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Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 308 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 856,800 ratings — published 2008
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 290 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 892,129 ratings — published 2005
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 276 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 850,051 ratings — published 2000
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 451,944 ratings — published 1997
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 618,825 ratings — published 2005
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 214 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,234,546 ratings — published 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 212 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 577,815 ratings — published 2011
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 180 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 471,004 ratings — published 2012
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 64,897 ratings — published 2012
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 130,402 ratings — published 2008
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.00 — 333,661 ratings — published 2019
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.47 — 112,201 ratings — published 2016
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,339 ratings — published 2004
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 124 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 284,017 ratings — published 2015
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.52 — 116,355 ratings — published 2010
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 190,742 ratings — published 2013
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 163,578 ratings — published 2019
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 199,888 ratings — published 2018
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.84 — 93,923 ratings — published 2008
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.53 — 159,080 ratings — published 2020
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 101 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,044 ratings — published 2001
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,427 ratings — published 2010
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.00 — 134,040 ratings — published 2009
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 95 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 171,325 ratings — published 2018
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 556,367 ratings — published 2012
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 104,534 ratings — published 2009
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 59,428 ratings — published 2023
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 175,642 ratings — published 2018
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 61,289 ratings — published 2012
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 120,736 ratings — published 2007
Modern Romance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.80 — 189,680 ratings — published 2015
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.91 — 42,348 ratings — published 2017
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.68 — 193,989 ratings — published 1848
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,933 ratings — published 2000
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.84 — 497,903 ratings — published 2016
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 32,087 ratings — published 2018
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 37,373 ratings — published 1985
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.91 — 14,945 ratings — published 1904
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 174,414 ratings — published 1984
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 118,934 ratings — published 2019
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 52,193 ratings — published 2012
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.81 — 114,242 ratings — published 2021
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.32 — 160,302 ratings — published 2024
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.02 — 33,330 ratings — published 2018
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.23 — 55,011 ratings — published 2018
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 78,133 ratings — published 2019
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 362,141 ratings — published 2015
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 856,508 ratings — published 1946
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.44 — 45,213 ratings — published 2017
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,420 ratings — published 2001
“I am an anthropologist who lost faith in her own method, who stopped believing that observable activity defined anthropos.”
― A Book of Common Prayer
― A Book of Common Prayer
“Could it be that the atomic isolation of the husband and wife nucleus with an orbiting child or two is in fact a culturally imposed aberration for our species? As ill-suited to our evolved tendencies as corsets, chastity belts, and suits of armor? ...a distorted and distorting family structure inappropriate for our species?”
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