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Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker The Eternal Frontier by Tim Flannery War and Peace and War by Peter Turchin Redcoat by Bernard Cornwell 1491 by Charles C. Mann The Fall of Carthage by Adrian Goldsworthy Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson Lady of the Lake by Andrzej Sapkowski The Tower of the Swallow by Andrzej Sapkowski The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization by Bryan Ward-Perkins
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