Rhetorica Debating Book Reccomendations (15 books)

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Here's a list of books from the workshop on getting smart. For any non-debaters reading this, I hope this list is useful and you can find out more about debating by searching for the rules of BP debating or looking up videos of WUDC/EUDC finals.

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1	Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond 4.04 avg rating — 459,498 ratings score: 292, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman 4.24 avg rating — 24,691 ratings score: 198, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 by Paul Kennedy 4.14 avg rating — 6,448 ratings score: 194, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Economix: How and Why Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work), in Words and Pictures by Michael Goodwin (Goodreads Author) 4.32 avg rating — 4,747 ratings score: 194, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women by Christina Hoff Sommers 3.75 avg rating — 961 ratings score: 193, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré 4.06 avg rating — 106,208 ratings score: 192, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	A Secret Country: The Hidden Australia by John Pilger 4.17 avg rating — 591 ratings score: 191, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang 4.20 avg rating — 5,761 ratings score: 191, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip G. Zimbardo 3.90 avg rating — 26,943 ratings score: 191, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 4.10 avg rating — 1,488,646 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 by Frank Dikötter 4.07 avg rating — 5,194 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Radio Free Albemuth by Philip K. Dick 3.82 avg rating — 6,884 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Dune (Dune #1) by Frank Herbert 4.29 avg rating — 1,636,432 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1) by Douglas Adams 4.22 avg rating — 2,023,568 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit V. Banerjee 4.27 avg rating — 24,516 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars