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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order
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Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance
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The Bullies of Wall Street: This Is How Greed Messed Up Our Economy
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Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age
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The Trouble with Markets: Saving Capitalism from Itself
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American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
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The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War Over the American Dollar
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Oil: Money, Politics, and Power in the 21st Century
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Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of AIG's Corporate Suicide
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How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
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Gods of Money: Wall Street and the Death of the American Century
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War Is a Racket
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4.28 avg rating — 9,282 ratings
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
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Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
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Street Freak: Money and Madness at Lehman Brothers
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The Great Irish Potato Famine
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3.65 avg rating — 131 ratings
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
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4.37 avg rating — 21,082 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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Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
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Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System
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3.91 avg rating — 525 ratings
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The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815 - 1914
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4.15 avg rating — 2,110 ratings
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Crash of the Titans: Greed, Hubris, the Fall of Merrill Lynch, and the Near-Collapse of Bank of America
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Civilization: The West and the Rest
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Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
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The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street
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Woman, Church, and State
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Inequality: What Everyone Needs to Know
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The Nazis, Capitalism and the Working Class
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Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia
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With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful
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The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age
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Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
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American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper
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Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii
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Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights
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A Brief History of Neoliberalism
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The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism
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The Money Mafia: A World in Crisis
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The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
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Gangster States: Organized Crime, Kleptocracy and Political Collapse (International Political Economy Series)
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Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice
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Finance Capitalism and Its Discontents
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Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy
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The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America--and Spawned a Global Crisis
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The Age of American Unreason
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3.85 avg rating — 3,274 ratings
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Survival of the Richest: How the Corruption of the Marketplace and the Disparity of Wealth Created the Greatest Conspiracy of All
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3.74 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
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4.06 avg rating — 2,568 ratings
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The Despot's Accomplice: How the West is Aiding and Abetting the Decline of Democracy
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century
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The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
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Thinking About Capitalism
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4.09 avg rating — 191 ratings
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Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market
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When the Rivers Run Dry: Water - The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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Nation on the Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy and What We Can Do About It
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Zero-Sum Future: American Power in an Age of Anxiety
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Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis
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The New Trail of Tears: How Washington Is Destroying American Indians
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The Travels of A T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade
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The Laundrymen: Money Laundering the World's Third Largest Business
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The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy
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The Price of Civilization
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The Unconscious Civilization
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When Society Becomes an Addict: An Incisive Analysis of the System of Addiction in Western Society
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The Working Poor: Invisible in America
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The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India
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The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability
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The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe
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Hedge Funds: Courtesans of Capitalism
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The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870
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The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age
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And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future
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Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy
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American Legal History: A Very Short Introduction
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Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics
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Communism: A Very Short Introduction
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Corporate Social Responsibility: A Very Short Introduction
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Decolonization: A Very Short Introduction
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Eugenics: A Very Short Introduction
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Fundamentalism: A Very Short Introduction
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Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction
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Liberalism: A Very Short Introduction
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