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Blueprint
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The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
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A Global History
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Ron Chernow
A Study of a Profoundly American Life
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Ibram X. Kendi
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Bedtime Biography: An Autobiography
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The Unexpected Origins of Our Deepest Beliefs
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It's Complicated
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The Art of Gathering
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost
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An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
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A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
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The Second Sex
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
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The Four Agreements
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Miguel de Cervantes
The Spanish Epic Novel on the Human Condition and Death
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George Orwell
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