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Power and Progress Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
Daron Acemoglu
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Invisible Child Poverty, Survival and Hope in New York City
Andrea Elliott
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Otherlands A World in the Making
Thomas Halliday
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Dinner with Joseph Johnson Books & Friendships in a Revolutionary Age
Daisy Hay
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The Barefoot Woman
Scholastique Mukasonga
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Original Sins A Memoir
Matt Rowland Hill
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Kingdom of Characters A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China
Jing Tsu
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Consumed A Sister's Story
Arifa Akbar
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Minarets in the Mountains A Journey into Muslim Europe
Tharik Hussain
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The Mutant Project Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans
Eben Kirksey
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Blood Legacy Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery
Alex Renton
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Empireland How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
Sathnam Sanghera