5 Best nonfiction books like A History of Western Art by Laurie Schneider Adams

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A History of Western Art

By: Laurie Schneider Adams

3.79

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

Appropriate for one-semester art history surveys or historically-focused art appreciation classes, …

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1. The Canterville Ghost

By: Oscar Wilde , Inga Moore

3.88

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, … read more

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"Love is stronger than death is"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"To his alert mind and ears, every experience was education."

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

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2. Altıncı Koğuş

By: Anton Chekhov , None , Yulva Muhurcişi

4.26

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Çehov bir taşra kasabasındaki akıl hastanesinde geçen bu novellasında, eğitimli bir hasta olan İvan… read more

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3. No Logo

By: Naomi Klein

3.89

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

With a new Afterword to the 2002 edition, No Logo employs journalistic savvy and personal testament… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"(...) losing one's job is much less frightening when getting it seemed an accident in the first place."

-Naomi Klein, No Logo

"When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?"

-Naomi Klein, No Logo

"Competitive branding became a necessity of the machine age — within a context of manufactured sameness; image-based difference had to be manufactured along with the product."

-Naomi Klein, No Logo

"Despite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get up in the morning, put on their Levi's and Nikes, grab their caps and…"

-Naomi Klein, No Logo

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4. The Black Cat

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

Format: 300 pages,

"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black… read more

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5. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

3.77

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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6. The Age of Capital: 1848-1875

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

4.53

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

In the wake of the French Revolution & the Industrial Revolution, Europe underwent another revoluti… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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7. The Lighthouse at the End of the World

By: Jules Verne

3.24

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

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8. The Tell-Tale Heart

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Byron Glaser , None

4.24

Format: 31 pages, Library Binding

A man confronts himself and an unknown listener with his desire to murder an old man. In this cl… read more

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"would a madman have been so wise as this?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"Basta ya de fingir, malvados! -aullé-. ¡Confieso que lo maté! ¡Levanten esos tablones! ¡Ahí… ahí! ¡Donde está latiendo su horrible corazón!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

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9. The Age of Empire, 1875-1914

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences & cultural life from the he… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lowell Bair

10. Journey to the Center of the Earth

By: Jules Verne , Kim Stanley Robinson , Lowell Bair

3.85

Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

An adventurous geology professor chances upon a manuscript in which a 16th-century explorer claims … read more

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"Axel,"

-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

"Then don’t you despair?"

-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

"I dream with my eyes open."

-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

"And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow."

-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

11. Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

By: Charles Wheelan

3.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

Once considered tedious, the field of statistics is rapidly evolving into a discipline Hal Varian, … read more

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12. The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo

By: Edward Shepherd Creasy

4.01

Format: None pages, Paperback

Undoubtedly the most famous work of military history of the nineteenth century, Edward S. Creasy's … read more

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13. The Cask of Amontillado

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.08

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque ..") is a short story written by Edgar All… read more

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"For the love of God, Montresor!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"He did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

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14. A History of Western Art

By: Laurie Schneider Adams

3.79

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

Appropriate for one-semester art history surveys or historically-focused art appreciation classes, … read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • historical
  • college
  • nonfiction
  • reference

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Naomi Klein

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3.77

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4.53

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Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann

3.68

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3.93

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4.13

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