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
The Land of Thor
A nineteenth-century traveller's account of journeys through the North, blending observation, incident, and wry humour.
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$9.00
Biography & Memoir
A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography
A biographical reference gathering the lives of notable Canadians.
$9.00
History
Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation': From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to t
William Bradford's own history of the Plymouth Colony, printed from his original manuscript, is the foundational eyewitness chronicle of the Pilgrims, their voyage, their first har
$9.00
Fiction
A pair of blue eyes
One of Thomas Hardy's early novels, a tale of love and social divide set against the dramatic cliffs of the Cornish coast.
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$9.00
History
The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn: Including a new and circumstantial account of the battle of Long isla
A detailed history of the pivotal 1776 campaign around New York and Brooklyn in the American Revolution, including a full account of the Battle of Long Island: strategy, terrain, a
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$9.00
Non-fiction
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith's foundational treatise on economics, where the division of labour, free markets, and the famous 'invisible hand' first take shape.
$9.00
Biography & Memoir
Harriet Martineau
A biography of Harriet Martineau, the pioneering nineteenth-century writer, social theorist and reformer, tracing the life and work of one of the first women to make a public caree
$9.00
Adventure
Sword and Pen: Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier
A biography of Willard Glazier, Civil War cavalryman, prisoner, escapee, author, and explorer.
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$9.00
Biography & Memoir
Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy
A historical study of Robert Curthose, eldest son of William the Conqueror and Duke of Normandy, whose turbulent life and rivalry over the English succession shaped the Anglo-Norma
$9.00
History
Lord Milner's Work in South Africa: From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902
An account of Lord Milner's controversial career in South Africa, from his arrival in 1897 through the Boer War to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902: administration, empire, and a d
$9.00
Humor
Roughing It
Mark Twain's uproarious account of his years in the American West, from stagecoach and silver mine to newspaper desk.
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Non-fiction
The Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant's revolutionary masterwork asks what the mind can truly know, redrawing the limits of reason and reshaping the course of Western philosophy.
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$9.00
Adventure
The Air Pirate
An early aviation adventure of daring, danger, and villainy in the skies, from the pioneering age of flight.
$9.00
History
Ancient States and Empires: For Colleges and Schools
A survey of the great civilisations of the ancient world, written for students.
$9.00
History
The Governments of Europe
A comprehensive survey of European political systems by Frederic Austin Ogg, describing the constitutions, institutions and everyday workings of the continent's governments.
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History
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
Mary Rowlandson's gripping first-person account of her capture during King Philip's War and her weeks among her Native captors.
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Biography & Memoir
The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete
The complete diary of Samuel Pepys, an incomparably vivid, gossipy and honest record of London in the 1660s, from plague and Great Fire to the small daily pleasures of an ambitious
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$9.00
Non-fiction
Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding
Leibniz's chapter-by-chapter reply to Locke, cast as a philosophical dialogue on the origins and limits of knowledge.
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Biography & Memoir
Apologia pro vita sua : $b being a history of his religious opinions
John Henry Newman's celebrated spiritual autobiography, tracing with candour and eloquence the long development of his religious opinions and his path toward Rome.
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Essays
Essays on the Latin Orient
A historian's studies of the Crusader and Latin states of the medieval eastern Mediterranean, examining the Frankish rulers, islands and principalities of a fascinating borderland.
$9.00
Non-fiction
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
A classic single-volume dictionary of the English language from the renowned Edinburgh house of Chambers.
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$9.50
Art & Design
The Doré Bible Gallery, Complete: Containing One Hundred Superb Illustrations, and a Page of Explanatory Letter-press Fa
A complete gallery of Gustave Doré's magnificent Bible illustrations, one hundred dramatic engravings with explanatory text.
$9.00
Non-fiction
The Genealogy of Morals
Nietzsche's fierce polemic tracing where our ideas of good and evil actually came from.
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Non-fiction
Manual of Military Training: Second, Revised Edition
A comprehensive early twentieth-century handbook of soldiering, covering drill, tactics, equipment and the practical craft of military life.
