Customers' Favourites: 2007's Top 25 Nonfiction Books

Hordes of unsuspecting children happily consumed food that was actually good for them as our customers made Jessica Seinfeld's Deceptively Delicious the most popular nonfiction book of the year. Browse the rest of the list below (ranked according to customer orders through November, with only books published in 2007 being eligible), or see more of the Best of 2007:
1. Deceptively Delicious
Deceptively Delicious
Jessica Seinfeld
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William Morrow
Sep 20 2007
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"An elegant plan.. The recipes blend nutrition into a meal and harmony into mealtime." (Publishers Weekly )... Read more

2. The God Delusion
The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Sep 13 2006
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The antireligion wars started by Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris will heat up even more with this salvo from celebrated Oxford biologist Dawkins. For a scientist who criticizes religion for its intolerance, Dawkins has written a surprisingly intolerant book,... Read more

3. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Christopher Hitchens
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McClelland & Stewart
May 1 2007
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4. A Long Way Gone
A Long Way Gone
Ishmael Beah
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D&m Adult
Feb 13 2007
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Starred Review. This absorbing account by a young man who, as a boy of 12, gets swept up in Sierra Leone's civil war goes beyond even the best journalistic efforts in revealing the life and mind of a child abducted into the horrors of warfare. Beah's harrowing journey ... Read more

5. The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
Timothy Ferriss
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Crown
April 24 2007
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"It's about time this book was written. It is a long-overdue manifesto for the mobile lifestyle, and Tim Ferriss is the ideal ambassador. This will be huge."—Jack Canfield, Co-creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul®, 100+ million copies sold "This is a whole new ball game.  Highly recommended."—Dr. Stewart ... Read more

6. I Am America and So Can You
I Am America and So Can You
Stephen Colbert
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Grand Central Publishing
Oct 9 2007
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Starred Review. Realizing that it takes more than thirty minutes a night to fix everything that's destroying America, Colbert bravely takes on the forces aligned to destroy our country—whether they be terrorists, environmentalists, or Kashi brand breakfast cereals. His various targets include nature (I've never trusted the sea. ... Read more

7. Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling
Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling
Bret Hart
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Random House Canada
Oct 16 2007
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Hart's account of his professional wrestling career is almost literally blow-by-blow, with detailed descriptions of the choreography of many of his most prominent matches in the former World Wrestling Foundation and the now-defunct World Championship Wrest... Read more

8. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Naomi Klein
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Knopf Canada
Sep 4 2007
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Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine advances a truly unnerving argument: historically, while people were reeling from natural disasters, wars and economic upheavals, savvy politicians and industry leaders nefariously implemented policies that would never have passed during less muddled times. As Klein demonstrates, this reprehensible game of bait-and-switch isn't ... Read more

9. You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty
You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty
Michael F. Roizen
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Free Press
Oct 30 2007
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Starred Review. In their newest in the You series, physicians Oz and Roizen and a supporting cast of contributors explain why the body ages and how readers can become anatomical puppeteers, mastering their genes, bad habits, environmental pollution and stress while igniting the body's ability to stay fit, ... Read more

10. Ecoholic: Your Guide to the Most Environmentally Friendly Information, Products and Services in Canada
Ecoholic: Your Guide to the Most Environmentally Friendly Information, Products and Services in Canada
Adria Vasil
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Vintage Canada
April 17 2007
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"This book is for people who want to do something to lighten their impact on the planet. The small steps cost us little in the way of effort, money or time, but the cumulative effects can be enormous."—David Suzuki"Everything you need to know to make green, non-toxic, Earth-friendly consumer ... Read more

12. Get Smarter: Life and Business Lessons
Get Smarter: Life and Business Lessons
Seymour Schulich
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Key Porter Books
Aug 1 2007
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This is a mentoring book primarily for the 20-to-40-year-old with entrepreneurial aspirations. Many older folks will also derive considerable inspiration from the life and business lessons contained in Get Smarter. In examining his own life Seymour Schulic... Read more

13. Age Of Turbulence
Age Of Turbulence
Alan Greenspan
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Penguin Press (HC)
Sep 17 2007
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Greenspan offers a revealing yet monotonous look at the inner workings of the Federal Reserve and his career. Beginning with his childhood in Manhattan, where he learned percentages by memorizing Yankee batting statistics, Greenspan relates his tremendous ... Read more

14. Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Don Tapscott
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Portfolio
Jan 2 2007
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The word "wiki" means "quick" in Hawaiian, and here author and think tank CEO Tapscott (The Naked Corporation), along with research director Williams, paint in vibrant colors the quickly changing world of Internet togetherness, also known as mass or global... Read more

15. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Random House
April 17 2007
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Taleb is overly reliant on heavy irony, but, happily, David Chandlers narration rescues the authors repetitive discussion of his theory of randomness and the potential impact of random events. Using his own life to examine the actual impact of unexpected a... Read more

16. The World Without Us
The World Without Us
Alan Weisman
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HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Jul 5 2007
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Starred Review. If a virulent virus—or even the Rapture—depopulated Earth overnight, how long before all trace of humankind vanished? That's the provocative, and occasionally puckish, question posed by Weisman (An Echo in My Blood) in this imaginative hybrid of solid science reporting and morbid speculation. Days after our ... Read more

17. Clapton: The Autobiography
Clapton: The Autobiography
Eric Clapton
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Broadway
Oct 9 2007
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Readers hoping for sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll won't be disappointed by the legendary guitarist's autobiography. As he retraces every step of his career, from the early stints with the Yardbirds and Cream to his solo successes, Clapton also devotes cop... Read more

18. Infidel
Infidel
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Free Press
Feb 6 2007
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Montesquieu’s Persian Letters, an epistolary satire published anonymously in Holland in 1721, concludes with the following passage, in which the favourite wife of one of the author’s imaginary Persian philosophes commits suicide, and rejects her role as a subservient Muslim female: “How could you think that ... Read more

19. Rick Mercer Report: The Book
Rick Mercer Report: The Book
Rick Mercer
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Doubleday Canada
Sep 25 2007
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Ladies and gentlemen, girls and boys, prepare yourself for the next big thing in publishing ... Read more

20. The Weight Loss Cure "They" Don't Want You to Know About
The Weight Loss Cure "They" Don't Want You to Know About
Kevin Trudeau
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Alliance Publishing Group
April 1 2007
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By the #1 New York Times bestselling author Kevin Trudeau comes the last diet you will ever need. Imagine, you will lose at least 30 pounds in 30 days...with no hunger...no exercise...and no surgery! An absolute cure for obesity was discovered almost fifty years ago by a British ... Read more

21. Memoirs: 1939-1993
Memoirs: 1939-1993
Brian Mulroney
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Douglas Gibson Books
Sep 10 2007
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“Brian Mulroney’s Memoirs might be the finest and most comprehensive memoir of any Prime Minister in Canadian history.” - Ottawa Citizen“A must-read for anyone interested in Canadian history…” - The National Post“The material (in Memoirs) remains precious… for passionate [devotees] of politics and history these memoirs will remain a ... Read more

22. Jesus of Nazareth
Jesus of Nazareth
Pope Benedict XVI
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Doubleday Religion
May 15 2007
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In this rich, sophisticated introduction to the life of Jesus, the pope argues that Jesus brought to the world neither universal prosperity nor peace, but God. Indeed, Jesus cannot be understood outside of his relationship with God the Father, "which is th... Read more

23. The Eat-Clean Diet, Fast Fat-Loss that lasts Forever!
The Eat-Clean Diet, Fast Fat-Loss that lasts Forever!
Tosca Reno
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Muscle Magazine Intl
Dec 20 2006
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With The Eat-Clean Diet, the diet that fitness professionals rely on, readers will transform themselves from sluggish, exhausted and overweight to energetic, lean and fabulous! Just like the author and cover girl Tosca Reno did when she was sixty pounds ov... Read more

24. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Chip Heath
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Random House
Jan 2 2007
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Starred Review. Unabashedly inspired by Malcolm Gladwell's bestselling The Tipping Point, the brothers Heath—Chip a professor at Stanford's business school, Dan a teacher and textbook publisher—offer an entertaining, practical guide to effective communication. Drawing extensively on psychosocial studies on memory, emotion and motivation, their study is couched in ... Read more

25. Assault On Reason
Assault On Reason
Al Gore
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May 22 2007
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Starred Review. As scathing as it is meticulous, Gore's treatise on reason juggernauts its way through the Bush administration, never even needing to include the controversial nature of Bush's presidential elections. He identifies the growing concentration of power in the executive branch virtually ignored by mainstream media. Drawing ... Read more




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