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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Sapiens

By Yuval Noah Harari ,

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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong about the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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Factfulness

By Hans Rosling , Anna Rosling Rönnlund , Ola Rosling

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The Crippled God
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The Crippled God

By Steven Erikson ,

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Lost Japan: Last Glimpse of Beautiful Japan
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Lost Japan

By Alex Kerr ,

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A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the World's Greatest Empire
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A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities

By J.C. McKeown ,

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The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century
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The Long Shadow

By David Reynolds ,

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Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
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Empire of Liberty

By Gordon S. Wood ,

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Divine Mania: Alteration of Consciousness in Ancient Greece
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Divine Mania

By Yulia Ustinova ,

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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
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Fantasyland

By Kurt Andersen ,

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The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us
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The Human Age

By Diane Ackerman ,

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The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
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The End Is Always Near

By Dan Carlin ,

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Invisible Romans: Prostitutes, Outlaws, Slaves, Gladiators, Ordinary Men and Women ... The Romans That History Forgot
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Invisible Romans

By Robert Knapp ,

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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
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Homo Deus

By Yuval Noah Harari ,

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Greece and the Augustan Cultural Revolution
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Greece and the Augustan Cultural Revolution

By A.J.S. Spawforth ,

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Kansai Cool: A Journey Into the Cultural Heartland of Japan
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Kansai Cool

By Christal Whelan ,

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The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China
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The Shanghai Free Taxi

By Frank Langfitt ,

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The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
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The Road to Little Dribbling

By Bill Bryson ,

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Daily Life in Late Antiquity
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Daily Life in Late Antiquity

By Kristina Sessa ,

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Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It
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Out of Our Minds

By Felipe Fernández-Armesto ,

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Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life
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Shanghai Homes

By Jie Li ,

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The Cambridge Illustrated History of China
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of China

By Patricia Buckley Ebrey ,

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Britain's Chinese Eye: Literature, Empire, and Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Britain's Chinese Eye

By Elizabeth Hope Chang ,

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Intoxicating Manchuria: Alcohol, Opium, and Culture in China's Northeast
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Intoxicating Manchuria

By Norman Smith ,

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The Renaissance in Italy: A Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento
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The Renaissance in Italy

By Guido Ruggiero ,

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China in Ten Words
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China in Ten Words

By Yu Hua , Allan H. Barr (translator) ,

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The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory
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The United States of Paranoia

By Jesse Walker ,

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Bountiful Empire: A History of Ottoman Cuisine
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Bountiful Empire

By Priscilla Mary Isin ,

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Siciliana: Studies on the Sicilian Ethos and Literature
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Siciliana

By Gaetano Cipolla ,

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Tastes of Byzantium: The Cuisine of a Legendary Empire
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Tastes of Byzantium

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La Passione: How Italy Seduced the World
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La Passione

By Dianne Hales ,

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The Stolen Bicycle
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The Stolen Bicycle

By Ming-Yi Wu , Darryl Sterk (translator) ,

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The Cosmonaut Who Couldn't Stop Smiling
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The Cosmonaut Who Couldn't Stop Smiling

By Andrew L. Jenks ,

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Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights
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Racial Innocence

By Robin Bernstein ,

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Eavesdropping on Jane Austen’s England: How Our Ancestors Lived Two Centuries Ago
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Eavesdropping on Jane Austen’s England

By Roy Adkins , Lesley Adkins ,

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Aerial Imagination in Cuba: Stories from Above the Rooftops
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Aerial Imagination in Cuba

By Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier , José Manuel Fernández Lavado (illustrator) ,

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Medieval Iberia, Second Edition: Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources
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Medieval Iberia, Second Edition

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The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India
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The Beautiful and the Damned

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Get Rich In Spite of Yourself
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Get Rich In Spite of Yourself

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How Europe Made the Modern World: Creating the Great Divergence
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How Europe Made the Modern World

By Jonathan Daly ,

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Formative Britain: An Archaeology of Britain, Fifth to Eleventh Century AD
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Formative Britain

By Martin Carver ,

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China from Empire to Nation-State
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China from Empire to Nation-State

By Wang Hui , Michael Gibbs Hill (translator) ,

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Earth-Shattering Events: Earthquakes, Nations, and Civilization
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Earth-Shattering Events

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The Middle East from Empire to Sealed Identities
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The Middle East from Empire to Sealed Identities

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North Korea Journal
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North Korea Journal

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The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan
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The World of the Shining Prince

By Ivan Morris ,

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Impolite Conversations: On Race, Politics, Sex, Money, and Religion
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Impolite Conversations

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Chariot Racing in the Roman Empire
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Chariot Racing in the Roman Empire

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Dante in Context
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Dante in Context

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Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd
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Different

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Sh*tshow! The Country's Collapsing...and the Ratings Are Great
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Sh*tshow! The Country's Collapsing...and the Ratings Are Great

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How to Hygge: The Nordic Secrets to a Happy Life
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How to Hygge

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By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia
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By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean

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Sociological Theory
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Sociological Theory

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Jane Austen: Writer in the World
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Jane Austen

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Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age
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Not All Dead White Men

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Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization
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Making the Social World

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The Classics and Colonial India
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The Classics and Colonial India

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The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler
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The Collaboration

By Ben Urwand ,

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A Visitor's Guide to the Ancient Olympics
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A Visitor's Guide to the Ancient Olympics

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Ancient Rome on 5 Denarii a Day
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Ancient Rome on 5 Denarii a Day

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The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
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The Almost Nearly Perfect People

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The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
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The Nordic Theory of Everything

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Vikings in the Attic: In Search of Nordic America
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Vikings in the Attic

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The Forgotten Japanese: Encounters with Rural Life and Folklore
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The Forgotten Japanese

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The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today's America
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The Unsettlers

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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
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The Soul of America

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Big History: Between Nothing and Everything
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Big History

By David Christian , Cynthia Brown , Craig Benjamin

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Scars Of Independence
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Scars Of Independence

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