Nonfiction 654 books by Sylvia Chi

#202

Humboldt

ByEmily Brady

2013 • 2 Readers • 260 pages • 4

#203

The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville

ByClare Mulley

2012 • 5 Readers • 426 pages

#204

Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama

ByPeniel E. Joseph

2009 • 1 Reader • 288 pages

#205

This Land, This Nation

BySarah Phillips

2007 • 1 Reader • 310 pages

#206

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

ByReza Aslan

2013 • 96 Readers • 336 pages • 3.9

#207

Mind and Cosmos

ByThomas Nagel

2012 • 6 Readers • 144 pages

#208

Sold on language

ByJulie Sedivy

2011 • 1 Reader • 317 pages • 5

#209

Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature

ByVaclav Smil

2012 • 8 Readers • 320 pages

#210

The New Bloomsday Book

ByHarry Blamires

1996 • 5 Readers • 253 pages • 3.5

#211

The sports gene

ByDavid J. Epstein

2013 • 5 Readers • 338 pages • 4.5

#212

The Wolf in the Parlor

ByJon Franklin

2000 • 2 Readers • 304 pages

#213

The Accumulation of Freedom

ByDeric Shannon(Editor),Anthony J. Nocella II(Editor)

2012 • 1 Reader • 320 pages

#214

Ideas in Food

ByAki Kamozawa,H. Alexander Talbot

2010 • 3 Readers • 320 pages • 4.5

#215

The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease

ByDaniel E. Lieberman

2013 • 26 Readers • 4.5

#216

For Discrimination

ByRandall Kennedy

2013 • 2 Readers

#217

Ebony and Ivy

ByCraig Steven Wilder

2013 • 5 Readers

#218

Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information

ByMalcolm McCullough

2013 • 1 Reader • 347 pages

#219

The Great Stagnation

ByTyler Cowen

2011 • 4 Readers • 71 pages • 3.5

#220

Revolutions

ByJack A. Goldstone(Editor)

1986 • 3 Readers • 352 pages

#221

High Price

ByCarl L. Hart

2013 • 9 Readers • 332 pages • 2

#222

The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election

ByJohn Sides,Lynn Vavreck

2013 • 5 Readers • 352 pages • 3.5

#223

Anything that moves

ByDana Goodyear

2013 • 6 Readers • 262 pages • 3

#224

Main Currents of Marxism

ByLeszek Kołakowski

1976 • 1 Reader • 1,312 pages

#225

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

ByThomas S. Kuhn

1962 • 191 Readers • 226 pages • 3.8

#226

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

ByRichard Rorty

1979 • 9 Readers • 424 pages • 4

#227

How Dogs Love Us

ByGregory Berns

2013 • 19 Readers • 272 pages • 3.6

#228

Climate Matters

ByJohn Broome

2012 • 1 Reader • 210 pages

#229

Perfect Moral Storm

ByStephen M. Gardiner

2011 • 2 Readers • 512 pages

#230

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

ByErik Brynjolfsson

2014 • 31 Readers • 320 pages • 4.3

#231

From Counterculture to Cyberculture

ByFred Turner

2006 • 12 Readers • 354 pages • 4.5

#232

The gap

ByThomas Suddendorf

2013 • 1 Reader • 358 pages

#233

The Summer Game

ByRoger Angell

1972 • 7 Readers • 303 pages • 4.3

#234

Quack This Way

ByBryan A. Garner,David Foster Wallace

2013 • 2 Readers • 146 pages • 4

#235

The Best American Essays 2012

ByRobert Atwan(Editor),David Brooks(Editor)

2012 • 2 Readers • 336 pages • 4.5

#236

Empress Dowager Cixi

ByJung Chang

2013 • 18 Readers • 436 pages • 4

#237

Command and Control

ByEric Schlosser

2013 • 78 Readers • 757 pages • 4

#238

Best American essays 2013

ByCheryl Strayed

2013 • 2 Readers • 316 pages

#239

My Age of Anxiety

ByScott Stossel

2014 • 15 Readers • 416 pages • 4

#240

The Bilingual Mind

ByAneta Pavlenko

2014 • 1 Reader • 400 pages

#241

The Language Hoax

ByJohn McWhorter

2014 • 18 Readers • 203 pages • 3.3

#242

The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America

ByDaniel J. Boorstin

1961 • 18 Readers • 315 pages • 4

#243

A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction

ByJoel Greenberg

2014 • 5 Readers • 304 pages • 4

#244

The Making Of A Counter Culture: Reflections of the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition

ByTheodore Roszak

1969 • 2 Readers • 303 pages • 5

#245

The Greening of America

ByCharles A. Reich

1970 • 2 Readers • 433 pages

#246

The human use of human beings

ByNorbert Wiener

1949 • 9 Readers • 200 pages

#247

Cybernetics

ByNorbert Wiener

1948 • 20 Readers • 234 pages

#248

Critical Path

ByR. Buckminster Fuller

1981 • 14 Readers • 471 pages • 5

#249

Why Government Fails So Often : And How It Can Do Better

ByPeter H. Schuck

2014 • 4 Readers • 488 pages • 4

#250

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

ByThomas Piketty,Arthur Goldhammer(Translator)

