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The Story of Ruby Bridges (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.44 — 13,028 ratings — published 1995
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 12,916 ratings — published 2001
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 72,031 ratings — published 1995
Mapping Penny's World (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as social-studies)
avg rating 3.93 — 595 ratings — published 2000
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 16,818 ratings — published 2007
My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,042 ratings — published 2003
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 637,764 ratings — published 1989
Oh, Freedom!: Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement with the People Who Made It Happen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.48 — 99 ratings — published 1997
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,337,595 ratings — published 1947
Me On The Map (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,077 ratings — published 1996
The Scrambled States of America (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,162 ratings — published 1998
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 473,743 ratings — published 1997
Chains (Seeds of America, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 59,996 ratings — published 2008
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,023 ratings — published 2006
Baseball Saved Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,069 ratings — published 1993
We the Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 714 ratings — published 2002
Duck for President (A Click, Clack Book)
by (shelved 34 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.03 — 8,133 ratings — published 2004
So You Want to Be President? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as social-studies)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,608 ratings — published 2000
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,332,329 ratings — published 2011
Grace for President (Grace Series, 1)
by (shelved 30 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,920 ratings — published 2007
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 168,496 ratings — published 2020
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,587 ratings — published 2010
Encounter (Voyager Books)
by (shelved 26 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,860 ratings — published 1992
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 868,605 ratings — published 2000
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 912,177 ratings — published 2005
Rosa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 6,889 ratings — published 2005
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as social-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 515,618 ratings — published 2016
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,608 ratings — published 2010
Through My Eyes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.47 — 6,243 ratings — published 1999
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as social-studies)
avg rating 3.70 — 210,327 ratings — published 1848
John, Paul, George & Ben (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,697 ratings — published 2006
Pink and Say (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 11,725 ratings — published
Freedom Summer (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.48 — 2,972 ratings — published 2001
Rose Blanche (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,137 ratings — published 1985
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,623 ratings — published 2016
Bud, Not Buddy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as social-studies)
avg rating 3.98 — 117,050 ratings — published 1999
Esperanza Rising (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 118,485 ratings — published 2000
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 274,469 ratings — published 1980
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,648 ratings — published 1990
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 182,962 ratings — published 2019
Locomotive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,233 ratings — published 2013
Letters from Rifka (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-studies)
avg rating 3.93 — 11,364 ratings — published 1992
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.19 — 891,809 ratings — published 2008
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,083 ratings — published 2019
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 376,771 ratings — published 2015
Letting Swift River Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 697 ratings — published 1992
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 486,177 ratings — published 2012
George vs. George: The American Revolution as Seen from Two Sides (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,199 ratings — published 2004
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,820,807 ratings — published 1945
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
by (shelved 18 times as social-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 132,877 ratings — published 1976
“Naskar Sciences of Society (Sonnet 2786)
Study colonizers, you'll understand criminology.
Study politicians, you'll understand wildlife.
Study patriotic citizens, you'll learn horticulture.
Study billionaires, you'll understand virology.
Study the soldiers, you'll understand hypnosis.
Study bureaucrats, you'll understand narcolepsy.
Study conspiracy theorists and newage nutters,
you'll find living proof of our jungle ancestry.
Textbooks are like visible light, they only reveal
a tiny, microscopic, biased sliver of reality,
while 99.9965% of the electromagnetic spectrum
remain nonexistent to the mighty brains of apekind.
Real education happens outside the textbook,
living holiness happens outside the pulpit.
Study reformers, you'll understand geology.
Study mothers, you'll understand ecology.”
― Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
Study colonizers, you'll understand criminology.
Study politicians, you'll understand wildlife.
Study patriotic citizens, you'll learn horticulture.
Study billionaires, you'll understand virology.
Study the soldiers, you'll understand hypnosis.
Study bureaucrats, you'll understand narcolepsy.
Study conspiracy theorists and newage nutters,
you'll find living proof of our jungle ancestry.
Textbooks are like visible light, they only reveal
a tiny, microscopic, biased sliver of reality,
while 99.9965% of the electromagnetic spectrum
remain nonexistent to the mighty brains of apekind.
Real education happens outside the textbook,
living holiness happens outside the pulpit.
Study reformers, you'll understand geology.
Study mothers, you'll understand ecology.”
― Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“The contrast between genetic and environmental, between nature and nurture, is not a contrast between fixed and changeable. It is a fallacy of biological determinism to say that if differences are in the genes, no change can occur.”
― Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA
― Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA
