Lists of Bests: Lindsay's "Best Non-Fiction Books" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/32379 Best of non fiction from a wide range of fields. Any suggestions for additions? Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:21:35 GMT en-us 0 50 42 0 0 People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59278 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59278"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060838655.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Howard Zinn</div> Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43255 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43255"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393061310.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jared Diamond</div> The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size (Penguin Press Science) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2842 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2842"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140230122.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tor Norretranders</div> At Day's Close: Night in Times Past http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1901432 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1901432"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0393329011.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A. Roger Ekirch</div> Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19295 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19295"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0684818868.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056465453_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James W. Loewen</div> The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19505 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19505"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684853949.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Oliver Sacks</div> The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/145661 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/145661"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1565849426.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Parenti</div> The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2899 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2899"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140250913.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laurie Garrett</div> Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages (Perennial Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/543106 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/543106"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060914688.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frances Gies</div> Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31248 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31248"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/157322751X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harold Bloom</div> A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7604 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7604"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345349571.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056436947_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara W. Tuchman</div> The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26708 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26708"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0871136643.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Howard K. Bloom</div> Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/645719 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/645719"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0809097052.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056494205_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eric Foner</div> The God Delusion http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/624083 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/624083"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618680004.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Dawkins</div> The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/861 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/861"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060556579.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Matt Ridley</div> Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/263 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/263"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060006781.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138672742_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Matt Ridley</div> The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9410 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9410"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375760393.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Pollan</div> Fast Food Nation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55258 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55258"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060838582.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eric Schlosser</div> The Great Movies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/79064 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/79064"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0767910389.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roger Ebert</div> Last Chance to See http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7674 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7674"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345371984.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Adams</div> Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41450 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41450"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786884401.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laurie Garrett</div> The Greek Myths (Lives & Letters: the Millennium Graves) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968359 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968359"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1857544803.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Graves</div> The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2834 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2834"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140196013.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leonard Shlain</div> Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64820 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64820"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1573223220.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1119287105_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harold Bloom</div> Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Plus) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972452 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972452"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060859512.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44992186_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bart D. Ehrman</div> The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10124 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10124"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385334303.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056439141_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Desmond Morris</div> The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59816 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59816"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/061861916X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Dawkins</div> Medieval Technology and Social Change (Galaxy Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2780387 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2780387"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01NEJRHG28L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lynn White</div> Cosmos http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7542 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7542"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345331354.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056436926_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carl Sagan</div> Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7689 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7689"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345376595.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carl Sagan</div> The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7585 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7585"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345346297.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carl Sagan</div> Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18367 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18367"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674535812.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Greil Marcus</div> The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/93010 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/93010"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060555254.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Francine Prose</div> Escape from Freedom http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/219068 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/219068"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805031499.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erich Fromm</div> Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4988 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4988"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226468046.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Lakoff</div> Genes, Peoples, and Languages http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15117 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15117"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0520228731.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056450310_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza</div> The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65050 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65050"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374504938.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438166_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Graves</div> The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3624 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3624"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142003344.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven Pinker</div> Words and Rules (Science Masters) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2473620 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2473620"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0753810255.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven Pinker</div> Seven Ages of Paris http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28926 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28926"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400034469.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alistair Horne</div> How the Mind Works (Penguin Press Science) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/92696 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/92696"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140244913.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven Pinker</div> On the Origin of Species http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/356744 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/356744"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1551113376.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Darwin</div>