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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,217,969 ratings — published 2011
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.01 — 889,050 ratings — published 2005
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.04 — 448,289 ratings — published 1997
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.19 — 851,283 ratings — published 2008
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.17 — 571,077 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 — 847,081 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 4.08 — 468,296 ratings — published 2012
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.96 — 616,792 ratings — published 2005
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,637 ratings — published 2010
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.93 — 74,100 ratings — published 2004
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 64 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.19 — 281,455 ratings — published 2015
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.68 — 191,432 ratings — published 1848
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.34 — 160,067 ratings — published 2019
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.47 — 111,065 ratings — published 2016
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.53 — 157,526 ratings — published 2020
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.84 — 93,347 ratings — published 2008
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 55 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.65 — 194,786 ratings — published 2001
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 53 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.16 — 170,755 ratings — published 2018
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.36 — 198,544 ratings — published 2018
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,005 ratings — published 1983
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.84 — 493,193 ratings — published 2016
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 — 331,469 ratings — published 2019
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.09 — 60,224 ratings — published 2012
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.81 — 111,438 ratings — published 2021
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,069 ratings — published 1975
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.13 — 28,817 ratings — published 1978
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.91 — 14,823 ratings — published 1904
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 45 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.39 — 323,281 ratings — published 2012
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,314 ratings — published 2018
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.37 — 843,792 ratings — published 1946
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.03 — 32,626 ratings — published 2018
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.20 — 64,090 ratings — published 2012
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.40 — 359,406 ratings — published 2015
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.16 — 36,678 ratings — published 1985
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.97 — 190,047 ratings — published 2013
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.36 — 118,634 ratings — published 2019
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.12 — 129,912 ratings — published 2008
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 — 552,669 ratings — published 2012
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.95 — 156,111 ratings — published 2011
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.84 — 374,699 ratings — published 1513
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.96 — 119,986 ratings — published 2007
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.00 — 133,849 ratings — published 2009
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 35 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.23 — 54,113 ratings — published 2018
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.27 — 57,956 ratings — published 2023
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,349 ratings — published 2010
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,441 ratings — published 1959
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.85 — 104,276 ratings — published 2009
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.30 — 38,193 ratings — published 1968
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.19 — 24,848 ratings — published 2021
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.22 — 172,497 ratings — published 1984
“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
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
“The belief that technology will solve every single problem of society, is what I call digital fundamentalism, which is as dangerous as religious fundamentalism.”
― Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
― Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
