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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
The Economic Aspect of Geology
A survey of geology in its practical and economic dimension, examining how the earth's minerals, ores, fuels and materials underpin industry, wealth and the workings of a modern ec
$8.00
History
Pagan and Christian Rome
A vivid archaeological journey through the Eternal City as it passed from pagan antiquity to Christianity, tracing the temples, tombs, and monuments where two worlds met and merged
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Crime
The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Jo
The trial record of the notorious 1814 Stock Exchange fraud, in which Lord Cochrane and others stood accused of spreading false news to manipulate the markets: a landmark case of f
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The Nuttall encyclopædia : $b being a concise and comprehensive dictionary of general knowledge
A compact single-volume reference of general knowledge, the Nuttall Encyclopaedia offers brief, wide-ranging entries on people, places, ideas and events, a snapshot of learning fro
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Non-fiction
Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber : $b or, The influence of Romanism on trade, justice, and knowledge
A nineteenth-century polemical travel narrative journeying from the Alps to Rome, arguing a critical case about the influence of the Roman Catholic Church on commerce, law and lear
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History
The Every-day Book and Table Book, v. 1 (of 3): or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremon
William Hone's beloved Every-Day Book, an almanac of British customs, festivals, folklore and popular amusements arranged through the calendar year, this first volume brimming with
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Biography & Memoir
Up from Slavery
Booker T.
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Non-fiction
The Twilight of the Idols
Nietzsche's swift, incendiary late work, a philosophy delivered with a hammer.
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History
A Class-Book of New Testament History
A Victorian teaching text by G.
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History
The Johnstown Horror!!!
A vivid contemporary account of the 1889 Johnstown Flood, when a failed dam sent a wall of water through a Pennsylvania valley and killed thousands.
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History
Fishing from the Earliest Times
A scholarly and affectionate history of angling in the ancient world, tracing how the peoples of antiquity fished the rivers and seas.
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Non-fiction
The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid
The foundational text of geometry, presenting Euclid's first six books of the Elements with their definitions, propositions and proofs.
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Non-fiction
A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
John Stuart Mill's foundational treatise on reasoning, evidence, and the methods of science.
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Classics
Cicero's Tusculan Disputations: Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth
Three of Cicero's great philosophical works together, the Tusculan Disputations on how to live and die well, On the Nature of the Gods on religion, and On the Commonwealth on the j
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History
On War
On War by Carl von Clausewitz is the monumental modern classic on strategy, uncertainty, politics, friction, and the enduring logic of armed conflict.
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Classics
Notre-Dame de Paris
Victor Hugo's sweeping medieval romance, gathered around the great cathedral of Paris and the souls whose fates are bound to it.
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$5.00
Non-fiction
The Problems of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell's classic short introduction to philosophy, a lucid, invigorating guide to the deepest questions about knowledge, reality and the limits of what we can be sure we
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Classics
Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The private meditations of the Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, written for himself alone.
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History
A History of Roman Classical Literature
A comprehensive survey of the great writers of ancient Rome, from Plautus and Cicero to Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, tracing the rise and flowering of Latin literature.
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Non-fiction
An Elementary Study of Chemistry
A foundational chemistry textbook by William McPherson and William Edwards Henderson, introducing the elements, reactions, and laws of the science to beginning students.
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History
From Chaucer to Tennyson
A concise survey of English literature from the medieval age to the Victorian era, tracing its major writers and movements across five centuries.
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Non-fiction
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters; I to End. Colossians, Thessaloni
A volume of careful, warm-hearted biblical exposition covering Second Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, Colossians, and the letters that follow: scripture opened passage by pass
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Adventure
A Victor of Salamis
William Stearns Davis's rousing historical novel of ancient Greece, set amid the Persian Wars and the great sea battle of Salamis, where courage and love are tested against the fat
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Humor
Following the Equator
Mark Twain circles the globe on a lecture tour, notebook in hand, turning ocean crossings, colonial outposts and human folly into wry, watchful travel writing edged with anger.
