believe it."-Richard Dawkins, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism
"There are so many different faiths. How do you know the holy book you have been brought up with is the true one? And if all the others are wrong, what makes you think your holy book isn't wrong too?"-Richard Dawkins, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism
18. Murder at Spindle Manor (The Lamplight Murder Mysteries, #1)
By: Morgan Stang
4.09
Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition
Mysteries abound in Spindle Manor. For Huntress Isabeau Agarwal, the countryside inn is the last… read more
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19. Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
By: Melanie Mitchell
4.37
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping examination of the current state of artificial intelligence and how it is remaking our w… read more
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- audiobook
"Hofstadter... fears that AI might show us that the human qualities we most value are disappointingly simple to mechanize."-Melanie Mitchell, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
20. Your New Playlist
By: Jon Acuff
4.45
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
When Jon Acuff's book Soundtracks, came out, one reaction surprised him. Parents across the country… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. The Affair of the Mysterious Letter
By: Alexis Hall
3.76
Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition
In this charming, witty, and weird fantasy novel, Alexis Hall pays homage to Sherlock Holmes with a… read more
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"Surely a public servant cannot be so cynical!" "Have you met the public?"-Alexis Hall, The Affair of the Mysterious Letter
"Ms. Haas," I protested, "I do not wish to commemorate our failure with confectionery." "Failure? I never fail. I just sometimes lack the impetus to pursue success as rigorously as I might."-Alexis Hall, The Affair of the Mysterious Letter
"My companion made a noise that, in an aerated environment, would probably have come out as a weary sigh. 'Honestly, I remember a time when being violated by a monstrosity from the abysmal darkness wa…"-Alexis Hall, The Affair of the Mysterious Letter
"Do we have an actual plan?' 'Certainly.' She sounded faintly affronted. 'We shall attend the salon in the guise of Mr. Lutrell and his faithful secretary. That's you. Then I'll draw the subject aside…"-Alexis Hall, The Affair of the Mysterious Letter
22. Bland Fanatics: Liberals, the West, and the Afterlives of Empire
By: Pankaj Mishra
3.87
Format: 218 pages, Hardcover
A wide-ranging, controversial collection of critical essays on the political mania plaguing the Wes… read more
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"Homo oeconomicus, der alle anderen menschlichen Werte und Interessen durch Kosten-Nutzen-Rechnungen zu ersetzen versucht, wütet auf dem gesamten Erdball: in den persönlichen Beziehungen ebenso wie am…"-Pankaj Mishra, Bland Fanatics: Liberals, the West, and the Afterlives of Empire
23. When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day
By: Garrett M. Graff
4.59
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist… read more
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- audiobook
24. The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society
By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
4.11
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From one of the world’s leading economists, a compelling new vision of personal and economic freedo… read more
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25. We've Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America's Soul and Sanity
By: Phillip C. McGraw
4.33
Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and beloved television host comes We’ve Got How You … read more
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- audiobook
26. Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
By: Madhumita Murgia
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, reveal… read more
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- nonfiction
- education
- audiobook
27. Battle for the Big Top: P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus
By: Les Standiford
3.90
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Les Standiford takes us under the big top and behind the curtain in this richly researched and tho… read more
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- audiobook
28. How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: Critical Thinking in the Age of Bias, Contested Truth, and Disinformation
By: Thomas C. Foster
3.02
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skil… read more
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- self help
- school
- read for school
- nonfiction
- writing
- reference
- journalism
- education
- books about books
- audiobook
29. Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies
By: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
4.02
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when … read more
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"My unexpected finding is that inside every man there lurk ancient caretaking tendencies that render a man every bit as protective and nurturing as the most committed mother."-Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies
30. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
By: Nate Silver
3.84
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
31. Livesuit (The Captive’s War #1.5)
By: James S.A. Corey
4.45
Format: 90 pages, ebook
Humanity's war is eternal, spread across the galaxy and the ages. Humanity's best hope to end the e… read more
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