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Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century
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3.87 avg rating — 181 ratings
"(1916)"
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Ten Days that Shook the World
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3.94 avg rating — 7,848 ratings
"(1917)"
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My Disillusionment in Russia
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4.19 avg rating — 506 ratings
"(1921)"
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The Trial
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3.94 avg rating — 396,348 ratings
"(1925 [1914])"
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Commonwealth vs. Sacco and Vanzetti
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
"(1927)"
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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4.11 avg rating — 520,773 ratings
"(1929)"
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Martin Heidegger
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3.97 avg rating — 481 ratings
"(1933 - speeches aligning with Nazi ideology)"
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It Can't Happen Here
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3.81 avg rating — 24,457 ratings
"(1935)"
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Homage to Catalonia
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4.10 avg rating — 71,564 ratings
"(1936)"
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rated it 4 stars
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Stormy Petrel: The Life and Work of Maxim Gorky
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
"(1936 - Gorky's death)"
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rated it 4 stars
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Intimacy and Terror: Soviet Diaries of the 1930s
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3.78 avg rating — 45 ratings
"(1936 - one of the worst years)"
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Lost Illusion
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3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
"(1936 - left Russia)"
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rated it 4 stars
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In Our Time: The Chamberlain-Hitler Collusion
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4.14 avg rating — 21 ratings
"(1938)"
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
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4.39 avg rating — 19,799 ratings
"(1939)"
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Revolution Why, How, When?
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
"(1940)"
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rated it 3 stars
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
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4.29 avg rating — 4,402 ratings
"(1941 - 'als Partisanen auszurotten')"
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Survival in Auschwitz
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4.35 avg rating — 86,858 ratings
"(1944)"
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Bearing Witness: How Writers Brought the Brutality of World War II to Light
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3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
"(1945)"
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War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
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4.06 avg rating — 1,915 ratings
"(1945)"
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Hiroshima
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4.05 avg rating — 89,648 ratings
"(1945)"
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The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
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3.81 avg rating — 3,508 ratings
"(1945)"
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Man's Search for Meaning
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4.37 avg rating — 880,306 ratings
"(1946)"
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,844,200 ratings
"(1953)"
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rated it 2 stars
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Gulag: A History
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4.29 avg rating — 13,748 ratings
"(1954)"
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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45
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4.10 avg rating — 5,105 ratings
"(1955)"
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The Quiet American
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3.98 avg rating — 71,492 ratings
"(1955)"
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Discourse on Colonialism
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4.45 avg rating — 7,993 ratings
"(1955)"
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Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism
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3.84 avg rating — 83 ratings
"Khrushchev's 'Secret Speech' denouncing Stalin (1956) is the pivotal moment in this book."
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The Power Elite
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4.15 avg rating — 1,677 ratings
"(1956)"
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On the Beach
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3.98 avg rating — 49,701 ratings
"(1957)"
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rated it 3 stars
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Things Fall Apart
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3.75 avg rating — 413,103 ratings
"(1958)"
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A Dying Colonialism
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4.26 avg rating — 1,607 ratings
"(1959)"
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Silent Spring
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4.06 avg rating — 55,019 ratings
"(1962)"
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A Clockwork Orange
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 770,650 ratings
"(1962)"
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
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4.20 avg rating — 33,594 ratings
"(1963)"
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The American Way of Death
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3.97 avg rating — 583 ratings
"(1963)"
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The Master and Margarita
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4.28 avg rating — 421,667 ratings
"(1967)"
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Revolution for the Hell of It
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3.87 avg rating — 545 ratings
"(1968)"
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1968: The Year That Rocked the World
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3.82 avg rating — 3,393 ratings
"(1968)"
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The Red Years: Theory, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Japanese ’68
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3.74 avg rating — 47 ratings
"(1968)"
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
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4.06 avg rating — 154,156 ratings
"(1969)"
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The Female Eunuch
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3.68 avg rating — 7,474 ratings
"(1970)"
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Peace Corps Fantasies: How Development Shaped the Global Sixties
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3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
"(1971)"
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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
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4.45 avg rating — 4,947 ratings
"(1971)"
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False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
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4.38 avg rating — 21 ratings
"(1971)"
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The Sheep Look Up
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3.91 avg rating — 5,708 ratings
"(1972)"
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The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade
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4.37 avg rating — 716 ratings
"(1972)"
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
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4.24 avg rating — 12,572 ratings
"(1972 – death of J.P. Vann, the protagonist of the book)"
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The Nixon Administration and the Death of Allende's Chile
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4.06 avg rating — 31 ratings
"(1973)"
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Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
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4.29 avg rating — 874 ratings
"(1974)"
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rated it 4 stars
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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying- A Study in Urban Revolution