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Non-fiction
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
A comprehensive official veterinary manual on the ailments of the horse, describing their causes, symptoms and treatment for a world that still depended on horsepower in the most l
$9.50
Classics
Symposium
A drinking party in ancient Athens becomes a contest of speeches in praise of love.
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History
History of the inductive sciences, from the earliest to the present time
William Whewell's landmark survey of how the natural sciences developed, tracing the growth of physics, astronomy, chemistry and more from antiquity to the nineteenth century as a
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History
The Religious Experience of the Roman People: From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
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$9.00
Biography & Memoir
Susan B. Anthony: Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian
A biography of Susan B.
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Classics
The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus
Two masterworks of the Roman historian Tacitus: the Germania, an ethnography of the tribes beyond the Rhine, and the Agricola, a biography of his father-in-law and the conquest of
$9.00
Non-fiction
In the forbidden land : $b an account of a journey into Tibet, capture by the Tibetan lamas and soldiers, imprisonment
A gripping first-person account of a perilous journey into forbidden Tibet, ending in capture, imprisonment, and hardship at the hands of Tibetan authorities: a classic tale of exp
$9.00
Biography & Memoir
Shakespeare's family
A scholarly inquiry into the relations, ancestry and descendants of William Shakespeare, patiently sifting parish records, wills and documents to reconstruct the ordinary family th
$9.00
History
The Critical Period of American History
John Fiske's classic study of the turbulent years between American independence and the Constitution, when the young republic nearly came apart.
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History
The history of human marriage
Edward Westermarck's landmark study tracing the origins and development of marriage across human societies.
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Fiction
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Dickens's tantalizing final novel, a tale of obsession and disappearance in a cathedral town, left forever unfinished by the author's death mid-story.
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$5.00
Biography & Memoir
Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda's celebrated spiritual autobiography, a luminous account of a life devoted to yoga, meditation, and the search for God, and the book that introduced millions
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$9.00
Non-fiction
The King James Version of the Bible
The King James Version of the Bible is the landmark 1611 English translation whose language, cadence, and imagery shaped centuries of literature, worship, and public speech.
$9.00
Non-fiction
Simple Sabotage Field Manual
The declassified wartime guide produced by the American OSS, teaching ordinary citizens in occupied Europe how to obstruct the enemy through everyday slowness and mistakes.
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History
Superstition and Force: Essays on the Wager of Law, the Wager of Battle, the Ordeal, Torture
Henry Charles Lea's landmark study of medieval legal procedure, tracing how Europe sought truth through oaths, trial by combat, the ordeal, and torture.
$9.00
Business
Concrete Construction: Methods and Costs
A detailed early twentieth-century engineering handbook on building with concrete, setting out the practical methods, materials and economics of a material then transforming constr
$9.50
Non-fiction
Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ
A collection of biographical accounts of Jewish people who converted to Christianity, gathering the lives and testimonies of many such figures from across the centuries in one devo
$9.00
Humor
The Comic English Grammar
A witty Victorian send-up of the dry grammar book, teaching the rules of English through humour, satire and comic example, so that the driest of subjects becomes an unexpected sour
$9.50
Non-fiction
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc
An illustrated study of American mushrooms — edible, poisonous and curious — combining careful description with the naturalist's delight in one of nature's strangest kingdoms.
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History
The Philippine Islands
A wide-ranging account of the Philippine archipelago — its lands, peoples, and history.
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Nature & Environment
The field and garden vegetables of America : $b containing full descriptions of nearly eleven hundred species and variet
A remarkably thorough nineteenth-century American reference describing nearly eleven hundred vegetable species and varieties: a gardener's and farmer's encyclopedia of what grew in
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Biography & Memoir
The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2): Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Ac
Bernal Díaz del Castillo, an old soldier of Cortés, recounts the conquest of Mexico as he lived it, this first volume opening one of history's great firsthand adventure narratives.
$9.00
Biography & Memoir
Emily Brontë
A biography of Emily Brontë, the fiercely private author of Wuthering Heights, seeking the life and inner world behind one of English literature's most singular and enigmatic imagi
$9.00
Non-fiction
The Enchiridion
Epictetus's compact handbook of Stoic wisdom, distilled by his pupil Arrian.
$9.00