Genre
Non-fiction.
At dot books, our non-fiction shelves hum with stories of real-life adventure, intellectual quests, and forgotten histories. From the philosophical masterpiece Critique of Pure Reason to the swashbuckling suppression of piracy in Borneo and the intimate Choctaw Freedmen, every volume is a doorway to a vivid, true world. Whether you’re drawn to grand ideas or human dramas, you’ll find a book here that stays with you long after the last page.
Non-fiction
Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries
Annie Besant's Theosophical reading of Christianity as a repository of hidden, mystical truths, arguing that behind the familiar faith lies an ancient wisdom meant for the spiritua
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History
The University of Michigan
An account of one of America's great public universities, its founding, growth and character.
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Editor's pick — classics
The Bureaucratic Architecture of National Socialism
A rigorously contextualized study of how the Nazi Party translated ideology into hierarchy, territorial control, mass organizations, surveillance, and visual bureaucracy.
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$8.50
Biography & Memoir
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete
Rousseau’s Confessions is a foundational autobiographical classic of self-examination and Enlightenment thought.
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Non-fiction
The Deaf: Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States
Harry Best’s The Deaf is a major historical study of deaf education and social position in the United States.
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Non-fiction
Æsthetic as science of expression and general linguistic
Benedetto Croce’s classic on aesthetics, expression, and language is presented in a clean DotBooks edition.
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History
Cornish Characters and Strange Events
Sabine Baring-Gould’s Cornish Characters and Strange Events gathers local lives, folklore, and unusual incidents from Cornwall.
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History
Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome
A classic culinary history text associated with Apicius, illuminating Roman food, dining, and elite taste.
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Biography & Memoir
Albert Gallatin
John Austin Stevens’s Albert Gallatin offers a concise portrait of a major American statesman and diplomat.
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Non-fiction
A guide to modern cookery
Escoffier's landmark manual codified French cuisine into a working system: mother sauces, brigade order, thousands of recipes.
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Fiction
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Thomas More's slender, sly book coined a word and launched a whole tradition of imagining better worlds.
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Art & Design
Line and Form
A working artist's guide to the principles of drawing and design, exploring how line and shape create beauty and meaning.
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History
Three years in the Sixth Corps : $b A concise narrative of events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the close of
A firsthand narrative of three years with the Sixth Corps in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 through the closing of the American Civil War: campaigns, battles, and army life see
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History
Famous Sea Fights, from Salamis to Tsu-Shima
A vivid narrative history of decisive naval battles across the ages, from the ancient Greek triumph at Salamis to the modern clash at Tsushima, charting how sea power has shaped th
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Non-fiction
The Way To Geometry
An early treatise setting out the principles of geometry for the student and practitioner.
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History
The Evolution of Marriage and of the Family
A nineteenth-century work of comparative anthropology tracing how marriage and family life were thought to have developed across human societies, written in the confident, sweeping
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Biography & Memoir
My Bondage and My Freedom
Frederick Douglass expands his life story into a powerful autobiographical indictment of slavery, tracing violence, resistance, education, escape, and the making of a public voice.
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Non-fiction
Evolution, Old & New
Samuel Butler's spirited examination of theories of evolution, championing the earlier evolutionists against Darwin's account of natural selection.
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Nature & Environment
Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained
A practical nineteenth-century manual that set out to demystify the craft of beekeeping.
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Non-fiction
Enquire within upon everything
The Victorian household's indispensable companion, a bestselling manual crammed with practical advice on cookery, etiquette, health, games and domestic emergencies, all under the c
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Art & Design
Handwork in Wood
A thorough practical guide to working with wood, covering tools, joints, and the properties of timber.
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Fiction
Nicanor - Teller of Tales
A historical romance set in the twilight of Roman Britain, following a gifted teller of tales through love and upheaval as an old order gives way.
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Non-fiction
Influences of Geographic Environment: On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
Ellen Churchill Semple's influential treatise argues that geography shapes human history and society, adapting Friedrich Ratzel's system of anthropo-geography for the English-speak
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History
The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765
A documentary history of Dutch voyages to the great southern land, tracing how the navigators of the Netherlands charted the coasts of Australia long before the British arrived.
