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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 476,152 ratings
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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 126,835 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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3.99 avg rating — 78,562 ratings
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
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3.69 avg rating — 102,862 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.21 avg rating — 438,649 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.32 avg rating — 1,341,865 ratings
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Paddle-to-the-Sea
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4.30 avg rating — 7,132 ratings
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Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will
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4.22 avg rating — 5,049 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.94 avg rating — 76,101 ratings
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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4.07 avg rating — 461,205 ratings
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1421: The Year China Discovered America
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3.61 avg rating — 15,408 ratings
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Lost and Found (The Boy, #2)
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4.33 avg rating — 10,766 ratings
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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3.81 avg rating — 14,458 ratings
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Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
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4.21 avg rating — 8,872 ratings
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London: The Biography
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3.96 avg rating — 6,156 ratings
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The Control of Nature
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4.25 avg rating — 5,141 ratings
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Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
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3.86 avg rating — 8,401 ratings
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1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List
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3.88 avg rating — 44,363 ratings
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On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
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3.70 avg rating — 4,505 ratings
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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
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4.45 avg rating — 27,581 ratings
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The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
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3.89 avg rating — 2,930 ratings
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The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
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3.79 avg rating — 4,410 ratings
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How the States Got Their Shapes
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3.54 avg rating — 4,039 ratings
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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
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4.05 avg rating — 4,712 ratings
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How I Learned Geography (Caldecott Honor Book)
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4.04 avg rating — 2,855 ratings
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
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3.76 avg rating — 5,397 ratings
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Planet of Slums
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4.01 avg rating — 3,489 ratings
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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
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4.23 avg rating — 8,166 ratings
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The Scrambled States of America
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4.20 avg rating — 2,164 ratings
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How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
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4.27 avg rating — 3,187 ratings
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Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
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4.17 avg rating — 4,366 ratings
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Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
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3.54 avg rating — 4,250 ratings
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Seabird
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4.03 avg rating — 2,449 ratings
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Maps
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4.58 avg rating — 2,071 ratings
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
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3.84 avg rating — 39,403 ratings
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You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,410 ratings
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Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the World
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4.05 avg rating — 2,037 ratings
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Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography
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4.03 avg rating — 4,522 ratings
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Pacific: The Ocean of the Future
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4.04 avg rating — 4,200 ratings
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The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War
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3.98 avg rating — 2,713 ratings
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Basin and Range (Annals of the Former World, 1)
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4.18 avg rating — 4,302 ratings
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Around the World in Eighty Days
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3.95 avg rating — 294,640 ratings
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Annals of the Former World
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4.37 avg rating — 4,484 ratings
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Salt: A World History
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3.75 avg rating — 82,629 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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3.89 avg rating — 58,149 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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4.05 avg rating — 99,481 ratings
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The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History
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4.27 avg rating — 2,049 ratings
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Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth
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4.12 avg rating — 6,895 ratings
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A History of the World in 12 Maps
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3.76 avg rating — 1,846 ratings
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Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags
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3.65 avg rating — 6,644 ratings
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The Production of Space
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4.16 avg rating — 2,297 ratings
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Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
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3.81 avg rating — 1,108 ratings
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Material World
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4.52 avg rating — 1,686 ratings
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The New Geography of Jobs
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4.03 avg rating — 2,804 ratings
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Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 944 ratings
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The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
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3.60 avg rating — 2,879 ratings
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Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
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3.96 avg rating — 2,829 ratings
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
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4.19 avg rating — 20,163 ratings
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In a Sunburned Country
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4.07 avg rating — 126,207 ratings
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The Atlas of Middle-Earth
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4.24 avg rating — 14,056 ratings
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Kon-Tiki
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4.16 avg rating — 25,997 ratings
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
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4.29 avg rating — 8,798 ratings
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This Is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from around the World
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4.37 avg rating — 2,558 ratings
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The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name
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4.07 avg rating — 1,384 ratings
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Notes from a Small Island
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3.92 avg rating — 122,456 ratings
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Don't Know Much About Geography: Everything You Need to Know About the World but Never Learned
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3.51 avg rating — 1,164 ratings
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Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience
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4.05 avg rating — 1,198 ratings
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
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4.28 avg rating — 12,348 ratings
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The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
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4.18 avg rating — 2,366 ratings
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
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3.78 avg rating — 11,354 ratings
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Transit Maps of the World: The World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth
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4.25 avg rating — 876 ratings
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Tree in the Trail
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4.14 avg rating — 1,555 ratings
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
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4.23 avg rating — 70,416 ratings
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The Image of the City
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4.05 avg rating — 4,320 ratings
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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
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3.97 avg rating — 2,490 ratings
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Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America
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3.88 avg rating — 2,039 ratings
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If You Lived Here: Houses of the World – A Picture Book About Cultural Diversity and Architecture for Children (Ages 6-9)
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4.18 avg rating — 966 ratings
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An Atlas of Extinct Countries
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
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3.88 avg rating — 22,480 ratings
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Lost States: True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania, and Other States That Never Made It
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3.72 avg rating — 766 ratings
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Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
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3.33 avg rating — 1,775 ratings
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Mirror
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4.18 avg rating — 1,547 ratings
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Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain: A Nandi Tale
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4.21 avg rating — 2,705 ratings
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The Great Kapok Tree
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4.25 avg rating — 6,070 ratings
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The Lost City of the Monkey God
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The Limits to Capital
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4.20 avg rating — 719 ratings
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How to Lie with Maps
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3.58 avg rating — 1,247 ratings
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
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4.21 avg rating — 5,118 ratings
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Pagoo
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4.37 avg rating — 1,263 ratings
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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4.12 avg rating — 21,716 ratings
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Grand Canyon
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4.33 avg rating — 2,728 ratings
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A Geography of Time: The Temporal Misadventures of a Social Psychologist
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3.76 avg rating — 1,253 ratings
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
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4.16 avg rating — 53,131 ratings
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The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
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3.79 avg rating — 6,441 ratings
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Minn of the Mississippi
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3.96 avg rating — 1,538 ratings
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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
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3.91 avg rating — 6,543 ratings
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
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Blue Highways
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Removed The Death and Life of the Great Lakes for only being shelved for geography 9 times.
I kind of expect both of these to make these criteria at some point.