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How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
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Partition: The Long Shadow
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Iran in World History
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Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
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Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama
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The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power
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Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
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The Raj at War: A People’s History of India’s Second World War
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The Longest August: The Unflinching Rivalry Between India and Pakistan
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The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
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The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects
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Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone
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Buy Me the Sky: The remarkable truth of China's one-child generations
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast
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Joining the Clubs: The Business of the National Hockey League to 1945
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In Search of Shiva: A Study of Folk Religious Practices in Pakistan
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Haroon Khalid (Goodreads Author)
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KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
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Footprints of Partition: Narratives of Four Generations of Pakistanis and Indians
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Anam Zakaria (Goodreads Author)
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The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606
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Art Ross: The Hockey Legend Who Built the Bruins
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Women Who Ruled: History's 50 Most Remarkable Women
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Roads to Ruin: The War for Morocco in the Sixteenth Century
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On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics
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The Shias of Pakistan: An Assertive and Beleaguered Minority
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A Mirror to Power: Notes on a Fractured Decade
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Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve (The University Center for Human Values Series)
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Karachi: The Land Issue
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Monuments, Power and Poverty in India: From Ashoka to the Raj
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Issues in Pakistan's Economy: A Political Economy Perspective
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Neither a Hawk nor a Dove : An Insider’s Account Of Pakistan’s Foreign Policy
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Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World
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Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call
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The Empress of Art
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3.72 avg rating — 134 ratings
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The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
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Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs―A True Story of Ambition, Wealth, Betrayal, and Murder
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Ben Mezrich (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 4,856 ratings
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Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia’s New Nationalism
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The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution
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Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
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Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
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The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
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The End of the Cold War, 1985-1991
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Iran's Deadly Ambition: The Islamic Republic s Quest for Global Power
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The Case Against the Iran Deal: How Can We Now Stop Iran from Getting Nukes?
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Iran at the Crossroads
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The Emergence of Modern Shi'ism: Islamic Reform in Iraq and Iran
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Iran and Pakistan: Security, Diplomacy and American Influence
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Jewels of Allah: The Untold Story of Women in Iran
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3.96 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II
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Showa 1953-1989: A History of Japan
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Understanding Japan: A Cultural History
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Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back
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3.90 avg rating — 2,066 ratings
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Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in the Syrian Kurdistan
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United States of Jihad: Investigating America's Homegrown Terrorists
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Inside the Middle East: Making Sense of the Most Dangerous and Complicated Region on Earth
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From Deep State to Islamic State: The Arab Counter-Revolution and its Jihadi Legacy (CERI Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies)
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The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza
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4.21 avg rating — 271 ratings
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A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
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3.79 avg rating — 512 ratings
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Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now
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Syria Burning: A Short History of a Catastrophe
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On Palestine
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Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel
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Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran
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The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923
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The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State
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Confucius: And the World He Created
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China's Millennials: The Want Generation
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Pacific: The Ocean of the Future
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The China Collectors: America's Century-Long Hunt for Asian Art Treasures
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Deng Xiaoping: A Revolutionary Life
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Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army
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China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed
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China's Twentieth Century: Revolution, Retreat and the Road to Equality
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TO THE BRINK AND BACK: India's 1991 Story
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The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan
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India Shastra: Reflections on the Nation in Our Time
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Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India
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Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years
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The Incredible History of India's Geography
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Darjeeling: The Colorful History and Precarious Fate of the World's Greatest Tea
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The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805-1905
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The Emergency: A Personal History
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Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War
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A History of India, Vol. 1: From Origins to 1300
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Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition
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The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
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Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
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Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
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Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
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