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Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 316 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 873,976 ratings — published 2008
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 290 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 901,572 ratings — published 2005
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 279 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 859,168 ratings — published 2000
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 237 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 461,913 ratings — published 1997
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 624,933 ratings — published 2005
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,281,113 ratings — published 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 214 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 596,573 ratings — published 2011
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 180 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 478,295 ratings — published 2012
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 66,964 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 — 339,280 ratings — published 2019
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 131,793 ratings — published 2008
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.47 — 115,332 ratings — published 2016
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,020 ratings — published 2004
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 126 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 290,137 ratings — published 2015
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,402 ratings — published 2010
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 192,630 ratings — published 2013
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 172,714 ratings — published 2019
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.84 — 95,383 ratings — published 2008
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 — 203,346 ratings — published 2018
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.52 — 163,700 ratings — published 2020
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,754 ratings — published 2010
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.00 — 134,632 ratings — published 2009
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 100 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.66 — 195,935 ratings — published 2001
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 — 172,864 ratings — published 2018
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 — 566,915 ratings — published 2012
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 105,292 ratings — published 2009
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 63,509 ratings — published 2023
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 179,119 ratings — published 2018
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 122,752 ratings — published 2007
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 64,251 ratings — published 2012
Modern Romance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.80 — 190,140 ratings — published 2015
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 9,299 ratings — published 2000
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 3.91 — 42,804 ratings — published 2017
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 192,902 ratings — published 2024
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 39,387 ratings — published 1985
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.83 — 507,917 ratings — published 2016
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.69 — 201,562 ratings — published 1848
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 32,627 ratings — published 2018
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 179,065 ratings — published 1984
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.80 — 120,655 ratings — published 2021
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,285 ratings — published 1904
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 — 52,632 ratings — published 2012
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,959 ratings — published 2019
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 71 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.23 — 57,265 ratings — published 2018
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.02 — 35,107 ratings — published 2018
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 80,671 ratings — published 2019
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.44 — 46,792 ratings — published 2017
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 895,523 ratings — published 1946
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 369,976 ratings — published 2015
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,545 ratings — published 1983
“Married women are far more depressed than married men -- in unhappy marriages, three times more; and -- interestingly -- in happy marriages, five times more. In truth, it is men who are thriving in marriage, now as always, and who show symptoms of psychological and physical distress outside it. Not only their emotional well-being but their very lives, some studies say, depend on being married!”
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“There is something less than fully human in those who have never known a commitment to an idea, who have never risked an exploration of the unknown, who have never attempted the kind of creativity of which men and women are potentially capable.”
― The Feminine Mystique
― The Feminine Mystique
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