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The Rush for Black Diamonds, Volume One: From John Locke to Thomas Jefferson—The Transatlantic Slave Trade to Chattel Slavery in the UK and the US
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The Rush for Black Diamonds, Volume Two: Chattel Slavery to Penal Slavery in the US and the UK, 1865 to Post-1970 Realities
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Six Pillars Of Effective Leadership: A Roadmap to Success
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4.98 avg rating — 347 ratings
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Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation
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4.21 avg rating — 337 ratings
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Civilization and Capitalism 15th–18th Century, Vol 2: The Wheels of Commerce
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4.47 avg rating — 621 ratings
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Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1: The Structures of Everyday Life
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4.36 avg rating — 1,823 ratings
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Civilization and Capitalism 15th–18th Century, Vol. 3: The Perspective of the World
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4.44 avg rating — 507 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.32 avg rating — 1,342,408 ratings
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Leprechaun in Late Winter (Magic Tree House, #43)
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4.09 avg rating — 4,045 ratings
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Plagues and Peoples
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3.86 avg rating — 5,170 ratings
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The Giving Tree
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4.39 avg rating — 1,269,360 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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4.05 avg rating — 99,503 ratings
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Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 672,307 ratings
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The Little Prince
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4.34 avg rating — 2,635,648 ratings
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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4.12 avg rating — 21,721 ratings
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The Intimate Bond: How Animals Shaped Human History
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3.54 avg rating — 265 ratings
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Floods, Famines, And Emperors: El Nino And The Fate Of Civilizations
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3.71 avg rating — 234 ratings
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The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
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3.80 avg rating — 3,140 ratings
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Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1)
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4.37 avg rating — 360,960 ratings
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Goodnight Moon
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4.32 avg rating — 402,385 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 2,033,129 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.94 avg rating — 76,108 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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4.35 avg rating — 208,329 ratings
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Health and the Rise of Civilization
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4.21 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce
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3.59 avg rating — 5,386 ratings
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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4.19 avg rating — 29,491 ratings
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Practicing Ethnohistory: Mining Archives, Hearing Testimony, Constructing Narrative
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It
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3.64 avg rating — 165 ratings
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The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us
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3.76 avg rating — 415 ratings
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Breaking the Chain: Cutting Toxic Family Ties & Reclaiming Your Life
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4.89 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Rückkehr zu den Ursprüngen, um eine bessere Zukunft zu verdienen: Ein sozio-ökonomischer Essay der politischen Theorie Grundlagen für eine Willensvereinbarung
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11th Hour Awakening: An Evolutionary Guide to a New Humanity
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Psychological Richness As Breakthrough: Stuck in the Tunnel of Success
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
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4.36 avg rating — 44,866 ratings
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Futureproofing Humanity: Existential Risk and the Technomyths of Human Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Our Future among the Stars
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Adoption Memoirs: Inside Stories
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4.93 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Nineteenth-Century Crime and Punishment
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Selected works of Edgar Allan Poe: THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO, THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, THE BLACK CAT
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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
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4.18 avg rating — 297,663 ratings
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Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
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4.12 avg rating — 2,919 ratings
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Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny
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4.06 avg rating — 1,187 ratings
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A Walk in the Wood: Meditations on Mindfulness with a Bear Named Pooh
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3.91 avg rating — 2,174 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Of Ice and Men: How We've Used Cold to Transform Humanity
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3.15 avg rating — 140 ratings
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The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization
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Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version
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4.05 avg rating — 23,374 ratings
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The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
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3.81 avg rating — 1,971 ratings
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The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
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3.80 avg rating — 2,502 ratings
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What I Lick Before Your Face ... and Other Haikus By Dogs
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4.17 avg rating — 280 ratings
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The Longbow, the Schooner & the Violin: Wood and Human Achievement
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3.26 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
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4.12 avg rating — 5,276 ratings
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Lightfoot
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The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care
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The World's Greatest Fix: A History of Nitrogen and Agriculture
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An Album of Memories: Personal Histories from the Greatest Generation
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4.17 avg rating — 460 ratings
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A Better Ape: The Evolution of the Moral Mind and How it Made us Human
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Energy and Civilization: A History
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And Tango Makes Three
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Human Rights Journalism and its Nexus to Responsibility to Protect: How and Why the International Press Failed in Sri Lanka’s Humanitarian Crisis
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Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease
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After Shock: The World’s Foremost Futurists Reflect on 50 Years of Future Shock—and Look Ahead to the Next 50
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Tropical Forests in Human Prehistory, History, and Modernity
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
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3.85 avg rating — 21,895 ratings
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Legends of the North Cascades
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3.65 avg rating — 1,648 ratings
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Kinship to Mastery: Biophilia In Human Evolution And Development
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A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
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3.96 avg rating — 504 ratings
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The Book Woman's Daughter (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #2)
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4.23 avg rating — 93,972 ratings
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How the Mind Changed: A Human History of Our Evolving Brain
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4.06 avg rating — 372 ratings
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
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4.08 avg rating — 68,191 ratings
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A Dog Named Christmas (A Dog Named Christmas #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 6,276 ratings
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Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve (The University Center for Human Values Series)
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The Violinist of Auschwitz
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4.44 avg rating — 8,878 ratings
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The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
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3.85 avg rating — 12,945 ratings
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Winnie-The-Pooh: The Tao of Pooh & the Te of Piglet
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4.13 avg rating — 14,070 ratings
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Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human
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4.04 avg rating — 597 ratings
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Crossing Open Ground
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4.17 avg rating — 1,525 ratings
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Hydrohumanities: Water Discourse and Environmental Futures
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Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680: Volume One: The Lands Below the Winds
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3.85 avg rating — 115 ratings
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The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty
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4.15 avg rating — 7,080 ratings
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Seven Games: A Human History
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3.88 avg rating — 1,161 ratings
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The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
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4.53 avg rating — 36,630 ratings
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Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity
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4.12 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature
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3.72 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Winter of the Ice Wizard (Merlin Missions, #4)
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4.03 avg rating — 6,425 ratings
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Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
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3.97 avg rating — 937 ratings
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Cities and Economic Development: From the Dawn of History to the Present
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3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States
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3.95 avg rating — 5,949 ratings
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What Is Paleolithic Art?: Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity
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4.28 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Development as Freedom
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4.10 avg rating — 7,258 ratings
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The Tuskegee Airmen
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4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Ultimate Visual History of the World: The Story of Humankind From Prehistory to Modern Times
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4.27 avg rating — 121 ratings
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The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850 (The New Economic History of Britain seri)
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4.02 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Carl Goes Shopping (Good Dog, Carl, #2)
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4.23 avg rating — 829 ratings
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Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others
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3.87 avg rating — 807 ratings
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The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy
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4.01 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Eragon, Eldest & Brisingr (Inheritance, #1-3)
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4.27 avg rating — 37,695 ratings
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Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness
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3.50 avg rating — 502 ratings
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The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress
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4.06 avg rating — 341 ratings
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The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio
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4.46 avg rating — 1,079 ratings
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Kept from All Contagion: Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact in Late Nineteenth-Century Literature
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Should this list be non-fiction only? I see a lot of fiction, and not all with a "focus on where humans came from, where we are going, and how we have and can get from from past to future".
Fiona wrote: "Should this list be non-fiction only? I see a lot of fiction, and not all with a "focus on where humans came from, where we are going, and how we have and can get from from past to future"."