Earth Sciences and Environment

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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water 4.28 avg rating — 11,659 ratings
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Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth
Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth 3.94 avg rating — 639 ratings
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Basin and Range (Annals of the Former World, 1)
Basin and Range (Annals of the Former World, 1) 4.19 avg rating — 4,060 ratings
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The Control of Nature
The Control of Nature 4.26 avg rating — 4,839 ratings
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The Dinosaur Heresies
The Dinosaur Heresies 4.23 avg rating — 2,232 ratings
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Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body 4.04 avg rating — 28,100 ratings
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology 3.82 avg rating — 13,927 ratings
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The World Without Us
The World Without Us 3.81 avg rating — 42,955 ratings
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Rising from the Plains (Annals of the Former World, 3)
Rising from the Plains (Annals of the Former World, 3) 4.24 avg rating — 1,933 ratings
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The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet 3.92 avg rating — 1,985 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History 4.14 avg rating — 10,151 ratings
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Annals of the Former World
Annals of the Former World 4.36 avg rating — 4,300 ratings
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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There 4.31 avg rating — 35,161 ratings
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The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health
The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health 4.28 avg rating — 946 ratings
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The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 3.84 avg rating — 2,720 ratings
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Encounters with the Archdruid
Encounters with the Archdruid 4.22 avg rating — 6,561 ratings
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The Cloudspotter's Guide
The Cloudspotter's Guide 4.12 avg rating — 2,765 ratings
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Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds
Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds 3.71 avg rating — 375 ratings
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The Devil in the White City
The Devil in the White City really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 739,825 ratings
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Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America
Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America 4.22 avg rating — 5,752 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World 4.21 avg rating — 38,328 ratings
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History 4.05 avg rating — 70,019 ratings
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West 4.05 avg rating — 4,163 ratings
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Tensleep (Em Hansen Mystery, #1)
Tensleep (Em Hansen Mystery, #1) 3.63 avg rating — 423 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World 4.32 avg rating — 28,488 ratings
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After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America
After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America 4.17 avg rating — 240 ratings
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Surf, Sand, and Stone: How Waves, Earthquakes, and Other Forces Shape the Southern California Coast
Surf, Sand, and Stone: How Waves, Earthquakes, and Other Forces Shape the Southern California Coast 4.47 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans
Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans 3.69 avg rating — 1,822 ratings
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The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions
The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions 4.29 avg rating — 5,874 ratings
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl―A National Book Award Winner
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl―A National Book Award Winner 4.06 avg rating — 60,126 ratings
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First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America
First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America 4.13 avg rating — 232 ratings
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Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England 4.10 avg rating — 3,913 ratings
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H is for Hawk
H is for Hawk 3.74 avg rating — 78,926 ratings
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Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth 3.81 avg rating — 2,284 ratings
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Rough-Hewn Land: A Geologic Journey from California to the Rocky Mountains
Rough-Hewn Land: A Geologic Journey from California to the Rocky Mountains 4.53 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Volcano Cowboys: The Rocky Evolution of a Dangerous Science
Volcano Cowboys: The Rocky Evolution of a Dangerous Science 4.25 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 3.88 avg rating — 21,503 ratings
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The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World 4.14 avg rating — 6,354 ratings
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power 4.43 avg rating — 12,041 ratings
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The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World 3.78 avg rating — 779 ratings
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Fossils: A Guide to Prehistoric Life
Fossils: A Guide to Prehistoric Life 3.81 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Downdrift: A Novel
Downdrift: A Novel 3.34 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Surviving Galeras
Surviving Galeras 3.71 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World 4.07 avg rating — 1,658 ratings
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The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History 3.92 avg rating — 2,320 ratings
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Strata: Stories from Deep Time
Strata: Stories from Deep Time 4.61 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota: Volume 3, Geology (Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies Series, Sponsored by the Harte ... Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)
Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota: Volume 3, Geology (Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies Series, Sponsored by the Harte ... Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi) 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life
Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life 3.68 avg rating — 194 ratings
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Geoarchaeology of St. Catherines Island, Georgia
Geoarchaeology of St. Catherines Island, Georgia 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation
The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation 3.97 avg rating — 612 ratings
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Mountains That Remade America: How Sierra Nevada Geology Impacts Modern Life
Mountains That Remade America: How Sierra Nevada Geology Impacts Modern Life 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time
Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time 3.90 avg rating — 457 ratings
