Nonfiction Hardcover

New nonfiction titles in hardcover hitting our shelves - updated weekly.

 

Man of Tomorrow: The Relentless Life of Jerry Brown Cover Image

Man of Tomorrow: The Relentless Life of Jerry Brown (Hardcover)

By Jim Newton
$30.00
ISBN: 9780316392464
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - May 12th, 2020
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art Cover Image

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (Hardcover)

By James Nestor
$28.00
ISBN: 9780735213616
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Published: Riverhead Books - May 26th, 2020
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World Cover Image

The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World (Hardcover)

By Patrik Svensson
$28.99
ISBN: 9780062968814
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Published: Ecco - May 26th, 2020
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life Cover Image

Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life (Hardcover)

By Zena Hitz
$22.95
ISBN: 9780691178714
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Published: Princeton University Press - May 26th, 2020
Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food Cover Image

Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food (Hardcover)

By Gina Rae La Cerva
$26.95
ISBN: 9781771645331
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Published: Greystone Books - May 26th, 2020
Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit Cover Image

Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit (Hardcover)

By Ashley Mears
$29.95
ISBN: 9780691168654
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Published: Princeton University Press - May 26th, 2020
Afropessimism Cover Image

Afropessimism (Hardcover)

By Frank Wilderson, III
$29.95
ISBN: 9781631496141
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Published: Liveright - April 7th, 2020
Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth Cover Image

Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth (Hardcover)

By Benjamin Taylor
$26.00
ISBN: 9780525505242
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Published: Penguin Books - May 19th, 2020
In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration Cover Image

In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration (Hardcover)

By Shane O'Mara
$25.95
ISBN: 9780393652086
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - May 12th, 2020
Tolkien's Worlds: The Places That Inspired the Writer's Imagination Cover Image

Tolkien's Worlds: The Places That Inspired the Writer's Imagination (Hardcover)

By John Garth
$29.95
ISBN: 9780691196947
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Published: Princeton University Press - June 9th, 2020
The Remarkable Life of the Skin: An Intimate Journey Across Our Largest Organ Cover Image

The Remarkable Life of the Skin: An Intimate Journey Across Our Largest Organ (Hardcover)

By Monty Lyman
$27.00
ISBN: 9780802129406
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Published: Atlantic Monthly Press - June 2nd, 2020
For Joshua: An Ojibwe Father Teaches His Son Cover Image

For Joshua: An Ojibwe Father Teaches His Son (Hardcover)

By Richard Wagamese
$24.00
ISBN: 9781571313898
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Published: Milkweed Editions - April 14th, 2020
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency Cover Image

Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency (Hardcover)

By Olivia Laing
$26.95
ISBN: 9781324005704
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - May 12th, 2020
On Lighthouses Cover Image

On Lighthouses (Hardcover)

By Jazmina Barrera, Christina Macsweeney (Translator)
$19.95
ISBN: 9781949641011
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Published: Two Lines Press - May 12th, 2020
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures Cover Image

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)

By Merlin Sheldrake
$28.00
ISBN: 9780525510314
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Published: Random House - May 12th, 2020

I just started dipping into this, a fascinating scientific study of the family fungi - the most numerous living things on earth, and arguably the least understood. At least by me - I don't know anything about them, other than that you shouldn't eat the little brown mushrooms you find in the woods. -sm

Short Life in a Strange World: Birth to Death in 42 Panels Cover Image

Short Life in a Strange World: Birth to Death in 42 Panels (Hardcover)

By Toby Ferris
$32.50
ISBN: 9780062931757
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Published: Harper - February 25th, 2020
Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking Cover Image

Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking (Hardcover)

By Bill Buford
$28.95
ISBN: 9780307271013
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Published: Knopf - May 5th, 2020
The Museum of Whales You Will Never See: And Other Excursions to Iceland's Most Unusual Museums Cover Image

The Museum of Whales You Will Never See: And Other Excursions to Iceland's Most Unusual Museums (Hardcover)

By A. Kendra Greene
$22.00
ISBN: 9780143135463
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Published: Penguin Books - May 12th, 2020
Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt Cover Image

Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt (Hardcover)

By Steven Johnson
$28.00
ISBN: 9780735211605
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Published: Riverhead Books - May 12th, 2020

I read Johnson's book How We Got to Now while sheltering in place - he is a wonderful writer who has a remarkable ability to pull all the tiny threads of historical fact together into a glorious, well-told narrative. I've got this one on my short stack to be read at home. -sm

Warhol Cover Image

Warhol (Hardcover)

By Blake Gopnik
$45.00
ISBN: 9780062298393
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Published: Ecco - April 28th, 2020
Pelosi Cover Image

Pelosi (Hardcover)

By Molly Ball
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250252869
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Published: Henry Holt and Co. - May 5th, 2020
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think Cover Image

The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think (Hardcover)

By Jennifer Ackerman
$28.00
ISBN: 9780735223011
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Published: Penguin Press - May 5th, 2020
Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy Cover Image

Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)

