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Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 310 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 851,058 ratings — published 2008
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 290 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 888,921 ratings — published 2005
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 275 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 846,960 ratings — published 2000
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 238 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 448,131 ratings — published 1997
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 616,713 ratings — published 2005
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 214 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,217,246 ratings — published 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 212 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 570,742 ratings — published 2011
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 180 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 468,183 ratings — published 2012
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 64,045 ratings — published 2012
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 129,886 ratings — published 2008
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.00 — 331,367 ratings — published 2019
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.47 — 111,037 ratings — published 2016
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 74,090 ratings — published 2004
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 125 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 281,334 ratings — published 2015
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,617 ratings — published 2010
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 190,028 ratings — published 2013
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 198,487 ratings — published 2018
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 159,925 ratings — published 2019
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.84 — 93,327 ratings — published 2008
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.53 — 157,458 ratings — published 2020
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 102 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.65 — 194,772 ratings — published 2001
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,347 ratings — published 2010
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.00 — 133,842 ratings — published 2009
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 95 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 170,741 ratings — published 2018
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 552,485 ratings — published 2012
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 104,265 ratings — published 2009
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,255 ratings — published 2018
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 57,901 ratings — published 2023
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 119,953 ratings — published 2007
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 60,185 ratings — published 2012
Modern Romance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.80 — 189,520 ratings — published 2015
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.91 — 42,176 ratings — published 2017
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.84 — 493,004 ratings — published 2016
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.68 — 191,337 ratings — published 1848
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,773 ratings — published 2000
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 31,898 ratings — published 2018
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 36,657 ratings — published 1985
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.91 — 14,817 ratings — published 1904
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 172,419 ratings — published 1984
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 118,619 ratings — published 2019
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.02 — 32,596 ratings — published 2018
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 52,038 ratings — published 2012
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 70 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.23 — 54,079 ratings — published 2018
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 146,766 ratings — published 2024
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.81 — 111,325 ratings — published 2021
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 77,171 ratings — published 2019
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 359,320 ratings — published 2015
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 843,262 ratings — published 1946
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.44 — 44,624 ratings — published 2017
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,339 ratings — published 2001
“Wishing the world was predictable an controllable does not make it so, and it might make us disregard what is actually happening”
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“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.”
― The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
― The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
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