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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,268,399 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.04 — 459,133 ratings — published 1997
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.84 — 384,289 ratings — published 1532
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 39 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.18 — 288,404 ratings — published 2015
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.37 — 883,870 ratings — published 1946
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.17 — 591,557 ratings — published 2011
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.68 — 199,310 ratings — published 1848
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.97 — 226,751 ratings — published -400
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,197,806 ratings — published -800
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.15 — 178,108 ratings — published 2018
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.94 — 574,162 ratings — published -500
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,055,292 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 — 117,740 ratings — published 2015
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,804 ratings — published 1978
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.13 — 45,177 ratings — published 1949
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.09 — 63,399 ratings — published 2012
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.90 — 283,843 ratings — published 2006
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.26 — 53,867 ratings — published 1988
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.93 — 511,691 ratings — published -800
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.87 — 143,916 ratings — published -19
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.75 — 119,537 ratings — published -2000
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.01 — 899,113 ratings — published 2005
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.28 — 352,150 ratings — published 180
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.22 — 423,910 ratings — published 2003
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 114,732 ratings — published 1886
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,649 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 4.36 — 202,358 ratings — published 2018
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.00 — 60,640 ratings — published -350
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.39 — 331,706 ratings — published 2012
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,519 ratings — published 1949
A History of Western Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.13 — 41,605 ratings — published 1945
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 206,898 ratings — published 1321
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.21 — 40,478 ratings — published 2009
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.29 — 183,051 ratings — published -350
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.24 — 37,095 ratings — published 1975
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.07 — 177,266 ratings — published 1883
Chasing Lincoln's Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.84 — 12,464 ratings — published 2009
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,227 ratings — published 1957
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,493,859 ratings — published 1948
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.09 — 90,661 ratings — published -380
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,520 ratings — published 2021
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.29 — 109,016 ratings — published 2017
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,910,453 ratings — published 1960
On Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.96 — 43,343 ratings — published 1859
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 869,462 ratings — published 2008
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,539 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 — 245,979 ratings — published 1974
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,788 ratings — published 2004
Pride and Prejudice (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,075 ratings — published
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.32 — 56,981 ratings — published 64
“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
“When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane disciplines had a crucial social role. It was to foster and protect the kind of values for which a philistine social order had precious little time. The modern humanities and industrial capitalism were more or less twinned at birth. To preserve a set of values and ideas under siege, you needed among other things institutions known as universities set somewhat apart from everyday social life. This remoteness meant that humane study could be lamentably ineffectual. But it also allowed the humanities to launch a critique of conventional wisdom.”
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