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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,266,996 ratings — published 2011
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 77,496 ratings — published 2010
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 480,496 ratings — published 1988
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 19,252 ratings — published 1952
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 32,590 ratings — published 1961
The Republic (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 226,585 ratings — published -400
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 591,014 ratings — published 2011
Meditations on First Philosophy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 29,638 ratings — published 1641
Cruel Optimism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,404 ratings — published 2011
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 22,457 ratings — published 1748
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 23,515 ratings — published 1967
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 19,622 ratings — published 1989
Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.29 — 2,295 ratings — published 2020
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 40,396 ratings — published 2009
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 22,155 ratings — published 1580
The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,453 ratings — published 1970
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 331,487 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 4.12 — 46,130 ratings — published -400
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 169,547 ratings — published 2019
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 288,220 ratings — published 2015
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 23,640 ratings — published 2014
The State and Revolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 18,744 ratings — published 1917
What Is to Be Done? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 5,389 ratings — published 1902
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 563,787 ratings — published 2012
The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 3,418 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 — 34,836 ratings — published 2008
The Social Contract (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 58,052 ratings — published 1762
Philosophical Investigations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 15,810 ratings — published 1953
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 199,057 ratings — published 1848
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 60,552 ratings — published -350
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 728,174 ratings — published 2016
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 8,191 ratings — published 2008
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 137,340 ratings — published 1999
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 882,515 ratings — published 1946
Mythologies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 17,222 ratings — published 1957
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 13,862 ratings — published 1977
Economics: The User's Guide (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 8,588 ratings — published 2014
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 196,243 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 — 102,407 ratings — published 1999
Great Books of the Western World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.51 — 261 ratings — published 1952
Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 42,599 ratings — published 1781
Manifiesto Contra-Sexual
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avg rating 4.16 — 1,599 ratings — published 2000
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 27,950 ratings — published 1940
The Problems of Philosophy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 18,679 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 — 458,996 ratings — published 1952
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 45,085 ratings — published 2006
Zen in the Art of Archery (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 16,382 ratings — published 1948
The Way of Zen (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 23,448 ratings — published
“Whichever it is, he does not question it, not understanding that his own behavior has been or could be a determining influence.”
― The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
― The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.”
― The Second Sex
― The Second Sex