2013 • 237 Readers • 685 pages • 4.1

#251

Water 4.0 : The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource

ByDavid Sedlak

2014 • 3 Readers • 352 pages

#252

Culture and Society, 1780-1950

ByRaymond Williams

1958 • 4 Readers • 363 pages

#253

Out of Mao's Shadow : The Struggle for the Soul of a New China

ByPhilip P. Pan

2008 • 5 Readers • 4

#254

Reproducing Racism

ByDaria Roithmayr

2014 • 1 Reader • 206 pages

#255

The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind

ByMichio Kaku

2014 • 52 Readers • 377 pages • 3.8

#256

The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves

ByW. Brian Arthur

2009 • 10 Readers • 256 pages • 4

#257

American fun

ByJohn Beckman

2014 • 1 Reader • 402 pages

#258

The Empathy Exams

ByLeslie Jamison

2014 • 56 Readers • 256 pages • 3.5

#259

Utopia or bust

ByBenjamin Kunkel

3 Readers • 4

#260

Crossworld

ByMarc Romano

2005 • 1 Reader • 256 pages

#261

Is Taiwan Chinese?

ByMelissa J. Brown

2004 • 1 Reader • 349 pages

#262

Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon

ByEmily Apter(Translator),Jacques Lezra(Translator)

2004 • 1 Reader • 1,344 pages

#263

Valuing life

ByCass R. Sunstein

2014 • 1 Reader • 248 pages

#264

Proof

ByAdam Rogers

2014 • 11 Readers • 272 pages • 4

#265

The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited

ByLouisa Lim

2014 • 9 Readers • 281 pages • 4.5

#266

Age of Ambition

ByEvan Osnos

2014 • 17 Readers • 403 pages • 4

#267

The Culture of Capitalism

ByAlan Macfarlane

1987 • 1 Reader • 272 pages

#268

Banvard's Folly : Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity and Rotten Luck

ByPaul Collins

2001 • 3 Readers • 5

#269

The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food

ByDan Barber

2014 • 30 Readers • 496 pages • 4

#270

Carbon Democracy

ByTimothy Mitchell

2011 • 4 Readers • 278 pages

#271

Animal madness

ByLaurel Braitman

2014 • 8 Readers • 373 pages • 4.5

#272

A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

ByBen Macintyre

2014 • 65 Readers • 567 pages • 4.1

#273

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

ByGilbert King

2012 • 31 Readers • 434 pages • 4.9

#274

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

ByHampton Sides

2014 • 53 Readers • 454 pages • 4.5

#275

Notes from no man's land : American essays

ByEula Biss

2009 • 6 Readers • 230 pages • 5

#276

Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

ByDouglas Rushkoff

2013 • 25 Readers • 296 pages • 4

#277

Sylvia

ByPhilip Eade

2014 • 1 Reader • 362 pages

#278

Thirteen days in September : Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David

ByLawrence Wright

2014 • 7 Readers • 368 pages • 4.3

#279

Corruption in America

ByZephyr Teachout

2014 • 3 Readers • 376 pages

#280

52 Blue

ByLeslie Jamison

2014 • 1 Reader • 5

#281

Shopping for Good

ByDara O'Rourke

2012 • 1 Reader • 103 pages • 3

#282

The Polluters

ByBenjamin Ross,Steven Amter

2010 • 1 Reader • 240 pages • 4

#283

#2 of 3 in The Anthropocene Epoch

The Meaning of Human Existence

ByEdward O. Wilson

2014 • 10 Readers • 207 pages

#284

Wild Ones

ByJon Mooallem

2013 • 12 Readers • 339 pages • 4.8

#285

Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor

ByRob Nixon

2011 • 3 Readers • 353 pages

#286

Beyond Transparency

ByBrett Goldstein,Lauren Dyson

2013 • 2 Readers • 316 pages • 3

#287

#1 of 2 in How to Be

How to Be a Victorian

ByRuth Goodman

2013 • 52 Readers • 458 pages • 4.4

#288

The history of rock 'n' roll in ten songs

ByGreil Marcus

2014 • 6 Readers • 307 pages • 4.3

#289

On Immunity

ByEula Biss

2014 • 17 Readers • 216 pages • 4.5

#290

The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be

ByJ.B. MacKinnon

2013 • 5 Readers • 272 pages

#292

The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu

ByDan Jurafsky

2014 • 11 Readers • 238 pages • 3

#293

Loitering

ByCharles D'Ambrosio

2014 • 10 Readers • 367 pages • 4

#294

Empire of Cotton: A Global History

BySven Beckert

2014 • 22 Readers • 640 pages • 3.5

#295

Sand County Almanac

ByAldo Leopold

1949 • 71 Readers • 272 pages • 4.2

#296

Outsiders : Studies in Sociology of Deviance

ByHoward S. Becker

1963 • 2 Readers • 224 pages

#297

Life's Ratchet

ByPeter M. Hoffmann

2012 • 6 Readers • 288 pages • 5

#298

Consciousness and the Social Brain

ByMichael S.A. Graziano

2013 • 5 Readers • 280 pages • 3

#299

All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West

ByDavid Gessner

2015 • 3 Readers • 354 pages

#300

So You've Been Publicly Shamed

ByJon Ronson

2015 • 315 Readers • 3.9

#301

H is for Hawk

ByHelen Macdonald

2014 • 224 Readers • 324 pages • 3.9

#302

A new leaf

ByAlyson Martin

2014 • 1 Reader • 264 pages

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