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How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-development)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,152,000 ratings — published 1936
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-development)
avg rating 4.27 — 24,456 ratings — published 2011
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-development)
avg rating 4.36 — 202,122 ratings — published 2018
The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-development)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,136 ratings — published 2009
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-development)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,180 ratings — published 2013
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-development)
avg rating 4.09 — 226,844 ratings — published 1999
Gambling on Development (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-development)
avg rating 4.01 — 268 ratings — published
The Leader in You: How to Win Friends, Influence People and Succeed in a Changing World (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-development)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,361 ratings — published 1993
Development as Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-development)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,119 ratings — published 1999
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-development)
avg rating 4.17 — 590,308 ratings — published 2011
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-development)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,386 ratings — published 2004
Rippling: How Social Entrepreneurs Spread Innovation Throughout the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-development)
avg rating 4.11 — 70 ratings — published 2012
The Social Entrepreneur's Playbook, Expanded Edition: Pressure Test, Plan, Launch and Scale Your Social Enterprise (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as social-development)
avg rating 3.67 — 134 ratings — published 2013
The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-development)
avg rating 3.74 — 472 ratings — published 2008
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-development)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,216 ratings — published 1997
Lean Startups for Social Change: The Revolutionary Path to Big Impact (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-development)
avg rating 3.68 — 74 ratings — published 2015
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-development)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,245 ratings — published 2005
Social Development: The Developmental Perspective in Social Welfare (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.29 — 14 ratings — published 1995
Group Interaction and Child Development: Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Resources (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Validation: The New Psychology of Influence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.15 — 770 ratings — published 2025
Leave No One Behind: Time for Specifics on the Sustainable Development Goals (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Towards a Society of Degrowth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published
Green Giants: How Smart Companies Turn Sustainability into Billion-Dollar Businesses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 3.90 — 198 ratings — published 2015
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 3.93 — 40,809 ratings — published 2025
Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,745 ratings — published 2022
How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.15 — 689 ratings — published 2022
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,795 ratings — published 2019
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 3.82 — 10,083 ratings — published 2017
Congo: een geschiedenis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,450 ratings — published 2010
Globalization and its Discontents (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,194 ratings — published 2002
دولة الرعاية الاجتماعية في القرن العشرين: تجارب الأمم المتقدمة في تكريم الإنسان (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 2.50 — 2 ratings — published
اقتصاد يغدق فقراً (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 3.56 — 39 ratings — published
The State of Social Welfare: The Twentieth Century in Cross-National Review (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 2.67 — 3 ratings — published 2002
Shift: Managing Your Emotions—So They Don't Manage You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,770 ratings — published
Inspire: The Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others – The Science-Based Guide to Visionaries, Exemplars, and Mentors Who Transform Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.13 — 127 ratings — published
La ciudad de la indolencia (Spanish Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 5.00 — 9 ratings — published
Let's Start the Revolution: Tools for Displacing the Corporate State and Building a Country that Works for the People (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 3.64 — 11 ratings — published
Art as Therapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,619 ratings — published 2013
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,256 ratings — published 2019
The Politics and Government of New Zealand: Robust, Innovative and Challenged (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2004
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,104 ratings — published 2022
Jumping Sundays: The Rise and Fall of the Counterculture in Aotearoa New Zealand (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.25 — 40 ratings — published 2022
Tutira Mai: Making Change in Aotearoa New Zealand (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 1.50 — 2 ratings — published
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,305,460 ratings — published 2018
The Conquest of Bread (Working Classics)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,868 ratings — published 1892
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,668 ratings — published 1981
Secret History: State Surveillance in New Zealand, 1900–1956 (1) (History of Security Intelligence in Twentieth-century New Zealand, 1)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published
Community Development - Insights for Practice in Aotearoa New Zealand (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Humankind: A Hopeful History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.32 — 80,325 ratings — published 2019
The Infinite Game: How to Live Well Together (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.09 — 22 ratings — published
“Perhaps the most significant intellectual trend of the eighteenth century was that towards what we now label 'Romanticism'. Within this often rather monstrous historical figment of retrospective definition, one of the commonest of theoretical concerns was to speculate on the nature of society, and on the nature of social development. Theories of Man's primitive nature blossomed, and the Romantics looked both to nature and to this primal human essence for their poetic and intellectual inspiration. At the same time as British intellectuals were becoming more and more interested in the nature of primitive man and primitive society, they had within their own national boundaries a fitting subject for their attention. The Scottish Gael fulfilled this role of the 'primitive', albeit one quickly and savagely tamed, at a time when every thinking man was turning towards such subjects. The Highlands of Scotland provided a location for this role that was distant enough to be exotic (in customs and language) but close enough to be noticed; that was near enough to visit, but had not been drawn so far into the calm waters of civilisation as to lose all its interest.”
― The Gaelic Vision in Scottish Culture
― The Gaelic Vision in Scottish Culture
“We cannot aim for the stars, with our mind smashing rocks together.”
― Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion
― Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion
