Nonfiction & Reference 1-17
13 entries in the Nonfiction & Reference compendium.
LexiconThe vocabulary inventory of a language or branch of knowledge.Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and ArchitectsFirst important book on art history, by Giorgio Vasari.MuqaddimahSome modern thinkers view it as the first work dealing with the social sciences of socioloMémoires d'Outre-TombePosthumous memoir blending history and personal reflection.Natural History (Pliny)Roman encyclopedia covering the natural world and human life.Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassIt is the first of Douglass's three autobiographies and is generally held to be the most fNight (memoir)Memoir of Holocaust survival and loss of faith.On LibertyIt applies their ethical system of utilitarianism to society and state, proposing standardOn the Origin of SpeciesFoundation of evolutionary biology, introducing natural selection.OpticksNewton's experimental study of light, color, and diffraction.Orientalism (book)The book argues that Western scholarship about the Eastern world is inextricably tied to tProgress and PovertyIt examines why poverty persists alongside economic and technological progress, and why ecMan's Search for MeaningA psychologist's account of finding meaning in concentration camps.
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