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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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3.99 avg rating — 77,032 ratings
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A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
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3.47 avg rating — 1,038 ratings
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In Pursuit of the Travelling Salesman
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3.88 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking
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3.98 avg rating — 1,000 ratings
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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4.30 avg rating — 29,207 ratings
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Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder
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3.41 avg rating — 1,584 ratings
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Worn: A People's History of Clothing
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4.17 avg rating — 2,547 ratings
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The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution
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3.64 avg rating — 262 ratings
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The Basque History of the World
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3.87 avg rating — 5,703 ratings
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Black Tudors: The Untold Story
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3.78 avg rating — 2,027 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
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3.88 avg rating — 22,064 ratings
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Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
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3.67 avg rating — 10,464 ratings
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The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World
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3.77 avg rating — 372 ratings
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Sugar: The world corrupted, from slavery to obesity
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3.46 avg rating — 618 ratings
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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
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3.72 avg rating — 8,207 ratings
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Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible
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4.03 avg rating — 526 ratings
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Cool: How Air Conditioning Changed Everything
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3.95 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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3.88 avg rating — 94,751 ratings
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Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World
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3.70 avg rating — 717 ratings
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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
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4.13 avg rating — 77,995 ratings
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On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History
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3.92 avg rating — 385 ratings
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Money: The Unauthorised Biography
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3.84 avg rating — 1,214 ratings
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses
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3.81 avg rating — 34,344 ratings
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Salt: A World History
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3.75 avg rating — 77,826 ratings
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The Double Helix
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3.83 avg rating — 20,203 ratings
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Water: A Biography
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3.66 avg rating — 541 ratings
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Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World
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4.21 avg rating — 1,043 ratings
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How the Chicken Crossed the World: The Story of the Bird that Powers Civilisation
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3.75 avg rating — 592 ratings
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Butter: A Rich History
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3.86 avg rating — 1,137 ratings
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Clean
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3.71 avg rating — 2,543 ratings
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Tracy
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4.12 avg rating — 52 ratings
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On Garbage
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3.59 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Inventing the Internet (Inside Technology)
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3.91 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Dragon Sea: A True Tale of Treasure, Archeology, and Greed off the Coast of Vietnam
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3.67 avg rating — 206 ratings
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The Ghost Map
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3.89 avg rating — 56,918 ratings
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The Skull Measurer’s Mistake: And Other Portraits of Men and Women Who Spoke Out Against Racism
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3.72 avg rating — 99 ratings
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The Byerley Turk: The True Story of the First Thoroughbred
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4.41 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything — And Endangered the World
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3.92 avg rating — 265 ratings
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Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale
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3.71 avg rating — 1,239 ratings
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Superconductivity: A Very Short Introduction
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4.06 avg rating — 313 ratings
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The Miraculous Fever-Tree: Malaria, Medicine and the Cure that Changed the World
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3.85 avg rating — 298 ratings
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The Complete Book of Classic Volkswagens: Beetles, Microbuses, Things, Karmann Ghias, and More (Complete Book Series)
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4.52 avg rating — 33 ratings
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I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary
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4.13 avg rating — 645 ratings
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People are Seeing Something: a Survey of Lake Monsters in the United States and Canada
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3.98 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two
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3.91 avg rating — 18,945 ratings
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A History of the Wife
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3.84 avg rating — 1,659 ratings
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A Short History of the World According to Sheep
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3.93 avg rating — 2,698 ratings
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An Ice Age Mystery: Unearthing the Secrets of the Old Vero Site
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3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 25,550 ratings
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A Burglar's Guide to the City
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3.36 avg rating — 3,651 ratings
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The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds
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4.27 avg rating — 3,355 ratings
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Jefferson's Poplar Forest: Unearthing a Virginia Plantation
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
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3.97 avg rating — 11,896 ratings
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Got to Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound
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4.34 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Enlightening Symbols: A Short History of Mathematical Notation and Its Hidden Powers
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3.59 avg rating — 152 ratings
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The Marvelous Thing That Came from a Spring: The Accidental Invention of the Toy That Swept the Nation
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4.05 avg rating — 505 ratings
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Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
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4.36 avg rating — 2,568 ratings
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Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
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3.85 avg rating — 2,704 ratings
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Everything Explained That Is Explainable: On the Creation of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's Celebrated Eleventh Edition, 1910-1911
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3.28 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Hunger: An Unnatural History
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3.76 avg rating — 498 ratings
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Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything
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3.72 avg rating — 9,945 ratings
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All Things Made New: The Reformation and Its Legacy
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3.83 avg rating — 169 ratings
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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers
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3.96 avg rating — 3,625 ratings
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Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South
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4.09 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Aspirin : The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug
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4.11 avg rating — 320 ratings
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Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
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3.75 avg rating — 1,862 ratings
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The Greatest Bleeding Hearts Racket in the World: Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes
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3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Monoculture: How One Story is Changing Everything
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3.63 avg rating — 607 ratings
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The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems
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4.58 avg rating — 829 ratings
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The Phone Book: The Curious History of the Book That Everyone Uses But No One Reads
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3.50 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
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3.79 avg rating — 4,480 ratings
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Red: A History of the Redhead
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3.50 avg rating — 1,550 ratings
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There's Something Happening Here: The Story of Buffalo Springfield : for What It's Worth
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4.05 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Graphic Novels: Everything You Need to Know
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3.70 avg rating — 346 ratings
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Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
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4.17 avg rating — 1,279 ratings
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Saints Preserve Us!: Everything You Need to Know About Every Saint You'll Ever Need
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4.07 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Rome, Inc.: The Rise and Fall of the First Multinational Corporation
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3.33 avg rating — 330 ratings
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Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium
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3.65 avg rating — 428 ratings
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Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
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3.62 avg rating — 1,938 ratings
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Pure and Modern Milk: An Environmental History since 1900
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3.92 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Like Water: A Cultural History of Bruce Lee
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3.80 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Life at the Extremes: The Science of Survival
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4.17 avg rating — 790 ratings
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BuckyWorks: Buckminster Fuller's Ideas for Today
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3.90 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It
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3.82 avg rating — 381 ratings
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Drying Up: The Fresh Water Crisis in Florida
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4.27 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Thirsty City: Politics, Greed, and the Making of Atlanta's Water Crisis
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4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
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4.15 avg rating — 2,941 ratings
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Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.
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4.12 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Blue Revolution: Unmaking America's Water Crisis
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4.09 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America
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4.26 avg rating — 386 ratings
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Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World
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4.15 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Papyrus
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3.63 avg rating — 123 ratings
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The Great Lakes Water Wars
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3.97 avg rating — 350 ratings
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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
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4.45 avg rating — 5,047 ratings
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Stolen Water: Saving the Everglades from Its Friends, Foes, and Florida
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3.62 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Living at the Water's Edge: A Heritage Guide to the Outer Banks Byway
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3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
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3.94 avg rating — 2,019 ratings
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Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind
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3.40 avg rating — 265 ratings
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The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century
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3.94 avg rating — 421 ratings
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Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization
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3.87 avg rating — 660 ratings
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