- Comics & Graphic Novels
Ducks
Kate Beaton · 2022 · 436 pages
Beaton’s time in Alberta’s oil sands becomes a clear-eyed account of work, isolation, and the costs hidden behind prosperity.
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- Science
The Idea of the Brain
Matthew Cobb · 2020 · 521 pages
Cobb traces the changing metaphors scientists have used for the brain, showing how each era’s model both illuminated and limited inquiry.
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The Narrow Corridor
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson · 2019 · 594 pages
Their account of the struggle between state power and social power offers a useful framework, tested across widely different histories.
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- Biography & Autobiography
Good Talk
Mira Jacob · 2019 · 365 pages
Jacob uses conversations with her young son to explore race and belonging with candor, humor, and visible uncertainty.
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- Biography & Autobiography
The Story of Art Without Men
Katy Hessel · 2022 · 637 pages · English
Hessel introduces artists too often left outside standard surveys, giving you plenty of names to follow beyond the book.
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Robin Ha · 2020 · 243 pages
Ha draws the loneliness of moving to the United States alongside the friendships and comics that gradually make a home possible.
On Google Books(opens in a new tab)The Brain from Inside Out
György Buzsáki · 2019 · 464 pages
Buzsáki asks how brains generate their own models of the world, drawing on neural rhythms to rethink perception and cognition.
On Google Books(opens in a new tab)- True Crime
Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe · 2018 · 427 pages · English
Beginning with Jean McConville’s disappearance, Keefe follows the Troubles through testimony, memory, and the costs of silence.
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The Bright Ages
Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry · 2021 · 363 pages
This lively corrective to the ‘dark ages’ cliché ranges across medieval Europe without pretending its centuries were all alike.
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The Knowledge Machine
Michael Strevens · 2020 · 252 pages
Strevens offers a distinctive account of why scientific communities learned to prize public criticism over private conviction.
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I Was Their American Dream
Malaka Gharib · 2019 · 162 pages
Gharib’s short scenes capture the everyday negotiations of growing up between Filipino, Egyptian, and American identities.
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Belonging
Nora Krug · 2018 · 288 pages
Krug’s collages, documents, and family memories make the search for a usable relationship to German history feel personal and exact.
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