The Circle of life : rituals from the human family album / edited by David Cohen ; introduction by Gabriel García Márquez ; afterword by Peter Matthiessen ; commentary by Arthur Davidson.

Hobo quilts : 55+ original blocks based on the secret language of riding the rails / Debra G. Henninger.

Songcatchers : in search of the world's music / Mickey Hart with K.M. Kostyal.

The language of the goddess : unearthing the hidden symbols of western civilization / Marija Gimbutas.

Age of kings / by Charles Blitzer and the editors of Time-Life Books.

Understanding Arabs : a contemporary guide to Arab society / Margaret K. Nydell.

The Harper atlas of world history.

Best-loved folktales of the world / selected and with an introduction by Joanna Cole ; illustrated by Jill Karla Schwarz.

Classical Greece / by C. M. Bowra and the editors of Time-Life Books.

The Oxford companion to world mythology / David Leeming.

Women of mythology / Kay Retzlaff.

The ancient Americas / by Warwick M. Bray, Earl H. Swanson, Ian S. Farrington.

Renaissance / by John R. Hale and the editors of Time-Life books.

Written in bones : how human remains unlock the secrets of the dead / Paul Bahn, consultant editor.

Historic India / by Lucille Schulberg and the editors of Time-Life Books.

Ancient China / by Edward H. Schafer and the editors of Time-Life Books.

To the ends of the earth : four expeditions to the Arctic, the Congo, the Gobi, and Siberia / by John Perkins with the American Museum of Natural History ; [maps created by David Lindroth].

The world without us / Alan Weisman

What we talk about when we talk about dumplings / edited by John Lorinc ; introduction by Karon Liu ; illustrations by Meegan Lim.

Return to the sacred : ancient pathways to spiritual awakening / Jonathan H. Ellerby.

A history of the world in 100 objects / Neil MacGregor.

Laughing all the way to the mosque / Zarqa Nawaz.

Teenage : the creation of youth culture / Jon Savage.

Pacific rising : the emergence of a new world culture / Simon Winchester.

The history of Central America / Thomas L. Pearcy.

Morbid magic : death spirituality and culture from around the world / by Tomás Prower.

Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed / Jared Diamond.

Tales of a female nomad : living at large in the world / Rita Golden Gelman.

The world according to Twitter / David Pogue, and his 500,000 Followers.

Healthy at 100 : the scientifically proven secrets of the world's healthiest and longest-lived peoples / John Robbins.

Half the world : the history and culture of China and Japan / edited by Arnold Toynbee, texts by E. Glahn [and others].

Tales from the borderlands : making and unmaking the Galician past / Omer Bartov.

Psyched : seven cutting-edge psychedelics changing the world / Amanda Siebert ; foreword by Julie Holland, MD.

Somebody Feed Phil the book : untold stories, behind-the-scenes photos and favorite recipes / Phil Rosenthal and Jenn Garbee ; location photography by Richard Rosenthal ; food photography by Ed Anderson.

The way of the gun : a bloody journey into the world of firearms / Iain Overton.

Rogerson's book of numbers : the culture of numbers-- from 1,001 Nights to the seven wonders of the world / Barnaby Rogerson.

Beauty sick : how the cultural obsession with appearance hurts girls and women / Renee Engeln, PhD.

Prayers for all people / Mary Ford-Grabowsky.

Orchids for everyone : a practical guide to the home cultivation of over 200 of the world's most beautiful varieties / principal author, Brian Williams ; consultant, Jack Kramer.

The tastemakers : why we're crazy for cupcakes but fed up with fondue (plus baconomics, superfoods, and other secrets from the world of food trends) / David Sax.

Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century / Charles King.