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The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.27 — 65,353 ratings — published 2019
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,954 ratings — published 2008
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,589 ratings — published 2019
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.55 — 79,816 ratings — published 2025
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.66 — 359,538 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 — 207,135 ratings — published 2018
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 118,598 ratings — published 2016
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 — 125,418 ratings — published 2015
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 28,198 ratings — published 2014
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 — 640,162 ratings — published 2012
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 25,212 ratings — published 2011
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,813 ratings — published 2005
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.52 — 168,444 ratings — published 2020
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 28,321 ratings — published 2019
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 102,314 ratings — published 2017
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 75,784 ratings — published 2004
A Long Walk to Water (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 108,999 ratings — published 2010
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.46 — 105,550 ratings — published 2009
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.66 — 11,309 ratings — published 2008
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 56,464 ratings — published 2007
The Weather Report: A Journey Through Unsettled Climates (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.94 — 34 ratings — published
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 301,772 ratings — published 2025
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 47,120 ratings — published 2022
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 5,895 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,078 ratings — published 2019
The Age of Capital, 1848–1875 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,880 ratings — published 1975
The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.60 — 612 ratings — published 1998
The New Liberty: Survival and Justice in a Changing World (Studies of Economic Growth in Industrialized Countries)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.00 — 5 ratings — published 1975
Politics and Economic Policy in Western Democracies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1980
What's Left? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,007 ratings — published 2007
The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 2,252 ratings — published 2016
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 10,065 ratings — published 2012
The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations? (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.43 — 536 ratings — published 2010
The Great Crash of 2008 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 14 ratings — published 2009
The Open Economy and its Enemies: Public Attitudes in East Asia and Eastern Europe (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2002
The Crisis of Confidence: Ideas, Power and Violence in America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 6 ratings — published 1969
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 344,903 ratings — published 2019
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 182,884 ratings — published 2019
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 342,172 ratings — published 2012
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.21 — 44,749 ratings — published 2014
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
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avg rating 4.25 — 21,862 ratings — published 2018
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,525 ratings — published 2018
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 8,407 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.62 — 272,726 ratings — published 2014
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 82,259 ratings — published 2014
The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 590 ratings — published 2002
What Next? (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 66 ratings — published 2008
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 24,609 ratings — published 2009
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
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avg rating 4.20 — 73,448 ratings — published 1998
The Post-American World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 12,925 ratings — published 2008
“There is adventure in finding compelling stories and exploring complex issues in challenging environments, but there is also a responsibility to tell those stories accurately and objectively.”
― Human Geography: People and the Environment
― Human Geography: People and the Environment
“There is unspeakable yet entirely preventable suffering in this world. The job of journalists and writers engaged with global issues is to articulate the unspeakable and give voice to solutions. -- K. Lee Lerner”
― Infectious Diseases: In Context
― Infectious Diseases: In Context
