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Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life by Sarah Kaminsky

Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life

Sarah Kaminsky

256 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0gloriana232's review
nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus by Monica Murphy, Bill Wasik

Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

Monica Murphy, Bill Wasik

275 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0gloriana232's review
nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

The Comic Books #1

Scott McCloud

215 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

5.0gloriana232's review
nonfiction art comics informative inspiring medium-paced
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey Into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton

Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey Into the Dark Antarctic Night

Julian Sancton

368 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0gloriana232's review
nonfiction history adventurous reflective slow-paced
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers by Tom Standage

The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers

Tom Standage

233 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

5.0gloriana232's review
nonfiction history science technology informative slow-paced
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

Barbara Ehrenreich

240 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

5.0gloriana232's review
nonfiction economics politics sociology informative reflective medium-paced
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky

Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World

Mark Kurlansky

294 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

5.0gloriana232's review
nonfiction history science adventurous slow-paced
Thieves of Baghdad: One Marine's Passion to Recover the World's Greatest Stolen Treasures by Matthew Bogdanos

Thieves of Baghdad: One Marine's Passion to Recover the World's Greatest Stolen Treasures

Matthew Bogdanos

335 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

5.0gloriana232's review
nonfiction biography history emotional medium-paced
Wreck of the Medusa: The Tragic Story of the Death Raft by Alexander McKee

Wreck of the Medusa: The Tragic Story of the Death Raft

Alexander McKee

294 pages • first pub 1975 (editions)

5.0gloriana232's review
nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

Elizabeth Wayland Barber

334 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

5.0gloriana232's review
nonfiction feminism history challenging informative slow-paced