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Food, Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It
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4.17 avg rating — 15,351 ratings
"This is not a complete microhistory form the beginning of time. Voted for the subject's important impact. Plus, the movie documentary "King Corn" is important in the same regard."
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Why Global Poverty?: A Companion Guide to the Film "The End of Poverty?"
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The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age
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3.79 avg rating — 2,348 ratings
"This is not a complete microhistory form the beginning of time but a latest look by a contemporary virologist with his vision. Voted for the subject's important impact."
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Who Killed the Electric Car?
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"A nearly complete microhistory. I'm looking forward to the 2011 update "Revenge of the electric car" on DVD."
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Buddhist Warfare
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3.91 avg rating — 55 ratings
"Buddhism in the past few centuries across cultures and around the world, contributions from many highly credentialed scholars"
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Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World
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4.09 avg rating — 775 ratings
"Population migration"
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Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality
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3.78 avg rating — 1,125 ratings
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Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places
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3.62 avg rating — 1,414 ratings
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Three Famines
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3.49 avg rating — 193 ratings
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The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food
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Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage
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Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
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4.63 avg rating — 652 ratings
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War of the Bloods in My Veins: A Street Soldier's March Toward Redemption
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3.94 avg rating — 189 ratings
"This is a memoir. While it seems out of place on a list for microhistories, i voted it as a place holder for a rarely published subject (in non-fiction)"
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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4.48 avg rating — 118,047 ratings
"A case study of population migration"
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Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies
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3.82 avg rating — 730 ratings
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None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture
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4.11 avg rating — 572 ratings
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The Cardinals: Thirteen Centuries of the Men Behind the Papal Throne
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3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi
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3.83 avg rating — 583 ratings
"A case study of population migration"
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The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
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3.91 avg rating — 268 ratings
"Case study"
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Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
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4.24 avg rating — 4,421 ratings
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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British Petroleum & the Redline Agreement: The West's Secret Pact to Get Mideast Oil
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3.92 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame
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3.95 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Sex Lives of the Popes
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3.24 avg rating — 212 ratings
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Euphemania: Our Love Affair with Euphemisms
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3.58 avg rating — 391 ratings
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The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating Heart Cadavers--How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death
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3.64 avg rating — 506 ratings
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Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash
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4.08 avg rating — 2,680 ratings
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The Negotiator
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3.58 avg rating — 232 ratings
"the business of kidnapping"
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Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
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4.30 avg rating — 542 ratings
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The Songlines
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3.96 avg rating — 12,498 ratings
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Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
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3.86 avg rating — 1,407 ratings
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Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy
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3.75 avg rating — 166 ratings
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The Origin of Feces: What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society
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3.58 avg rating — 195 ratings
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Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America
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3.68 avg rating — 145 ratings
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From Animals into Gods: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.33 avg rating — 1,276,008 ratings
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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3.85 avg rating — 60,494 ratings
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Anatomies: A Cultural History of the Human Body
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3.50 avg rating — 707 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 — 4,467 ratings
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The Novel: A Biography
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4.20 avg rating — 194 ratings
"History of the novel in the English language"
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Family Secrets: Shame and Privacy in Modern Britain
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3.96 avg rating — 224 ratings
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Household Gods: The British and their Possessions
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3.65 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
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4.56 avg rating — 14,187 ratings
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Earthquake Storms
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3.94 avg rating — 565 ratings
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The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
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4.20 avg rating — 681 ratings
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Revolutionary Russia, 1891 - 1991: A History
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4.03 avg rating — 3,176 ratings
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A Brief History Of Castration: Second Edition
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2.92 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Shocked: Adventures in Bringing Back the Recently Dead
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3.56 avg rating — 596 ratings
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War of the Whales: A True Story
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4.07 avg rating — 1,696 ratings
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The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives
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3.69 avg rating — 518 ratings
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