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Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present
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3.86 avg rating — 995 ratings
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Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series)
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4.05 avg rating — 11,624 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 78,939 ratings
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A Nation of Wusses: How America's Leaders Lost the Guts to Make Us Great
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3.54 avg rating — 162 ratings
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A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety
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3.87 avg rating — 7,570 ratings
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Being Nixon: A Man Divided
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4.24 avg rating — 2,804 ratings
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
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4.15 avg rating — 23,964 ratings
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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
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4.46 avg rating — 4,182 ratings
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Titan II: A History Of A Cold War Missile Program
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3.98 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
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4.19 avg rating — 285,814 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.34 avg rating — 1,246,619 ratings
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The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
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4.18 avg rating — 5,913 ratings
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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4.20 avg rating — 32,231 ratings
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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4.16 avg rating — 29,519 ratings
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
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3.78 avg rating — 11,043 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.94 avg rating — 74,518 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 454,541 ratings
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Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
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4.06 avg rating — 7,606 ratings
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Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
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Grid, The
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3.86 avg rating — 4,630 ratings
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Sustainable Materials - with both eyes open: Future buildings, vehicles, products and equipment - made efficiently and made with less new material
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4.07 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
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3.85 avg rating — 20,875 ratings
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The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
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3.74 avg rating — 6,442 ratings
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The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
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3.93 avg rating — 1,377 ratings
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The Grid: A Journey Through the Heart of Our Electrified World
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3.45 avg rating — 169 ratings
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
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4.22 avg rating — 22,900 ratings
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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
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3.86 avg rating — 6,883 ratings
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How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
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3.95 avg rating — 21,274 ratings
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The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
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4.05 avg rating — 27,315 ratings
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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4.14 avg rating — 194,749 ratings
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How to Lie with Statistics
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3.84 avg rating — 17,939 ratings
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Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
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4.14 avg rating — 12,268 ratings
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13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
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3.75 avg rating — 6,160 ratings
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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4.36 avg rating — 200,804 ratings
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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
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3.97 avg rating — 52,293 ratings
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Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
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3.81 avg rating — 24,525 ratings
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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
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4.46 avg rating — 364,314 ratings
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Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012
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3.98 avg rating — 2,759 ratings
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Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
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4.40 avg rating — 17,268 ratings
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Hit Refresh
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3.79 avg rating — 17,899 ratings
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
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4.17 avg rating — 201,427 ratings
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Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age
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3.81 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Steve Jobs
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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The Best We Could Do
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4.35 avg rating — 40,042 ratings
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Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
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3.86 avg rating — 10,276 ratings
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Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
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On Immunity: An Inoculation
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3.94 avg rating — 11,903 ratings
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When Breath Becomes Air
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4.41 avg rating — 797,890 ratings
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Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
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3.80 avg rating — 53,004 ratings
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The Cost of Hope: A Memoir
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3.77 avg rating — 1,736 ratings
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The Heart
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3.84 avg rating — 12,385 ratings
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The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
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Seveneves
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The Rosie Effect (Don Tillman, #2)
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3.64 avg rating — 141,552 ratings
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The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
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Patriot and Assassin
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Turtles All the Way Down
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 9,815,885 ratings
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The Cat's Table
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The Catcher in the Rye
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3.80 avg rating — 3,868,831 ratings
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A Separate Peace
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3.60 avg rating — 231,679 ratings
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Lincoln in the Bardo
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Energy and Civilization: A History
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4.09 avg rating — 4,074 ratings
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Should We Eat Meat?: Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory
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3.52 avg rating — 640 ratings
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Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization
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3.76 avg rating — 589 ratings
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Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature
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3.72 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate
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3.87 avg rating — 625 ratings
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Japan's Dietary Transition and Its Impacts
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Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing
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3.77 avg rating — 502 ratings
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Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines
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The Earth's Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics, and Change
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Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties
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Energies: An Illustrated Guide to the Biosphere and Civilization
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Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next 50 Years
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Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production
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4.17 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Why America Is Not a New Rome
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3.53 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Transforming the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations and Their Consequences
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Energy Transitions: History, Requirements, Prospects
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Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact (Technical Revolutions and Their Lasting Impact)
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4.21 avg rating — 170 ratings
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Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics
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Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding--And How We Can Improve the World Even More
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3.62 avg rating — 203 ratings
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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The Man Who Fed the World: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug and His Battle to End World Hunger
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The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change
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However Long the Night: Molly Melching's Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph
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In the Company of the Poor: Conversations with Dr. Paul Farmer and Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez
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Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
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One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?
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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
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How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place
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The Foundation: A Great American Secret; How Private Wealth is Changing the World
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Give Smart: Philanthropy that Gets Results
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Jim Grant: Unicef Visionary
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Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food
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The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
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The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
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Interventions: A Life in War and Peace
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Why Does College Cost So Much?
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