17 Best nonfiction books like Weed: Cannabis Culture in the Americas by Caitlin Donohue

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Weed: Cannabis Culture in the Americas

By: Caitlin Donohue

3.52

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Humans have used cannabis for thousands of years, since Neolithic peoples sought out its medicinal …

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1. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

By: Carmen Maria Machado

3.84

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders betwe… read more

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"I'm having a crisis of function."

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

"None of us will make it to the end."

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

"What I say: “Why did you leave her with me?"

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

"Everything is soft, like a fresh oil painting."

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

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2. Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time

By: Marc Wittmann , Erik Butler

3.56

Format: 185 pages, Kindle Edition

An expert explores the riddle of subjective time, from why time speeds up as we grow older to the c… read more

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"...temporal feature of memory--specifically the disintegration of memory traces--might function as internal signals for the passing of time."

-Marc Wittmann, Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time

"Critics of acceleration maintain that accelerating patterns of life are the reason for a commonly voiced sense of unease--the feeling that one is not "really" living. Everything is done all at once, …"

-Marc Wittmann, Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time

"At home, with work over and done, what reason is there...not to spend an hour, every evening, doing x? X might stand for whatever holds personal interest: reading..., spending time on a collection of…"

-Marc Wittmann, Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time

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3. Orientalism

By: None , Edward W. Said

4.12

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more

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"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."

-None, Orientalism

"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."

-None, Orientalism

"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."

-None, Orientalism

"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."

-None, Orientalism

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4. A Boy Called Bat (A Boy Called Bat, #1)

By: Charles Santoso , Elana K. Arnold

4.07

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

For Bixby Alexander Tam (nicknamed Bat), life tends to be full of surprises — some of them good, so… read more

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5. The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: The Apocalypse Suite

By: None , Gabriel Bá , Gerard Way , Nate Piekos , None

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

In an inexplicable worldwide event, forty-seven extraordinary children were spontaneously born to w… read more

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6. Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect

By: Jonice Webb , Christine Musello

4.01

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

Running on Emptyis the first self-help book about Emotional Neglect: an invisible force from your c… read more

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7. Poisons: From Hemlock to Botox to the Killer Bean of Calabar

By: Peter Macinnis

4.05

Format: None pages,

In the tradition of Salt and Stiff, a wide-ranging and provocative look-teeming with little-known f… read more

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8. The Heretic's Daughter

By: Kathleen Kent

3.66

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Mass… read more

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9. An Edible History of Humanity

By: Tom Standage

3.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Throughout history, food has acted as a catalyst of social change, political organization, geopolit… read more

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10. Difficult Women

By: Roxane Gay

4.24

Format: 128 pages,

Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State--w… read more

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11. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

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12. Homelands: A Personal History of Europe

By: Timothy Garton Ash

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tel… read more

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13. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

By: Suzanne Simard

4.22

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their conne… read more

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"Plants are attuned to one another's strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. There is grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals."

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

"Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter."

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

"This Mother Tree was the central hub that the saplings and seedlings nested around, with threads of different fungal species, of different colors and weights, linking them, layer upon layer, in a str…"

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

"I was lucky to become one of the first in the new generation of women in the logging industry, but what I found was not what I had grown up to understand. Instead I discovered vast landscapes cleared…"

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

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14. Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

By: Erika Engelhaupt

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bo… read more

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"This kind of scientific boldness is something the world could use more of. All too often, we’re hemmed in by our fears and our sense of propriety. Some subjects simply aren’t discussed, or aren’t tak…"

-Erika Engelhaupt, Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

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15. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

By: Chris Broad

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more

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16. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

By: Richard C. Schwartz

4.15

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts t… read more

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"The big insight was that giving a troubled person a psychiatric diagnosis and seeing that as the sole or main cause of their symptoms was unnecessarily limiting, pathologizing, and could become self-…"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

"IFS can be seen as attachment theory taken inside, in the sense that the client’s Self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts. I was initially amazed to discover that …"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

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17. Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration

By: Elizabeth Partridge

4.53

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

This important work of nonfiction features powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration c… read more

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18. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

By: Jenny Odell

3.68

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms f… read more

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19. Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

By: Natalie Haynes

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Greek myths are one of the most important cultural foundation-stones of the modern world. St… read more

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"For my mum, who has always thought that a woman with an axe was more interesting than a princess"

-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

"Medusa wasn't always a monster, Helen of Troy wasn't always an adulterer, Pandora wasn't ever a villain."

-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

"The greatest virtue, in other words, that an Athenian woman could aspire to was not to be registered, almost not to exist."

-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

"The guiding principle when searching for the cause of everything wrong in the world has been, all too often: _cherchez la femme_."

-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

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20. Me: Moth

By: Amber McBride

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A debut YA novel-in-verse that is both a coming-of-age and a ghost story. Moth has lost her fami… read more

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"Most of the founding fathers were like that; they spoke of freedom but did not offer it to everyone. They had bodies in their closets."

-Amber McBride, Me: Moth

"Places we decide to stop. Monticello Plantation, Charlottesville, Virginia: Where Thomas Jefferson committed several sins; we go to stomp on hateful plantation ground."

-Amber McBride, Me: Moth

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21. Ground Zero

By: Alan Gratz

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It's September 11, 2001. Brandon, a 9-year-old boy, goes to work for the day with his dad . . . at … read more

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"And without a dream, without ambition, what point was there to living?"

-Alan Gratz, Ground Zero

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22. Yes No Maybe So

By: Becky Albertalli

3.73

Format: 464 pages, ebook

New York Times bestselling authors Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed have crafted a resonant, funny,… read more

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"Time is literally what life is made of."

-Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

"Oranges don't have nipples," says Sophie"

-Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

"There's nothing quite like the futility of being seventeen in an election year."

-Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

"The truth is, it's a weird time to be coming of age. The world is really messy right now. And it's so hard to be twelve or thirteen or fifteen or seventeen, when you're old enough to get it, but... y…"

-Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

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23. Playing the Cards You're Dealt (Scholastic Gold)

By: Varian Johnson

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Literary powerhouse and Coretta Scott King Honor- and Boston Globe / Horn Book Honor-winning author… read more

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24. Squirreled Away (The Dead Sea Squirrels #1)

By: Mike Nawrocki

3.96

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Ten-year-old Michael and his friend Justin sneak into the Dead Sea caves near the archaeological di… read more

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25. Welcome to AI: A Human Guide to Artificial Intelligence

By: David L. Shrier

3.60

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

A fascinating guide to the rapidly advancing world of artificial intelligence and how this powerful… read more

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26. Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline

By: Darrell Bricker

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the authors of the bestselling The Big Shift, a provocative argument that the global populatio… read more

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27. The Emperor's New Road: China and the Project of the Century

By: Jonathan E. Hillman

3.88

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

China’s Belt and Road Initiative is the world’s most ambitious and misunderstood geoeconomic vision… read more

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28. Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind

By: A.S. Barwich

3.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A pioneering exploration of olfaction that upsets settled notions of how the brain translates senso… read more

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29. Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Future

By: Daniel Lewis

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A compelling global exploration of nature and survival as seen via a dozen species of trees that re… read more

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30. Weed: Cannabis Culture in the Americas

By: Caitlin Donohue

3.52

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Humans have used cannabis for thousands of years, since Neolithic peoples sought out its medicinal … read more

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3.79

Transform Your Habits

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Satoshi Yagisawa

3.87

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4.08

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