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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,331,280 ratings — published 2011
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.01 — 911,878 ratings — published 2005
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.04 — 473,468 ratings — published 1997
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.19 — 891,358 ratings — published 2008
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.16 — 617,730 ratings — published 2011
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.01 — 868,320 ratings — published 2000
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.07 — 485,980 ratings — published 2012
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.96 — 631,328 ratings — published 2005
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,561 ratings — published 2010
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 66 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.18 — 296,213 ratings — published 2015
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.33 — 182,728 ratings — published 2019
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.52 — 168,315 ratings — published 2020
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.70 — 210,138 ratings — published 1848
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,755 ratings — published 2004
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,557 ratings — published 2016
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 57 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,894 ratings — published 2001
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.84 — 96,964 ratings — published 2008
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.35 — 207,046 ratings — published 2018
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.83 — 515,430 ratings — published 2016
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.11 — 17,049 ratings — published 1983
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.08 — 67,378 ratings — published 2012
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 51 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,503 ratings — published 2018
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,489 ratings — published 1975
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.79 — 127,565 ratings — published 2021
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.00 — 344,788 ratings — published 2019
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,686 ratings — published 1904
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,489 ratings — published 1978
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,122 ratings — published 2018
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.39 — 342,063 ratings — published 2012
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.37 — 940,538 ratings — published 1946
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.15 — 182,587 ratings — published 2018
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.19 — 69,355 ratings — published 2012
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.27 — 67,365 ratings — published 2023
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.11 — 133,273 ratings — published 2008
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.17 — 41,696 ratings — published 1985
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.40 — 376,617 ratings — published 2015
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.97 — 194,587 ratings — published 2013
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.30 — 222,122 ratings — published 2024
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,958 ratings — published 2021
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 38 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.22 — 59,419 ratings — published 2018
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,056 ratings — published 2019
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,457 ratings — published 2011
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.13 — 577,611 ratings — published 2012
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.95 — 160,162 ratings — published 2011
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,916 ratings — published 1959
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.84 — 401,339 ratings — published 1513
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.06 — 35,430 ratings — published 2013
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.15 — 30,017 ratings — published 2010
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.96 — 125,097 ratings — published 2007
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.21 — 184,684 ratings — published 1984
“The intolerance of uncertainty and ignorance flows not only from
pridefulness, but from a universal human desire to find meanings and patterns
everywhere. The mind abhors a vacuum.”
― Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences
pridefulness, but from a universal human desire to find meanings and patterns
everywhere. The mind abhors a vacuum.”
― Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences
“Algorithm without humanity is mental holocaust.”
― Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
― Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
