Thesis-Driven Scholarly Non-Fiction

This list contains 36 titles

Book A people's history of the United States : 1492-present / Howard Zinn. by
Edition: Rev. and updated ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : HarperPerennial, 1995
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (1)Location, call number: HISTORY 973/ZINN .
Book A people's history of the United States : 1492-present / Howard Zinn. by
Edition: Rev. and updated ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : HarprfranerPerennial, 1995
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (1)Location, call number: HISTORY 973/ZINN .
Book Blink : the power of thinking without thinking / Malcolm Gladwell. by
Edition: 1st Back Bay trade pbk. ed., April 2007.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Co., 2007; �2005
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (2)Location, call number: 153.4/GLA, ... Not available: Martha's Vineyard High School Library: Checked out (4).
Book Cannibalism : a perfectly natural history / Bill Schutt. by
Edition: First edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: available online remote; Literary form: Not fiction
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (1)Location, call number: 394/SCH.
Book Cod : a biography of the fish that changed the world / Mark Kurlansky. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Walker and Co., 1997
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (2)Location, call number: 333.956/KUR , ...
Book Dark matter and the dinosaurs : the astounding interconnectedness of the universe / Lisa Randall. by
Edition: First edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (1)Location, call number: 523.1/RAND.
Reference Drive : the surprising truth about what motivates us / Daniel H. Pink. by
Edition: First Riverhead trade pbk. ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Language: English
Publication details: New York : Riverhead Books, 2011
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (4)Location, call number: 153.1/PINK, ... Not available: Martha's Vineyard High School Library: Checked out (4).
Book Dying of whiteness : how the politics of racial resentment is killing America's heartland / Jonathan M. Metzl. by
Edition: 1st trade pbk. ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Basic Books, 2020; �2019
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (2)Location, call number: 362.1/MET, ...
Book Eichmann in Jerusalem./ A Report on the Banality of Evil. Hannah Arendt. by Series:
Edition: Revised and Enlarged Edition.
Material type: Text Text
Publication details: New York: Penguin: ; 1976
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (2)Location, call number: 364.1380924/ARENDT , ...
Book Everything is tuberculosis : the history and persistence of our deadliest infection / John Green. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Crash Course Books, 2025
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (1)Location, call number: 616.99/GRE.
Book Fantasyland : how America went haywire : a 500-year history / Kurt Andersen. by
Edition: First edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (1)Location, call number: HISTORY 973/AND.
Book Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything / Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner by
Edition: 1st ed
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : William Morrow, c2005
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (1)Location, call number: 330/LEVITT .
Book Free to choose : a personal statement / Milton & Rose Friedman. by
Edition: 1st Harvest ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: San Diego : Harcourt Inc. 1990
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (1)Location, call number: 330.122/FRIEDMAN .
Book Fuzz : when nature breaks the law / Mary Roach. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Adolescent;
Publication details: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Co., [2021]
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (1)Location, call number: 591.5/ROA.
Book Grocery : the buying and selling of food in America / Michael Ruhlman. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Abrams, 2018; �2017
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (1)Location, call number: 381/RUH.
Book Grunt : the curious science of humans at war / Mary Roach by
Edition: First edition
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (1)Location, call number: 355.07/ROA.
Reference Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies / Jared Diamond ; [with a new afterword about the modern world]. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Norton, 1999
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (28)Location, call number: 303.4/DIAMOND , ... Not available: Martha's Vineyard High School Library: Checked out (14).
Book How to be an antiracist / Ibram X. Kendi. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : One World, [2019]
Other title:
  • Antiracist
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (2)Location, call number: 305.8/KEN, ...
Book It's better than it looks : reasons for optimism in an age of fear / Gregg Easterbrook. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : PublicAffairs, 2018
Other title:
  • It is better than it looks
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (1)Location, call number: 306.09/EAS.
Book Keeping the bees : why all bees are at risk and what we can do to save them / Laurence Packer. by
Edition: Harper Perennial trade pbk. ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Toronto : Harper Perennial, 2014
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (1)Location, call number: 595.799/PACKER.
Book Leading Minds: an anatomy of leadership./ Howard Gardner in collaboration with Emma Laskin. by Series:
Edition:
Material type: Text Text
Publication details: New York: Basic Books; ; 1995
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (1)Location, call number: 303.34/LEADING .
Book Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America / Barbara Ehrenreich by
Edition: 1st Picador ed
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Picador, 2011
Other title:
  • On (not) getting by in America
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (1)Location, call number: 305.5/EHR.
Book Outliers : the story of success / Malcolm Gladwell by
Edition: 1st Back Bay pbk. ed
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Back Bay Books, 2011
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (4)Location, call number: 302/GLADWELL , ... Not available: Martha's Vineyard High School Library: Checked out (2).
Book Stamped : racism, antiracism, and you / written by Jason Reynolds ; with an introduction from Ibram X. Kendi. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Adolescent;
Publication details: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2020
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (1)Location, call number: 305.8/REY.
Book Stiffed : the betrayal of the American man / by Susan Faludi. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : W. Morrow and Co., 1999
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (1)Location, call number: 305.310/FALUDI .
Book The rape of Nanking : the forgotten holocaust of World War II / Iris Chang by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (3)Location, call number: HISTORY 951.042/CHA , ...
Book The shock doctrine : the rise of disaster capitalism / Naomi Klein by
Edition: Picador ed
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Picador, 2007
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (1)Location, call number: 330.12/KLEIN .
Reference The Sixth Extinction. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print
Publication details: Simon & Schuster Audio 2014
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (1)Location, call number: 576.8/KOLBERT.
Reference The smartest kids in the world : and how they got that way / Amanda Ripley. by
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (1)Location, call number: 370.9/RIPLEY.
Book The story of more : how we got to climate change and where to go from here / Hope Jahren. by
Edition: 1st Ember ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Adolescent;
Publication details: New York : Ember, 2022; �2021
Other title:
  • How we got to climate change and where to go from here
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (1)Location, call number: 363.738/JAH.
Book The sum of us : what racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together / Heather McGhee. by
Edition: First edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Adult;
Other title:
  • What racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (1)Location, call number: 305.800973/MCG.
Book The tipping point : how little things can make a big difference / Malcolm Gladwell. by
Edition: 1st Back Bay pbk. ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Boston : Little, Brown, 2002
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (1)Location, call number: ROOM 501 ROOM 501. Not available: Martha's Vineyard High School Library: Checked out (5).
Book The tyranny of the meritocracy : democratizing higher education in America / Lani Guinier. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Online resources:
Availability: No items available.
Book The World Is Flat./ A brief history of the 21st Century. Thomas L. Friedman. by Series:
Edition: Updated and Expanded.
Material type: Text Text
Publisher number:
  • 03742929884 :
Publication details: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 2004
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (2)Location, call number: 303.4833/FRIEDMAN, ...
Book Thirteen ways of looking at a Black man / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. by
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Vintage Books, 1998, c1997
Other title:
  • 13 ways of looking at a Black man
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (2)Location, call number: 305.896/GATES , ...
Book What we think about when we think about soccer / Simon Critchley. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Availability: Items available for loan: Martha's Vineyard High School Library (1)Location, call number: 796.334 CRI.