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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,328,679 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 435,728 ratings — published 2003
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 493,593 ratings — published 1988
Bad Science (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 45,380 ratings — published 2008
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 182,147 ratings — published 2019
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,330,297 ratings — published 1947
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 160,005 ratings — published 2011
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (ebook)
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avg rating 4.39 — 343,830 ratings — published 2017
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 616,515 ratings — published 2011
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 100,209 ratings — published 2010
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 288,227 ratings — published 2006
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 206,822 ratings — published 2018
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
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avg rating 4.18 — 124,990 ratings — published 2015
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 201,127 ratings — published 2014
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 911,337 ratings — published 2005
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 254,417 ratings — published 1985
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 51,173 ratings — published 2018
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 485,611 ratings — published 2012
The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 39,637 ratings — published 2015
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 828,484 ratings — published 2010
Notes from a Small Island (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 121,955 ratings — published 1995
So You've Been Publicly Shamed (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 66,768 ratings — published 2015
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 9,520 ratings — published 2012
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 890,443 ratings — published 2008
The Fry Chronicles (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 23,196 ratings — published 2010
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 163,652 ratings — published 1980
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 104,840 ratings — published 2019
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 755,687 ratings — published 1966
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 248,754 ratings — published 2003
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 4,416 ratings — published 2010
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 472,843 ratings — published 1997
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 597,568 ratings — published -500
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 124,600 ratings — published 1859
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 197,862 ratings — published 1976
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,225,157 ratings — published 1996
Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 50,174 ratings — published 2007
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 1,487,701 ratings — published 2016
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 238,479 ratings — published 2017
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 341,664 ratings — published 2012
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 45,026 ratings — published 1990
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 639,267 ratings — published 2012
Them: Adventures with Extremists (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 23,302 ratings — published 2001
A Street Cat Named Bob (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 62,162 ratings — published 2012
My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 66,780 ratings — published 1956
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 129,106 ratings — published 1991
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 24,782 ratings — published 2010
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.46 — 105,217 ratings — published 2009
The Book of General Ignorance (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 11,327 ratings — published 2006
The Prince (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 400,685 ratings — published 1513
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.11 — 37,280 ratings — published 2023
“John F Kennedy (President Elect) was at the White house in order to confer with his predecessor Dwight Eisenhower. He was told to wait while the President of the United States of America attended to some necessary items. After a time, John was escorted into the Oval Office, and he found himself directly in front of the out-going president. So it was that the conversation between two of the most powerful men on earth began.”
― A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
― A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
“The April forced ‘Resettlement’ of the villages of Long Phuoc, and Long Tan inflamed the already seething hatred of foreigners by the local Vietnamese people. They had only recently removed the French yoke after almost a century of cruel and repressive French rule. Now here were the Americans and their allies who in the Vietnamese eyes were continuing to do as the French had done before them. Into this sort of environment of hate, the Australian soldiers were sent to complete what the Americans had started.”
― A Gracious Enemy
― A Gracious Enemy
