Nonfiction And Reference
42 entries in the Nonfiction And Reference compendium.
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Self-help bookBooks instructing readers on solving personal problems.TextbookA book compiling knowledge for educators and learners.The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child CareA best-selling manual that encouraged parents to trust their instincts.The Communist ManifestoPolitical pamphlet by Marx and Engels outlining class struggle and communism.The Concept of the PoliticalCarl Schmitt’s *The Concept of the Political* (German: *Der Begriff des Politischen*), a 1The Conquest of BreadAnarchist communist classic by Peter Kropotkin.The Death and Life of Great American CitiesJane Jacobs’ 1961 book, *The Death and Life of Great American Cities*, argues that the urbThe Decline of the WestA cyclical history of cultures as organic entities.The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to SexApplies evolutionary theory to human evolution and sexual selection.The Double HelixPersonal memoir of the discovery of DNA's double helix.The Education of Henry AdamsAutobiography critiquing 19th-century education and rapid change.The Electric Kool-Aid Acid TestA New Journalism account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters.The Federalist Papers85 essays promoting ratification of the U.S. Constitution.The Feminine MystiqueBook credited with sparking second-wave feminism in the United States.The Feynman Lectures on PhysicsA physics textbook based on lectures by Richard Feynman.The General Theory of Employment, Interest and MoneyBook that shifted economic thought toward macroeconomics and government intervention.The Gulag ArchipelagoA literary investigation of the Soviet Gulag system.The Hero with a Thousand FacesA study of the universal hero's journey in world myths.The History of Rome (Mommsen)Multi-volume history of ancient Rome by Theodor Mommsen.The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireA six-volume Enlightenment history of Rome's decline.The Imitation of ChristA devotional classic emphasizing interior life and Eucharist.The Incoherence of the IncoherenceIbn Rushd's defense of Aristotelian philosophy against al-Ghazali's critique.The Incoherence of the Philosophers11th-century Asharite critique of Avicennian philosophy.The Interpretation of DreamsFreud's foundational work on dream interpretation and the unconscious.LexiconThe vocabulary inventory of a language or branch of knowledge.Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and ArchitectsFirst important book on art history, by Giorgio Vasari.MuqaddimahThe *Muqaddimah* (Arabic: مقدّمة, meaning "the introduction") is a 14th-century Arabic treMémoires d'Outre-TombePosthumous memoir blending history and personal reflection.Natural History (Pliny)Roman encyclopedia covering the natural world and human life.Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass published *Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American SlaNight (memoir)Memoir of Holocaust survival and loss of faith.On LibertyOn Liberty is an essay co-authored by the English philosophers Harriet Taylor Mill and JohOn the Origin of SpeciesFoundation of evolutionary biology, introducing natural selection.OpticksNewton's experimental study of light, color, and diffraction.Orientalism (book)Edward Said’s *Orientalism* (1978) argues that Western scholarship about the Eastern worldProgress and PovertyProgress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase Man's Search for MeaningA psychologist's account of finding meaning in concentration camps.The Open Society and Its EnemiesDefends open society against historicism and totalitarianism.The Origins of TotalitarianismHannah Arendt's first major work analyzing Nazism and Stalinism.The Phenomenology of SpiritHegel's first major work on the development of consciousness.Suicide (Durkheim book)Sociological study of suicide as a social fact.Spinoza's EthicsGeorge Eliot's translation of Spinoza's *Ethics*, completed in 1856 but unpublished until
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