25 Important Books of Modern Non-Fiction - Alphabetically
Explore 25 must-read modern non-fiction books listed alphabetically. Discover influential works that shape today's thought—from science to sociology, business to biography.
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The Education of Henry Adams
by Henry Adams
Originally published: Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1918.
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Le Deuxième Sexe
by Simone de Beauvoir
The classic manifesto of the liberated woman, this book explores every facet of a woman's life.
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In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)—and …
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Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
The essential, cornerstone book of modern environmentalism is now offered in a handsome 40th anniversary edition which features a new Introduction by activist Terry Tempest …
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Wwii 6vol Pa Boxed Set
by Winston Churchill
Covers the beginning of the summer of 1943 to the evening of June 5, 1943 with the great armada waiting for the historic landing on …
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The Meaning of Relativity
by Albert Einstein
Simplified version of Professor Einstein's theories that explain that the measurments of motion or rest are relative to the motion or rest of the observer
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The Golden Bough
by James George Frazer
A world classic. The Golden Bough describes our ancestors' primitive methods of worship, sex practices, strange rituals and festivals. Disproving the popular thought that primitive …
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The Interpretation of Dreams
by Sigmund Freud
The classic study of dream analysis that marked the beginning of psychoanalysis.
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The Feminine Mystique
by Betty Friedan
The book that changed the consciousness of a country—and the world. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's …
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The Road to Serfdom
by Friedrich August Hayek
Examines the relationship between individual liberty and government authority, and argues that granting government control of the economy leads to disaster
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Being and Time
by Martin Heidegger
One of the most important philosophical works of our time -- a work that has had tremendous influence on philosophy, literature, and psychology, and has …
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The Varieties of Religious Experience
by William James
"The Varieties of Religious Experience," by William James, is part of the ""Barnes & Noble Classics" "series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to …
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
by John Maynard Keynes
Originally published: New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1936.
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn
Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index.
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Annotated quotations from Chairman Mao
by 毛澤東
"Ce livre contient le texte en chinois de l'ouvrage "Les citatations du président Mao", le célèbre "Petit livre rouge de Mao", avec en regard la …
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The Open Society and Its Enemies: The spell of Plato
by Karl Raimund Popper
Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he emigrated to New Zealand in …
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Being and Nothingness
by Jean-Paul Sartre
Sartre explains the theory of existential psychoanalysis in this treatise on human reality.
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Soviet archives, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn reveals …
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Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care
by Benjamin Spock
The standard guide to baby and child care, from physical to moral development, includes new material on computers and the Internet and on non-traditional families.
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The Making of the English Working Class
by E.P. Thompson
A seminal text on the history of the working class by one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. During the formative years …
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The Double Helix
by James D. Watson
The classic personal account of Watson and Crick’s groundbreaking discovery of the structure of DNA, now with an introduction by Sylvia Nasar, author of A …
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Philosophical Investigations
by Ludwig Wittgenstein
One of the most influential philosophical workks of the 20th century.
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
If there was any one man who articulated the anger, the struggle, and the beliefs of African Americans in the 1960s, that man was Malxolm …