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Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan by Chris McMorran

Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan

Chris McMorran

220 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0gloriana232's review
nonfiction sociology
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard

The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found

Mary Beard

360 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0gloriana232's review
nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color by Philip Ball

Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color

Philip Ball

434 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

5.0gloriana232's review
nonfiction art history science informative reflective slow-paced
Ice Diaries: An Antarctic Memoir by Jean McNeil

Ice Diaries: An Antarctic Memoir

Jean McNeil

384 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0gloriana232's review
nonfiction memoir travel adventurous informative medium-paced
Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life by Sarah Kaminsky

Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life

Sarah Kaminsky

256 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0gloriana232's review
nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus by Monica Murphy, Bill Wasik

Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

Monica Murphy, Bill Wasik

275 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0gloriana232's review
nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

The Comic Books #1

Scott McCloud

215 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

5.0gloriana232's review
nonfiction art comics informative lighthearted medium-paced
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey Into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton

Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey Into the Dark Antarctic Night

Julian Sancton

368 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0gloriana232's review
nonfiction history adventurous reflective slow-paced
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers by Tom Standage

The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers

Tom Standage

233 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

5.0gloriana232's review
nonfiction history science technology informative slow-paced
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

Barbara Ehrenreich

240 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

5.0gloriana232's review
nonfiction economics politics sociology informative reflective medium-paced