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Under the Heel of the Dragon (Blaine Kaltman) Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China
Birth of the Chess Queen (Marilyn Yalom) - powerful women and chess in medieval Europe
Vietnam: A Natural History (Sterling, Hurley, Minh) - biogeography, flora and fauna, and conservation
Q.E.D. (Burkard Polster) Beauty in Mathematical Proof
Japan to 1600 (William Wayne Farris) A Social and Economic History
Bartleby & Co. (Enrique Vila-Matas) - writers who "prefer not to"

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