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Reviving Ophelia:
Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
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9.5
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    The Origins of Virtue:
    Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
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    9.5
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    • 3

    Capitalism:
    The Unknown Ideal
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    9.5
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    • 4

    The Hero With a Thousand Faces
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    9.3
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    • 5

    Mama Makes Up Her Mind:
    And Other Dangers of Southern Living
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    9.3
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    • 6

    Why Things Bite Back:
    Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences
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    9.1
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    • 7

    Dakota:
    A Spiritual Geography
    Current rating
    8.9
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    • 8

    The Fifties
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    8.6
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    • 9

    The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World
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    8.6
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    • 10

    In Cold Blood:
    A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
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    8.6
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    • 11

    City of Bits:
    Space, Place, and the Infobahn
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    8.5
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    • 12

    How to Work a Room:
    Learn the Strategies of Savvy Socializing - For Business and Personal Success
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    • 13

    Things That Make Us Smart:
    Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine
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    8.3
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    • 14

    For Yourself:
    The Fulfillment of Female Sexuality
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    8.3
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    • 15

    Technopoly:
    The Surrender of Culture to Technology
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    8.2
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    • 16

    The Tibetan Book of the Dead
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    8.2
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    • 17

    Silicon Snake Oil:
    Second Thoughts on the Information Highway
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    7.9
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    • 18

    In a Different Voice:
    Psychological Theory and Women's Development
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    7.8
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    • 19

    Media Control:
    The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
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    • 20

    Mythology
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