100 best non-fiction books – The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History This entry was posted in 100 best non-fiction, 2016 and tagged 100 best non-fiction books, naomi klein, No logo on Februby icemaiden1964. For example, under ‘branding’ there’s a sub-entry for ‘independent’ that sends the reader to ‘indie brands’, and when you get there, there’s only one locator.

It is nice if the space allows to duplicate the locators rather than use a see, particularly when the letters fall far apart in the alphabet.

Use of cross references could have been improved by using double entries rather than see cross references in some cases.

Without the breakdown we don’t know what the book says about his life and death. For example, the entry for Ken Saro-Wiwa has 10 locators.

There are also entries with many more than 5 or 6 locators which probably could have been split down usefully into sub-entries.

You could ask whether the sub-entries add anything when deciding whether to include them or not. For example, the entry for Adidas has five sub-entries and none at the main heading.

The index also uses separate sub-entries for many of the entries which could have been rolled up to the main heading because there are fewer than about 5 or 6.

which are scattered as sub-headings under the different company names. For example, there could be a case for collecting up examples of infringement of workers’ rights under a heading for ‘workers’ rights’ that includes pregnancy testing, sweatshops, wages, unions, etc.

This may reflect the content of the book, but I doubt it. There are lots of names of people, brands and organisations, but not many concept entries.Going by the 5% rule of thumb, this might be a bit light for the length of book.

The paperback runs to over 400 pages, the index is 8 pages.Amazon usefully allows us to ‘ look inside’ this volume. The third summary is of No Logo by Naomi Klein. So I thought I’d run a parallel list and take a look, where possible, inside the books at the indexes. Indexers love lists too, usually of words to put into indexes. These are “key texts in English that have shaped our literary culture and made us who we are”, in the Anglo-American English language tradition, the list covers “essential works of philosophy, drama, history, science and popular culture”. For 2016 Author Robert McCrum has compiled a list of the 100 best non-fiction books.

Best books to read 2017 nonfiction