Non-fiction for Intelligent Folks
Discover a curated list of non-fiction books for intelligent readers. Expand your knowledge with thought-provoking titles tailored for sharp minds.
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The Prince
by Niccolo Machiavelli
Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic …
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Walden and Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau
A transcendentalist classic on social responsibility and a manifesto that inspired modern protest movements Critical of 19th-century America’s booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau …
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The Nine Nations of North America
by Joel Garreau
This provocative book regroups the areas of North America into divisions according to economic and social resources and needs.
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The Death of Common Sense
by Philip K. Howard
Distressing, disturbing, devastatingly detailed--this stunning examination of how modern laws are diminishing America exposes the drawbacks of rule-bound government, tells why nothing gets done, reveals …
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The Control of Nature
by John McPhee
The Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested …
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Reader's Digest Scenic Wonders of America
by Reader's Digest Association
An illustrated guide to our natural splendors.
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Dust Bowl
by Donald Worster
In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the …
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Nowhere is a Place
by Bruce Chatwin
"Nowhere is a Place recounts Paul Theroux's and Bruce Chatwin's impressions of this little-known windswept wilderness and reveals the powerful effect Patagonia has had on …
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A Mencken Chrestomathy
by H.L. Mencken
Edited and annotated by H.L.M., this is a selection from his out-of-print writings. They come mostly from books—the six installments of the Prejudices series, A …
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
One of the world’s most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate …
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Thinking Unth 80SP
by Herman Kahn
In this reconsideration of his controversial study Thinking about the Unthinkable (1962), Kahn addresses deterrence concepts and specific arms control issues which are likely to …
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The Making of a Continent
Shows how tectonics has influenced life on the North American continent.