I've recently read a few nonfiction books, but just didn't have enough to say about them for full reviews.  So here's my mini reviews:

Title: A History of Egypt: From Earliest Times to the Present

Author: Jason Thompson

Publisher: Anchor Books 2008

Genre: Nonfiction -- History

Pages: 382

Rating:  4/5 stars

Reading Challenges: Dewey -- 960s; Fall into Reading

How I Got It: Library Loan

This is the type of history books that I should be reading.  This volume is a much more comprehensive history of a culture, people and country.  I enjoyed the depth and readability.  Good read.  And I learned much about the rise of Islam in the area (definitely a lacking area of my historical knowledge).

Title: Blue: 350 Inspiring Ways to Decorate with Blue

Author: Lisa Cregan

Publisher: Hearst Communications 2011

Genre: Nonfiction -- Home decor

Pages: 272

Rating:  4/5 stars

Reading Challenges: Dewey -- 740s; Fall into Reading; Color Coded -- Blue

How I Got It: Library Loan

Such pretty pictures.  I would love to add more blue into our decor, but it seems the boys' room is the only place I can get away with it.

Title: The Green Book

Publisher: Three Rivers Press 2007

Genre: Nonfiction -- Enviroment

Pages: 204

Rating:  4 / 5 stars

Reading Challenges: Dewey -- 330s; Fall into Reading; Color Coded -- Green

How I Got It: Library Loan

Tips to live a greener lifestyle.  Okay introduction book, but some of the ways to green your lifestyle area bit hard to do without owning a business or at least your own house.  The testimonies from celebrities seemed a bit wonky to me.

Title: Active Liberty

Author: Stephen Breyer

Publisher: Alfred Knopf 2005

Genre: Nonfiction -- Law

Pages: 164

Rating:  4 / 5 stars

Reading Challenges: Dewey -- 340s; Fall into Reading

How I Got It: Library Loan

A great slim but dense volume on the differences between active and modern liberty and their applications.  I am a huge Constitutional Law geek.  I love reading about interpretations and applications of the various sections of the Constitution.  And Breyer definitely knows his Constitution.  I've never quite looked at it his way, but it was a nice analysis.

Title: Minigami

Author: Gay Merrill Gross

Publisher: Firefly Books 2005

Genre: Nonfiction -- Paper Craft

Pages: 144

Rating: 3 / 5 stars

Reading Challenges: Dewey -- 730s; Fall into Reading

How I Got It: Library Loan

I loved looking at all the pretty pictures, but origami is harder than I thought it would be.  I tried to do some of the designs and they weren't that clean looking.  I imagine that practice would make cleaner designs.