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All Quiet on the Western Front
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War and Peace
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The Brothers Karamazov
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
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Politics
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The Painted Bird
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And Quiet Flows the Don
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The Wretched of the Earth: The Handbook for the Black Revolution That is Changing the Shape of the World
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4.34 avg rating — 31,608 ratings
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Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives
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The Conquest of Gaul
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The Civil War
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The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea
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Critique of Pure Reason
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3.96 avg rating — 41,781 ratings
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Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue
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3.42 avg rating — 16,709 ratings
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Forty-Ninth
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4.10 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Euripides I: Alcestis / The Medea / The Heracleidae / Hippolytus
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Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897
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4.02 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Survival in Auschwitz
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4.34 avg rating — 85,480 ratings
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The Children of Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to 1660 (Volume 195) (Carleton Library Series)
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4.51 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Colors of Violence: Cultural Identities, Religion, and Conflict
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3.70 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Joan of Arc: Her Story
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The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to The Grapes of Wrath
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A Dying Colonialism
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4.26 avg rating — 1,543 ratings
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Oldtown Folks
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3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Cleopatra: A Biography
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John Brown: The Making of a Martyr (Southern Classics Series)
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
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4.20 avg rating — 32,683 ratings
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The Jewish War
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Critique of Practical Reason
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Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity
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Democracy in America
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Panzer Leader
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The Works and Days / Theogony / The Shield of Herakles
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Louis XIV and the French Monarchy
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The Complete Works of Isaac Babel
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The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive (Annals of Communism Series)
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Richard Pipes (Editor)
3.68 avg rating — 41 ratings
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League of the Iroquois
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3.95 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Great Terror: A Reassessment
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Plutarch's Lives: Volume I
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Theogony / Works and Days
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Parker on the Iroquois
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The Huron: Farmers of the North
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Selected Political Speeches
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Negroes and Negro slavery; the first, and inferior race--the latter, its normal condition
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The State of War and Peace Atlas
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Ethics of Martin Luther King, Jr
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The Bravest Battle: The Twenty-eight Days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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The French Revolution
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The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism (Samuel and Althea Stroum Books xx)
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The Provinces of the Roman Empire
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Bosnia: A Short History
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Like a Tear in the Ocean: A Trilogy
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The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan
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Egil's Saga
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King Harald's Saga
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Eyrbyggja Saga
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HURON RELATIONS FOR 1646 TO 1650
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Two Lives of Charlemagne
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On War
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The Exeter Book Riddles
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Pancho Villa and John Reed: Two Faces of Romantic Revolution
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Oxford Companion to World War II
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4.48 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses
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The 120 Days of Sodom
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The Making of a Serial Killer: The Real Story of the Gainesville Student Murders in the Killer's Own Words
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How the Steel Was Tempered
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The Mask of Command
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The German Generals Talk
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The Goebbels Diaries, 1939-1941
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The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
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Greek and Roman Slavery
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The Spirit of the Laws
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House of Pain (Velvet 6)
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The Essential Tales of Chekhov
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History of the Russian Revolution
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On Guerrilla Warfare
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Reporting World War II: American Journalism 1938–1944
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Wind, Sand and Stars
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Flight To Arras
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Guerrilla Warfare
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How in the world did you manage to enter more than 100 books singlehandedly ... AND make them stick?Also: Would there happen to be an online link to the bibliography in question anywhere? (That would make it easier to help monitoring this list for unwanted additions.)
Great one, in any event!
Themis-Athena: I just added the first 100 books, then removed my votes for all of them, and then added the next 100. I'm not sure if that's how it's supposed to work, but it did! It probably also explains why some books have negative votes. As far as I know, this is the only online database for RURD's bibliography. I could type up the whole thing later, though.
Thank you! I appreciate your thoughts and votes.
Ah -- that explains it! It had to have something to do with the negative votes ... I'm just surprised the books are still in the list. Typically, if you remove your vote, the book disappears as well (not necessarily at once, but eventually), unless somebody else has voted for it in the interim. So I guess the next thing will be to find other folks to vote for as many of the remaining books as possible to make sure they remain included! :)Don't go typing up the whole thing if it doesn't already exist as an online reference elsewhere ... with 400 books, that sounds like a LOT of trouble!!
As I am reading RUARD and come across referenced books that are not listed here, may I add them, Hadrian? (e.g. Jean's Way on p. 248 of Vol 1
Hadrian wrote: "Please do!"Awesome - just wanted to be sure before I messed with this awesome list.
Is there anyone that's read RURD that's also read Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined? I'm just curious as to whether the arguments are opposed, or somehow complementary.
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