Books about NONFICTION (General)

Christopher Hitchens takes on God in this, his most fiercely controversial book to date. 'God is Not Great' revels in the wonders of a very real world and rejects our deeply flawed creation. It propounds that given the ludicrous nature of our God we might in fact be a great deal better off without him.

A gift book for cat lovers everywhere, showing how to measure your cat's intelligence in a series of easy and fun tests.

Hotbloods focuses on thoroughbred horse racing's backside and contains more than 100 duotone photos.

Explores what's alluring and what's revolting in cunning. This book also explores some canonical moments of cunning and introduces the distinction between knaves and fools as a time-honored but radically deficient scheme. It shows that rationality, social roles, and morality are tangled together - and trickier than we thought.

It is easy to be wary of mathematics - but as this book shows, drawing on science, literature and philosophy, its patterns are everywhere.

Lost and found, originally published in 1980, this is a classic work of oral history that provides an extraordinary and moving picture of everyday American lives.

Looks at what happens when things go wrong with parts of the brain most of us don't know exist. This work shows the awesome powers of our mind and just how delicately balanced they have to be. It is suitable for those who have felt from time to time that certain twinge of self-identity and sensed how easily, at any moment, one might lose it.