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1984
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4.19 avg rating — 4,716,344 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 417,310 ratings
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
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4.08 avg rating — 246,609 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 — 70,073 ratings
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Animal Farm
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3.99 avg rating — 3,971,894 ratings
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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4.01 avg rating — 858,557 ratings
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The Communist Manifesto
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3.66 avg rating — 169,652 ratings
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U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) (Books of American Wisdom)
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4.51 avg rating — 26,953 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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4.16 avg rating — 26,116 ratings
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Democracy in America
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4.05 avg rating — 25,716 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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3.65 avg rating — 192,221 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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4.27 avg rating — 48,520 ratings
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Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)
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4.37 avg rating — 1,264,351 ratings
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The Federalist Papers
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4.10 avg rating — 40,528 ratings
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The Odyssey
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3.81 avg rating — 1,100,010 ratings
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A Tale of Two Cities
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3.87 avg rating — 957,961 ratings
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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
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4.26 avg rating — 18,805 ratings
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
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3.93 avg rating — 16,253 ratings
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The Feminine Mystique
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3.87 avg rating — 28,732 ratings
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Animal Farm / 1984
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4.30 avg rating — 200,990 ratings
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Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
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4.34 avg rating — 4,035 ratings
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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)
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4.36 avg rating — 3,266 ratings
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The Iliad
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3.91 avg rating — 463,210 ratings
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Culture and Imperialism
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4.18 avg rating — 5,413 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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4.02 avg rating — 14,755 ratings
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Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes
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4.39 avg rating — 10,314 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.93 avg rating — 71,880 ratings
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"I Will Fight No More Forever": Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War
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4.24 avg rating — 511 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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4.23 avg rating — 543 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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4.25 avg rating — 94,087 ratings
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Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It
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4.01 avg rating — 555 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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4.12 avg rating — 3,712 ratings
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The Anti-Federalist Papers
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4.17 avg rating — 562 ratings
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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3.87 avg rating — 37,620 ratings
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Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America
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4.18 avg rating — 274 ratings
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
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3.90 avg rating — 28,957 ratings
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History of the Peloponnesian War
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3.93 avg rating — 38,392 ratings
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القرآن الكريم
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4.38 avg rating — 68,511 ratings
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Race And Culture
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4.30 avg rating — 895 ratings
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol 1
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4.28 avg rating — 12,425 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 — 3,036 ratings
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The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
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4.33 avg rating — 87,158 ratings
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Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past
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3.71 avg rating — 856 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 109,659 ratings
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Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
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4.04 avg rating — 1,972 ratings
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Mere Christianity
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4.36 avg rating — 424,030 ratings
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Communism: A History
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3.78 avg rating — 975 ratings
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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3.91 avg rating — 13,775 ratings
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Chronicles of the Crusades
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3.82 avg rating — 1,485 ratings
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
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3.89 avg rating — 3,740 ratings
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow
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4.14 avg rating — 3,107 ratings
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Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil
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4.01 avg rating — 1,172 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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3.70 avg rating — 615 ratings
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Epoca îndreptățirii
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4.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Sealed Nectar | Biography of Prophet Muhammad
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4.61 avg rating — 22,018 ratings
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Voices of a People's History of the United States
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4.33 avg rating — 2,114 ratings
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
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4.11 avg rating — 14,875 ratings
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The Myth of Male Power
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3.93 avg rating — 931 ratings
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Language: The Social Mirror
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3.73 avg rating — 75 ratings
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El Cid
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3.59 avg rating — 15,222 ratings
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A Short History of Myth
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3.69 avg rating — 6,054 ratings
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Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
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3.95 avg rating — 217 ratings
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
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4.16 avg rating — 28,553 ratings
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10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
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3.54 avg rating — 690 ratings
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The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
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4.07 avg rating — 1,942 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 — 3,208 ratings
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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4.12 avg rating — 19,685 ratings
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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4.15 avg rating — 31,726 ratings
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
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3.95 avg rating — 150,438 ratings
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On the Rez
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3.86 avg rating — 1,845 ratings
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Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life
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3.89 avg rating — 994 ratings
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How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World
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3.63 avg rating — 1,560 ratings
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The Drowned and the Saved
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4.43 avg rating — 9,143 ratings
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Islam and the Crusades: The Writings of Usama ibn Munqidh
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3.92 avg rating — 384 ratings
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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4.23 avg rating — 33,374 ratings
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The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
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4.12 avg rating — 3,538 ratings
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Hindu Nationalism: Origins, Ideologies and Modern Myths
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3.68 avg rating — 19 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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3.55 avg rating — 402 ratings
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Shamati: I Heard
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4.55 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War
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3.93 avg rating — 426 ratings
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Ceasefire!: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality
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3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction
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3.88 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
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4.23 avg rating — 3,552 ratings
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World War II Blitz—Volume 1: 1939-1940
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3.66 avg rating — 483 ratings
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Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making
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3.87 avg rating — 1,160 ratings
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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4.06 avg rating — 74,936 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 — 24,421 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 — 43 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 — 104 ratings
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"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
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4.26 avg rating — 10,583 ratings
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Annihilation of Caste
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4.62 avg rating — 7,550 ratings
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Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
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3.76 avg rating — 44,229 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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4.18 avg rating — 205,432 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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