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Challenging Conventional Wisdom Books
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You Are Not So Smart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 3.86 — 36,086 ratings — published 2011
The Manson File: Myth and Reality of an Outlaw Shaman (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 4.17 — 362 ratings — published 1988
Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 4.24 — 586 ratings — published 2009
The Young Hitler I Knew (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 4.19 — 528 ratings — published 1973
The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,928 ratings — published 2013
Everything You've Been Taught is Wrong (Portable Professor)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 3.86 — 59 ratings — published 2005
Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation And Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 4.17 — 65 ratings — published 2005
War Is a Racket (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 4.27 — 8,523 ratings — published 1935
On the Trail of the Assassins (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,184 ratings — published 1988
A Mind for Murder: The Education of the Unabomber and the Origins of Modern Terrorism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 3.60 — 93 ratings — published 2004
Double Cross: The Explosive, Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,978 ratings — published 1992
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 4.07 — 119,286 ratings — published 2008
The Complete Tightwad Gazette: Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,914 ratings — published 1998
Success, Your Way: Do What You're Meant to Do (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 4.44 — 25 ratings — published 2014
The Undercover Economist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 3.81 — 29,415 ratings — published 2005
The De-Textbook: The Stuff You Didn't Know About the Stuff You Thought You Knew (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,353 ratings — published 2013
The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,762 ratings — published 1999
Culture of Fear Revisited (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 3.60 — 158 ratings — published 1997
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,998 ratings — published 2010
Lying (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,334 ratings — published 2011
Happiness by Design: Change What You Do, Not How You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 3.59 — 2,831 ratings — published 2014
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 3.93 — 16,855 ratings — published 2012
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 4.03 — 35,867 ratings — published 2010
Everything is Obvious: Once You Know the Answer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,857 ratings — published 2011
Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 3.95 — 20,750 ratings — published 2011
Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,307 ratings — published 1989
Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 3.45 — 1,150 ratings — published 2010
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 3.72 — 8,175 ratings — published 2008
CONFESSIONS OF A CRIMINOLOGIST (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2010
Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 3.23 — 18,257 ratings — published 2013
Our Patchwork Nation: The Surprising Truth About the "Real" America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 3.52 — 468 ratings — published 2010
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 4.19 — 14,701 ratings — published 2011
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,542 ratings — published 1989
The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 3.78 — 37,778 ratings — published 2007
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 4.52 — 116,755 ratings — published 2010
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 4.30 — 170,215 ratings — published 2010
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 4.01 — 851,846 ratings — published 2000
A Game as Old as Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 3.82 — 397 ratings — published 2007
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 4.01 — 894,095 ratings — published 2005
Perfect Drinking and Its Enemies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published 2014
Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 4.03 — 22,555 ratings — published 2010
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 4.08 — 472,553 ratings — published 2012
The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 3.74 — 14,361 ratings — published 2012
Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 3.84 — 5,806 ratings — published 2008
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 3.95 — 125,064 ratings — published 2009
Choice (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 3.65 — 774 ratings — published 2010
The Spoils of Freedom: Psychoanalysis and Feminism After the Fall of Socialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 4.00 — 15 ratings — published 1994
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 3.74 — 10,418 ratings — published 2009
Mastering the Art of Quitting: Why It Matters in Life, Love, and Work (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 3.50 — 292 ratings — published 2013
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as challenging-conventional-wisdom)
avg rating 4.10 — 57,238 ratings — published 2012