By Alastair Gee, Dani Anguiano
$26.95
ISBN: 9781324005148
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - May 5th, 2020
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings: A Year of Keeping Bees Cover Image

A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings: A Year of Keeping Bees (Hardcover)

By Helen Jukes
$26.95
ISBN: 9781524747862
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Published: Pantheon - May 5th, 2020
In Praise of Paths: Walking Through Time and Nature Cover Image

In Praise of Paths: Walking Through Time and Nature (Hardcover)

By Torbjørn Ekelund, Becky L. Crook (Translator)
$24.95
ISBN: 9781771644952
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Published: Greystone Books - May 5th, 2020
Forest: (Tree Photography Book, Nature and World Photo Book) Cover Image

Forest: (Tree Photography Book, Nature and World Photo Book) (Hardcover)

By Matt Collins, Roo Lewis (Photographs by)
$29.95
ISBN: 9781452184821
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Published: Chronicle Books - March 31st, 2020
American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland Cover Image

American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland (Hardcover)

By Marie Mutsuki Mockett
$28.00
ISBN: 9781644450178
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Published: Graywolf Press - April 7th, 2020
Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear Cover Image

Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear (Hardcover)

By Eva Holland
$24.95
ISBN: 9781615196005
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Published: The Experiment - April 14th, 2020
Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life Cover Image

Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life (Hardcover)

By Marie Kondo, Scott Sonenshein
$24.00
ISBN: 9780316423328
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Published: Little, Brown Spark - April 7th, 2020
Beastie Boys Cover Image

Beastie Boys (Hardcover)

By Spike Jonze, Mike Diamond (Text by), Adam Horovitz (Text by)
$55.00
ISBN: 9780847868384
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Published: Rizzoli - April 8th, 2020
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began Cover Image

The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began (Hardcover)

By Valerie Hansen
$30.00
ISBN: 9781501194108
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Published: Scribner - April 14th, 2020
Department of Mind-Blowing Theories Cover Image

Department of Mind-Blowing Theories (Hardcover)

By Tom Gauld
$21.95
ISBN: 9781770463752
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Published: Drawn and Quarterly - April 14th, 2020
Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs Cover Image

Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs (Hardcover)

By Jennifer Finney Boylan
$26.99
ISBN: 9781250261878
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Published: Celadon Books - April 21st, 2020
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life Cover Image

Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life (Hardcover)

By Lulu Miller
$26.00
ISBN: 9781501160271
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Published: Simon & Schuster - April 14th, 2020
The Golden Flea: A Story of Obsession and Collecting Cover Image

The Golden Flea: A Story of Obsession and Collecting (Hardcover)

By Michael Rips
$26.95
ISBN: 9781324004073
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - April 21st, 2020
Navigate Your Stars Cover Image

Navigate Your Stars (Hardcover)

By Jesmyn Ward, Gina Triplett (Illustrator)
$16.00
ISBN: 9781982131326
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Published: Scribner - April 7th, 2020
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power Cover Image

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power (Hardcover)

By Deirdre Mask
$26.99
ISBN: 9781250134769
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Published: St. Martin's Press - April 14th, 2020
At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life Cover Image

At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life (Hardcover)

By Fenton Johnson
$26.95
ISBN: 9780393608298
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - March 10th, 2020
A Little History of Poetry (Little Histories) Cover Image

A Little History of Poetry (Little Histories) (Hardcover)

By John Carey
$25.00
ISBN: 9780300232226
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Published: Yale University Press - April 21st, 2020
A Citizen's Guide to Beating Donald Trump Cover Image

A Citizen's Guide to Beating Donald Trump (Hardcover)

By David Plouffe
$25.00
ISBN: 9781984879493
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Published: Viking - March 3rd, 2020
Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park Cover Image

Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park (Hardcover)

By Conor Knighton
$28.00
ISBN: 9781984823540
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Published: Crown - April 7th, 2020
Trees in Trouble: Wildfires, Infestations, and Climate Change Cover Image

Trees in Trouble: Wildfires, Infestations, and Climate Change (Hardcover)

By Daniel Mathews
$26.00
ISBN: 9781640091351
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Published: Counterpoint LLC - April 7th, 2020
The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage Cover Image

The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage (Hardcover)

By Mara Hvistendahl
$28.00
ISBN: 9780735214286
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Published: Riverhead Books - February 4th, 2020
Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond Cover Image

Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond (Hardcover)

By Lydia Denworth
$26.95
ISBN: 9780393651546
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - January 28th, 2020
The Sum of the People: How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age Cover Image

The Sum of the People: How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age (Hardcover)

By Andrew Whitby
$30.00
ISBN: 9781541619340
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Published: Basic Books - March 31st, 2020
The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum Cover Image

The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum (Hardcover)

By James Gardner
$30.00
ISBN: 9780802148773
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Published: Atlantic Monthly Press - May 5th, 2020
Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World Cover Image

Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World (Hardcover)

By Olga Khazan
$28.00
ISBN: 9780316418485
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Published: Hachette Go - April 7th, 2020