Lists of Bests: dmfugate's "Library Book List - Nonfiction" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/41592 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:22:33 GMT en-us 0 50 121 50 0 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/557498 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/557498"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0789313707.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30990 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30990"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1570613818.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nancy Pearl</div> Library: An Unquiet History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/79212 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/79212"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393325644.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1071777289_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Matthew Battles</div> More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38970 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38970"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1570614350.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nancy Pearl</div> Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2633390 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2633390"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1586484281.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eric Burns</div> Found: The Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Around the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21134 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21134"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743251148.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Davy Rothbart</div> Found II: More of the Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Around the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/112741 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/112741"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743273079.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Davy Rothbart</div> Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/868008 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/868008"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393329127.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Roach</div> Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673744 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673744"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316010669.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Malcolm Gladwell</div> Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2786307 <div id="position">40</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Goleman</div> Wide as the Waters : The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3552 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3552"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0142000590.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Benson Bobrick</div> Living Your Strengths: Discover Your God-Given Talents and Inspire Your Community http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/210246 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/210246"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1595620028.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1088114583_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert L. Winseman</div> Original Self: Living with Paradox and Originality http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/411594 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/411594"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060953721.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Moore</div> Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962697 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962697"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1932073205.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dan Millman</div> The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/311863 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/311863"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1878424505.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by don Miguel Ruiz</div> The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6975 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6975"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316346624.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Malcolm Gladwell</div> The Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/357889 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/357889"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/193256506X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Temple Grandin</div> Artists In Times of War and Other Essays (Open Media) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32066 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32066"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1583226028.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Howard Zinn</div> Ellis Island Interviews http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1061906 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1061906"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0816035482.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter M. Coan</div> If I Live to Be 100: Lessons from the Centenarians http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29067 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29067"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1400051428.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Neenah Ellis</div> Bachelor Girl: 100 Years of Breaking the Rules--a Social History of Living Single http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9747 <div id="position">51</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9747"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/038079778X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Betsy Israel</div> Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel--Why Everything You Know Is Wrong http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2412391 <div id="position">52</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2412391"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786893931.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by 20/20's John Stossel</div> City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, New Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/776944 <div id="position">53</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/776944"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1844675688.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mike Davis</div> The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2001780 <div id="position">54</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2001780"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0306815036.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louis Theroux</div> Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/48980 <div id="position">55</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/48980"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0425198324.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Bass</div> Democracy in America (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3316 <div id="position">56</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3316"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140447601.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexis de Tocqueville</div> Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Large Print Edition): Written by Herself http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2927539 <div id="position">57</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2927539"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11H6g2ntYaL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harriet Ann Jacobs</div> Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1272452 <div id="position">58</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1272452"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061234001.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven D. Levitt</div> Living Well on Practically Nothing: Revised and Updated Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31832 <div id="position">59</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31832"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1581602820.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward H. Romney</div> Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/357327 <div id="position">60</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/357327"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/031615461X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Royte</div> The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/273 <div id="position">61</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/273"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060007761.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn</div> Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2465497 <div id="position">62</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2465497"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143038257.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45984430_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Greg Mortenson</div> Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1515 <div id="position">63</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1515"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060974990.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Kozol</div> My Mother’s Wedding Dress http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2786314 <div id="position">64</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Justine Picardie</div> Fast Food Nation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55258 <div id="position">65</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 Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8880 <div id="position">66</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8880"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375423125.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexander Mccall Smith</div> The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70178 <div id="position">67</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70178"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060839783.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simon Winchester</div> 100 Words Almost Everyone Confuses and Misuses (The 100 Words) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17292 <div id="position">68</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17292"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618493336.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1064411 <div id="position">69</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1064411"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061132179.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Wex</div> Eureka!: Great Inventions and How They Happened (Eureka) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/603230 <div id="position">70</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/603230"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0753455803.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1077932135_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Platt</div> Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94756 <div id="position">71</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94756"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465023924.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Phillips Feynman</div> Salt: A World History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3574 <div id="position">72</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3574"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142001619.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Kurlansky</div> Pilgrim at Tinker Creek http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766207 <div id="position">73</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Annie Dillard</div> Washed Up: The Curious Journeys of Flotsam and Jetsam http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2183004 <div id="position">74</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2183004"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1570614636.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Skye Moody</div> Microbe Hunters http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/83963 <div id="position">75</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/83963"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156027771.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul de Kruif</div> The Insect Societies (Harvard Paperbacks) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/388284 <div id="position">76</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward O. Wilson</div> A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/132413 <div id="position">77</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/132413"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393318923.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056439881_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jan Bondeson</div> The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3812787 <div id="position">78</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3812787"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PTKnlE19L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven Johnson</div> Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56389 <div id="position">79</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56389"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743272056.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carl Zimmer</div> The Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most Baffling Crimes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2927542 <div id="position">80</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2927542"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/11zvUxu6jLL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colin Evans</div>