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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,281,138 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.04 — 461,915 ratings — published 1997
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.84 — 387,132 ratings — published 1532
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 38 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.18 — 290,146 ratings — published 2015
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.37 — 895,542 ratings — published 1946
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.17 — 596,579 ratings — published 2011
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.97 — 228,140 ratings — published -400
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.69 — 201,569 ratings — published 1848
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,208,238 ratings — published -800
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.15 — 179,119 ratings — published 2018
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.94 — 579,188 ratings — published
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,064,048 ratings — published 1601
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 119,337 ratings — published 2015
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,161 ratings — published 1978
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,442 ratings — published 1949
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.09 — 64,252 ratings — published 2012
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.88 — 144,926 ratings — published -19
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.76 — 120,501 ratings — published -2000
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.90 — 284,675 ratings — published 2006
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.26 — 54,052 ratings — published 1988
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 115,911 ratings — published 1886
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.93 — 515,715 ratings — published -800
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.01 — 901,577 ratings — published 2005
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.28 — 358,578 ratings — published 180
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.22 — 426,377 ratings — published 2003
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,753 ratings — published 2010
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.35 — 203,350 ratings — published 2018
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.00 — 61,356 ratings — published -350
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.39 — 334,049 ratings — published 2012
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,896 ratings — published 1949
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 208,317 ratings — published 1321
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.21 — 41,249 ratings — published 2009
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.29 — 184,188 ratings — published -350
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.07 — 178,825 ratings — published 1883
A History of Western Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.13 — 41,750 ratings — published 1945
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.24 — 37,401 ratings — published 1975
Chasing Lincoln's Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.84 — 12,586 ratings — published 2009
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,318 ratings — published 1957
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,552,771 ratings — published 1948
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.09 — 91,689 ratings — published -380
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,021 ratings — published 2004
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 27,013 ratings — published 2021
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.29 — 111,661 ratings — published 2017
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,955,204 ratings — published 1960
On Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.96 — 43,660 ratings — published 1859
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 873,980 ratings — published 2008
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,754 ratings — published 1967
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.78 — 246,895 ratings — published 1974
Pride and Prejudice (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,074 ratings — published
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 32,627 ratings — published 2018
“The fate of the humanities faculty in the burgeoning world of for-profit higher education is easy to predict, but painful to contemplate. Universities that, by virtue of their very mission, validate economic efficiency and productivity above all else also sanction apathy toward the humanities. (p. 97)”
― The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities
― The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities
“It is your sacrifice that usually highlights the boundary to differentiate between desire and desperation.”
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