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Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary
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Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World
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Alexis de Tocqueville
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The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
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3.84 avg rating — 3,882 ratings
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The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
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4.05 avg rating — 10,750 ratings
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Mellon: An American Life
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3.96 avg rating — 515 ratings
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George Mackay Brown
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Passionate Minds
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A Royal Affair: George III and His Scandalous Siblings
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3.77 avg rating — 373 ratings
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The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
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3.92 avg rating — 7,475 ratings
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Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
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4.22 avg rating — 613 ratings
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The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
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4.54 avg rating — 3,213 ratings
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The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave Trade
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3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Trial of Queen Caroline: The Scandalous Affair that Nearly Ended a Monarchy
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3.44 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
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Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power
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4.04 avg rating — 94 ratings
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The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11
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3.82 avg rating — 1,915 ratings
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Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics, from the Great War to the War on Terror
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3.67 avg rating — 231 ratings
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China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future -- and the Challenge for America
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In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India
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3.86 avg rating — 3,639 ratings
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The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall
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3.72 avg rating — 525 ratings
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The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
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3.83 avg rating — 5,682 ratings
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The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn't Working
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3.54 avg rating — 258 ratings
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Myself and Other More Important Matters
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4.12 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Joe Wilson and the Creation of Xerox
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3.64 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Mavericks at Work
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3.76 avg rating — 812 ratings
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The Revenge of Gaia
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3.82 avg rating — 1,904 ratings
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The God Delusion
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3.90 avg rating — 285,594 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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4.19 avg rating — 211,311 ratings
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Suite Française
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The Emperor's Children
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House of Meetings
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Running for the Hills: Growing Up on My Mother's Sheep Farm in Wales
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The Meaning of Night (The Meaning of Night, #1)
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The Ruby in Her Navel
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3.43 avg rating — 877 ratings
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Seven Lies
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3.19 avg rating — 283 ratings
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Wizard of the Crow
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4.23 avg rating — 3,836 ratings
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On Opera
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Empire of the Mind
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2.84 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Will and Me: How Shakespeare Took Over My Life
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3.75 avg rating — 102 ratings
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District and Circle
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4.02 avg rating — 1,342 ratings
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The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles
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3.98 avg rating — 6,939 ratings
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The Cloudspotter's Guide
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4.13 avg rating — 2,893 ratings
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Casting a Spell: The Bamboo Fly Rod and the American Pursuit of Perfection
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4.42 avg rating — 60 ratings
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