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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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Between the World and Me
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Zeitoun
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Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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No God but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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The Muslims are Coming!: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror
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American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear
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The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
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Chain of Command
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Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR
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Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia
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Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
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The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
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The Establishment of National Republics in Soviet Central Asia
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Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India
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Is Journalism Worth Dying For? Final Dispatches
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The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
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The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail
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In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language
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The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution
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Frontier of Faith: Islam in the Indo-Afghan Borderland
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Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History
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Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury after War
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Thank You for Your Service
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Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia
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The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE – 1492 CE
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A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
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Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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Pagan Britain
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Border Work: Spatial Lives of the State in Rural Central Asia
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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
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Heart Berries
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Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
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Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language
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Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca
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Lingo
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
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On the Move: A Life
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Birth of the Chess Queen: A History – From Medieval Europe to Isabel of Castile, an Investigation of Female Sovereigns and Power
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Empires of Light
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The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
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The Trouble With Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time
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Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850 (The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History)
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Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law, 7)
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Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream
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Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754 - 1766
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The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists
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The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
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The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
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Homosexuality in Islam: Critical Reflection on Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims
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The Hanging of Afzal Guru and the Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament
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Kashmir: A Case of Freedom
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A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya
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Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire
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Ravensbrück: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
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Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
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Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan
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The Edge of the World: A Cultural History of the North Sea and the Transformation of Europe
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The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World
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Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
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The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne
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Russian Eurasianism: An Ideology of Empire
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The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall
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What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet?: Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire
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Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America
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The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
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Islam with a Female Face: How Women are Changing the Religious Landscape in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan
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Jasmine and Stars: Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran
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Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot
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The Sky Wept Fire: My Life as a Chechen Freedom Fighter
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One Soldier's War in Chechnya
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Iran Awakening
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We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
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Remembering Palestine in 1948: Beyond National Narratives (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare, Series Number 32)
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The Reindeer People: Living With Animals And Spirits in Siberia
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Living with Difference: How to Build Community in a Divided World
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Despite Cultures: Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan (Central Eurasia in Context, 24)
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Descent into Chaos: The US & the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan & Central Asia
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Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus
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Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation
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Blood Ties and the Native Son: Poetics of Patronage in Kyrgyzstan
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Gender Epistemologies and Eurasian Borderlands
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This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
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$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
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Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
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Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... and Why
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
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