99% Invisible books (nonfiction)

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Death and Life of Great American Cities 4.29 avg rating — 19,192 ratings
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Made in Russia: Unsung Icons of Soviet Design
Made in Russia: Unsung Icons of Soviet Design 4.14 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War 3.94 avg rating — 22,977 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void 3.95 avg rating — 59,464 ratings
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Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China
Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China 3.63 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us 3.72 avg rating — 8,119 ratings
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Universal Principles of Design
Universal Principles of Design 4.16 avg rating — 5,855 ratings
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No Nails, No Lumber: The Bubble Houses of Wallace Neff
No Nails, No Lumber: The Bubble Houses of Wallace Neff 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks 3.96 avg rating — 2,069 ratings
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All the Buildings in New York
All the Buildings in New York 4.21 avg rating — 231 ratings
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Don't Call It That: A Naming Workbook
Don't Call It That: A Naming Workbook 3.87 avg rating — 193 ratings
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The Sonic Boom: How Sound Transforms the Way We Think, Feel, and Buy
The Sonic Boom: How Sound Transforms the Way We Think, Feel, and Buy 3.11 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Barbed Wire: The Fence that Changed the West
Barbed Wire: The Fence that Changed the West 3.57 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Revolution of Forms: Cuba's Forgotten Art Schools
Revolution of Forms: Cuba's Forgotten Art Schools 4.39 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Concrete and Culture: A Material History
Concrete and Culture: A Material History 4.14 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing 4.03 avg rating — 4,655 ratings
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The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space (Apogee Books Space)
The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space (Apogee Books Space) 4.19 avg rating — 547 ratings
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Shocking Brazil: Six Games That Shook the World Cup
Shocking Brazil: Six Games That Shook the World Cup 3.75 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Good Flag, Bad Flag
Good Flag, Bad Flag
by: Ted Kaye
4.27 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Lost City Radio
Lost City Radio 3.70 avg rating — 2,429 ratings
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Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom
Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom 3.86 avg rating — 222 ratings
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All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals
All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals 4.28 avg rating — 1,227 ratings
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Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America 3.83 avg rating — 1,677 ratings
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Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America
Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America 4.05 avg rating — 2,616 ratings
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
by: Sam Kean
3.93 avg rating — 54,825 ratings
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Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion
Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion 3.70 avg rating — 634 ratings
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The Dinosaur Heresies
The Dinosaur Heresies 4.23 avg rating — 2,232 ratings
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
At Home: A Short History of Private Life 3.99 avg rating — 97,411 ratings
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The End of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers--and the Coming Cashless Society
The End of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers--and the Coming Cashless Society 3.39 avg rating — 660 ratings
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Secret Stairs: A Walking Guide to the Historic Staircases of Los Angeles (Revised September 2020)
Secret Stairs: A Walking Guide to the Historic Staircases of Los Angeles (Revised September 2020) 4.44 avg rating — 201 ratings
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Secret Stairs: East Bay: A Walking Guide to the Historic Staircases of Berkeley and Oakland (Revised September 2020)
Secret Stairs: East Bay: A Walking Guide to the Historic Staircases of Berkeley and Oakland (Revised September 2020) 4.18 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Sign Painters PB
Sign Painters PB 4.25 avg rating — 229 ratings
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Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline
Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline 3.74 avg rating — 442 ratings
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Concrete Planet: The Strange and Fascinating Story of the World's Most Common Man-Made Material
Concrete Planet: The Strange and Fascinating Story of the World's Most Common Man-Made Material 3.89 avg rating — 214 ratings
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Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers
Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers 4.08 avg rating — 149 ratings
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The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion
The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion
by: Interboro
4.52 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons From Science Fiction
Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons From Science Fiction 3.86 avg rating — 314 ratings
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Trappist: de zeven heerlijke bieren
Trappist: de zeven heerlijke bieren 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Internet of Elsewhere: The Emergent Effects of a Wired World
The Internet of Elsewhere: The Emergent Effects of a Wired World 3.98 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Henry E. Huntington and the Creation of Southern California (Historical Perspectives on Business Enterprise Series)
Henry E. Huntington and the Creation of Southern California (Historical Perspectives on Business Enterprise Series) 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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False Colors: Art, Design and Modern Camouflage
False Colors: Art, Design and Modern Camouflage 4.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Superman: The Unauthorized Biography
Superman: The Unauthorized Biography 3.92 avg rating — 1,149 ratings
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Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas 4.17 avg rating — 1,085 ratings
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The Lost Panoramas: When Chicago Changed its River and the Land Beyond
The Lost Panoramas: When Chicago Changed its River and the Land Beyond 4.05 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Meanwhile in San Francisco: The City in its Own Words
Meanwhile in San Francisco: The City in its Own Words 4.16 avg rating — 707 ratings
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The Noble Approach: Maurice Noble and the Zen of Animation Design
The Noble Approach: Maurice Noble and the Zen of Animation Design 4.62 avg rating — 202 ratings
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Stepping into the Picture: Cartoon Designer Maurice Noble
Stepping into the Picture: Cartoon Designer Maurice Noble 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York 4.52 avg rating — 27,081 ratings
