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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,331,456 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.04 — 473,511 ratings — published 1997
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.84 — 401,381 ratings — published 1513
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.97 — 233,369 ratings — published -400
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 37 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.18 — 296,238 ratings — published 2015
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.37 — 940,715 ratings — published 1946
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,288,474 ratings — published -800
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.16 — 617,822 ratings — published 2011
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.70 — 210,167 ratings — published 1848
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.15 — 182,600 ratings — published 2018
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.94 — 598,679 ratings — published
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,091,944 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 27 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.18 — 125,357 ratings — published 2015
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,348 ratings — published 1949
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.08 — 67,390 ratings — published 2012
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,494 ratings — published 1978
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.26 — 54,724 ratings — published 1988
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.27 — 383,325 ratings — published 180
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.21 — 436,298 ratings — published 2003
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 120,725 ratings — published 1886
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.76 — 124,519 ratings — published -1800
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.01 — 911,914 ratings — published 2005
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.90 — 288,442 ratings — published 2006
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.94 — 538,062 ratings — published -750
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.88 — 149,101 ratings — published -19
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.01 — 63,440 ratings — published -350
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.15 — 30,016 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 — 207,061 ratings — published 2018
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.39 — 342,091 ratings — published 2012
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 49,317 ratings — published 1949
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 213,394 ratings — published 1321
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,970 ratings — published 2021
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.21 — 44,444 ratings — published 2009
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.29 — 188,319 ratings — published -350
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.07 — 184,321 ratings — published 1883
On Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.96 — 44,967 ratings — published 1859
A History of Western Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.13 — 42,362 ratings — published 1945
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,702 ratings — published 1957
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,494 ratings — published 1975
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,765 ratings — published 2004
Chasing Lincoln's Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.84 — 12,962 ratings — published 2009
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.01 — 78,664 ratings — published 400
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.09 — 95,742 ratings — published -380
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 33,065 ratings — published 2018
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.28 — 113,484 ratings — published 2017
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,130,286 ratings — published 1960
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,980 ratings — published -335
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 69,368 ratings — published 2012
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,583 ratings — published 2009
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 891,422 ratings — published 2008
“History is not a compilation of facts, but an insight into a moving process of life.”
― Space Time & Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition, 3rd Edition
― Space Time & Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition, 3rd Edition
“Depth of understanding involves something which is more than merely a matter of deconstructive alertness; it involves a measure of interpretative charity and at least the beginnings of a wide responsiveness.”
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