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Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World
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3.67 avg rating — 1,898 ratings
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I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World
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4.34 avg rating — 36,360 ratings
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Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
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4.13 avg rating — 15,128 ratings
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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3.82 avg rating — 14,136 ratings
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Masterful Marks: Cartoonists Who Changed the World
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3.81 avg rating — 162 ratings
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100 Books That Changed the World
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3.95 avg rating — 219 ratings
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1001 Inventions That Changed the World
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4.18 avg rating — 400 ratings
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Fifty Dresses That Changed the World
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3.80 avg rating — 415 ratings
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Girls Who Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 95 ratings
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The Boo-Boos That Changed the World: A True Story About an Accidental Invention
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4.09 avg rating — 1,083 ratings
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Tea: A History of the Drink That Changed the World
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3.56 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Books That Changed the World
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3.50 avg rating — 420 ratings
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Flying Cars, Zombie Dogs, and Robot Overlords: How World's Fairs and Trade Expos Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World
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4.04 avg rating — 5,299 ratings
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Five Equations That Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics
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4.18 avg rating — 2,413 ratings
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In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World
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3.96 avg rating — 3,367 ratings
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Legends, Icons & Rebels: Music That Changed the World
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4.15 avg rating — 223 ratings
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24 Hours That Changed the World
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4.30 avg rating — 1,303 ratings
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Phasers on Stun!: How the Making (and Remaking) of Star Trek Changed the World
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4.07 avg rating — 771 ratings
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Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World
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4.17 avg rating — 4,075 ratings
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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
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4.01 avg rating — 3,011 ratings
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The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance that Changed the World
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4.03 avg rating — 1,691 ratings
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Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World
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4.23 avg rating — 418 ratings
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Roots of Civilisation
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4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
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3.79 avg rating — 8,356 ratings
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Our Rights: How Kids Are Changing the World
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 44 ratings
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These Fists Break Bricks: How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World
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4.18 avg rating — 271 ratings
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World
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3.99 avg rating — 64,099 ratings
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Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History
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4.01 avg rating — 1,791 ratings
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SF:UK - How British Science Fiction Changed the World
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3.76 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World
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4.13 avg rating — 3,225 ratings
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50 Queer Music Icons Who Changed the World: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Legends
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2.93 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Twist: The Story of the Song and Dance That Changed the World
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3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Beatles, Beatlemania, and the Music that Changed the World
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3.89 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Quirky: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World
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3.79 avg rating — 691 ratings
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Quinine: Malaria and the Quest for a Cure That Changed the World
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3.86 avg rating — 296 ratings
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Tea: The Drink that Changed the World
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3.72 avg rating — 582 ratings
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The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
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4.55 avg rating — 12,498 ratings
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Anime Impact: The Movies and Shows that Changed the World of Japanese Animation
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3.67 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Atlas of World War II: History's Greatest Conflict Revealed Through Rare Wartime Maps and New Cartography
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4.24 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 25,168 ratings
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Art That Changed the World: Transformative Art Movements and the Paintings That Inspired Them
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4.29 avg rating — 381 ratings
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Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
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4.29 avg rating — 4,217 ratings
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Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World
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4.46 avg rating — 1,180 ratings
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The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
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3.78 avg rating — 786 ratings
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Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948
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4.50 avg rating — 819 ratings
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12 Books That Changed the World
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3.54 avg rating — 348 ratings
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Fifty Bicycles That Changed the World: Design Museum Fifty
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World
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4.42 avg rating — 880 ratings
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Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World
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4.28 avg rating — 578 ratings
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Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World
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4.23 avg rating — 405 ratings
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Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats
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4.19 avg rating — 899 ratings
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Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever
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4.23 avg rating — 14,071 ratings
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 8,156 ratings
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Nature's Allies: Eight Conservationists Who Changed Our World
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3.89 avg rating — 110 ratings
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She Persisted Around the World: 13 Women Who Changed History
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4.39 avg rating — 1,713 ratings
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October 31, 1517: Martin Luther and the Day that Changed the World
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3.07 avg rating — 241 ratings
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We Shall Overcome: A Song That Changed the World – An Educational Book on the International Anthem for Activism for Kids (Ages 10-12)
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4.26 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Papyrus
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3.63 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Inventions: That Could Have Changed the World...But Didn't!
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3.75 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Precious Cargo: How Foods From the Americas Changed The World
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3.19 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Queer, There and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World
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4.13 avg rating — 3,225 ratings
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The Search for God and Guinness: A Biography of the Beer that Changed the World
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3.84 avg rating — 2,507 ratings
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Events That Changed the World
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3.87 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science – An Epic Illustrated History for Teens About Revolution and Human Resilience
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3.68 avg rating — 1,486 ratings
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People Who Changed the World
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3.48 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain—and How it Changed the World
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3.97 avg rating — 660 ratings
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30 People Who Changed the World
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3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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1808: The Flight of the Emperor: How A Weak Prince, A Mad Queen, And The British Navy Tricked Napoleon And Changed The New World
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4.11 avg rating — 6,727 ratings
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King James Bible: The Book That Changed the World.
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3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
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100 Inventions That Changed the World
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3.35 avg rating — 52 ratings
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They Changed the World: Bell, Edison and Tesla (Campfire Graphic Novels)
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3.74 avg rating — 62 ratings
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How Oliver Olson Changed the World
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3.73 avg rating — 743 ratings
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Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
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4.07 avg rating — 3,986 ratings
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100 Ideas that Changed the World
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3.69 avg rating — 170 ratings
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The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
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3.83 avg rating — 1,375 ratings
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March On!: The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
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4.29 avg rating — 354 ratings
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The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World
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3.85 avg rating — 728 ratings
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Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World
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4.44 avg rating — 6,920 ratings
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1001 Battles That Changed the Course of World History
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4.30 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Island on Fire
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3.86 avg rating — 856 ratings
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Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World
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4.07 avg rating — 516 ratings
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Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again
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3.57 avg rating — 177 ratings
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53 1/2 things that changed the world and some that didn't
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4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Fender Telecaster: The Life and Times of the Electric Guitar That Changed the World
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4.22 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Great Events That Changed the World
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4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Science Year by Year
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4.40 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 25,168 ratings
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100 Women Who Made History: Remarkable Women Who Shaped Our World (DK 100 Things That Made History)
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4.21 avg rating — 156 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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3.89 avg rating — 56,356 ratings
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The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon - The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World
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4.13 avg rating — 3,025 ratings
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Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World
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4.13 avg rating — 239 ratings
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Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World
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4.14 avg rating — 3,847 ratings
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Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs: 100 Discoveries That Changed the World
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4.19 avg rating — 568 ratings
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Death Note: L, Change the WorLd
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4.16 avg rating — 6,501 ratings
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Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the 116 Days that Changed the World
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4.26 avg rating — 9,831 ratings
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The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
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4.38 avg rating — 64,409 ratings
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Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
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3.72 avg rating — 5,998 ratings
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The 5000 Year Leap
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4.27 avg rating — 7,168 ratings
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Pilsner: How the Beer of Kings Changed the World
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3.96 avg rating — 52 ratings
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