Book Genre: Nonfiction

This book includes a great deal of information about the Boston Tea Party.  It goes into detail regarding the people involved, why the colonists felt the way they did, and why the British government taxed the colonists.  It is a great book for an older child as it it somewhat long....

This book is a brief account of the Boston Tea Party in very simple language.  Although not tremendously descriptive, the images are lovely and the bilingual aspect helps it to cater to a wide audience.

Who knew snarky insights into another's dieting world could be so funny.  Mere mortals were first introduced to Simon Doonan via his memoir, Beautiful People, which was adapted for television and aired on the BBC. The 20 year gig at Barney's earned him some recognition too. Doonan...

This book is so cool! Everybody should take this book with them to the supermarket.  It tells you the calories of popular grocery items and also suggests other choices that may be better for our bodies.  For example,  what has too much fat, what has too much salt or what has too...

This is the story of the Manhattan Project and the development of the first atomic bomb during World War II.  From 1943 until the end of WWII all other scientific research in the country came to a standstill while the greatest scientific talent was directed to this one critical project....

DNA USA is intended to be a genetic portrait of the American population but is instead a mere sketch.   This book purports to do for the US what his earlier book Saxon, Viking, and Celts did for British genealogists but falls sadly short.  While there is some very interesting...

      For three short seasons NBC had a TV show called “Who Do You Think You Are?” which I would rush home to watch every Friday evening.  It was a show about tracing your roots, finding ancestors and learning what kind of lives they lived, how the times they lived...

Annie Proulx may have written the short story but Ang Lee started a national discussion.  The film Brokeback Mountain has been analyzed, parodied, and memorialized from the blogsphere to Saturday Night Live.  You don't need to be a film historian to appreciate...

I am a fan of self-help books because I enjoy learning how others solve their problems. But, the fluffy happy books get stale fast when bad things happen to me.  There have been times I have rolled my eyes with exasperation like "Really, this is going to make me...

Just discovered this as I was shelving new non fiction this morning. Global Model Village is a witty and wry take on art in public spaces. The pieces are tiny—you may not see them unless you’re the type to look at the minutiae in your everyday environment.  Part social commentary, part...

Acknowledging both the form and function of the BMX bike, Rad Rides dials into the world of BMX by providing an informative history of the culture, style, and mechanical evolution of the 20 inch ride. Spanning from the early 1970s with the initiation of BMX by radical, rebellious youth...

Harvard psychologist  Martha Stout claims that 1 in 25 people are sociopaths - those who are unable and unwilling to feel joy, love, guilt or empathy.  These people are typically highly manipulative, charming, predatory, and  expert at mimicking emotion.  How do you know if...