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1984
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4.19 avg rating — 4,228,569 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 387,063 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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3.97 avg rating — 66,934 ratings
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A People's History of the United States
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4.07 avg rating — 233,344 ratings
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 823,651 ratings
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Animal Farm
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3.98 avg rating — 3,596,809 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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4.15 avg rating — 24,593 ratings
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The Communist Manifesto
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3.64 avg rating — 151,535 ratings
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The Constitution of the United States of America
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4.52 avg rating — 27,055 ratings
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Democracy in America
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4.04 avg rating — 24,928 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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4.26 avg rating — 45,499 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
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3.65 avg rating — 188,963 ratings
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Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)
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4.36 avg rating — 1,175,759 ratings
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The Federalist Papers
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4.10 avg rating — 39,337 ratings
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The Odyssey
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3.80 avg rating — 1,021,678 ratings
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The Feminine Mystique
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3.86 avg rating — 27,128 ratings
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A Tale of Two Cities
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3.86 avg rating — 914,389 ratings
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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
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4.26 avg rating — 18,487 ratings
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
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3.93 avg rating — 15,910 ratings
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Animal Farm / 1984
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4.30 avg rating — 190,294 ratings
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Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
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4.34 avg rating — 3,860 ratings
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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)
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4.35 avg rating — 3,065 ratings
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The Iliad
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3.90 avg rating — 426,439 ratings
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Culture and Imperialism
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4.17 avg rating — 5,137 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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4.01 avg rating — 14,235 ratings
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Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes
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4.38 avg rating — 9,371 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.93 avg rating — 69,658 ratings
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"I Will Fight No More Forever": Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War
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4.23 avg rating — 488 ratings
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Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History
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4.24 avg rating — 525 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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4.24 avg rating — 87,426 ratings
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Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It
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4.02 avg rating — 524 ratings
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A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
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4.14 avg rating — 3,533 ratings
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The Anti-Federalist Papers
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4.17 avg rating — 539 ratings
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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3.86 avg rating — 36,157 ratings
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Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America
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4.18 avg rating — 264 ratings
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
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3.90 avg rating — 27,626 ratings
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History of the Peloponnesian War
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3.92 avg rating — 36,646 ratings
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القرآن الكريم
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4.38 avg rating — 65,879 ratings
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Race And Culture
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4.30 avg rating — 828 ratings
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol 1
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4.27 avg rating — 11,236 ratings
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The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
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4.39 avg rating — 2,745 ratings
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The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
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4.32 avg rating — 83,148 ratings
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Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past
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3.72 avg rating — 822 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 102,756 ratings
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Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
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4.03 avg rating — 1,948 ratings
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Mere Christianity
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4.35 avg rating — 381,220 ratings
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Communism: A History
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3.77 avg rating — 912 ratings
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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3.91 avg rating — 12,813 ratings
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Chronicles of the Crusades
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3.82 avg rating — 1,443 ratings
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The Theory of the Leisure Class (Dover Thrift Editions: Economics)
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3.89 avg rating — 3,544 ratings
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow
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4.14 avg rating — 3,013 ratings
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Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil
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4.01 avg rating — 1,149 ratings
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The Armenian Genocide: Wartime Radicalization or Premeditated Continuum
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4.33 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Don't Label Me: An Incredible Conversation for Divided Times
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3.71 avg rating — 564 ratings
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Epoca îndreptățirii
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4.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Sealed Nectar | Biography of Prophet Muhammad
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4.60 avg rating — 20,874 ratings
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Voices of a People's History of the United States
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4.33 avg rating — 2,078 ratings
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
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4.11 avg rating — 13,787 ratings
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The Myth of Male Power
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3.94 avg rating — 896 ratings
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Language: The Social Mirror
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3.72 avg rating — 74 ratings
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El Cid
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3.60 avg rating — 13,807 ratings
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A Short History of Myth
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3.69 avg rating — 5,652 ratings
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Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
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3.95 avg rating — 204 ratings
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
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4.16 avg rating — 27,541 ratings
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10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
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3.52 avg rating — 642 ratings
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The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
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4.06 avg rating — 1,881 ratings
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The Path to Tyranny: A History of Free Society's Descent into Tyranny
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3.96 avg rating — 183 ratings
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Deschooling Society
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,987 ratings
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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4.11 avg rating — 18,664 ratings
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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4.15 avg rating — 28,213 ratings
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
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3.95 avg rating — 143,265 ratings
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On the Rez
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3.85 avg rating — 1,786 ratings
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Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life
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3.88 avg rating — 961 ratings
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How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World
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3.64 avg rating — 1,538 ratings
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The Drowned and the Saved
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4.43 avg rating — 8,140 ratings
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Islam and the Crusades: The Writings of Usama ibn Munqidh
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3.92 avg rating — 374 ratings
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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4.23 avg rating — 30,854 ratings
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The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
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4.11 avg rating — 3,471 ratings
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Hindu Nationalism: Origins, Ideologies and Modern Myths
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3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Godly Minds, Bold Hearts Behind the American Defense Against Tyranny
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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63 Alfred Street: Where Capitalism Failed: The Life and Times of a Venetian Gothic Mansion in Downtown Detroit
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3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Advanced Genius Theory: Are They Out of Their Minds or Ahead of Their Time?
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3.55 avg rating — 395 ratings
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Shamati: I Heard
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4.56 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War
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3.93 avg rating — 405 ratings
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Ceasefire!: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality
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3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction
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3.85 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
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4.23 avg rating — 3,222 ratings
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World War II Blitz—Volume 1: 1939-1940
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3.65 avg rating — 475 ratings
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Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making
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3.87 avg rating — 1,096 ratings
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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4.04 avg rating — 69,209 ratings
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Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
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4.06 avg rating — 23,443 ratings
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American Environmental History: Part One
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3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Way Thais Lead: Face as Social Capital
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4.13 avg rating — 39 ratings
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God(s), Empire, and Shifting Trade Routes
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism
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4.14 avg rating — 95 ratings
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"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
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4.25 avg rating — 10,088 ratings
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Annihilation of Caste
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4.62 avg rating — 6,709 ratings
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Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
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3.76 avg rating — 42,486 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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4.18 avg rating — 200,199 ratings
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No One Can Escape the 4 Laws: The Heavy and Loaded Weapons That Destroy Poverty. Hold Them in your Hands and Squeeze the Trigger. Negotiate or Die.
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3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
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