Lists of Bests: qatesiurade's "Great non-fiction" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/59122 A list of really entertaining non-fiction I've read over the last few years. Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:51:33 GMT en-us 0 50 23 0 0 How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4971613 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franklin Foer</div> An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America's Future http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/387819 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/387819"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679776877.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert D. Kaplan</div> The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/932216 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Pollan</div> Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/258242 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/258242"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226036286.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Ball</div> The Power of Art http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1414300 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1414300"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061176109.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simon Schama</div> Landscape and Memory http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4972397 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simon Schama</div> A History of Britain : At the Edge of the World, 3500 B.C.-1603 A.D http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23257 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23257"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786866756.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Schama Simon</div> A History of Britain, Volume II: The Wars of the British 1603-1776 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23269 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23269"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786867523.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Schama Simon</div> A History of Britain: The Fate of Empire 1776-2000 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23299 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23299"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786868996.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simon Schama</div> The Happiest Man Alive http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4518791 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary V. Dearborn</div> The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4486632 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Dolnick</div> The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9266 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9266"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375725601.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V64591320_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erik Larson</div> In Defense of Food http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4577807 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Pollan</div> THE CITY IN HISTORY http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1767003 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lewis Mumford</div> Pushed Off the Mountain: Sold Down the River http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28259 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Western</div> Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2746 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2746"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140178244.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39328195_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marc Reisner</div> Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/417276 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/417276"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374530416.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Ball</div> McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3543728 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3543728"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/016cQVJePTL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Misha Glenny</div> The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76177 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76177"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1591840538.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bethany McLean</div> DUPLICATE #3 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4934147 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Duplicate of http://allconsuming.net/item/asin/0061234001</div> Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20749 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20749"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074320011X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114278841_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carl Zimmer</div> Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3705525 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Vanderbilt</div> The Numerati http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5290867 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5290867"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZMhhj6pLL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Baker</div>