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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,249,625 ratings — published 2011
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.01 — 895,092 ratings — published 2005
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.04 — 455,205 ratings — published 1997
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.19 — 862,139 ratings — published 2008
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.17 — 583,958 ratings — published 2011
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.01 — 852,870 ratings — published 2000
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.08 — 473,332 ratings — published 2012
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.96 — 620,761 ratings — published 2005
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.52 — 116,914 ratings — published 2010
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 66 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.18 — 286,228 ratings — published 2015
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,557 ratings — published 2004
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.68 — 196,466 ratings — published 1848
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.52 — 160,409 ratings — published 2020
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.34 — 166,468 ratings — published 2019
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.47 — 113,268 ratings — published 2016
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.84 — 94,424 ratings — published 2008
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 56 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,351 ratings — published 2001
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,290 ratings — published 1983
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.84 — 501,668 ratings — published 2016
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.00 — 335,489 ratings — published 2019
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.36 — 201,002 ratings — published 2018
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 52 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.16 — 171,775 ratings — published 2018
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.09 — 62,364 ratings — published 2012
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,782 ratings — published 1975
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.81 — 116,311 ratings — published 2021
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,062 ratings — published 1904
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,496 ratings — published 1978
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.02 — 33,929 ratings — published 2018
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.37 — 868,396 ratings — published 1946
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 45 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.39 — 328,718 ratings — published 2012
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.15 — 176,807 ratings — published 2018
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.17 — 37,999 ratings — published 1985
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.19 — 65,588 ratings — published 2012
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.12 — 130,858 ratings — published 2008
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.40 — 364,936 ratings — published 2015
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.23 — 55,774 ratings — published 2018
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.97 — 191,305 ratings — published 2013
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,210 ratings — published 2019
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.84 — 381,203 ratings — published 1532
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.13 — 559,729 ratings — published 2012
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.95 — 157,180 ratings — published 2011
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.32 — 170,747 ratings — published 2024
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.27 — 60,777 ratings — published 2023
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 3.96 — 121,428 ratings — published 2007
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.00 — 134,226 ratings — published 2009
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.21 — 175,992 ratings — published 1984
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,004 ratings — published 1968
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.06 — 34,454 ratings — published 2013
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,535 ratings — published 2010
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as social-sciences)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,586 ratings — published 1959
“This is the problem with the population, everybody wants all the freedom in the world, but none of the responsibility that goes along with it. And such a society is no more advanced than a bunch of cave people.”
― Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
― Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
“Mainly we were just curious about how the new archaeological evidence that had been building up for the last thirty years might change our notions of early human history, especially the parts bound up with debates on the origins of social inequality. Before long, though, we realized that what we were doing was potentially important, because hardly anyone else in our fields seemed to be doing this work of synthesis. Often, we found ourselves searching in vain for books that we assumed must exist but, it turns out, simply didn’t – for instance, compendia of early cities that lacked top-down governance, or accounts of how democratic decision-making was conducted in Africa or the Americas, or comparisons of what we’ve called ‘heroic societies’. The literature is riddled with absences.”
― The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
― The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
