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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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The Last Days of the Incas
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4.20 avg rating — 7,033 ratings
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Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947
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India: A History
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3.93 avg rating — 4,001 ratings
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Africa: A Biography of the Continent
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4.18 avg rating — 1,888 ratings
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A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
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3.89 avg rating — 52,161 ratings
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The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
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4.09 avg rating — 3,252 ratings
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
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4.29 avg rating — 17,340 ratings
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Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes
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4.40 avg rating — 12,247 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 416,990 ratings
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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4.12 avg rating — 20,781 ratings
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The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
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4.01 avg rating — 1,130 ratings
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The Histories
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4.01 avg rating — 55,056 ratings
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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
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4.16 avg rating — 11,485 ratings
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After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation
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3.95 avg rating — 729 ratings
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Hitler
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4.36 avg rating — 6,276 ratings
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The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
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3.95 avg rating — 1,500 ratings
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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4.30 avg rating — 121,847 ratings
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The Battle for God
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3.95 avg rating — 6,702 ratings
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The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
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4.09 avg rating — 10,268 ratings
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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
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4.11 avg rating — 11,809 ratings
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She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
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4.04 avg rating — 8,478 ratings
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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
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4.23 avg rating — 13,696 ratings
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Rising 44
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4.15 avg rating — 1,606 ratings
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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4.16 avg rating — 193,212 ratings
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The Vikings: A History
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3.67 avg rating — 1,712 ratings
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1968: The Year that Rocked the World
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3.82 avg rating — 3,349 ratings
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Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
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4.13 avg rating — 14,963 ratings
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 227,383 ratings
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The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life
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4.01 avg rating — 1,068 ratings
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Terry Jones' Barbarians
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3.98 avg rating — 989 ratings
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A History of the Vikings
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3.85 avg rating — 1,091 ratings
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The First World War
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4.04 avg rating — 15,751 ratings
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Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
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4.03 avg rating — 636 ratings
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1421: The Year China Discovered America
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3.61 avg rating — 15,131 ratings
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Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England
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4.27 avg rating — 1,305 ratings
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The Tale of Genji
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3.97 avg rating — 692 ratings
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Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort, 1941-1945
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4.21 avg rating — 2,604 ratings
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Cleopatra: A Life
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3.73 avg rating — 122,394 ratings
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The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History
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3.70 avg rating — 1,117 ratings
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
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4.39 avg rating — 19,260 ratings
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Europe: A History
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4.21 avg rating — 5,179 ratings
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Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World
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4.13 avg rating — 1,529 ratings
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الشرق واليونان القديمة
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3.63 avg rating — 49 ratings
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God(s), Empire, and Shifting Trade Routes
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews
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4.10 avg rating — 2,325 ratings
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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
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3.95 avg rating — 5,296 ratings
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Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5
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3.88 avg rating — 1,141 ratings
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Five Empresses: Court Life in Eighteenth-Century Russia
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3.81 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World
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3.87 avg rating — 623 ratings
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Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
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3.98 avg rating — 1,848 ratings
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Gulag: A History
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4.28 avg rating — 13,131 ratings
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Technology in World Civilization: A Thousand-Year History
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3.58 avg rating — 73 ratings
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The World and a Very Small Place in Africa: A History of Globalization in Niumi, the Gambia
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3.59 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Crisis in Greece
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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A Green History of the World: The Environment & the Collapse of Great Civilizations
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3.94 avg rating — 785 ratings
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Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
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3.86 avg rating — 72,487 ratings
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Peoples and Empires: A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece tothe Present
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3.39 avg rating — 260 ratings
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Caligula: The Corruption of Power
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3.74 avg rating — 323 ratings
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The Japanese Experience: A Short History of Japan
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3.53 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Atlas of World Art
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4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Mirror of the World: A New History of Art
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3.98 avg rating — 198 ratings
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The Architecture Pop Up Book
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Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture
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3.86 avg rating — 4,109 ratings
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The Origins of the Modern World: Fate and Fortune in the Rise of the West
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3.73 avg rating — 1,057 ratings
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Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death
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3.69 avg rating — 1,180 ratings
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The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
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4.04 avg rating — 3,975 ratings
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Leonardo
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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4.01 avg rating — 3,677 ratings
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
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3.69 avg rating — 102,418 ratings
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A Man on the Moon
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4.49 avg rating — 7,591 ratings
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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4.06 avg rating — 82,374 ratings
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
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4.19 avg rating — 67,512 ratings
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
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3.82 avg rating — 5,305 ratings
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 24,752 ratings
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Homosexuality and Civilization
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Europe and the People Without History
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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
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3.78 avg rating — 2,794 ratings
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No Simple Victory: World War II in Europe, 1939-1945
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Plagues and Peoples
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3.87 avg rating — 4,969 ratings
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Heroes of History
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3.88 avg rating — 1,011 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.93 avg rating — 74,241 ratings
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Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook
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3.79 avg rating — 195 ratings
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A Perfect Red
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3.88 avg rating — 3,072 ratings
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History of Beauty
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3.82 avg rating — 66,675 ratings
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On Ugliness
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3.88 avg rating — 19,050 ratings
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Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom
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3.96 avg rating — 1,637 ratings
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The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe
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3.90 avg rating — 450 ratings
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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
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4.20 avg rating — 11,737 ratings
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The Warrior Queens
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3.71 avg rating — 2,795 ratings
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These Thousand Hills
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3.80 avg rating — 425 ratings
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Japan Emerging: Premodern History to 1850
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3.90 avg rating — 86 ratings
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A Short History of Chinese Philosophy
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4.33 avg rating — 673 ratings
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Maya: The Riddle and Rediscovery of a Lost Civilization
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3.59 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995
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4.29 avg rating — 10,650 ratings
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The Story of Art
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3.97 avg rating — 455,810 ratings
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Palestine
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4.25 avg rating — 21,344 ratings
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A Sideways Look at Time
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3.72 avg rating — 502 ratings
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Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart
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3.94 avg rating — 5,325 ratings
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Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century
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3.78 avg rating — 131 ratings
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