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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 449,735 ratings
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
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Malala Yousafzai (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 616,224 ratings
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Globalizing Citizenship
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Walking Home From Mongolia: Ten Million Steps Through China, From the Gobi Desert to the South China Sea
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3.80 avg rating — 327 ratings
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Global Citizenship Education
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3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Rights of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World
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David R. Boyd (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 341 ratings
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Citizen Jane: transformative citizenship in a globalized world
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Nature's Allies: Eight Conservationists Who Changed Our World
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3.90 avg rating — 107 ratings
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The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations
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3.95 avg rating — 1,244 ratings
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Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
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4.06 avg rating — 2,062 ratings
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
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4.09 avg rating — 60,627 ratings
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Climate Change and the Health of Nations: Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations
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4.14 avg rating — 76 ratings
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International Organizations: The Politics and Processes of Global Governance
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3.51 avg rating — 161 ratings
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The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey
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Deborah Cramer (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 218 ratings
score: 94,
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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4.01 avg rating — 890,243 ratings
score: 93,
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On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon
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3.72 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Superfreakonomics
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Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti
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4.12 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Warning to the West
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4.14 avg rating — 650 ratings
score: 91,
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Energy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North America
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David E. Naugle (Editor)
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 91,
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The Communist Manifesto
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3.68 avg rating — 192,410 ratings
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Retreat from a Rising Sea: Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change
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4.05 avg rating — 83 ratings
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For Earth's Sake: Toward a Compassionate Ecology
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3.45 avg rating — 31 ratings
score: 89,
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Mythical River: Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest
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Melissa L. Sevigny (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 24 ratings
score: 89,
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
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3.78 avg rating — 10,961 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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4.16 avg rating — 27,460 ratings
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Green Capital: A New Perspective on Growth
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3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
score: 87,
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
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3.78 avg rating — 13,895 ratings
score: 86,
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
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4.05 avg rating — 112,704 ratings
score: 86,
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On China
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4.19 avg rating — 10,018 ratings
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Connecting the Drops: A Citizens' Guide to Protecting Water Resources
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The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture
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3.79 avg rating — 3,042 ratings
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The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age
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David S. Abraham (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 254 ratings
score: 84,
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Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey: A Short History
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3.73 avg rating — 90 ratings
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The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer
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3.86 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
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4.18 avg rating — 10,283 ratings
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What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?: How Money Really Does Grow on Trees
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4.21 avg rating — 414 ratings
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The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
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4.02 avg rating — 9,860 ratings
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Deforestation: Social Dynamics in Watersheds and Mountain Ecosystems
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Globalization and its Discontents
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3.87 avg rating — 8,139 ratings
score: 80,
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Glaciers: The Politics of Ice
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3.56 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
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3.70 avg rating — 8,209 ratings
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Climate Peril: The Intelligent Reader's Guide to Understanding the Climate Crisis
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John J. Berger (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 79,
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Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress
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3.78 avg rating — 171 ratings
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More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want
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3.98 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.34 avg rating — 1,224,315 ratings
score: 77,
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Money Logging: On the Trail of the Asian Timber Mafia
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Lukas Straumann (Goodreads Author)
4.55 avg rating — 107 ratings
score: 77,
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The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way
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Amanda Ripley (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 15,251 ratings
score: 76,
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Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change (Volume 75) (McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies)
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4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 76,
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The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
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3.84 avg rating — 5,642 ratings
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Future Arctic: Field Notes from a World on the Edge
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4.03 avg rating — 66 ratings
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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
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3.69 avg rating — 11,213 ratings
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Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia
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4.03 avg rating — 74 ratings
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From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000
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4.46 avg rating — 4,716 ratings
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Saving Planet Earth
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3.39 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
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3.83 avg rating — 156 ratings
score: 72,
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Discovering Big Cat Country
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3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
score: 71,
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Indian Country
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4.10 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.93 avg rating — 74,174 ratings
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The People's Republic of Chemicals
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4.09 avg rating — 56 ratings
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How Many Lightbulbs Does It Take to Change a Planet?
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3.56 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
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Dan Fagin (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 4,647 ratings
score: 66,
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Making Sense of Weather and Climate: The Science Behind the Forecasts
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Mark Denny (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 29 ratings
score: 65,
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The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
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Thor Hanson (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 3,042 ratings
score: 64,
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Escaping Poverty
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4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe
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Antony Loewenstein (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 313 ratings
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