Nonfiction Books More People Should Read
Top 10 Nonfiction Books More People Should Read
: The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God, Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution Is Wrong, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills, Elephant Dance, Sacred Geometry: Deciphering the Code, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Hannah: My True Story of Drugs, Cutting, and Mental Illness, Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World, Hidden Figures
The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God
| Author | Lee Strobel |
| ISBN | 0310240506 |
A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God: 'My road to atheism was paved by science . . . But, ironically, so was my later journey to God.' - Lee Strobel
During his academic years, Lee Strobel became convinced that God was outmoded, a belief that colored his ensuing...
| Author | Jonathan Wells |
| ISBN | 0895262002 |
How would you react if told that you and your children have been lied to in science lessons at school and university? Yet this is exactly what has been happening for decades, as Icons of Evolution' demonstrates.
The author, a Berkeley Ph.D in Biology, is not a creationist, but his book describes many...
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
| Author | Susan Cain |
| ISBN | 0307352145 |
At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts—Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve Wozniak—that we owe many...
Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills
| Author | Russell L. Blaylock |
| ISBN | 0929173252 |
Ex•cí•to•tox•in: a substance added to foods and beverages that literally stimulates neurons to death, causing brain damage of varying degrees. Can be found in such ingredients as monosodium glutamate, aspartame (NutraSweet®), cysteine, hydrolyzed protein, and aspartic acid.
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| Author | Tammie Matson |
| ISBN | 1405039191 |
It's the middle of the night in the Namibian desert when zoologist Tammie Matson wakes with a start to find two elephants standing beside her tiny tent. She makes a promise: "If you just let me survive tonight I will give up Africa. I'll give it all up. Just don't let them stand on me."
It's not a promise...
Sacred Geometry: Deciphering the Code
| Author | Stephen Skinner |
| ISBN | 1402741294 |
The Da Vinci Code has awakened the public to the powerful and very ancient idea that religious truths and mathematical principles are intimately intertwined. Sacred Geometry offers an accessible way of understanding how that connection is revealed in nature and the arts. Over the centuries, temple...
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
| Author | Robert A. Caro |
| ISBN | 0394720245 |
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for almost...
| Author | Hannah Westberg |
| ISBN | 0757315283 |
Hannah is a girl interrupted.
For Hannah Westberg, life has been one big emotional roller coaster. As a girl, her mother was in and out of mental hospitals, so when it was her turn to visit the psych ward following a suicide attempt the summer after eighth grade, she had an idea of what she was in...
| Author | James D. Miller |
| ISBN | 1936661659 |
In Ray Kurzweil’s New York Times bestseller The Singularity is Near, the futurist and entrepreneur describes the Singularity, a likely future utterly different than anything we can imagine. The Singularity is triggered by the tremendous growth of human and computing intelligence that is an almost...
| Author | Margot Lee Shetterly |
| ISBN | 0062363603 |
The #1 New York Times Bestseller. Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space program. Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as ‘Human...
| Author | David Mamet |
| ISBN | 1595230769 |
David Mamet has been a controversial, defining force in nearly every creative endeavor-now he turns his attention to politics.
In recent years, David Mamet realized that the so-called mainstream media outlets he relied on were irredeemably biased, peddling a hypocritical and deeply flawed...
A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest
| Author | William deBuys |
| ISBN | 0199778922 |
With its soaring azure sky and stark landscapes, the American Southwest is one of the most hauntingly beautiful regions on earth. Yet staggering population growth, combined with the intensifying effects of climate change, is driving the oasis-based society close to the brink of a Dust-Bowl-scale...
An inspiring story that shows how dogs can be rescued, and can rescue in return.
With her critically acclaimed, bestselling first book, Scent of the Missing, Susannah Charleson was widely praised for her unique insight into the kinship between humans and dogs, as revealed through her work...
