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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
by Thomas L. Friedman (shelved 13 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.57 — 14,686 ratings — published 2005
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich (shelved 8 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.58 — 46,942 ratings — published 2001
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Hardcover)
by Barack Obama (shelved 8 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.82 — 22,389 ratings — published 2006
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The Post-American World (Hardcover)
by Fareed Zakaria (shelved 7 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,764 ratings — published 2008
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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by Steve Coll (shelved 6 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,942 ratings — published 2004
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America (Hardcover)
by Thomas L. Friedman (shelved 6 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.75 — 6,031 ratings — published 2008
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From Beirut to Jerusalem (Paperback)
by Thomas L. Friedman (shelved 6 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,993 ratings — published 1989
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Stupid White Men (Paperback)
by Michael Francis Moore (shelved 5 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.35 — 3,050 ratings — published 2001
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Dude, Where's My Country? (Paperback)
by Michael Francis Moore (shelved 5 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.37 — 2,604 ratings — published 2003
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Fast Food Nation (Paperback)
by Eric Schlosser (shelved 5 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.74 — 57,811 ratings — published 2001
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The Tipping Point (Paperback)
by Malcolm Gladwell (shelved 5 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.69 — 63,287 ratings — published 2000
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The Forever War (Hardcover)
by Dexter Filkins (shelved 5 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,711 ratings — published 2008
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Revised and Expanded Edition)
by Steven D. Levitt (shelved 4 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.77 — 75,368 ratings — published 2005
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The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition)
by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks (shelved 4 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.40 — 995 ratings — published 2004
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (Paperback)
by Thomas L. Friedman (shelved 4 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.52 — 2,662 ratings — published 1997
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The Omnivore's Dilemma (Hardcover)
by Michael Pollan (shelved 4 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.25 — 39,111 ratings — published 2006
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The Assault on Reason (Hardcover)
by Al Gore (shelved 4 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,167 ratings — published 2007
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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals (Hardcover)
by Jane Mayer (shelved 4 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,465 ratings — published 2008
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by Naomi Klein (shelved 4 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.34 — 5,731 ratings — published 2007
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The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq (Paperback)
by George Packer (shelved 4 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.13 — 751 ratings — published 2005
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Longitudes and Attitudes: The World in the Age of Terrorism (Paperback)
by Thomas L. Friedman (shelved 4 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.62 — 851 ratings — published 2002
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The Age of American Unreason (Hardcover)
by Susan Jacoby (shelved 3 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,326 ratings — published 2008
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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by Jeffrey D. Sachs (shelved 3 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,173 ratings — published 2005
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time (Paperback)
by Greg Mortenson (shelved 3 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.98 — 62,835 ratings — published 2006
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by Lawrence Wright (shelved 3 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,446 ratings — published 2006
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Paperback)
by Samuel P. Huntington (shelved 3 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.41 — 973 ratings — published 1996
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Under the Banner of Heaven (Paperback)
by Jon Krakauer (shelved 3 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,293 ratings — published 2003
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Endgame: Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization (Paperback)
by Derrick Jensen (shelved 3 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.27 — 739 ratings — published 2005
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (Paperback)
by Philip Gourevitch (shelved 3 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,605 ratings — published 1999
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Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army (Hardcover)
by Jeremy Scahill (shelved 3 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,481 ratings — published 2007
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Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War (Paperback)
by Anthony Shadid (shelved 3 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.02 — 307 ratings — published 2005
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The Places In Between (Paperback)
by Rory Stewart (shelved 3 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,526 ratings — published 2004
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The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by Alan Weisman (shelved 3 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,778 ratings — published 2007
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Imperial Grunts: On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and Beyond (Paperback)
by Robert D. Kaplan (shelved 3 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.90 — 236 ratings — published 2005
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What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception (Hardcover)
by Scott McClellan (shelved 3 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.05 — 1,008 ratings — published 2008
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Against All Enemies (Paperback)
by Richard A. Clarke (shelved 3 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.81 — 597 ratings — published 2004
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Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia (Hardcover)
by Ahmed Rashid (shelved 2 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.08 — 336 ratings — published 2008
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Blink (Paperback)
by Malcolm Gladwell (shelved 2 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.67 — 36,333 ratings — published 2005
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Toy Monster: The Big, Bad World of Mattel (Hardcover)
by Jerry Oppenheimer (shelved 2 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 2.88 — 127 ratings — published 2009
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Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan (t)
by Doug Stanton (shelved 2 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.90 — 428 ratings — published 2005
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Terror and Liberalism (Paperback)
by Paul Berman (shelved 2 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.81 — 130 ratings — published 2003
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While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within (Hardcover)
by Bruce Bawer (shelved 2 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.94 — 261 ratings — published 2006
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Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West (Hardcover)
by Christopher Caldwell (shelved 2 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.20 — 87 ratings — published 2009
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A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 2 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.11 — 19,168 ratings — published 2003
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man/اعترافات یک جنایتکار اقتصادی (Paperback)
by John Perkins (shelved 2 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.71 — 6,494 ratings — published 2004
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Downsize This (Paperback)
by Michael Francis Moore (shelved 2 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.54 — 815 ratings — published 1996
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Paperback)
by Laurie Garrett (shelved 2 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,021 ratings — published 1994
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The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War (Paperback)
by Robert D. Kaplan (shelved 2 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.74 — 248 ratings — published 2000
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The Bookseller of Kabul (Paperback)
by Åsne Seierstad (shelved 2 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.64 — 6,487 ratings — published 2002
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by Ishmael Beah (shelved 2 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.11 — 17,550 ratings — published 2007
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