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qatesiurade's "Great non-fiction"

A list of really entertaining non-fiction I’ve read over the last few years.
1.
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 How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
by Franklin Foer
  
2. An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America's Future
by Robert D. Kaplan
  
3.
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 The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
  
4. Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color
by Philip Ball
  
5. The Power of Art
by Simon Schama
  
6.
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 Landscape and Memory
by Simon Schama
  
7. A History of Britain : At the Edge of the World, 3500 B.C.-1603 A.D
by Schama Simon
  
8. A History of Britain, Volume II: The Wars of the British 1603-1776
by Schama Simon
  
9. A History of Britain: The Fate of Empire 1776-2000
by Simon Schama
  
10.
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 The Happiest Man Alive
by Mary V. Dearborn
  
11.
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 The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
by Edward Dolnick
  
12. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
by Erik Larson
  
13.
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 In Defense of Food
by Michael Pollan
  
14.
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 THE CITY IN HISTORY
by Lewis Mumford
  
15.
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 Pushed Off the Mountain: Sold Down the River
by Samuel Western
  
16. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition
by Marc Reisner
  
17. Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another
by Philip Ball
  
18. McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
by Misha Glenny
  
19. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
by Bethany McLean
  
20.
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 DUPLICATE #3
by Duplicate of http://allconsuming.net/item/asin/0061234001
  
21. Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
by Carl Zimmer
  
22.
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 Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
by Tom Vanderbilt
  
23. The Numerati
by Stephen Baker
  
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Created by qatesiurade on Sep 13, 2008.