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Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 316 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 884,469 ratings — published 2008
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 294 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 907,928 ratings — published 2005
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 280 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 864,670 ratings — published 2000
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 241 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 468,912 ratings — published 1997
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 225 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 628,844 ratings — published 2005
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,310,806 ratings — published 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 214 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 609,216 ratings — published 2011
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 182 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 483,112 ratings — published 2012
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 68,490 ratings — published 2012
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.00 — 342,683 ratings — published 2019
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 132,724 ratings — published 2008
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,345 ratings — published 2016
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,448 ratings — published 2004
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 193,904 ratings — published 2013
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,828 ratings — published 2010
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 124 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 293,833 ratings — published 2015
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 178,922 ratings — published 2019
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.52 — 166,599 ratings — published 2020
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 205,569 ratings — published 2018
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.84 — 96,390 ratings — published 2008
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,925 ratings — published 2010
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.00 — 135,002 ratings — published 2009
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 101 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,596 ratings — published 2001
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 66,137 ratings — published 2023
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 98 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 173,948 ratings — published 2018
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 105,842 ratings — published 2009
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 573,508 ratings — published 2012
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 181,175 ratings — published 2018
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 124,184 ratings — published 2007
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,147 ratings — published 2012
Modern Romance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.80 — 190,518 ratings — published 2015
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 9,584 ratings — published 2000
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 212,406 ratings — published 2024
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 40,847 ratings — published 1985
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 43,113 ratings — published 2017
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.83 — 512,416 ratings — published 2016
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.69 — 206,679 ratings — published 1848
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 182,510 ratings — published 1984
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,521 ratings — published 1904
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 32,933 ratings — published 2018
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.79 — 125,156 ratings — published 2021
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 74 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 58,767 ratings — published 2018
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 52,965 ratings — published 2012
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,695 ratings — published 2019
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.02 — 36,426 ratings — published 2018
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 922,834 ratings — published 1946
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 82,828 ratings — published 2019
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,210 ratings — published 2021
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.43 — 47,985 ratings — published 2017
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 374,144 ratings — published 2015
“In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I am not quite accurate. Thoreau knew. Or so one may surmise. It is alleged that upon being told that through the telegraph a man in Maine could instantly send a message to a man in Texas, Thoreau asked, "But what do they have to say to each other?" In asking this question, to which no serious interest was paid, Thoreau was directing attention to the psychological and social meaning of the telegraph, and in particular to its capacity to change the character of information -- from the personal and regional to the impersonal and global.”
― The Disappearance of Childhood
― The Disappearance of Childhood
“That Marxism is not a science is entirely clear to intelligent people in the Soviet Union. One would even feel awkward to refer to it as a science. Leaving aside the exact sciences, such as physics, mathematics, and the natural sciences, even the social sciences can predict an event—when, in what way and how an event might occur. Communism has never made any such forecasts. It has never said where, when, and precisely what is going to happen. Nothing but declamations. Rhetoric to the effect that the world proletariat will overthrow the world bourgeoisie and the most happy and radiant society will then arise.”
― Warning to the West
― Warning to the West
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