A Beginner’s View of Our Electric Universe, by Tom Findlay.

Available at www.newtoeu.com as a free PDF or in print.

Reviewers say “...easy to read and copiously illustrated....”, “...a comfortable transition from the familiar gravity-based explanations....”, “...unfortunate things have happened as good science has been ignored in the past, but change is now afoot....”, “...another brick in the wall of evidence that will be convincing to the average reader.”

The Politics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained.

This book, another of many in a series by DK Publishing with the same subtitle, connects dots in the work since 800 BCE of many also not-all-dead-or-white-or-male political thinkers. ( available for Kindles. )

The Science Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained.

This book, another of many in a series by DK Publishing with the same subtitle, connects dots in the work of scientists from the beginning of science, 600 BCE to the present — which includes the recent work of mathematicians, aka theoretical physicists, who do not use the experimental part of the scientific method. ( available for Kindles. )

The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained.

In Catholic schools I had too much of the ideas of too few thinkers/believers. One big dot.

In college I had too little of the ideas of a few dead white male thinkers with nothing on how their iideas relate to the ideas of other dead white male thinkers. At no time did I want to read a major work by any one thinker. A few unconnected dots.

This book, one of a series by DK Publishing with the same subtitle, connects the dots of many not-all-dead-or-white-or-male thinkers. ( available for Kindles. )

I'm probably not as committed to nonfiction as you are, but I do take in the occasional bit of science or history in book form. I can certainly recommend Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction as an example of science and history writing shedding light on contemporary issues.

Here is one of my favorite okd time writers on nonbelief. And the book is free!

[gutenberg.org]

An interesting view of America.

[amazon.com]

MacFarland’s Underland has won many awards, including NYT ‘100 Notable Books of the Year’ and the Guardian’s ‘100 Best Books of the 21st Century’. It explores the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.