sylviax
Sylvia Chi

Nonfiction

Position
Details
Rating
Readers Count
Controls
#202
Humboldt
Humboldt
  • Emily Brady
41 read
#203
The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville
The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville
  • Clare Mulley
43 reads
#204
Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama
Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama
  • Peniel E. Joseph
00 reads
#205
This Land, This Nation
This Land, This Nation
  • Sarah Phillips
00 reads
#206
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
  • Reza Aslan
3.9149 reads
#207
Mind and Cosmos
Mind and Cosmos
  • Thomas Nagel
00 reads
#208
Sold on language
Sold on language
  • Julie Sedivy
51 read
#209
Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature
Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature
  • Vaclav Smil
01 read
#210
The New Bloomsday Book
The New Bloomsday Book
  • Harry Blamires
3.54 reads
#211
The sports gene
The sports gene
  • David J. Epstein
4.52 reads
#212
The Wolf in the Parlor
The Wolf in the Parlor
  • Jon Franklin
00 reads
#213
The Accumulation of Freedom
The Accumulation of Freedom
    00 reads
    #214
    Ideas in Food
    Ideas in Food
    • Aki Kamozawa
    • H. Alexander Talbot
    4.52 reads
    #215
    The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
    The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
    • Daniel E. Lieberman
    4.55 reads
    #216
    For Discrimination
    For Discrimination
    • Randall Kennedy
    00 reads
    #217
    Ebony and Ivy
    Ebony and Ivy
    • Craig Steven Wilder
    00 reads
    #218
    Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information
    Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information
    • Malcolm McCullough
    00 reads
    #219
    The Great Stagnation
    The Great Stagnation
    • Tyler Cowen
    3.52 reads
    #220
    Revolutions
    Revolutions
      01 read
      #221
      High Price
      High Price
      • Carl L. Hart
      21 read
      #222
      The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election
      The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election
      • John Sides
      • Lynn Vavreck
      3.52 reads
      #223
      Anything that moves
      Anything that moves
      • Dana Goodyear
      32 reads
      #224
      Main Currents of Marxism
      Main Currents of Marxism
      • Leszek KoĊ‚akowski
      00 reads
      #225
      The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
      The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
      • Thomas S. Kuhn
      3.8251 reads
      #226
      Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
      Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
      • Richard Rorty
      43 reads
      #227
      How Dogs Love Us
      How Dogs Love Us
      • Gregory Berns
      3.67 reads
      #228
      Cover 0

