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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,249,693 ratings — published 2011
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.01 — 895,106 ratings — published 2005
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.04 — 455,213 ratings — published 1997
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.19 — 862,175 ratings — published 2008
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.17 — 583,984 ratings — published 2011
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.01 — 852,886 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 4.08 — 473,348 ratings — published 2012
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.96 — 620,774 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 — 116,915 ratings — published 2010
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 66 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.18 — 286,238 ratings — published 2015
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,556 ratings — published 2004
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.68 — 196,472 ratings — published 1848
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.52 — 160,420 ratings — published 2020
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.34 — 166,482 ratings — published 2019
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.47 — 113,270 ratings — published 2016
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.84 — 94,425 ratings — published 2008
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 56 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,352 ratings — published 2001
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,291 ratings — published 1983
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.84 — 501,676 ratings — published 2016
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.00 — 335,496 ratings — published 2019
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 4.36 — 201,012 ratings — published 2018
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 52 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.16 — 171,776 ratings — published 2018
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.09 — 62,367 ratings — published 2012
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,782 ratings — published 1975
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.81 — 116,315 ratings — published 2021
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,063 ratings — published 1904
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,498 ratings — published 1978
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.02 — 33,930 ratings — published 2018
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.37 — 868,440 ratings — published 1946
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 45 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.39 — 328,740 ratings — published 2012
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.15 — 176,809 ratings — published 2018
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.17 — 38,001 ratings — published 1985
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.19 — 65,594 ratings — published 2012
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.12 — 130,859 ratings — published 2008
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.40 — 364,941 ratings — published 2015
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.23 — 55,776 ratings — published 2018
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.97 — 191,307 ratings — published 2013
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,207 ratings — published 2019
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.84 — 381,217 ratings — published 1532
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 — 559,740 ratings — published 2012
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.95 — 157,182 ratings — published 2011
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.32 — 170,802 ratings — published 2024
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.27 — 60,780 ratings — published 2023
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.96 — 121,430 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 — 134,226 ratings — published 2009
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.21 — 175,998 ratings — published 1984
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,003 ratings — published 1968
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.06 — 34,454 ratings — published 2013
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,535 ratings — published 2010
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,586 ratings — published 1959
“The sun will never set on the empire of human beings, so long as they are humans and not colonial creeplings.”
― Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
― Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“The conclusion is inescapable: The U.S. social scientists active in psychological warfare were not ignorant of their role, or of the violence that usually accompanied psychological operations. They were, rather, "insulated," just as Biderman and Crawford say, from consideration of the implications of their work.”
― Science of Coercion: Communication Research and Psychological Warfare, 1945-1960
― Science of Coercion: Communication Research and Psychological Warfare, 1945-1960