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Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City
Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City 3.94 avg rating — 521 ratings
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The Grammar of Ornament
The Grammar of Ornament 4.31 avg rating — 263 ratings
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Sutro's Glass Palace: The Story of Sutro Baths
Sutro's Glass Palace: The Story of Sutro Baths 4.49 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Raising Steaks: The Life and Times of American Beef
Raising Steaks: The Life and Times of American Beef 3.34 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Heights of Fashion: A History of the Elevated Shoe
Heights of Fashion: A History of the Elevated Shoe 3.31 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking (ALA Notable Books for Adults) 4.04 avg rating — 4,289 ratings
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Hyperart: Thomasson
Hyperart: Thomasson 3.91 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943
Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Grid: A Journey Through the Heart of Our Electrified World
The Grid: A Journey Through the Heart of Our Electrified World 3.45 avg rating — 166 ratings
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White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf 3.63 avg rating — 814 ratings
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The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design
The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design 3.95 avg rating — 133 ratings
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The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America
The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America 3.58 avg rating — 956 ratings
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Trees in Paradise: A California History
Trees in Paradise: A California History 4.18 avg rating — 284 ratings
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The Devil's Rope: A Cultural History of Barbed Wire
The Devil's Rope: A Cultural History of Barbed Wire 3.26 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream
Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream 3.74 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs
Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs 3.81 avg rating — 160 ratings
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The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Pioneer Plastic: The Making and Selling of Celluloid
Pioneer Plastic: The Making and Selling of Celluloid 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Ghost Army of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, and Other Audacious Fakery
The Ghost Army of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, and Other Audacious Fakery 4.07 avg rating — 1,103 ratings
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The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death 4.17 avg rating — 730 ratings
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Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester Heiress to the Rifle Fortune
Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester Heiress to the Rifle Fortune 3.65 avg rating — 431 ratings
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Micronations: the Lonely Planet guide to self-proclaimed nations
Micronations: the Lonely Planet guide to self-proclaimed nations
by: John Ryan
3.62 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston
Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston 3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are
Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are 3.76 avg rating — 187 ratings
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The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food 3.69 avg rating — 5,103 ratings
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Hollywood Unknowns
Hollywood Unknowns 4.12 avg rating — 16 ratings
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TROUGHS & DRINKG FOUNT
TROUGHS & DRINKG FOUNT 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950
A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Flickering Light: A History of Neon
Flickering Light: A History of Neon 3.31 avg rating — 26 ratings
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San Francisco Neon: Survivors and Lost Icons
San Francisco Neon: Survivors and Lost Icons
by: Al Barna
4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class
A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class 4.35 avg rating — 266 ratings
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The Frozen Water Trade: A True Story
The Frozen Water Trade: A True Story 3.78 avg rating — 400 ratings
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The Negro Motorist Green Book, 1949
The Negro Motorist Green Book, 1949 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Berlin Under the Swastika
Berlin Under the Swastika 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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«Mein Kampf» - Die Karriere eines deutschen Buches
«Mein Kampf» - Die Karriere eines deutschen Buches 3.57 avg rating — 130 ratings
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How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks
How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks 3.85 avg rating — 337 ratings
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The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet
The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet 4.18 avg rating — 1,502 ratings
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Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness
Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness 4.01 avg rating — 1,797 ratings
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The Rule of the Road: An International Guide to History and Practice
The Rule of the Road: An International Guide to History and Practice it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Limits to Growth
The Limits to Growth 4.17 avg rating — 835 ratings
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Unpleasant Design
Unpleasant Design 3.74 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Creative Architect: Inside the Great Midcentury Personality Study
The Creative Architect: Inside the Great Midcentury Personality Study 4.24 avg rating — 25 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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Bauhaus Weimar 1919-25 Dessau 1925-28
Bauhaus Weimar 1919-25 Dessau 1925-28 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Bauhaus Construct
Bauhaus Construct 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness
The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness
by: Todd Rose
4.05 avg rating — 4,432 ratings
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The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure 3.44 avg rating — 522 ratings
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Gold Rush Port: The Maritime Archaeology of San Francisco's Waterfront
Gold Rush Port: The Maritime Archaeology of San Francisco's Waterfront really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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A hundred years of photography: 1839-1939
A hundred years of photography: 1839-1939 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy 3.87 avg rating — 29,316 ratings
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Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History
Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History 3.84 avg rating — 2,632 ratings
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A Desolate Place for a Defiant People: The Archaeology of Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp
A Desolate Place for a Defiant People: The Archaeology of Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp 3.40 avg rating — 25 ratings
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