Shake Hands With the Devil
Roméo Dallaire, Brent Beardsley
2003 · 2004 edition
592 pages
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The Aquariums of Pyongyang
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2018 · 2020 edition
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398 pages
Discourse on Colonialism
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102 pages
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How to Stand Up to a Dictator
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309 pages
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138 pages
Profit over People
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175 pages
Being Heumann An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
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Tightrope Americans Reaching for Hope
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320 pages
An Ordinary Man
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264 pages
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Olivia Laing
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352 pages
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208 pages
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2014 · 2017 edition
464 pages
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2022 · 2023 edition
264 pages
You're the Only One I've Told
Meera Shah
2020 · 2026 edition
304 pages
Development as Freedom
Amartya Sen
Published 1999
384 pages
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Dara Horn
Published 2021
272 pages