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Global Issues Books
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,801 ratings — published 2008
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.27 — 64,895 ratings — published 2019
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,191 ratings — published 2019
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.58 — 61,003 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 — 359,106 ratings — published 2006
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.35 — 204,308 ratings — published 2018
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,184 ratings — published 2016
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.19 — 120,850 ratings — published 2015
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,950 ratings — published 2014
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 631,267 ratings — published 2012
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.27 — 24,789 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 — 102,678 ratings — published 2005
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.52 — 164,979 ratings — published 2020
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.85 — 28,065 ratings — published 2019
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,600 ratings — published 2017
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,243 ratings — published 2004
A Long Walk to Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.25 — 106,128 ratings — published 2010
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 102,099 ratings — published 2009
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.67 — 11,236 ratings — published 2008
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.30 — 55,103 ratings — published 2007
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.39 — 44,030 ratings — published 2022
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,868 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,282 ratings — published 2019
The Age of Capital, 1848–1875 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.26 — 4,760 ratings — published 1975
The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.59 — 606 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)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,006 ratings — published 2007
The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,229 ratings — published 2016
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.02 — 9,999 ratings — published 2012
The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.42 — 532 ratings — published 2010
The Great Crash of 2008 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.57 — 14 ratings — published 2009
The Open Economy and its Enemies: Public Attitudes in East Asia and Eastern Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2002
The Crisis of Confidence: Ideas, Power and Violence in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.57 — 7 ratings — published 1969
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.00 — 340,682 ratings — published 2019
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.33 — 175,591 ratings — published 2019
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.39 — 336,258 ratings — published 2012
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.21 — 43,895 ratings — published 2014
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,564 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 — 173,349 ratings — published 2018
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,220 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.62 — 267,207 ratings — published 2014
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.15 — 80,766 ratings — published 2014
The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 579 ratings — published 2002
What Next? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.91 — 66 ratings — published 2008
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 24,389 ratings — published 2009
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.19 — 71,051 ratings — published 1998
The Post-American World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 12,881 ratings — published 2008
The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.79 — 6,292 ratings — published 2012
Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.26 — 23,653 ratings — published 2011
“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
“The inspiration from my family, profound emotional experiences, and encounters with global and local issues have all contributed to my drive to write and bring about positive change.”
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