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4,420 nonfiction books, including Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy, Painting as a Pastime and Pale Blue Dot.

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Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy

Michael Baxandall

Arts & entertainment

Painting as a Pastime

Winston Churchill

Arts & entertainment

Pale Blue Dot

Carl Sagan

Technology

Pale Rider

Laura Spinney

History

Pandaemonium

Humphrey Jennings

History

Pandemic 1918

Catharine Arnold

History

Panic Attack

Robby Soave

Economics & politics

Panic Rules!

Robin Hahnel

Economics & politics

Panzram

Thomas E. Gaddis

Biography & memoir

Paper Lion

George Plimpton

Health & fitness

Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming

Peter Norvig

Technology

Parenting With Love and Logic

Foster Cline

Psychology

Parents Who Lead

Stewart D. Friedman & Alyssa F. Westring

Self-improvement

Paroles

Jacques Prévert

Arts & entertainment

Part of Nature, Part of Us

Helen Vendler

Arts & entertainment

Parting the Waters

Taylor Branch

History

Passages

Gail Sheehy

Philosophy

Paths to Wealth Through Common Stocks

Philip A. Fisher

Money & investing

Patriots

A.J. Langguth

History

Pattern Classification

David G. Stork, Richard O. Duda & Peter E. Hart

Technology

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

Martin Fowler

Technology

Paul Bocuse's French Cooking

Paul Bocuse

Health & fitness

Payoff

Dan Ariely

Psychology

Peace Denied

Gareth Porter

History

Peak

Anders Ericsson & Robert Pool

Psychology

Peak

Chip Conley

Self-improvement

Peak Performance

Brad Stulberg & Steve Magness

Psychology

Peddling Prosperity

Paul Krugman

Economics & politics

Peopleware

Timothy Lister & Tom DeMarco

Technology

Perception and Misperception in International Politics

Robert Jervis

Psychology

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