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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,241,087 ratings — published 2011
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as theoretical)
avg rating 4.06 — 77,134 ratings — published 2010
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as theoretical)
avg rating 4.21 — 475,313 ratings — published 1988
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as theoretical)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,856 ratings — published 1952
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as theoretical)
avg rating 4.34 — 31,794 ratings — published 1961
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as theoretical)
avg rating 3.97 — 224,192 ratings — published -400
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 580,482 ratings — published 2011
Meditations on First Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as theoretical)
avg rating 3.73 — 29,285 ratings — published 1641
Cruel Optimism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as theoretical)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,372 ratings — published 2011
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 22,293 ratings — published 1748
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 23,190 ratings — published 1967
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as theoretical)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,349 ratings — published 1989
Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.29 — 2,206 ratings — published 2020
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 39,173 ratings — published 2009
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 21,907 ratings — published 1580
The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as theoretical)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,440 ratings — published 1970
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as theoretical)
avg rating 4.39 — 326,961 ratings — published 2012
Rock My Religion: Writings and Art Projects, 1965-1990 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as theoretical)
avg rating 4.39 — 18 ratings — published 1993
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
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avg rating 4.12 — 45,642 ratings — published -400
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as theoretical)
avg rating 4.34 — 164,843 ratings — published 2019
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as theoretical)
avg rating 4.19 — 285,006 ratings — published 2015
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 23,507 ratings — published 2014
The State and Revolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 18,245 ratings — published 1917
What Is to Be Done? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 4,965 ratings — published 1902
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as theoretical)
avg rating 4.13 — 557,795 ratings — published 2012
The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as theoretical)
avg rating 4.39 — 3,392 ratings — published 2008
What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as theoretical)
avg rating 3.91 — 34,449 ratings — published 2008
The Social Contract (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 57,159 ratings — published 1762
Philosophical Investigations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as theoretical)
avg rating 4.26 — 15,717 ratings — published 1953
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as theoretical)
avg rating 3.68 — 195,061 ratings — published 1848
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 59,272 ratings — published -350
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as theoretical)
avg rating 4.13 — 703,163 ratings — published 2016
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as theoretical)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,108 ratings — published 2008
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as theoretical)
avg rating 4.37 — 861,768 ratings — published 1946
Mythologies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 17,070 ratings — published 1957
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 13,601 ratings — published 1977
Economics: The User's Guide (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 8,476 ratings — published 2014
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as theoretical)
avg rating 4.14 — 194,318 ratings — published 2014
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as theoretical)
avg rating 4.10 — 101,915 ratings — published 1999
Great Books of the Western World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as theoretical)
avg rating 4.51 — 260 ratings — published 1952
Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 41,931 ratings — published 1781
Manifiesto Contra-Sexual
by (shelved 2 times as theoretical)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,558 ratings — published 2000
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as theoretical)
avg rating 3.98 — 27,430 ratings — published 1940
The Problems of Philosophy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 18,485 ratings — published 1912
Self-Study Teacher Research: Improving Your Practice Through Collaborative Inquiry (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as theoretical)
avg rating 3.83 — 18 ratings — published 2010
Mere Christianity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as theoretical)
avg rating 4.37 — 453,861 ratings — published 1952
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 44,572 ratings — published 2006
Zen in the Art of Archery (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as theoretical)
avg rating 3.98 — 16,213 ratings — published 1948
The Way of Zen (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 23,237 ratings — published
The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as theoretical)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,352 ratings — published 1992
“If I keep observing the uranium, which means a little more than keeping my eyes on the pot on my desk and involves something akin to surrounding it with a whole system of Geiger counters, I can freeze it in such a way that it stops emitting radiation.
Although Turing first suggested the idea as a theoretical construct, it turns out that it is not just mathematical fiction. Experiments in the last decade have demonstrated the real possibility of using observation to inhibit the progress of a quantum system.”
― The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science
Although Turing first suggested the idea as a theoretical construct, it turns out that it is not just mathematical fiction. Experiments in the last decade have demonstrated the real possibility of using observation to inhibit the progress of a quantum system.”
― The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science
“It is only after we have integrated the dark side of the moon into our world view that we can begin to talk seriously of universal culture.”
― The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
― The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