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Biography & Memoir
The Memoirs of Admiral Lord Beresford
Charles Beresford recalls a life spanning the late Victorian and Edwardian Royal Navy, from sea service and colonial campaigns to a public career in Parliament.
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Non-fiction
The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication
Charles Darwin's vast survey of how humans have reshaped living things through breeding — the evidence, gathered animal by animal and plant by plant, behind his theory of selection
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Non-fiction
The Animal Parasites of Man
A classic scientific account of the parasites that afflict human beings, describing their forms, life cycles, and effects for students of medicine and natural history.
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Non-fiction
The Elements of Style
William Strunk Jr.’s compact style guide remains a crisp, practical classic on clarity, usage, and revision.
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Non-fiction
A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory
Albert Taylor Bledsoe's searching work of theology and philosophy, which confronts the ancient problem of evil and seeks to defend the justice, goodness and glory of God against it
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History
Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3: or the Central and Western Rajput States of India
The opening volume of James Tod's monumental Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan lays the foundations of his pioneering history of the Rajput states, their origins, chivalry and an
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Biography & Memoir
The Black Hawk War Including a Review of Black Hawk's Life
Frank Everett Stevens's detailed history of the 1832 Black Hawk War, with an account of the Sauk leader Black Hawk's life.
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Non-fiction
Through Finland in Carts
A lively Victorian travelogue journeying across Finland by horse and cart, observing its landscapes, customs, and people.
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Classics
The Republic of Plato
Plato’s great dialogue on justice, education, power, and the shape of an ideal city remains one of the defining books of political thought.
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Non-fiction
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests
A nineteenth-century traveller's account of Peru, journeying from the coast up into the sierra, across the Andes and on into the primeval forest, rich in observation of landscape,
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History
The History of Trade Unionism:
Sidney and Beatrice Webb's pioneering history of the British trade union movement, tracing its rise from early combinations to organised labour.
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History
The inquisition in the Spanish dependencies: Sicily—Naples—Sardinia—Milan—the Canaries—Mexico—Peru—New Granada
Henry Charles Lea extends his monumental study of the Spanish Inquisition beyond Spain itself, tracing how the tribunal operated across Sicily, Naples, Sardinia, Milan, the Canarie
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History
History of circumcision from the earliest times to the present : $b Moral and physical reasons for its performance, with
A wide-ranging nineteenth-century medical and cultural history of circumcision across peoples and eras, setting out the moral and physical arguments made for the practice through t
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Adventure
Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy
A collection of sensational true and traditional tales from the age of sail, gathering accounts of shipboard revolt, bloody crime, and piracy on the high seas.
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History
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations: Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Cen
A wide-ranging Victorian-era survey of Christmas across many centuries: its origins, customs, historical episodes, and the songs, feasts, and festivities that gathered around the m
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Non-fiction
The Ordinance of Covenanting
A work of Reformed theology examining the biblical practice of covenanting, the solemn binding of a people to God.
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History
The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War
A regimental history of the Second Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, in the South African War of 1899 to 1902: the marches, battles, and service of one Irish battalion through the
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History
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900
A military surgeon's firsthand account of wound treatment during the South African War, recording the injuries, methods and hard-won lessons of the battlefield.
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Art & Design
Bookbinding, and the Care of Books
A classic, clear-eyed manual on the craft of binding books and keeping them well.
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Biography & Memoir
The Life of Trust
A stirring nineteenth-century narrative of faith put into practice, recounting a life and ministry sustained, its author held, entirely through prayer.
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History
Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 3 of 3: or the Central and Western Rajput States of India
The third volume of James Tod's monumental Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, his pioneering history of the Rajput states, their dynasties, traditions and antiquities in central
$8.00
Non-fiction
Impressions of South Africa
A traveller-observer's account of South Africa near the close of the nineteenth century, surveying its peoples, its politics and its landscape at a moment poised on the edge of gre
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Biography & Memoir
The Story of My Life
A first-person memoir tracing the arc of a life from its beginnings onward.
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Biography & Memoir
Geoffrey de Mandeville
A classic study of Geoffrey de Mandeville and the anarchy of King Stephen's reign, using one turbulent baron's career to illuminate a chaotic chapter of medieval England.
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