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History
Belgium: From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day
Emile Cammaerts's sweeping history of Belgium, tracing the fortunes of a small but pivotal European land from ancient times to the modern era.
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Non-fiction
Popular Education: For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes
A guide to education for parents, teachers and the young themselves — setting out principles for the forming of mind and character in a spirit of broad instruction.
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Biography & Memoir
The Life of King Edward VII
A biography of Edward VII, the long-waiting heir who became king and gave his name to an age.
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Non-fiction
On Growth and Form
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's landmark work reveals the mathematics and physics behind the shapes of living things, uniting biology, geometry, and beauty.
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Biography & Memoir
Fifty Years In The Northwest
William H.
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Crime
The Mystery of the Blue Train
A wealthy heiress is found murdered aboard the luxury train to the Riviera, her famous rubies gone, and Hercule Poirot, a fellow passenger, takes up a case tangled in money, love a
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Classics
Phaedo
Plato's account of Socrates' final hours, spent not in fear but in conversation about the soul and its fate.
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Non-fiction
Civics and Health
An early twentieth-century educational text linking good citizenship with public and personal health.
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Adventure
Love-at-arms : $b being a narrative excerpted from the chronicles of Urbino, during the dominion of the high and mighty
Rafael Sabatini's swashbuckling historical romance set in Renaissance Italy: a tale of honour, love, and intrigue among the courts and condottieri of Urbino, told with the master s
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History
The Choctaw Freedmen and the Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy
A history of the Choctaw Freedmen, formerly enslaved by the Choctaw Nation, and the founding of Oak Hill Industrial Academy to educate their children.
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History
The Frontier in American History
Frederick Jackson Turner's landmark essays advancing the frontier thesis, arguing that the moving edge of settlement shaped American democracy and character.
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Biography & Memoir
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
Diogenes Laertius's rich compendium of the lives, sayings and doctrines of the ancient Greek philosophers.
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Art & Design
Contemporary American Composers
A survey of American composers of its era, offering portraits of the musicians shaping the nation's serious music.
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Non-fiction
The Birth of Tragedy
Nietzsche's daring first book, which finds the origins of Greek tragedy in the clash between the Apollonian and the Dionysian.
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History
Byzantine Constantinople, the walls of the city and adjoining historical sites
Alexander van Millingen's classic survey walks the great land walls of Constantinople stone by stone, tracing the defences that guarded the Byzantine capital for a thousand years a
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History
The Story of Paris
A narrative history of Paris, tracing the city's growth from its origins through the centuries of its splendour.
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History
The Pantropheon
A grand nineteenth-century history of food and its preparation in the ancient world, roaming across the tables of Greece, Rome, and beyond.
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Historical Fiction
The Reign of Greed
José Rizal's darker sequel to Noli Me Tangere, in which a returned exile plots amid corruption and colonial cruelty, hastening a nation toward its reckoning.
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Adventure
Set in Silver
A charming period romance of travel and courtship, in which a journey becomes the setting for misunderstanding, disguise and the slow blossoming of love.
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Non-fiction
A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580
A scholarly reference to the vocabulary of Middle English, glossing the words of Chaucer's age and beyond.
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Non-fiction
The Expositor's Bible
A volume from the celebrated series of scholarly yet accessible commentaries on the books of the Bible.
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Biography & Memoir
The Bābur-nāma in English
The candid memoirs of Babur, founder of the Mughal empire, in English translation.
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History
The history of England, from the accession of Henry III. to the death of Edward III
A narrative history of medieval England spanning the reigns from Henry III to Edward III, a formative age of parliaments, wars and the making of the nation's institutions.
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Non-fiction
Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught: Comprising instructions in the selection and preparation of drawing instruments, element
A practical self-instruction manual in mechanical drawing, guiding the beginner from choosing and preparing drawing instruments through the fundamentals of technical draughtsmanshi
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