      Climate Matters

      Climate Matters
      • John Broome
      00 reads
      #229
      Cover 8

      Perfect Moral Storm

      Perfect Moral Storm
      • Stephen M. Gardiner
      00 reads
      #230
      The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
      The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
      • Erik Brynjolfsson
      4.311 reads
      #231
      From Counterculture to Cyberculture
      From Counterculture to Cyberculture
      • Fred Turner
      4.53 reads
      #232
      The gap
      The gap
      • Thomas Suddendorf
      00 reads
      #233
      The Summer Game
      The Summer Game
      • Roger Angell
      4.253 reads
      #234
      Quack This Way
      Quack This Way
      • Bryan A. Garner
      • David Foster Wallace
      41 read
      #235
      The Best American Essays 2012
      The Best American Essays 2012
        4.52 reads
        #236
        Empress Dowager Cixi
        Empress Dowager Cixi
        • Jung Chang
        44 reads
        #237
        Command and Control
        Command and Control
        • Eric Schlosser
        427 reads
        #238
        Best American essays 2013
        Best American essays 2013
        • Cheryl Strayed
        01 read
        #239
        My Age of Anxiety
        My Age of Anxiety
        • Scott Stossel
        45 reads
        #240
        The Bilingual Mind
        The Bilingual Mind
        • Aneta Pavlenko
        00 reads
        #241
        The Language Hoax
        The Language Hoax
        • John McWhorter
        3.339 reads
        #242
        The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America
        The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America
        • Daniel J. Boorstin
        44 reads
        #243
        A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction
        A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction
        • Joel Greenberg
        41 read
        #244
        The Making Of A Counter Culture: Reflections of the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition
        The Making Of A Counter Culture: Reflections of the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition
        • Theodore Roszak
        51 read
        #245
        The Greening of America
        The Greening of America
        • Charles A. Reich
        00 reads
        #246
        The human use of human beings
        The human use of human beings
        • Norbert Wiener
        00 reads
        #247
        Cybernetics
        Cybernetics
        • Norbert Wiener
        01 read
        #248
        Critical Path
        Critical Path
        • R. Buckminster Fuller
        52 reads
        #249
        Why Government Fails So Often : And How It Can Do Better
        Why Government Fails So Often : And How It Can Do Better
        • Peter H. Schuck
        41 read
        #250
        Capital in the Twenty-First Century
        Capital in the Twenty-First Century
        • Thomas Piketty
        • Arthur Goldhammer (Translator)
        4.0557 reads
        #251
        Water 4.0 : The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource
        Water 4.0 : The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource
        • David Sedlak
        00 reads
        #252
        Culture and Society, 1780-1950
        Culture and Society, 1780-1950
        • Raymond Williams
        00 reads
        #253
        Out of Mao's Shadow : The Struggle for the Soul of a New China
        Out of Mao's Shadow : The Struggle for the Soul of a New China
        • Philip P. Pan
        41 read
        #254
        Reproducing Racism
        Reproducing Racism
        • Daria Roithmayr
        00 reads
        #255
        The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
        The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
        • Michio Kaku
        3.8310 reads
        #256
        The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves
        The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves
        • W. Brian Arthur
        41 read
        #257
        American fun
        American fun
        • John Beckman
        00 reads
        #258
        The Empathy Exams
        The Empathy Exams
        • Leslie Jamison
        3.523 reads
        #259
        Utopia or bust
        Utopia or bust
        • Benjamin Kunkel
        41 read
        #260
        Crossworld
        Crossworld
        • Marc Romano
        00 reads
        #261
        Is Taiwan Chinese?
        Is Taiwan Chinese?
        • Melissa J. Brown
        00 reads
        #262
        Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon
        Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon
        • Emily Apter (Translator)
        • Jacques Lezra (Translator)
        00 reads
        #263
        Valuing life
        Valuing life
        • Cass R. Sunstein
        00 reads
        #264
        Proof: The Science of Booze
        Proof: The Science of Booze
        • Adam Rogers
        3.9214 reads
        #265
        The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited
        The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited
        • Louisa Lim
        4.52 reads
        #266
        Age of Ambition
        Age of Ambition
        • Evan Osnos
        47 reads
        #267
        The Culture of Capitalism
        The Culture of Capitalism
        • Alan Macfarlane
        00 reads
        #268
        Banvard's Folly : Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity and Rotten Luck
        Banvard's Folly : Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity and Rotten Luck
        • Paul Collins
        51 read
        #269
        The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food
        The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food
        • Dan Barber
        47 reads
        #270
        Carbon Democracy
        Carbon Democracy
        • Timothy Mitchell
        00 reads
        #271
        Animal madness
        Animal madness
        • Laurel Braitman
        4.52 reads
        #272
        A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
        A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
        • Ben Macintyre
        4.0734 reads
        #273
        Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
        Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
        • Gilbert King
        4.889 reads
        #274
        In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
        In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
        • Hampton Sides
        4.4723 reads
        #275
        Notes from no man's land : American essays
        Notes from no man's land : American essays
        • Eula Biss
        53 reads
        #276
        Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
        Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
        • Douglas Rushkoff
        44 reads
        #277
        Sylvia
        Sylvia
        • Philip Eade
        00 reads
        #278
        Thirteen days in September : Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
        Thirteen days in September : Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
        • Lawrence Wright
        4.333 reads
        #279
        Corruption in America
        Corruption in America
        • Zephyr Teachout
        00 reads
        #280
        Cover 5

        52 Blue

        52 Blue
        • Leslie Jamison
        51 read
        #281
        Shopping for Good
        Shopping for Good
        • Dara O'Rourke
        31 read
        #282
        Cover 2

        The Polluters

        The Polluters
        • Benjamin Ross
        • Steven Amter
        41 read
        #283
        The Meaning of Human Existence
        The Meaning of Human Existence
        • Edward O. Wilson
        01 read
        #284
        Wild Ones
        Wild Ones
        • Jon Mooallem
        4.755 reads
        #285
        Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
        Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
        • Rob Nixon
        43 reads
        #286
        Beyond Transparency
        Beyond Transparency
        • Brett Goldstein
        • Lauren Dyson
        31 read
        #287
        How to Be a Victorian
        How to Be a Victorian
        • Ruth Goodman
        4.2718 reads
        #288
        The history of rock 'n' roll in ten songs
        The history of rock 'n' roll in ten songs
        • Greil Marcus
        4.333 reads
        #289
        On Immunity
        On Immunity
        • Eula Biss
        4.57 reads
        #290
        The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be
        The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be
        • J.B. MacKinnon
        01 read
        #292
        The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu
        The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu
        • Dan Jurafsky
        32 reads
        #293
        Loitering
        Loitering
        • Charles D'Ambrosio
        44 reads
        #294
        Empire of Cotton: A Global History
        Empire of Cotton: A Global History
        • Sven Beckert
        3.52 reads
        #295
        Sand County Almanac
        Sand County Almanac
        • Aldo Leopold
        4.1337 reads
        #296
        Outsiders : Studies in Sociology of Deviance
        Outsiders : Studies in Sociology of Deviance
        • Howard S. Becker
        00 reads
        #297
        Life's Ratchet
        Life's Ratchet
        • Peter M. Hoffmann
        51 read
        #298
        Consciousness and the Social Brain
        Consciousness and the Social Brain
        • Michael S.A. Graziano
        31 read
        #299
        All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
        All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
        • David Gessner
        00 reads
        #300
        So You've Been Publicly Shamed
        So You've Been Publicly Shamed
        • Jon Ronson
        3.91153 reads
        #301
        H is for Hawk
        H is for Hawk
        • Helen Macdonald
        3.85102 reads
        #302
        A new leaf
        A new leaf
        • Alyson Martin
        00 reads