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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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3.84 avg rating — 499,400 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.34 avg rating — 1,240,272 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 798,498 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 116,550 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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4.47 avg rating — 112,672 ratings
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We Should All Be Feminists
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4.39 avg rating — 326,793 ratings
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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4.08 avg rating — 471,893 ratings
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
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4.19 avg rating — 284,864 ratings
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
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3.76 avg rating — 24,931 ratings
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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
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4.02 avg rating — 33,545 ratings
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Between the World and Me
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4.40 avg rating — 363,305 ratings
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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4.44 avg rating — 45,394 ratings
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
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3.78 avg rating — 11,013 ratings
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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4.20 avg rating — 65,168 ratings
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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4.17 avg rating — 580,143 ratings
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
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4.09 avg rating — 61,724 ratings
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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4.20 avg rating — 32,148 ratings
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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4.16 avg rating — 29,476 ratings
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
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4.12 avg rating — 17,788 ratings
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The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
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4.23 avg rating — 55,293 ratings
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$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
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3.96 avg rating — 8,754 ratings
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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
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4.13 avg rating — 557,608 ratings
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
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4.47 avg rating — 14,726 ratings
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So You Want to Talk About Race
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4.48 avg rating — 107,713 ratings
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You Are Not So Smart
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3.86 avg rating — 36,067 ratings
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Bad Feminist
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3.92 avg rating — 118,592 ratings
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
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4.16 avg rating — 171,501 ratings
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The Sociology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
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4.01 avg rating — 1,137 ratings
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Modern Romance
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3.80 avg rating — 189,722 ratings
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The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
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4.38 avg rating — 213 ratings
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
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3.93 avg rating — 65,615 ratings
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Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
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3.92 avg rating — 2,085 ratings
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
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3.95 avg rating — 156,910 ratings
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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3.98 avg rating — 116,227 ratings
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The History of White People
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4.07 avg rating — 3,192 ratings
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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4.53 avg rating — 38,259 ratings
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All the Single Ladies
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17,372 ratings
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Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School
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3.91 avg rating — 1,348 ratings
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Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
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4.02 avg rating — 49,072 ratings
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Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us
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3.92 avg rating — 6,074 ratings
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Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
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4.16 avg rating — 1,722 ratings
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Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
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3.91 avg rating — 42,404 ratings
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The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives
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3.65 avg rating — 859 ratings
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Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
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4.27 avg rating — 22,406 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 — 8,335 ratings
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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
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4.16 avg rating — 31,830 ratings
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Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
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4.12 avg rating — 58,483 ratings
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The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves
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3.93 avg rating — 16,852 ratings
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On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
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3.82 avg rating — 3,369 ratings
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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
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3.97 avg rating — 52,244 ratings
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Just Mercy
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4.62 avg rating — 259,258 ratings
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Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
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4.04 avg rating — 4,329 ratings
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Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
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4.07 avg rating — 19,473 ratings
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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
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3.87 avg rating — 59,109 ratings
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McDonaldization Society
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Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
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4.50 avg rating — 21,553 ratings
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Eleven
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4.30 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
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4.26 avg rating — 1,518 ratings
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Frontlash / Backlash
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Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
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3.79 avg rating — 3,529 ratings
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High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out
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4.27 avg rating — 4,728 ratings
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
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4.19 avg rating — 10,328 ratings
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Janesville: An American Story
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4.09 avg rating — 7,592 ratings
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The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
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4.25 avg rating — 2,262 ratings
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The Economics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
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4.02 avg rating — 2,397 ratings
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Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
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Generation on a Tightrope: A Portrait of Today's College Student
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The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
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4.02 avg rating — 9,890 ratings
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Practice for Life: Making Decisions in College
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How Risky Is It, Really?: Why Our Fears Don't Always Match the Facts
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3.72 avg rating — 208 ratings
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Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread— The Lessons from a New Science
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Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... and Why
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4.07 avg rating — 4,420 ratings
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Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
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4.26 avg rating — 41,063 ratings
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Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
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High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society
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4.13 avg rating — 3,030 ratings
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To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care
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4.01 avg rating — 3,475 ratings
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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
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4.01 avg rating — 2,791 ratings
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Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
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4.20 avg rating — 1,721 ratings
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Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy
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3.46 avg rating — 1,295 ratings
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Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison
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Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis (New Threats to Freedom Series)
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3.41 avg rating — 493 ratings
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A Nation of Takers: America's Entitlement Epidemic
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3.79 avg rating — 170 ratings
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Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work
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The Great Society at Fifty: The Triumph and the Tragedy
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
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The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism
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4.02 avg rating — 1,495 ratings
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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4.36 avg rating — 200,336 ratings
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Springtime for Snowflakes: Social Justice and Its Postmodern Parentage
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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
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The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
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Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom
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Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
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Detroit: An American Autopsy
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This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
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Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
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3.67 avg rating — 16,159 ratings
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Mind Amplifier: Can Our Digital Tools Make Us Smarter?
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The Human Cost of Welfare: How the System Hurts the People It's Supposed to Help
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4.45 avg rating — 20 ratings
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