January 20, 2016 Richard
Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the People's Temple
Deborah Layton
Anchor (November 09, 1999) 368 pages

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four votes Richard, Françoise, Malcolm, Michael
February 17, 2016 Jon and Kathleen
The Forgotten Depression: 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself
James Grant
Simon & Schuster (November 11, 2014) 272 pages

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four votes Malcolm, Christian, David I., Michael
March 16, 2016 Malcolm and Rima
The Day the World Discovered the Sun: An Extraordinary Story of Scientific Adventure and the Race to Track the Transit of Venus
Mark Anderson
Da Capo Press (May 08, 2012) 304 pages

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five votes Malcolm, Christian, David I., Michelle, Richard
April 20, 2016 Michelle
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
Matt Ridley
Harper (October 27, 2015) 368 pages

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five votes Françoise, Jeff, Jon, Michael, Richard
May 18, 2016 Richard
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
Charles E. Cobb Jr.
Basic Books (June 03, 2014) 320 pages

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five votes Michael, Christian, JohnS, Malcolm, Richard
June 22, 2016 Christian and Ling
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Mary Beard
Liveright (November 09, 2015) 608 pages

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six votes, one gush Christian (gush), Jon, Malcolm, Michelle, Richard
July 20, 2016 Lynda and Jeff
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)
Neal Stephenson
Spectra (May 02, 2000) 499 pages

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four votes, one gush Jeff, Jon, Malcolm (gush), Michael
August 17, 2016 Richard
Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare)
Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan
Columbia University Press (December 11, 2012) 320 pages

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five votes Michael, Christian, Malcolm, Michelle, Richard
September 21, 2016 Françoise
Target Switzerland: Swiss Armed Neutrality in World War II
Stephen P. Halbrook
Da Capo Press (December 05, 2003) 320 pages

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five votes JohnS, Christian, Jon, Michael, Richard
October 19, 2016 Christian and Ling
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left
Roger Scruton
Bloomsbury USA (December 08, 2015) 304 pages

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five votes Malcolm, Christian, David I., Michael, Richard
November 16, 2016 Richard
Never a Dull Moment: A Libertarian Look at the Sixties
Murray N Rothbard
Ludwig von Mises Institute (July 20, 2016) 168 pages

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five votes Michael, Christian, Françoise, JohnS, Malcolm
December 21, 2016 Malcolm and Rima
Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Sven Beckert
Vintage (November 10, 2015) 640 pages

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five votes, one gush Christian (gush), Françoise, Malcolm, Marc, Richard