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The Giver
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The Giver

By Lois Lowry ,

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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed

By Jon Ronson ,

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Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History
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Violence and Social Orders

By Douglass C. North , John Joseph Wallis , Barry R. Weingast

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Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
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Quit Like a Woman

By Holly Whitaker ,

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Policing Stalin's Socialism: Repression and Social Order in the Soviet Union, 1924-1953
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Policing Stalin's Socialism

By David R. Shearer ,

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Slaves and Masters in the Roman Empire: A Study in Social Control
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Slaves and Masters in the Roman Empire

By K.R. Bradley ,

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The Social Psychology of Power
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The Social Psychology of Power

By Ann Guinote (editor) , Theresa K. Vescio (editor) ,

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Partial Justice: Women, Prisons and Social Control
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Partial Justice

By Nicole Hahn Rafter ,

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Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris
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Public City/Public Sex

By Andrew Israel Ross ,

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First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt: Homicide in Chicago, 1875-1920
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First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt

By Jeffrey S. Adler ,

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Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick
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Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick

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The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead
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The Wild Boys

By William S. Burroughs ,

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Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England
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Behind Closed Doors

By Amanda Vickery ,

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You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All
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You've Been Played

By Adrian Hon ,

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Advertising Shits In Your Head: Strategies for Resistance
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Advertising Shits In Your Head

By Vyvian Raoul , Matt Bonner ,

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Watership Down: The Graphic Novel
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Watership Down

By Richard Adams , Joe Sutphin (illustrator) , James Sturm (adapter)

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