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True or False: A CIA Analyst's Guide to Spotting Fake News  (2020)

True or False: A CIA Analyst's Guide to Spotting Fake News (2020)

Cindy L. Otis

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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century  (2018)

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (2018)

Timothy Snyder

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The Anthropocene Reviewed  (2021)

The Anthropocene Reviewed (2021)

John Green

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Paddington Bear  (1958)

Paddington Bear (1958)

Michael Bond

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Where the Wild Things Are (1963)

Where the Wild Things Are (1963)

Maurice Sendak

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Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes   (1982)

Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes (1982)

Frans de Waal

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War is a Lie  (2010)

War is a Lie (2010)

David Swanson

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Freedom  (2024)

Freedom (2024)

Timothy Snyder

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The Wind in the Willows  (1908)

The Wind in the Willows (1908)

Kenneth Grahame

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The Little Prince  (1943)

The Little Prince (1943)

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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The Abstract Wild  (1996)

The Abstract Wild (1996)

Jack Turner

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Blessed Unrest: Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World  (2007)

Blessed Unrest: Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World (2007)

Paul Hawken

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Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future  (2011)

Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future (2011)

Ian Morris

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Man's Search for Meaning  (1955)

Man's Search for Meaning (1955)

Victor Frankl

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The Solace of Open Spaces   (1976)

The Solace of Open Spaces (1976)

Gretel Ehrlich

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies  (1997)

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997)

Jared Diamond

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The Story of Ferdinand  (1936)

The Story of Ferdinand (1936)

Munro Leaf

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Lord of the Rings  (1954)

Lord of the Rings (1954)

J. R. R. Tolkien

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The Lessons of History (1968)

The Lessons of History (1968)

Will and Ariel Durant

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A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation (1949)

A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation (1949)

Aldo Leopold

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The Politics of Nonviolent Action (1973)

The Politics of Nonviolent Action (1973)

Gene Sharp

Books
The World-Ending Fire  (2019)

The World-Ending Fire (2019)

Wendell Berry

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The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)

The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)

Hannah Arendt

Books
How Democracies Die  (2015)

How Democracies Die (2015)

Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt

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The Odyssey (8th century BCE)

The Odyssey (8th century BCE)

Homer, translated by Emily Wilson (2017)

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God's Wife's Measuring Spoons  (essay, 2003)

God's Wife's Measuring Spoons (essay, 2003)

Barbara Kindsolver

Books
198 Methods of Nonviolent Protest and Persuasion

198 Methods of Nonviolent Protest and Persuasion

From this book by Dr. Gene Sharp: The Politics of Nonviolent Action (3 volumes)

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Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words (2014)

Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words (2014)

Ella Frances Sanders

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Building the Earth  (1965)

Building the Earth (1965)

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

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Charlotte's Web  (1952)

Charlotte's Web (1952)

E. B. White

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The Lost Words (2018)

The Lost Words (2018)

Robert Macfarlane

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Vesper Flights  (2020)

Vesper Flights (2020)

Helen Macdonald

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The Overstory  (2018)

The Overstory (2018)

Richard Powers

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To the Castle and Back: A Memoir  (2007)

To the Castle and Back: A Memoir (2007)

Václav Havel

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Horizon  (2019)

Horizon (2019)

Barry Lopez

Books
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel  (2015)

Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel (2015)

Carl Safina

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary Edition  (1970)

Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary Edition (1970)

Paulo Freire

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Sapiens  (2011)

Sapiens (2011)

Yuval Noah Harari

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