Nonfiction And Reference
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Self-help bookBooks instructing readers on solving personal problems.TextbookA comprehensive compilation of content in a branch of study, serving to explain the subject.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 1932 work by the German…The 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 urban planning policies…The 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 treatise covering…Mémoires d'Outre-TombePosthumous memoir blending history and personal reflection.Natural History (Pliny)The ancient encyclopedia that shaped natural history.Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassDouglass's 1845 memoir of slavery and escape, a cornerstone of American abolitionist writing.Night (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 John Stuart Mill…On 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 world—encompassing Asia…Progress and PovertyIn 1879, Henry George published his first book, Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial…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 1981.
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