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We are proud to announce the Top 20 Best Read eBooks list for this month. This list provides
a unique perspective on the subjects that people across the nation and around the
world have been most interested this past month. The Top 20 Best Read eBooks list
opens a telling window into the recent topics of interest and the reading preferences
of tens of thousands of people, worldwide.
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| Top 20 Best Read eBooks May 2004 | |
This Month | | Last Month | Months On List |
| 1. | An Encyclopedia of War and Ethics , by Donald A. Wells . Greenwood Press, 1996. | 0 | 1 |
| 2. | The Cultures of Globalization , by Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson. Duke University Press, 1998. | 0 | 4 |
| 3. | The End of Apartheid in South Africa , by Lindsay Michie Eades. Greenwood Press, 1999. | 34 | 2 |
| 4. | Iliad , by Homer, Stanley Lombardo. Hackett Publishing Company, 1997. | 0 | 3 |
| 5. | Our Mothers, Our Selves: Writers and Poets Celebrating Motherhood , by Karen J. Donnelly, J. B. Bernstein. Bergin & Garvey Trade, 1996. | 0 | 1 |
| 6. | Little Women: Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy , by Louisa M. Alcott, Jessie Willcox Smith. Little, Brown, 1915. | 0 | 1 |
| 7. | Writing with Power , by Peter Elbow. Oxford University Press, 1998. | 0 | 1 |
| 8. | Domestic Violence: Facts and Fallacies , by Richard L. Davis. Praeger, 1998. | 5 | 23 |
| 9. | Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction , by Damien Keown. Oxford University Press, 1996. | 9 | 19 |
| 10. | A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975 , by Robert D. Schulzinger. Oxford University Press, 1997. | 16 | 3 |
| 11. | Causes and Consequences of World War II , by Robert A. Divine. Quadrangle Books, 1969. | 6 | 17 |
| 12. | The History of South Africa , by Roger B. Beck. Greenwood Press, 2000. | 0 | 1 |
| 13. | Leadership for the Twenty-First Century , by Joseph C. Rost. Praeger, 1993. | 13 | 23 |
| 14. | Racism: A Short History , by George M. Fredrickson. Princeton University Press, 2002. | 17 | 2 |
| 15. | The World of the Autistic Child: Understanding and Treating Autistic Spectrum Disorders , by Bryna Siegel. Oxford University Press, 1998. | 7 | 14 |
| 16. | Culture and Customs of Japan , by Noriko Kamachi, Hanchao Lu. Greenwood Press, 1999. | 18 | 18 |
| 17. | Punishment and the Death Penalty: The Current Debate , by Robert M. Baird, Stuart E. Rosenbaum. Prometheus Books, 1995. | 8 | 6 |
| 18. | A World in Flames: A Short History of the Second World War in Europe and Asia, 1939-1945 , by Martin Kitchen . Longman, 1990. | 15 | 10 |
| 19. | Bleep! Censoring Rock and Rap Music , by Betty Houchin Winfield, Sandra Dauidson. Greenwood Press, 1999. | 0 | 2 |
| 20. | The Day the War Began , by Archie Satterfield. Praeger Publishers, 1992. | 19 | 5 |
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| 21. | Twentieth-Century Teen Culture by the Decades: A Reference Guide , by Lucy Rollin. Greenwood Press, 1999. | 27 | 9 |
| 22. | Torture , by Edward Peters. Basil Blackwell, 1996. | 0 | 1 |
| 23. | The History of Japan , by Louis G. Perez. Greenwood Press, 1998. | 32 | 4 |
| 24. | Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm: Chronology and Fact Book , by Kevin Don Hutchison, John H. Admire. Greenwood Press, 1995. | 33 | 8 |
| 25. | The First World War , by Keith Robbins. Oxford University Press, 1993. | 0 | 11 |
| 26. | A Rose for Emily , by William Faulkner, M. Thomas Inge. Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company, 1970. | 14 | 5 |
| 27. | The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America , by null. United States Government Printing Office, 1979. | 25 | 19 |
| 28. | Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance , by Cary D. Wintz. Rice University Press, 1988. | 23 | 5 |
| 29. | The Civil Rights Movement , by Peter B. Levy. Greenwood Press, 1998. | 0 | 7 |
| 30. | Voluntary Euthanasia and the Common Law , by Margaret Otlowski. Clarendon Press, 1997. | 24 | 12 |
| 31. | Teen-Age Alcoholism , by Jim Haskins. Hawthorn Books, 1976. | 26 | 6 |
| 32. | Strategic Human Resource Management: Corporate Rhetoric and Human Reality , by Lynda Gratton. Oxford University Press, 1999. | 35 | 13 |
| 33. | Schools, Violence, and Society , by Allan M. Hoffman. Praeger, 1996. | 20 | 19 |
| 34. | Theories of Child Abuse and Neglect: Differential Perspectives, Summaries, and Evaluations , by Oliver C. S. Tzeng, Jay W. Jackson, Henry C. Karlson. Praeger, 1991. | 21 | 20 |
| 35. | The History of Jazz , by Ted Gioia. Oxford University Press, 1999. | 0 | 6 |
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| Rankings reflect total page views and unique users on the Questia service for May 1 through May 31, 2004, statistically weighted to factor in book length. |
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