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Unauthorized Aliens Residing in the United States: Estimates Since 1986

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The Global Religious Landscape: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World’s Major Religious Groups as of 2010

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What Could Disappear

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'Bookless libraries' – has it really come to this?

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The New Science Behind America's Deadliest Diseases

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Why Mormons Make Good Neighbors

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The Crushing Cost of Care

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