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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,288,223 ratings — published 2011
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 77,899 ratings — published 2010
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 484,858 ratings — published 1988
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 19,792 ratings — published 1952
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 33,421 ratings — published 1961
The Republic (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 228,857 ratings — published -400
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 599,604 ratings — published 2011
Meditations on First Philosophy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 30,031 ratings — published 1641
Cruel Optimism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,433 ratings — published 2011
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 22,634 ratings — published 1748
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 23,865 ratings — published 1967
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 19,958 ratings — published 1989
Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.28 — 2,401 ratings — published 2020
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 41,765 ratings — published 2009
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 22,340 ratings — published 1580
The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,472 ratings — published 1970
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 335,340 ratings — published 2012
Rock My Religion: Writings and Art Projects, 1965-1990 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 18 ratings — published 1993
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
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avg rating 4.13 — 46,626 ratings — published -400
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 174,384 ratings — published 2019
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 291,087 ratings — published 2015
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 23,784 ratings — published 2014
The State and Revolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 19,314 ratings — published 1917
What Is to Be Done? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 5,654 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 — 568,536 ratings — published 2012
The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 3,432 ratings — published 2008
What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 35,169 ratings — published 2008
The Beauty Myth (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 31,414 ratings — published 1990
The Social Contract (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 58,794 ratings — published 1762
Philosophical Investigations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 15,916 ratings — published 1953
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 202,886 ratings — published 1848
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 61,722 ratings — published -350
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as theoretical)
avg rating 4.13 — 757,012 ratings — published 2016
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 8,296 ratings — published 2008
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 143,277 ratings — published 1999
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 902,150 ratings — published 1946
Mythologies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 17,358 ratings — published 1957
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 14,151 ratings — published 1977
Economics: The User's Guide (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 8,668 ratings — published 2014
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 197,895 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 — 102,964 ratings — published 1999
Great Books of the Western World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.51 — 263 ratings — published 1952
Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 43,131 ratings — published 1781
Manifiesto Contra-Sexual
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,619 ratings — published 2000
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 28,354 ratings — published 1940
The Problems of Philosophy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 18,859 ratings — published 1912
Self-Study Teacher Research: Improving Your Practice Through Collaborative Inquiry (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 18 ratings — published 2010
Mere Christianity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 464,000 ratings — published 1952
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 45,601 ratings — published 2006
Zen in the Art of Archery (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as theoretical)
avg rating 3.98 — 16,669 ratings — published 1948
“The only way to make a picture into a theory is to take it overliterally, to treat it as if it were a theory and see how it needs to be refined.”
― Philosophy of Language (text only) 2nd(Second) edition by W. G. Lycan
― Philosophy of Language (text only) 2nd(Second) edition by W. G. Lycan
“...childbirth is at best necessary and tolerable. It is not fun.
(Like shitting a pumpkin, a friend of mine told me when I inquired about the Great-Experience-You-Are-Missing.)”
― The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
(Like shitting a pumpkin, a friend of mine told me when I inquired about the Great-Experience-You-Are-Missing.)”
― The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
