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Salt: A World History
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3.75 avg rating — 76,046 ratings
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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
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3.81 avg rating — 5,351 ratings
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Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
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3.69 avg rating — 3,031 ratings
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Eating the Empire: Food and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain
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4.23 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 24,832 ratings
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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
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3.78 avg rating — 2,796 ratings
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The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
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3.61 avg rating — 562 ratings
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Spice: The History of a Temptation
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3.64 avg rating — 2,556 ratings
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The True History of Chocolate
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3.80 avg rating — 1,537 ratings
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
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4.44 avg rating — 12,297 ratings
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Liquid Jade: The Story of Tea from East to West
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3.80 avg rating — 236 ratings
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
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3.82 avg rating — 5,324 ratings
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
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3.89 avg rating — 3,668 ratings
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Tea: The Drink that Changed the World
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3.71 avg rating — 574 ratings
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Salt: A World History
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3.75 avg rating — 76,046 ratings
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Vanilla: The Cultural History of the World's Favorite Flavor and Fragrance
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3.71 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Beans: A History
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3.66 avg rating — 222 ratings
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The Story of Corn
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3.56 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World
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3.87 avg rating — 2,423 ratings
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The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee
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3.64 avg rating — 2,049 ratings
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Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
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3.98 avg rating — 591 ratings
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Cotton: The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber
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3.61 avg rating — 276 ratings
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Re-Imagining Milk
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3.76 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Diamond: The History of a Cold-Blooded Love Affair
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3.69 avg rating — 497 ratings
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Orange Empire: California And The Fruits Of Eden
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3.75 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World
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3.56 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Sugar: A Bittersweet History
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3.74 avg rating — 428 ratings
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Potato: A Global History
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3.34 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization
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3.70 avg rating — 1,237 ratings
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Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder
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3.47 avg rating — 915 ratings
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Coffee: A Dark History
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3.50 avg rating — 326 ratings
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Scotch Whisky: A Liquid History
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4.10 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
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3.87 avg rating — 980 ratings
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The Tanoak Tree: An Environmental History of a Pacific Coast Hardwood
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4.56 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Desperate: An Epic Battle for Clean Water and Justice in Appalachia
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4.10 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India
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3.96 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Bittersweet: The Story of Sugar
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3.51 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Herring Tales: How the Silver Darlings Shaped Human Taste and History
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3.64 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Hydrohumanities: Water Discourse and Environmental Futures
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Untold History of the Potato
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3.82 avg rating — 481 ratings
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Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
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4.06 avg rating — 6,907 ratings
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Sugar: The World Corrupted: From Slavery to Obesity
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3.47 avg rating — 594 ratings
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Lithium: A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough
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3.61 avg rating — 428 ratings
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Οι δρόμοι του μεταξιού: Μια νέα ιστορία του κόσμου
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4.17 avg rating — 47,581 ratings
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The Story of Tea: A Cultural History and Drinking Guide
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3.92 avg rating — 665 ratings
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Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World's Deadliest Place
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3.41 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Coal: A Human History
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3.73 avg rating — 2,259 ratings
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A Social History of Tea
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4.01 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
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3.96 avg rating — 4,542 ratings
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A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World
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3.87 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Mountaintop Mining in Appalachia: Understanding Stakeholders and Change in Environmental Conflict
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Chocolate
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3.74 avg rating — 368 ratings
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King of Poisons: A History of Arsenic
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3.72 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Matewan Before the Massacre: Politics, Coal and the Roots of Conflict in a West Virginia Mining Community
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3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Papyrus
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3.64 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia
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4.14 avg rating — 661 ratings
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Coal Dust on the Fiddle: Songs and Stories of the Bituminous Industry
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Coal Wars: The Future of Energy and the Fate of the Planet
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3.69 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future
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3.99 avg rating — 456 ratings
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Citrus: A History
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3.25 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Coal: A Human History
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3.73 avg rating — 2,259 ratings
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Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything — And Endangered the World
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3.92 avg rating — 253 ratings
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The History of the Standard Oil Company (Unexpurgated Edition)
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3.91 avg rating — 248 ratings
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A Field Philosopher's Guide to Fracking: How One Texas Town Stood Up to Big Oil and Gas
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3.62 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Amber Waves: The Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, from Wild Grass to World Megacrop
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3.63 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas
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3.71 avg rating — 211 ratings
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Rice: Global Networks and New Histories
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Seven Culinary Wonders of the World: A History of Honey, Salt, Chile, Pork, Rice, Cacao, and Tomato
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3.47 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Salt: Grain of Life
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2.76 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power
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4.11 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
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3.89 avg rating — 3,668 ratings
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Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool
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4.18 avg rating — 3,049 ratings
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Apple: A Global History
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3.70 avg rating — 73 ratings
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A Culinary History of Florida: Prickly Pears, Datil Peppers & Key Limes
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3.49 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Secrets of Saffron: The Vagabond Life of the World's Most Seductive Spice
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3.09 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Oranges
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4.03 avg rating — 3,867 ratings
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California Orange Box Labels: An Illustrated History
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4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire (Volume 4) (Vagabonds)
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3.94 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Orange Crate Art: A Postcard Book
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Skipjack: The Story of America's Last Sailing Oystermen
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4.14 avg rating — 77 ratings
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The Oyster War: The True Story of a Small Farm, Big Politics, and the Future of Wilderness in America
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3.95 avg rating — 354 ratings
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Oystering: A Way of Life
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
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3.96 avg rating — 5,234 ratings
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Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
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4.14 avg rating — 1,551 ratings
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Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
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3.62 avg rating — 1,870 ratings
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Pure and Modern Milk: An Environmental History since 1900
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3.93 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Orchid Muse: A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers
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3.81 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
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3.68 avg rating — 655 ratings
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Plantation Kingdom: The American South and Its Global Commodities (The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series)
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3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Tragedy of the Commodity: Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture
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4.27 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Broken Chains and Subverted Plans: Ethnicity, Race, and Commodities
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Archaeology of Smoking and Tobacco
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Corn: A Global History
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3.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Corn Is Maize: The Gift of the Indians (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)
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3.63 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Fluvial Imagination: On Lesotho’s Water-Export Economy (Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics) (Volume 12)
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it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
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4.28 avg rating — 11,810 ratings
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Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It
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3.56 avg rating — 890 ratings
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The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
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3.94 avg rating — 1,994 ratings
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Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind
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3.39 avg rating — 261 ratings
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The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century
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3.94 avg rating — 420 ratings
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