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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,291,532 ratings — published 2011
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.01 — 903,856 ratings — published 2005
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.04 — 464,393 ratings — published 1997
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.19 — 877,646 ratings — published 2008
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.17 — 601,001 ratings — published 2011
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.01 — 861,119 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 — 479,967 ratings — published 2012
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.96 — 626,314 ratings — published 2005
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,890 ratings — published 2010
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 67 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.18 — 291,589 ratings — published 2015
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,206 ratings — published 2004
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.52 — 164,774 ratings — published 2020
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.33 — 175,103 ratings — published 2019
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.69 — 203,403 ratings — published 1848
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,034 ratings — published 2016
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 57 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,185 ratings — published 2001
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.84 — 95,743 ratings — published 2008
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,658 ratings — published 1983
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.83 — 509,531 ratings — published 2016
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.09 — 64,944 ratings — published 2012
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.35 — 204,141 ratings — published 2018
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,461 ratings — published 1978
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.24 — 37,621 ratings — published 1975
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.00 — 340,452 ratings — published 2019
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 — 173,270 ratings — published 2018
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.80 — 122,349 ratings — published 2021
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,381 ratings — published 1904
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.02 — 35,568 ratings — published 2018
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 46 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.39 — 335,908 ratings — published 2012
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.37 — 905,263 ratings — published 1946
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.15 — 179,888 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 — 67,488 ratings — published 2012
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.17 — 39,927 ratings — published 1985
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.12 — 132,111 ratings — published 2008
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.40 — 371,441 ratings — published 2015
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.27 — 64,602 ratings — published 2023
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.97 — 193,123 ratings — published 2013
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,216 ratings — published 2019
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 — 57,813 ratings — published 2018
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.84 — 389,658 ratings — published 1532
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.31 — 200,304 ratings — published 2024
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.19 — 27,415 ratings — published 2021
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 — 569,317 ratings — published 2012
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.95 — 158,624 ratings — published 2011
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,978 ratings — published 1968
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.06 — 34,991 ratings — published 2013
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.21 — 27,602 ratings — published 2011
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,814 ratings — published 2010
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.96 — 123,250 ratings — published 2007
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.00 — 134,756 ratings — published 2009
“If I disturb your universe, I may be worthy of contempt. I may appear to be your favorite political enemy, a conservative if you are radical, a radical if you are conservative.”
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“He [Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, 1795], coined the term Caucasian on the basis of a favorite skull of his that had come into his possession from the Caucasus Mountains of Russia. To him, the skull was the most beautiful of all that he owned. So he gave the group to which he belonged, the Europeans, the same name as the region that had produced it. That is how people now identified as white got the scientific-sounding yet random name Caucasian.”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