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Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami that Could Devastate North America
Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami that Could Devastate North America 4.18 avg rating — 740 ratings
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Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature
Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature 4.08 avg rating — 791 ratings
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Roadside Geology of Georgia
Roadside Geology of Georgia 4.55 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Roadside Geology of Florida (Roadside Geology, #30)
Roadside Geology of Florida (Roadside Geology, #30) 4.41 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Architects of Eternity: The New Science of Fossils
Architects of Eternity: The New Science of Fossils 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Beyond Your Doorstep: A Handbook to the Country
Beyond Your Doorstep: A Handbook to the Country 4.15 avg rating — 52 ratings
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The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World 3.77 avg rating — 373 ratings
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My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs
My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs 3.94 avg rating — 1,616 ratings
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Living Beaches of Georgia and the Carolinas
Living Beaches of Georgia and the Carolinas 4.51 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Dinosaurs Without Bones
Dinosaurs Without Bones 4.16 avg rating — 416 ratings
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Salt Marshes: A Natural and Unnatural History
Salt Marshes: A Natural and Unnatural History 4.19 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The World of the Salt Marsh: Appreciating and Protecting the Tidal Marshes of the Southeastern Atlantic Coast
The World of the Salt Marsh: Appreciating and Protecting the Tidal Marshes of the Southeastern Atlantic Coast 4.25 avg rating — 92 ratings
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A Land
A Land 3.99 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present
Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present 3.57 avg rating — 1,187 ratings
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Ill Wind
Ill Wind 3.60 avg rating — 798 ratings
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The Great Paleolithic War: How Science Forged an Understanding of America's Ice Age Past
The Great Paleolithic War: How Science Forged an Understanding of America's Ice Age Past 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Dinosaur Odyssey: Fossil Threads in the Web of Life
Dinosaur Odyssey: Fossil Threads in the Web of Life 4.29 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River
Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River 3.93 avg rating — 3,217 ratings
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Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food 4.05 avg rating — 6,843 ratings
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Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean 4.16 avg rating — 820 ratings
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Once & Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals
Once & Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals 3.97 avg rating — 210 ratings
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What Evolution Is (Science Masters Series)
What Evolution Is (Science Masters Series) 4.02 avg rating — 3,893 ratings
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Retreat from a Rising Sea: Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change
Retreat from a Rising Sea: Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change 4.05 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Keepers of the Earth: Native Stories and Environmental Activities for Children
Keepers of the Earth: Native Stories and Environmental Activities for Children 4.22 avg rating — 147 ratings
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29,328 ratings
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America 4.14 avg rating — 17,867 ratings
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Living in the Anthropocene: Earth in the Age of Humans
Living in the Anthropocene: Earth in the Age of Humans 4.07 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming
Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming 3.67 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Quakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake
Quakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake 3.90 avg rating — 788 ratings
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JUNGLE LORE
JUNGLE LORE 4.29 avg rating — 591 ratings
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Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination 4.09 avg rating — 5,249 ratings
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The Infinite View: A Guidebook for Life on Earth
The Infinite View: A Guidebook for Life on Earth 4.15 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Crow Chronicles
Crow Chronicles really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Darwin's First Theory: Exploring Darwin's Quest for a Theory of Earth
Darwin's First Theory: Exploring Darwin's Quest for a Theory of Earth 4.05 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Ever-Ending Earth
Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Ever-Ending Earth 4.05 avg rating — 852 ratings
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Leo Geo and His Miraculous Journey Through the Center of the Earth
Leo Geo and His Miraculous Journey Through the Center of the Earth
by: Jon Chad
3.63 avg rating — 202 ratings
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The Earth: From Myths to Knowledge
The Earth: From Myths to Knowledge 3.77 avg rating — 31 ratings
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In Search of Ancient Oregon: A Geological and Natural History
In Search of Ancient Oregon: A Geological and Natural History 4.26 avg rating — 121 ratings
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When the Earth Shakes: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis
When the Earth Shakes: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis 3.82 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Into the Heart of Our World
Into the Heart of Our World 3.44 avg rating — 123 ratings
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No Apparent Danger: The True Story of Volcanic Disaster at Galeras and Nevado Del Ruiz
No Apparent Danger: The True Story of Volcanic Disaster at Galeras and Nevado Del Ruiz 4.13 avg rating — 313 ratings
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House of Lost Worlds: Dinosaurs, Dynasties, and the Story of Life on Earth
House of Lost Worlds: Dinosaurs, Dynasties, and the Story of Life on Earth 3.94 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators and Fading Empires
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators and Fading Empires 4.04 avg rating — 3,947 ratings
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The Next Tsunami: Living on a Restless Coast
The Next Tsunami: Living on a Restless Coast 4.14 avg rating — 153 ratings
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The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze & Back in Chinese Time
The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze & Back in Chinese Time 3.93 avg rating — 1,843 ratings
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Africa: A Biography of the Continent
Africa: A Biography of the Continent 4.18 avg rating — 1,882 ratings
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A Crack in the Edge of the World
A Crack in the Edge of the World 3.79 avg rating — 7,186 ratings
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories 3.76 avg rating — 5,186 ratings
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