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4.25 avg rating — 1,090 ratings
"(1975)"
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The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
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4.08 avg rating — 29,380 ratings
"(1975)"
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Anatomy Of A War: Vietnam, The United States, And The Modern Historical Experience
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4.19 avg rating — 79 ratings
"(1975 – end of the war)"
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The Devil Finds Work
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4.25 avg rating — 2,754 ratings
"(1976)"
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The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
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3.96 avg rating — 4,322 ratings
"(1978)"
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The Lost Executioner: A Story of the Khmer Rouge
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4.15 avg rating — 808 ratings
"(1979)"
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Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
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4.40 avg rating — 5,838 ratings
"(1979)"
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The Writing of the Disaster
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4.18 avg rating — 819 ratings
"(1980)"
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The German Issue
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4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
"(1982)"
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The Politics at God's Funeral: The Spiritual Crisis of Western Civilization
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3.94 avg rating — 36 ratings
"(1984)"
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Cities of Salt (مدن الملح #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 4,871 ratings
"(1984)"
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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4.39 avg rating — 29,320 ratings
"(1985)"
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The Handmaid's Tale
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4.15 avg rating — 2,429,446 ratings
"(1985)"
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
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4.40 avg rating — 64,904 ratings
"(1986)"
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Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida
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3.94 avg rating — 101 ratings
"(1987)"
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The End of History and the Last Man
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3.61 avg rating — 7,875 ratings
"(1989 essay)"
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Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution
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3.95 avg rating — 139 ratings
"(1990)"
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Grand Illusion: Critics and Champions of the American Century
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
"(1992)"
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Prophetic Thought in Postmodern Times
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4.22 avg rating — 46 ratings
"(1992)"
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Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness
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4.38 avg rating — 627 ratings
"(1993)"
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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
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4.19 avg rating — 264,451 ratings
"(1993)"
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The Self Under Siege: Philosophy In The Twentieth Century
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4.09 avg rating — 137 ratings
"(1993)"
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The Melancholy Of Rebirth: Essays From Post-Communist Central Europe, 1989-1994
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4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
"(1994)"
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Death by Government
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3.85 avg rating — 117 ratings
"(1994)"
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The Tenth Circle of Hell: A Memoir of Life in the Death Camps of Bosnia
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4.05 avg rating — 173 ratings
"(1995)"
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Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine
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4.03 avg rating — 629 ratings
"(1996)"
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The Historical Failure of Anarchism: Implications for the Future of the Revolutionary Project
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3.32 avg rating — 19 ratings
"(1996)"
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Allergic to the Twentieth Century: The Explosion in Environmental Allergies--From Sick Buildings to Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings
"(1997)"
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
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4.21 avg rating — 6,894 ratings
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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4.16 avg rating — 194,334 ratings
"(1998)"
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Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
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4.06 avg rating — 2,555 ratings
"(2000)"
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The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America
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3.82 avg rating — 878 ratings
"(2001)"
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After Theory
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3.81 avg rating — 1,019 ratings
"(2003)"
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,038,882 ratings
"(2006)"
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Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues
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4.27 avg rating — 235 ratings
"(2006)"
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Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
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4.18 avg rating — 986 ratings
"(2008)"
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
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3.78 avg rating — 4,786 ratings
"(2009)"
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The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism
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4.02 avg rating — 1,499 ratings
"(2010)"
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rated it 4 stars
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 117,407 ratings
"(2010)"
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The Abyss of Human Illusion
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3.73 avg rating — 189 ratings
"(2012)"
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End of Equality (Manifestos for the 21st Century)
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3.92 avg rating — 61 ratings
"(2013)"
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Not a Choice, Not a Job: Exposing the Myths about Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade
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3.68 avg rating — 40 ratings
"(2013)"
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After the Fall: Tales of the Apocalypse
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3.65 avg rating — 160 ratings
"(2013)"
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 79,457 ratings
"(2014)"
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rated it 4 stars
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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
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3.97 avg rating — 11,816 ratings
"(2014)"
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The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy
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4.02 avg rating — 821 ratings
"(2015)"
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rated it 4 stars
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This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship Between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture (Information Society Series)
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3.89 avg rating — 390 ratings
"(2015)"
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The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
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4.04 avg rating — 5,830 ratings
"(2016)"
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The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities
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4.09 avg rating — 1,214 ratings
"(2018)"
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Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
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3.75 avg rating — 1,748 ratings
"(2018)"
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