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Microhistories: Culture
Exhaustively researched, and usually entertaining histories of one thing.
Culture
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Physical Sciences
Food
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World
by
Dan Koeppel
Call Number: 634.772 KOE
ISBN: 9781594630385
Bitter Chocolate: The Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet
by
Carol Off
Call Number: 338.17374 OFF
ISBN: 9781595583307
Coffee Talk: The Stimulating Story of the World's Most Popular Brew
by
Morton Satin
Call Number: 641.3373 SAT
ISBN: 9781591026884
Culture of the Fork: A Brief History of Food in Europe
by
Giovanni Rebora
Call Number: 394.1094 REB
ISBN: 0231121504
Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil
by
Tom Meuller
Call Number: 664.364 MUE
ISBN: 9780393070217
In Pursuit of Garlic
by
Liz Primeau
Call Number: 641.6526 PRI
ISBN: 9781553656012
Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Meal
by
Margaret Visser
Call Number: 394.12 VIS
ISBN: 0802100236
Nathaniel's Nutmeg: or the True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History
by
Giles Milton
Call Number: 338.173 MIL
ISBN: 0374219362
Salt: A World History
by
Mark Kurlansky
Call Number: 553.63 KUR
ISBN: 0142001619
The Devil's Cup: Coffee, the Driving Force in History
by
Stewart Lee Allen
Call Number: 641.3373 ALL
ISBN: 9781569471746
The Empire of Tea: The Remarkable History of the Plant that Took Over the World
by
Alan MacFarlane and Iris MacFarlane
Call Number: 641.7732 MAC
ISBN: 9781585674930
The Sex Life of Food: When Body and Soul Meet to Eat
by
Bunny Crumpacker
Call Number: 394.1 CRU
ISBN: 0312342071
Vegetables
by
Evelyne Bloch-Dano; Teresa Lavender Fagan (Translator)
Call Number: 635 BLO
ISBN: 9780226059945
Pepper
by
Marjorie Shaffer
Call Number: 641.3384 SHA
ISBN: 9780312569891
Colors
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
by
Victoria Finlay
Call Number: 535.6 FIN
ISBN: 0345444302
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color that Changed the World
by
Simon Garfield
Call Number: 667.257 GAR
ISBN: 9780393020052
Dwellings
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
by
Bill Bryson
Call Number: 643.1 BRY
ISBN: 9780767919388
Hotel: An American History
by
A.K. Sandoval-Strausz
Call Number: 917.306 SAN
ISBN: 9780300106169
Clothing
The History of Underclothes
by
C. Willett and Phillis Cunnington
Call Number: 391.42 CUN
ISBN: 0486271242
Uniforms: Why we are what we Wear
by
Paul Fussell
Call Number: 391 FUS
ISBN: 0618067469
Dust, Dirt and Garbage
Dust: A History of the Small & the Invisible
by
Joseph A Amato
Call Number: 551.51 AMA
ISBN: 0520218752
Garbage Land: on the Secret Trail of Trash
by
Elizabeth Royte
Call Number: 363.7285 ROY
ISBN: 0316738263
Garbology
by
Edward Humes
Call Number: 363.7285 HUM
ISBN: 9781583334348
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
by
Katherin Ashenburg
Call Number: 391.64 ASH
ISBN: 086547690X
The Secret Life of Dust: From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter, The Big Consequences of Little Things
by
Hannah Holmes
Call Number: 551.5113 HOL
ISBN: 0471377430
Industry and Technology
Decoding the Heavens: a 2,000-Year-Old Computer and the Century-Long Search to Discover its Secrets
by
Jo Marchant
Call Number: 681.11 MAR
ISBN: 9780306817427
Glass: A World History
by
Alan MacFarlane and Gerry Martin
Call Number: 666.1 MAC
ISBN: 9780226500287
Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, & Pyrotechnics: A History of the Explosive that Changed the World
by
Jack Kelly
Call Number: 662.26 KEL
ISBN: 9780465037186
Just My Type: A Book about Fonts
by
Simon Garfield
Call Number: 686.224 GAR
ISBN: 9781592406524
Napalm
by
Robert M. Neer
Call Number: 355.8245 NEE
ISBN: 9780674073012
The Riddle of the Compass
by
Amir D. Aczel
Call Number: 912.0284 ACZ
ISBN: 9780151005062
Thinking Small: The Long, Strange Trip of the Volkswagen Beetle
by
Andrea Hiott
Call Number: 629.2222 HIO
ISBN: 9780345521422
Taxidermy
Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy
by
Melissa Milgrom
Call Number: 590.752 MIL
ISBN: 9780618405473
The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy
by
Dave Madden
Call Number: 590.752 MAD
ISBN: 9780312643713
Beauty
Color Stories: Behind the Scenes of America's Billion-Dollar Beauty Industry
by
Mary Lisa Gavenas
Call Number: 338.4764672 GAV
ISBN: 0684865157
Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science, and Evolution
by
David Rothenberg
Call Number: 701.05 ROT
ISBN: 9781608192168
Why Beauty is Truth: a History of Symmetry
by
Ian Stewart
Call Number: 539.725 STE
ISBN: 046508236X
Transportation
Taxi! A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver
by
Graham Russell Gao Hodges
Call Number: 388.413214 HOD
ISBN: 080188554X
The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers who Created the American Superhighways
by
Earl Swift
Call Number: 388.122 SWI
ISBN: 9780618812417
Emotions
Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy
by
Barbara Ehrenreich
Call Number: 394.26 EHR
ISBN: 0805057234
The Gifts of Thanks: The Roots and Rituals of Gratitude
by
Margaret Visser
Call Number: 394 VIS
ISBN: 9780151013319
The Supernatural
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
by
Mary Roach
Call Number: 128 ROA
ISBN: 9780393059625
The Performing Arts
A Natural History of the Piano: The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians- from Mozart to Modern Jazz and Everything in Between
by
Stuart Isacoff
Call Number: 786.209 ISA
ISBN: 9780307266378
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