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Really Captivating Reads About Real Things
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items Nonfiction reads that immerse you in the past, future, or current reality from many different angles. Explore history, science, and social issues that affect us all.
Wonderful history about how horses and humans are indelibly intertwined. I was awestruck at so many facts about the anatomy of horses, their impact on the human diaspora and war strategies for millenia, and much more. These beautiful have always had ...
The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity - Barnes & Noble
Fascinating history of the mosquito’s impact on some of the most famous events in human history.
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
This book gives a historical perspective on the factors that created consumerism. Those factors were not technical or abstract as you might think. Instead of a treatise in economics, Trentmann tracks the social and psychological motivations of people...
Empire of Things: How We Became Consumers
The influence silk has had on world history. This book combines facts and story with very pleasing language to keep the pages turning. I found out why silkworms today could not exist without humans, what the wild west contributed to today’s kevlar ve...
Silk: A World History by Aarathi Prasad
The author takes us around the world, starting with the place of origin of tomatoes, debunks a myth about a famous Italian pizzeria, connects a US president to his second cousin who created the ketchup that became America’s favorite, explains the eco...
Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: History
This book gives a great history of how maps began, how they developed, how they’re used now, and how they may be used in the future. The way the use of maps grew and changed with human knowledge, experiences, and technology is fascinating to read abo...
On the Map: Mind-Expanding World Exploration
This was an amazing journey through time, about timekeeping. The journey of people’s fascination with the passing of time and how to mark it is well documented. Struthers illustrates it with contributions from around the world, world-changing events ...
Hands of Time: A Watchmaker’s History
This book offers evidence plants are not only living but sentient beings that have awareness of their environment. Calvo describes experiments and studies that prove that plant awareness levels change, which impacts their responses to environmental s...
Planta Sapiens: New Science of Plant Intelligence
A fun coffee table book to peruse, I dip in and out of it to learn something about a new element each time. The author uses language and humor to deliver facts and descriptions inclusive of most readers. Highly recommend this book and the other two i...
Elements: Visual Exploration of Every Atom
The second book in Gray’s Elements trilogy, this book is a beautifully photographed and illustrated exploration of the bonds elements make to create simple, complex, inert, and reactive categories of compounds. The beauty of the molecular structures ...
Molecules: The Elements & Architecture
The third in Gray’s Elements trilogy, this book about reactions adds in the flash and fire that makes and breaks the compounds surrounding us: basically, chemistry. But don’t run from the word or you’ll miss pages glowing sith photos of the energy th...
Reactions: Illustrated Exploration of Elements & Change
This book about a woman with Asian and European American parentage asks so many worldview-altering questions about identity, its link to race and nationality, and how questions about your family history can have answers that change how you view not o...
Futureface: A Family Mystery & Epic Quest