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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
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American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
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4.37 avg rating — 281 ratings
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Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist
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4.03 avg rating — 408 ratings
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The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
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3.95 avg rating — 3,052 ratings
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Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution
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4.36 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish
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3.64 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
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4.51 avg rating — 16,338 ratings
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House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France
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4.17 avg rating — 668 ratings
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Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
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4.41 avg rating — 5,987 ratings
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Подолати минуле: глобальна історія України
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4.56 avg rating — 798 ratings
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Women of Power: Formidable Queens of the Medieval World
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Thorns, Lust, and Glory: The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn
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3.73 avg rating — 478 ratings
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Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
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3.98 avg rating — 1,470 ratings
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The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World
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3.70 avg rating — 557 ratings
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The Secret Life of Hidden Places: Concealed Rooms, Clandestine Passageways, and the Curious Minds that Made Them
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3.68 avg rating — 275 ratings
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Alexandria: The City that Changed the World
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4.17 avg rating — 543 ratings
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The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives
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3.77 avg rating — 413 ratings
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The Killing Season: The Autumn of 1914, Ypres, and the Afternoon That Cost Germany a War
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4.50 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens
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3.99 avg rating — 1,396 ratings
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Heroines of the Tudor World
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra
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4.11 avg rating — 244 ratings
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Young Elizabeth: Elizabeth I and Her Perilous Path to the Crown
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4.33 avg rating — 368 ratings
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Queen Catherine's Court: Power and Rebellion in Restoration England
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4.03 avg rating — 160 ratings
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Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence
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4.40 avg rating — 998 ratings
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The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages
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4.45 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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A Gentleman from Japan: An Epic Sea Voyage, an Intriguing Tale of Espionage and the Forgotten Story of the First Japanese Explorer in Tudor England
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3.53 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Between Britain: Walking the History of England and Scotland
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3.73 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement
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3.92 avg rating — 445 ratings
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Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance
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3.87 avg rating — 671 ratings
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
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4.22 avg rating — 1,193 ratings
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Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control
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4.21 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War
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4.33 avg rating — 622 ratings
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The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost―and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
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4.42 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Henry IV: The Afflicted King
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3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between
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3.93 avg rating — 405 ratings
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24 Hours in the Viking World (24 Hours in Ancient History, #5)
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3.51 avg rating — 189 ratings
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From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane: The Reawakening of Mongol Asia
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3.38 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
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4.46 avg rating — 17,725 ratings
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The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy
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3.69 avg rating — 240 ratings
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American Zion: A New History of Mormonism
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4.18 avg rating — 1,005 ratings
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Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
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3.95 avg rating — 10,800 ratings
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Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
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4.53 avg rating — 4,226 ratings
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Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories
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4.06 avg rating — 1,548 ratings
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The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
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4.03 avg rating — 1,605 ratings
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Madrid: A New Biography
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3.83 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV
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4.40 avg rating — 958 ratings
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Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York
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3.78 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Regina: The Queens Who Could Have Been
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3.99 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Fallen: George Mallory and the Tragic 1924 Everest Expedition
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4.30 avg rating — 194 ratings
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Great Port Cities of Asia: In History
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4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Lost Chapel of Westminster: How a Royal Chapel Became the House of Commons
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4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World
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3.70 avg rating — 488 ratings
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The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor
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4.23 avg rating — 418 ratings
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The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
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3.99 avg rating — 370 ratings
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How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
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4.09 avg rating — 1,399 ratings
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The Untold Story of Books: A Writer's History of Publishing
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4.07 avg rating — 161 ratings
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The English Soul: Faith of a Nation
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3.74 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
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4.21 avg rating — 7,045 ratings
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When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day
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4.50 avg rating — 3,119 ratings
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Bandit Heaven: The Hole-in-the-Wall Gangs and the Final Chapter of the Wild West
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3.78 avg rating — 651 ratings
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Manfred von Richthofen: The High Price of Glory
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
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4.21 avg rating — 1,605 ratings
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A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
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3.42 avg rating — 1,544 ratings
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Edward I's Neglected Conflict: The Anglo-French War of 1294–1303
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Son of Prophecy: The Rise of Henry Tudor
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4.68 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation
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3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
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4.35 avg rating — 2,860 ratings
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Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
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3.78 avg rating — 315 ratings
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The Penguin Book of Pirates
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3.41 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America
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3.39 avg rating — 897 ratings
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The Making of a King: King Charles III and the Modern Monarchy
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3.89 avg rating — 1,292 ratings
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The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History
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4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Skies of Thunder: The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World
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3.92 avg rating — 601 ratings
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Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great
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4.19 avg rating — 871 ratings
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Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great
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3.79 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Enemies of All: The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age of Piracy
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3.12 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Battleground Ukraine: From Independence to the War with Russia
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4.12 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Lost Fatherland: Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939
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3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Sparta and the Commemoration of War
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Byzantine Empire
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Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power
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4.09 avg rating — 854 ratings
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Life Lessons From Historical Women: Stories of bravery, wit, and rebellion for modern times
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4.15 avg rating — 254 ratings
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The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union
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4.50 avg rating — 165 ratings
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All Mapped Out: How Maps Shape Us
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3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World
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3.68 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Power and Glory: Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty
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4.06 avg rating — 212 ratings
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Plague Ship: The Untold Story of Captain Cook and His Legacy
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Seven Rivers: A Journey Through the Currents of Human History
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3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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A Nation Fermented: Beer, Bavaria, and the Making of Modern Germany
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4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Impostor Heiress: Cassie Chadwick, the Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age
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3.83 avg rating — 328 ratings
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Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire
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4.19 avg rating — 368 ratings
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The Other Ancient Civilisations: Decoding Archaeology’s Less Celebrated Cultures
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3.94 avg rating — 240 ratings
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The Men Who Killed the News: The inside story of how media moguls abused their power, manipulated the truth and distorted democracy
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4.07 avg rating — 267 ratings
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The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
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3.73 avg rating — 431 ratings
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Who Were The Real Oliver Twists?: Childhood Poverty in Victorian London
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4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era
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4.05 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Catherine de' Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen
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3.85 avg rating — 194 ratings
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They Were Here Before Us: Stories from the First Million Years
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3.88 avg rating — 137 ratings
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The Republic of China: 1912 to 1949
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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