Social Development Books
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How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-development)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,152,342 ratings — published 1936
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-development)
avg rating 4.27 — 24,462 ratings — published 2011
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-development)
avg rating 4.36 — 202,153 ratings — published 2018
The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-development)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,137 ratings — published 2009
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-development)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,180 ratings — published 2013
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-development)
avg rating 4.09 — 226,973 ratings — published 1999
Gambling on Development (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-development)
avg rating 4.01 — 268 ratings — published
The Leader in You: How to Win Friends, Influence People and Succeed in a Changing World (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-development)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,361 ratings — published 1993
Development as Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-development)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,119 ratings — published 1999
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-development)
avg rating 4.17 — 590,470 ratings — published 2011
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-development)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,386 ratings — published 2004
Rippling: How Social Entrepreneurs Spread Innovation Throughout the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-development)
avg rating 4.11 — 70 ratings — published 2012
The Social Entrepreneur's Playbook, Expanded Edition: Pressure Test, Plan, Launch and Scale Your Social Enterprise (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as social-development)
avg rating 3.67 — 134 ratings — published 2013
The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-development)
avg rating 3.74 — 472 ratings — published 2008
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-development)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,215 ratings — published 1997
Lean Startups for Social Change: The Revolutionary Path to Big Impact (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-development)
avg rating 3.68 — 74 ratings — published 2015
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-development)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,244 ratings — published 2005
Social Development: The Developmental Perspective in Social Welfare (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.29 — 14 ratings — published 1995
Group Interaction and Child Development: Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Resources (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Validation: The New Psychology of Influence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.15 — 773 ratings — published 2025
Leave No One Behind: Time for Specifics on the Sustainable Development Goals (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Towards a Society of Degrowth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published
Green Giants: How Smart Companies Turn Sustainability into Billion-Dollar Businesses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 3.90 — 198 ratings — published 2015
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 3.93 — 40,939 ratings — published 2025
Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,744 ratings — published 2022
How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.14 — 690 ratings — published 2022
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,799 ratings — published 2019
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 3.82 — 10,087 ratings — published 2017
Congo: een geschiedenis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,451 ratings — published 2010
Globalization and its Discontents (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,195 ratings — published 2002
دولة الرعاية الاجتماعية في القرن العشرين: تجارب الأمم المتقدمة في تكريم الإنسان (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 2.50 — 2 ratings — published
اقتصاد يغدق فقراً (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 3.56 — 39 ratings — published
The State of Social Welfare: The Twentieth Century in Cross-National Review (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 2.67 — 3 ratings — published 2002
Shift: Managing Your Emotions—So They Don't Manage You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,773 ratings — published
Inspire: The Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others – The Science-Based Guide to Visionaries, Exemplars, and Mentors Who Transform Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.13 — 127 ratings — published
La ciudad de la indolencia (Spanish Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 5.00 — 9 ratings — published
Let's Start the Revolution: Tools for Displacing the Corporate State and Building a Country that Works for the People (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 3.64 — 11 ratings — published
Art as Therapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,620 ratings — published 2013
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,258 ratings — published 2019
The Politics and Government of New Zealand: Robust, Innovative and Challenged (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2004
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,104 ratings — published 2022
Jumping Sundays: The Rise and Fall of the Counterculture in Aotearoa New Zealand (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.25 — 40 ratings — published 2022
Tutira Mai: Making Change in Aotearoa New Zealand (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 1.50 — 2 ratings — published
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,306,427 ratings — published 2018
The Conquest of Bread (Working Classics)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,873 ratings — published 1892
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,675 ratings — published 1981
Secret History: State Surveillance in New Zealand, 1900–1956 (1) (History of Security Intelligence in Twentieth-century New Zealand, 1)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published
Community Development - Insights for Practice in Aotearoa New Zealand (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Humankind: A Hopeful History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.32 — 80,368 ratings — published 2019
The Infinite Game: How to Live Well Together (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-development)
avg rating 4.09 — 22 ratings — published
“We don't build civilization by erecting one sky-scraper after another. We build civilization by wiping out one discrimination after another.”
― Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
― Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“It is the way that it weighs on the human spirit that leads many to self-destruct. I could not help but to connect the pain that they were experiencing to my own.”
― We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves: Polygyny: A Relationship, Marriage and Family Alternative
― We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves: Polygyny: A Relationship, Marriage and Family Alternative

