Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History
By: Sunil Amrith
3.76
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From a MacArthur "Genius," a bold new perspective on the history of Asia, highlighting the long que…
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By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
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2. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
By: William Cronon
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
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3. The Castle
By: Franz Kafka , Mark Harman , Regaip Minareci , None
3.90
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
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4. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
4.58
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By: Arundhati Roy
3.96
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
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3.99
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7. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
By: Naomi Klein
4.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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8. Environmentalism: A Global History
By: Ramachandra Guha
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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9. Empire of Cotton: A Global History
By: Sven Beckert
3.67
Format: 363 pages, Hardcover
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10. The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth
By: None
3.37
Format: 395 pages,
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11. Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil
By: Timothy Mitchell
3.43
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
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12. The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
By: Jake Bittle
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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By: Dipo Faloyin
4.43
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By: Rajasree Variyar
4.10
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15. The Naked Don't Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees
By: Matthieu Aikins
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this extraordinary book, an acclaimed young war reporter chronicles a dangerous journey on the s… read more
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16. Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
By: Bathsheba Demuth
4.30
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
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17. Marginlands: Indian Landscapes on the Brink
By: Arati Kumar-Rao
4.48
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
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18. Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire
By: Nandini Das
3.94
Format: 580 pages, ebook
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19. The Shooting Star
By: Shivya Nath
4.10
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
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20. Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History
By: Sunil Amrith
3.76
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
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21. Wood: A History
By: Joachim Radkau
3.72
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ötzi the iceman could not do without wood when he was climbing his Alpine glacier, nor could mediev… read more
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