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The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.27 — 65,235 ratings — published 2019
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,904 ratings — published 2008
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,462 ratings — published 2019
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.56 — 74,598 ratings — published 2025
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.66 — 359,389 ratings — published 2006
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 206,152 ratings — published 2018
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 117,881 ratings — published 2016
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
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avg rating 4.19 — 123,777 ratings — published 2015
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 28,118 ratings — published 2014
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 637,216 ratings — published 2012
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 25,084 ratings — published 2011
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,780 ratings — published 2005
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.52 — 167,276 ratings — published 2020
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 28,264 ratings — published 2019
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 102,074 ratings — published 2017
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 75,549 ratings — published 2004
A Long Walk to Water (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 108,093 ratings — published 2010
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.46 — 104,357 ratings — published 2009
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.66 — 11,286 ratings — published 2008
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 56,010 ratings — published 2007
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.32 — 287,387 ratings — published 2025
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 46,152 ratings — published 2022
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 5,889 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 120,864 ratings — published 2019
The Age of Capital, 1848–1875 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 4,842 ratings — published 1975
The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.60 — 608 ratings — published 1998
The New Liberty: Survival and Justice in a Changing World (Studies of Economic Growth in Industrialized Countries)
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avg rating 3.00 — 5 ratings — published 1975
Politics and Economic Policy in Western Democracies (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1980
What's Left? (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,006 ratings — published 2007
The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,245 ratings — published 2016
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 10,044 ratings — published 2012
The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations? (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.43 — 534 ratings — published 2010
The Great Crash of 2008 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 14 ratings — published 2009
The Open Economy and its Enemies: Public Attitudes in East Asia and Eastern Europe (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2002
The Crisis of Confidence: Ideas, Power and Violence in America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.57 — 7 ratings — published 1969
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.00 — 343,493 ratings — published 2019
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.33 — 180,388 ratings — published 2019
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 340,196 ratings — published 2012
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.21 — 44,516 ratings — published 2014
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,773 ratings — published 2018
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
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avg rating 4.16 — 174,165 ratings — published 2018
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 8,347 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.62 — 270,958 ratings — published 2014
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 81,738 ratings — published 2014
The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 586 ratings — published 2002
What Next? (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 66 ratings — published 2008
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 24,530 ratings — published 2009
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
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avg rating 4.19 — 72,670 ratings — published 1998
The Post-American World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 12,915 ratings — published 2008
The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 6,370 ratings — published 2012
“The focus of innovations and investments need to shift from slogging innovations like phone and, drone type innovations to solve real problems that are killing the inhabitants of the planet.”
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“Water is a source of life but also a source of conflict, greed, and war.”
― The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations
― The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations
