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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,303,439 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 — 906,474 ratings — published 2005
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.04 — 467,219 ratings — published 1997
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.19 — 882,001 ratings — published 2008
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.17 — 606,177 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 — 863,399 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 — 481,899 ratings — published 2012
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.96 — 627,946 ratings — published 2005
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,439 ratings — published 2010
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 67 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.18 — 293,034 ratings — published 2015
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.52 — 165,927 ratings — published 2020
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.33 — 177,559 ratings — published 2019
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,373 ratings — published 2004
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.69 — 205,477 ratings — published 1848
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,894 ratings — published 2016
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 57 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,418 ratings — published 2001
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.84 — 96,160 ratings — published 2008
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.35 — 205,033 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 — 511,260 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 — 16,805 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 — 65,669 ratings — published 2012
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 — 341,890 ratings — published 2019
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,819 ratings — published 1978
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.23 — 37,873 ratings — published 1975
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.79 — 124,196 ratings — published 2021
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 50 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.16 — 173,700 ratings — published 2018
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,477 ratings — published 1904
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.02 — 36,121 ratings — published 2018
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 46 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.39 — 337,837 ratings — published 2012
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.37 — 916,334 ratings — published 1946
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.15 — 180,703 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 — 68,120 ratings — published 2012
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.27 — 65,598 ratings — published 2023
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.12 — 132,504 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 — 40,538 ratings — published 1985
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.40 — 373,212 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 — 193,647 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 — 208,058 ratings — published 2024
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.19 — 27,927 ratings — published 2021
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,517 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 — 58,431 ratings — published 2018
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.21 — 27,882 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 — 572,032 ratings — published 2012
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.95 — 159,087 ratings — published 2011
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.84 — 394,682 ratings — published 1513
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.30 — 40,354 ratings — published 1968
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.06 — 35,139 ratings — published 2013
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,882 ratings — published 2010
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,801 ratings — published 1959
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.96 — 123,850 ratings — published 2007
“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
― Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences
“Against Nothing (The Sonnet)
I am not against consumerism,
I am not against corporations.
I am not against politics and policy,
I am not against politicians.
I am not against fame and fortune,
I am not against celebrity.
I am not against entrepreneurship,
I am not against technology.
I am not against bureaucrats,
I am not against red tape.
I am not against bibles and comics,
I am not against prayers and faith.
I ain't against anything that serves human welfare.
The moment they go astray, I'll be their nightmare.”
― Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
I am not against consumerism,
I am not against corporations.
I am not against politics and policy,
I am not against politicians.
I am not against fame and fortune,
I am not against celebrity.
I am not against entrepreneurship,
I am not against technology.
I am not against bureaucrats,
I am not against red tape.
I am not against bibles and comics,
I am not against prayers and faith.
I ain't against anything that serves human welfare.
The moment they go astray, I'll be their nightmare.”
― Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
