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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,280,495 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 447,763 ratings
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
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4.08 avg rating — 261,143 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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3.97 avg rating — 73,007 ratings
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Animal Farm
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4.01 avg rating — 4,400,481 ratings
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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4.01 avg rating — 888,502 ratings
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The Communist Manifesto
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3.68 avg rating — 191,084 ratings
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U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) (Books of American Wisdom)
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4.52 avg rating — 27,072 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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4.16 avg rating — 27,380 ratings
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Democracy in America
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4.05 avg rating — 26,707 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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3.65 avg rating — 194,734 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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4.29 avg rating — 52,357 ratings
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Night
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4.38 avg rating — 1,340,644 ratings
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The Federalist Papers
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4.10 avg rating — 41,656 ratings
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The Odyssey
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3.83 avg rating — 1,164,470 ratings
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A Tale of Two Cities
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3.88 avg rating — 1,000,005 ratings
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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
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4.26 avg rating — 18,926 ratings
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
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3.93 avg rating — 16,592 ratings
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Animal Farm / 1984
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4.30 avg rating — 212,395 ratings
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Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
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4.34 avg rating — 4,207 ratings
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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)
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4.37 avg rating — 3,495 ratings
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The Iliad
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3.93 avg rating — 498,185 ratings
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Culture and Imperialism
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4.19 avg rating — 5,689 ratings
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The Feminine Mystique
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3.87 avg rating — 30,393 ratings
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Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes
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4.40 avg rating — 12,039 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.93 avg rating — 74,076 ratings
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"I Will Fight No More Forever": Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War
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4.23 avg rating — 524 ratings
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Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History
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4.24 avg rating — 578 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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4.02 avg rating — 15,308 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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4.26 avg rating — 100,250 ratings
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Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It
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4.02 avg rating — 571 ratings
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A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
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4.11 avg rating — 3,854 ratings
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The Anti-Federalist Papers
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4.14 avg rating — 583 ratings
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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3.87 avg rating — 39,135 ratings
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Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America
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4.20 avg rating — 291 ratings
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
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3.90 avg rating — 30,286 ratings
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History of the Peloponnesian War
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3.94 avg rating — 40,058 ratings
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القرآن الكريم
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4.38 avg rating — 71,528 ratings
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Race And Culture
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4.32 avg rating — 943 ratings
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol 1
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4.29 avg rating — 14,187 ratings
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The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
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4.40 avg rating — 3,340 ratings
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The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
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4.33 avg rating — 90,812 ratings
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Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past
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3.73 avg rating — 882 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 115,543 ratings
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Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
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4.03 avg rating — 1,996 ratings
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Mere Christianity
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4.36 avg rating — 449,019 ratings
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Communism: A History
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3.77 avg rating — 1,039 ratings
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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3.91 avg rating — 14,800 ratings
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Chronicles of the Crusades
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3.83 avg rating — 1,531 ratings
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
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3.87 avg rating — 3,955 ratings
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow
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4.14 avg rating — 3,189 ratings
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Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,196 ratings
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The Armenian Genocide: Wartime Radicalization or Premeditated Continuum
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4.33 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Don't Label Me: An Incredible Conversation for Divided Times
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3.68 avg rating — 635 ratings
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Epoca îndreptățirii
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4.65 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Sealed Nectar | Biography of Prophet Muhammad
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4.61 avg rating — 23,227 ratings
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Voices of a People's History of the United States
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4.31 avg rating — 2,156 ratings
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
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4.11 avg rating — 15,982 ratings
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The Myth of Male Power
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3.94 avg rating — 963 ratings
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Language: The Social Mirror
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3.74 avg rating — 76 ratings
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El Cid
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3.59 avg rating — 16,591 ratings
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A Short History of Myth
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3.69 avg rating — 6,388 ratings
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Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
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3.96 avg rating — 227 ratings
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
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4.16 avg rating — 29,339 ratings
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10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
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3.55 avg rating — 723 ratings
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The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
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4.08 avg rating — 2,012 ratings
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The Path to Tyranny: A History of Free Society's Descent into Tyranny
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3.98 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Deschooling Society
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3.99 avg rating — 3,427 ratings
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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4.12 avg rating — 20,695 ratings
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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4.16 avg rating — 36,597 ratings
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
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3.95 avg rating — 156,005 ratings
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On the Rez
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3.86 avg rating — 1,875 ratings
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Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life
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3.90 avg rating — 1,013 ratings
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How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World
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3.62 avg rating — 1,598 ratings
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The Drowned and the Saved
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4.43 avg rating — 10,061 ratings
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Islam and the Crusades: The Writings of Usama ibn Munqidh
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3.93 avg rating — 414 ratings
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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4.24 avg rating — 36,025 ratings
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The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
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4.12 avg rating — 3,617 ratings
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Hindu Nationalism: Origins, Ideologies and Modern Myths
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3.61 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Godly Minds, Bold Hearts Behind the American Defense Against Tyranny
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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63 Alfred Street: Where Capitalism Failed: The Life and Times of a Venetian Gothic Mansion in Downtown Detroit
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3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Advanced Genius Theory: Are They Out of Their Minds or Ahead of Their Time?
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3.56 avg rating — 407 ratings
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Shamati: I Heard
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4.57 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War
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3.94 avg rating — 443 ratings
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Ceasefire!: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality
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3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction
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3.90 avg rating — 193 ratings
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Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
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4.23 avg rating — 3,916 ratings
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World War II Blitz—Volume 1: 1939-1940
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3.66 avg rating — 489 ratings
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Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making
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3.87 avg rating — 1,203 ratings
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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4.06 avg rating — 81,710 ratings
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Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
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4.07 avg rating — 25,217 ratings
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American Environmental History: Part One
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Way Thais Lead: Face as Social Capital
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4.02 avg rating — 49 ratings
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God(s), Empire, and Shifting Trade Routes
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism
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4.15 avg rating — 106 ratings
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"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
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4.26 avg rating — 10,911 ratings
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Annihilation of Caste
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4.61 avg rating — 8,375 ratings
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Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
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3.75 avg rating — 45,259 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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4.19 avg rating — 209,257 ratings
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No One Can Escape the 4 Laws: Negotiate or Die
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3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
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