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1984
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4.19 avg rating — 3,902,054 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.18 avg rating — 3,296,069 ratings
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The Catcher in the Rye
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3.81 avg rating — 3,156,539 ratings
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The Great Gatsby
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3.93 avg rating — 4,534,043 ratings
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Lolita
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3.88 avg rating — 755,447 ratings
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Steppenwolf
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4.13 avg rating — 160,773 ratings
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The Trial
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3.96 avg rating — 275,112 ratings
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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4.02 avg rating — 396,990 ratings
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Atlas Shrugged
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3.69 avg rating — 374,211 ratings
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Catch-22
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3.98 avg rating — 784,382 ratings
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The Grapes of Wrath
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3.99 avg rating — 833,536 ratings
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Ulysses
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3.74 avg rating — 119,577 ratings
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On the Road
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3.62 avg rating — 381,461 ratings
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The Stranger
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 877,208 ratings
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Silent Spring
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 42,285 ratings
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The Sun Also Rises
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3.81 avg rating — 402,101 ratings
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2001: A Space Odyssey
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4.16 avg rating — 288,683 ratings
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On Aggression
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4.04 avg rating — 1,464 ratings
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
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3.51 avg rating — 111,315 ratings
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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4.10 avg rating — 866,923 ratings
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Heart of Darkness
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3.43 avg rating — 470,845 ratings
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A Room of One's Own
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4.20 avg rating — 161,605 ratings
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The Second Sex
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4.14 avg rating — 36,720 ratings
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A Clockwork Orange
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 662,306 ratings
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In Search of Lost Time
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4.35 avg rating — 11,229 ratings
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The Interpretation of Dreams
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3.84 avg rating — 68,254 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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4.31 avg rating — 25,819 ratings
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The Jungle
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3.76 avg rating — 136,981 ratings
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Babbitt
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3.68 avg rating — 22,414 ratings
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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4.43 avg rating — 155,577 ratings
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The Feminine Mystique
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3.86 avg rating — 26,093 ratings
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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
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4.20 avg rating — 19,867 ratings
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Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
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4.02 avg rating — 628 ratings
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Man's Search for Meaning
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4.36 avg rating — 560,867 ratings
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Mein Kampf
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3.18 avg rating — 38,858 ratings
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The Decline of the West
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4.06 avg rating — 1,743 ratings
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The Magic Mountain
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4.11 avg rating — 43,831 ratings
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The Double Helix
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3.86 avg rating — 17,369 ratings
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Native Son
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4.01 avg rating — 94,809 ratings
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Baby and Child Care
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3.79 avg rating — 2,090 ratings
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
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3.85 avg rating — 5,088 ratings
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The Joy of Sex
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3.62 avg rating — 2,791 ratings
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The Montessori Method
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4.06 avg rating — 1,385 ratings
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Psychology of the Unconscious
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4.15 avg rating — 998 ratings
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Mastering the Art of French Cooking
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4.22 avg rating — 63,147 ratings
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Our Bodies, Ourselves
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4.36 avg rating — 7,412 ratings
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The Cherry Orchard
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3.68 avg rating — 35,478 ratings
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Alcoholics Anonymous
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4.47 avg rating — 9,745 ratings
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Prufrock and Other Observations
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4.32 avg rating — 19,935 ratings
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
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4.21 avg rating — 816,130 ratings
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Being and Time
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4.04 avg rating — 22,489 ratings
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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4.03 avg rating — 60,600 ratings
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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4.03 avg rating — 24,988 ratings
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Being and Nothingness
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3.98 avg rating — 28,879 ratings
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Darkness at Noon
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4.09 avg rating — 28,093 ratings
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The Golden Notebook
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3.76 avg rating — 21,333 ratings
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History of Standard Oil Company
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3.89 avg rating — 209 ratings
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How the Other Half Lives
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3.75 avg rating — 2,587 ratings
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In the Shadow of Man
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4.36 avg rating — 7,243 ratings
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The Seven Storey Mountain
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4.03 avg rating — 18,594 ratings
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Howl and Other Poems
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4.13 avg rating — 103,218 ratings
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I and Thou
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4.06 avg rating — 10,876 ratings
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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
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3.38 avg rating — 2,649 ratings
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Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
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3.62 avg rating — 262 ratings
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Conditioned Reflexes
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4.15 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation
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3.55 avg rating — 2,870 ratings
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The Encyclicals and Other Messages of John XXIII
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Golden Bough
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4.03 avg rating — 8,435 ratings
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Man's Fate
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3.75 avg rating — 5,114 ratings
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Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
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3.89 avg rating — 3,499 ratings
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Intelligent Life in the Universe
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4.28 avg rating — 351 ratings
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Happiness in Marriage
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3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Six Characters in Search of an Author
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3.82 avg rating — 17,741 ratings
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Waiting for Godot
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3.84 avg rating — 182,271 ratings
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The Function of the Orgasm (Discovery of the Orgone #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 533 ratings
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Judgement and Reasoning in the Child (Quality Paperback: No. 205)
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3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Creatures That Once Were Men
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3.78 avg rating — 354 ratings
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Patterns of Culture
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3.83 avg rating — 1,516 ratings
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Genetics and the Origin of Species
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4.12 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The School and Society/The Child and the Curriculum
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3.76 avg rating — 538 ratings
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Ten Days that Shook the World
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3.93 avg rating — 5,977 ratings
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Brave New World
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3.99 avg rating — 1,662,343 ratings
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Study of Organ Inferiority and Its Psychical Compensation: A Contribution to Clinical Medicine
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Art and Culture: Critical Essays
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3.90 avg rating — 530 ratings
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85 |
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Behaviorism
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3.78 avg rating — 95 ratings
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86 |
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Beyond Freedom and Dignity
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3.76 avg rating — 2,118 ratings
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87 |
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Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
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4.18 avg rating — 314 ratings
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88 |
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Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
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3.58 avg rating — 181,136 ratings
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89 |
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Motivation and Personality
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4.19 avg rating — 1,560 ratings
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A Critique of the Theory of Evolution
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4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Engineering Of Consent
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3.88 avg rating — 52 ratings
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The Raw and the Cooked (Mythologiques, Vol 1)
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4.02 avg rating — 311 ratings
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Satyagraha in South Africa: The Making of Mahatma Gandhi
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3.96 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Syntactic Structures
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3.84 avg rating — 765 ratings
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
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4.01 avg rating — 3,596 ratings
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Looking at the Dance
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory
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4.07 avg rating — 141 ratings
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The Masters And The Slaves: A Study In The Development Of Brazilian Civilization
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4.18 avg rating — 613 ratings
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Philosophy of New Music
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3.81 avg rating — 284 ratings
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The Power Elite
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4.15 avg rating — 1,383 ratings
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