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The Decline of the West
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4.06 avg rating — 2,221 ratings
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The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World
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4.10 avg rating — 1,360 ratings
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From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
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4.13 avg rating — 4,633 ratings
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At the End of an Age
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3.69 avg rating — 99 ratings
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The Leopard
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4.01 avg rating — 46,517 ratings
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The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope
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3.84 avg rating — 575 ratings
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From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East
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4.32 avg rating — 4,154 ratings
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Path of the Puma: The Remarkable Resilience of the Mountain Lion
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4.31 avg rating — 396 ratings
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The Pollinator Victory Garden: Win the War on Pollinator Decline with Ecological Gardening; Attract and Support Bees, Beetles, Butterflies, Bats, and Other Pollinators
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4.30 avg rating — 205 ratings
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War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires
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4.17 avg rating — 904 ratings
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Europe's Babylon: The Rise and Fall of Antwerp's Golden Age
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3.18 avg rating — 781 ratings
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The Power and the Glory
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3.98 avg rating — 43,372 ratings
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The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America's Forgotten Capital of Vice
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3.78 avg rating — 1,963 ratings
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The Guillotine and the Cross
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4.51 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome
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3.48 avg rating — 1,088 ratings
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Catholics
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3.73 avg rating — 726 ratings
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Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain
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4.25 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations
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3.88 avg rating — 3,357 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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4.02 avg rating — 15,423 ratings
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The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
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4.16 avg rating — 4,318 ratings
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Doctor Zhivago
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4.01 avg rating — 102,416 ratings
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The Battle of Hastings: The Fall of the Anglo-Saxons and the Rise of the Normans
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3.69 avg rating — 189 ratings
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The Middle Ages: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of the Renaissance (The Story of the World, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 3,192 ratings
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Fallout: Disasters, Lies, and the Legacy of the Nuclear Age
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4.03 avg rating — 229 ratings
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Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade
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4.24 avg rating — 480 ratings
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Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
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4.18 avg rating — 1,058 ratings
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Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
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4.21 avg rating — 2,896 ratings
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The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera: An Insider's History of the Florida-Alabama Coast
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3.89 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Murder in the Garment District: The Grip of Organized Crime and the Decline of Labor in the United States
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3.22 avg rating — 76 ratings
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White Elephants on Campus: The Decline of the University Chapel in America, 1920-1960
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4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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A Thread of Years
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3.67 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Old Petersburg and the Broad River Valley of Georgia: Their Rise and Decline
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3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
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3.92 avg rating — 11,967 ratings
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The World of Yesterday
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4.51 avg rating — 28,924 ratings
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Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
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4.17 avg rating — 1,573 ratings
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The Radetzky March (Von Trotta Family, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 14,200 ratings
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Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
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4.12 avg rating — 2,652 ratings
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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
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4.05 avg rating — 4,560 ratings
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Yellow Tapers for Paris: A Dirge
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3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
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4.15 avg rating — 6,503 ratings
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Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
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3.81 avg rating — 7,644 ratings
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CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
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4.21 avg rating — 22,332 ratings
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Lord of the World
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4.09 avg rating — 3,868 ratings
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The Fix: How Nations Survive and Thrive in a World in Decline
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3.88 avg rating — 751 ratings
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The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
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4.13 avg rating — 2,694 ratings
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Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence
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3.85 avg rating — 502 ratings
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The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat
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4.08 avg rating — 9,196 ratings
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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4.16 avg rating — 29,500 ratings
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Victims of Yalta: The Secret Betrayal of the Allies: 1944-1947
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4.09 avg rating — 88 ratings
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War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
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4.15 avg rating — 8,562 ratings
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Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
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3.97 avg rating — 5,269 ratings
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Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
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3.81 avg rating — 5,699 ratings
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The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580
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4.26 avg rating — 1,263 ratings
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Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
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4.07 avg rating — 6,440 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the City of Money: A Financial History of Edinburgh
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4.27 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
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4.08 avg rating — 7,236 ratings
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Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
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4.40 avg rating — 1,932 ratings
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The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia—and How It Died
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4.03 avg rating — 2,041 ratings
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Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments
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4.13 avg rating — 363 ratings
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Another Day of Life
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4.18 avg rating — 5,974 ratings
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Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA
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3.97 avg rating — 577 ratings
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An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941-1943; and Letters from Westerbork
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4.34 avg rating — 4,200 ratings
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Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall—From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
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3.94 avg rating — 11,094 ratings
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How Civilizations Die
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3.73 avg rating — 420 ratings
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Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League
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4.11 avg rating — 283 ratings
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A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh & John Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes
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4.20 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Watching Darkness Fall: FDR, His Ambassadors, and the Rise of Adolf Hitler
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4.30 avg rating — 421 ratings
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Robbery Under Law
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3.47 avg rating — 34 ratings
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A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 118,648 ratings
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The Fall of the Ancient Maya: Solving the Mystery of the Maya Collapse
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3.59 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Splendour and Squalor: The Disgrace and Disintegration of Three Aristocratic Dynasties
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3.53 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, The End of Civilization
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4.06 avg rating — 2,090 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy
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3.85 avg rating — 407 ratings
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The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America's First Prison for Drug Addicts
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4.08 avg rating — 113 ratings
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The End of Alzheimer's: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline
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4.20 avg rating — 4,341 ratings
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By Night in Chile
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3.90 avg rating — 17,251 ratings
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Biohistory: Decline and Fall of the West
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3.25 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party
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3.83 avg rating — 638 ratings
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The House of Medici: Seeds of Decline: A Novel
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3.61 avg rating — 82 ratings
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The Education of Lev Navrozov: A Life in the Closed World Once Called Russia
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3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad
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3.88 avg rating — 1,618 ratings
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Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree - The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors
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3.53 avg rating — 427 ratings
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Rhinoceros / The Chairs / The Lesson
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4.02 avg rating — 6,102 ratings
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Forgiven: The Rise and Fall of Jim Bakker and the PTL Ministry
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3.90 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Last Giants: The Rise and Fall of the African Elephant
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4.13 avg rating — 255 ratings
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The Sword of Honour Trilogy
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4.21 avg rating — 2,110 ratings
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The Destruction of Atlantis: Compelling Evidence of the Sudden Fall of the Legendary Civilization
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3.66 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Foundation (Foundation, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 591,729 ratings
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The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
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4.35 avg rating — 2,435 ratings
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Freefall Of The American University: How Our Colleges Are Corrupting The Minds And Morals Of The Next Generation
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3.25 avg rating — 16 ratings
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What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam & Modernity in the Middle East
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3.54 avg rating — 3,931 ratings
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The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology
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3.90 avg rating — 81 ratings
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From the Ashes of Angels: The Forbidden Legacy of a Fallen Race
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3.97 avg rating — 532 ratings
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Love in the Ruins
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3.82 avg rating — 4,302 ratings
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Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty
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4.10 avg rating — 887 ratings
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So Sad to Fall in Battle: An Account of War Based on General Tadamichi Kuribayashi's Letters from Iwo Jima
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4.17 avg rating — 1,021 ratings
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Lancelot
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3.71 avg rating — 3,042 ratings
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The Fall of Berlin 1945
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4.30 avg rating — 18,317 ratings
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Eyewitness: The Rise and Fall of Dorling Kindersley: The Inside Story of a Publishing Phenomenon
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 27 ratings
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After Virtue
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4.18 avg rating — 6,343 ratings
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