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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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Bad Science
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4.06 avg rating — 44,620 ratings
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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4.29 avg rating — 79,334 ratings
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A Brief History of Time
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4.21 avg rating — 472,457 ratings
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The Emperor's New Mind
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3.91 avg rating — 7,583 ratings
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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4.01 avg rating — 890,933 ratings
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
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4.08 avg rating — 70,479 ratings
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The Grand Design
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4.06 avg rating — 76,937 ratings
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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4.16 avg rating — 55,802 ratings
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Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe
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3.95 avg rating — 5,297 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
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4.16 avg rating — 190,674 ratings
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Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed
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4.11 avg rating — 2,199 ratings
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The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language
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3.94 avg rating — 5,115 ratings
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Alpha Beta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World
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3.68 avg rating — 373 ratings
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The Ascent of Man
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4.21 avg rating — 6,308 ratings
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A Beginner's Guide to Ideas: Religion and Philosophy Past and Present
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3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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4.16 avg rating — 29,397 ratings
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
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3.91 avg rating — 28,020 ratings
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A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches
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4.62 avg rating — 1,170 ratings
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Civilization: The Six Killer Apps of Western Power
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3.86 avg rating — 10,211 ratings
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Berlin: The Downfall 1945
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4.30 avg rating — 18,186 ratings
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Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
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4.06 avg rating — 6,363 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.93 avg rating — 74,235 ratings
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Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire
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3.58 avg rating — 2,240 ratings
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The Communist Manifesto
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3.68 avg rating — 192,983 ratings
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Counting Sheep: The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams
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3.99 avg rating — 433 ratings
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Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
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3.98 avg rating — 15,739 ratings
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DNA: The Secret of Life
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4.11 avg rating — 2,814 ratings
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Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula: Cures Many Mathematical Ills
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4.12 avg rating — 283 ratings
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The Dream of Rome
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3.98 avg rating — 486 ratings
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A Death in Brazil
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3.74 avg rating — 868 ratings
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
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3.93 avg rating — 16,622 ratings
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Elizabeth: Apprenticeship
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4.01 avg rating — 15,721 ratings
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Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
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3.93 avg rating — 9,745 ratings
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The English: A Portrait of a People
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3.55 avg rating — 2,523 ratings
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The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
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4.23 avg rating — 12,242 ratings
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An Evil Cradling
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4.36 avg rating — 2,534 ratings
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Superfreakonomics
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The Revenge of Gaia
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3.81 avg rating — 1,885 ratings
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Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
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3.81 avg rating — 2,303 ratings
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Getting It Right: Markets and Choices in a Free Society
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3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The God Delusion
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3.90 avg rating — 281,130 ratings
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Good and Bad Power
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Grammar (Pelican books)
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The Growth Map: Economic Opportunity in the BRICs and Beyond
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3.59 avg rating — 286 ratings
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A History of Modern Britain
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4.03 avg rating — 3,386 ratings
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A History of the World in 12 Maps
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3.75 avg rating — 1,771 ratings
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Ideas That Changed the World
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3.76 avg rating — 205 ratings
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Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them
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3.75 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Image - Music - Text
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4.09 avg rating — 3,803 ratings
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In God We Doubt: Confessions of a Failed Atheist
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3.50 avg rating — 234 ratings
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In Siberia
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3.97 avg rating — 2,921 ratings
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Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
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4.27 avg rating — 4,711 ratings
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The Islamist
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3.78 avg rating — 1,577 ratings
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Is Religion Dangerous?
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3.14 avg rating — 83 ratings
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It's All Greek to Me
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3.72 avg rating — 296 ratings
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An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
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3.99 avg rating — 12,771 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
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3.88 avg rating — 21,669 ratings
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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4.01 avg rating — 22,404 ratings
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Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
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4.12 avg rating — 5,317 ratings
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A Little History of the World
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4.10 avg rating — 31,298 ratings
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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
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4.24 avg rating — 21,620 ratings
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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 — 75,687 ratings
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Lost for Words : The Mangling and Manipulating of the English Language
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3.43 avg rating — 309 ratings
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Beyond Words
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3.40 avg rating — 89 ratings
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The Lost Heart of Asia
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3.88 avg rating — 1,594 ratings
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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4.05 avg rating — 242,764 ratings
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Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace
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4.10 avg rating — 4,702 ratings
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
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3.91 avg rating — 43,877 ratings
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Night
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4.38 avg rating — 1,346,150 ratings
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No Logo
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3.89 avg rating — 32,583 ratings
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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4.46 avg rating — 97,835 ratings
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Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas
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4.09 avg rating — 364 ratings
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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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4.22 avg rating — 64,404 ratings
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Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
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4.24 avg rating — 4,325 ratings
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Not for Turning: The Life of Margaret Thatcher
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3.66 avg rating — 182 ratings
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The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
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4.06 avg rating — 3,936 ratings
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On the Map: Why the World Looks the Way it Does
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3.69 avg rating — 4,431 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 854,604 ratings
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Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure
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4.03 avg rating — 1,197 ratings
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A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924
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4.37 avg rating — 5,805 ratings
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Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy
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4.18 avg rating — 3,787 ratings
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Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You
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3.98 avg rating — 2,360 ratings
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The Railway Man
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4.13 avg rating — 8,070 ratings
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Proust Was a Neuroscientist
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3.85 avg rating — 9,033 ratings
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The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
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3.89 avg rating — 32,627 ratings
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The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction
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3.97 avg rating — 52,135 ratings
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The Spirit Level: Why Equality Is Better for Everyone
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4.13 avg rating — 7,124 ratings
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The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs
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4.39 avg rating — 19,167 ratings
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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
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4.23 avg rating — 13,690 ratings
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Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
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4.33 avg rating — 40,568 ratings
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The State of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence
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4.20 avg rating — 7,399 ratings
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The Story of Art
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3.97 avg rating — 455,660 ratings
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A Time of Gifts (Trilogy, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 9,520 ratings
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Between the Woods and the Water (Trilogy, #2)
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4.28 avg rating — 3,636 ratings
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
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3.91 avg rating — 7,279 ratings
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Understanding Organizations
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3.85 avg rating — 299 ratings
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The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
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4.22 avg rating — 4,024 ratings
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The Victorians
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3.82 avg rating — 1,243 ratings
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What Good Are the Arts?
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3.64 avg rating — 394 ratings
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