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Population Control
Too many people? No problem! Just outlaw having a third or even a second child.
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The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 2,751,599 ratings
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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Among the Hidden (Shadow Children, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 130,155 ratings
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The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
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Maybe One: A Case for Smaller Families
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3.68 avg rating — 232 ratings
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The Edict
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3.93 avg rating — 136 ratings
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An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings
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3.32 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Children of Eden (Children of Eden, #1)
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3.82 avg rating — 12,526 ratings
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China's One-Child Policy: The Government's Massive Crime Against Women and Unborn Babies
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 583,849 ratings
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The Population Bomb
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3.09 avg rating — 569 ratings
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One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
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Mei Fong (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 3,271 ratings
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The Population Explosion
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3.77 avg rating — 122 ratings
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A Mother's Ordeal: One Woman's Fight Against China's One-Child Policy
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4.34 avg rating — 395 ratings
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Life on the Brink: Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation
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Philip Cafaro (Contributor)
4.20 avg rating — 40 ratings
score: 98,
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The War on Humans
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3.88 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Dark Road
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3.74 avg rating — 1,209 ratings
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Green Lantern/Green Arrow #81
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3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
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4.16 avg rating — 1,258,752 ratings
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The War Against Population: The Economics and Ideology of World Population Control
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4.47 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Population Zero
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Wrath James White (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 628 ratings
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Population Wars: A New Perspective on Competition and Coexistence
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3.90 avg rating — 430 ratings
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The First Principle (Emancipation Warriors, #1)
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Marissa Shrock (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 148 ratings
score: 95,
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Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care
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3.97 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Living Treasures
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Yang Huang (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 147 ratings
score: 94,
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The Rule of One (The Rule of One, #1)
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Ashley Saunders (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 14,285 ratings
score: 94,
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An Essay on the Principle of Population
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3.42 avg rating — 1,850 ratings
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The Third
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Abel Keogh (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 288 ratings
score: 93,
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Frog
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3.81 avg rating — 5,324 ratings
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Malthus: A Very Short Introduction
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3.44 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Found
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3.29 avg rating — 102 ratings
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The Collected Works of Thomas Malthus
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4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Off the Road
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3.05 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Malthus: The Life and Legacies of an Untimely Prophet
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4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Legacy of Malthus: The Social Costs of the New Scientific Racism
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3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Malthus
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2.95 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Darwin without Malthus: The Struggle for Existence in Russian Evolutionary Thought (Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology)
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4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
score: 87,
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Principles of Political Economy
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3.53 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Beyond Malthus: Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge (The Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series)
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3.41 avg rating — 22 ratings
score: 85,
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Notes on Malthus’s Principles of Political Economy
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David Ricardo (Editor)
4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
score: 84,
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The Malthus Factor: Poverty, Politics and Population in Capitalist Development
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4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Population: The First Essay
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3.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810-1823
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4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Pamphlets of Thomas Robert Malthus
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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