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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 357 times as society)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,268,392 ratings — published 2011
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 280 times as society)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,493,835 ratings — published 1948
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 229 times as society)
avg rating 4.18 — 288,402 ratings — published 2015
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 227 times as society)
avg rating 4.04 — 459,132 ratings — published 1997
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 213 times as society)
avg rating 4.15 — 178,107 ratings — published 2018
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as society)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,578,265 ratings — published 1945
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as society)
avg rating 4.36 — 202,356 ratings — published 2018
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as society)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,788 ratings — published 2004
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 170 times as society)
avg rating 4.34 — 169,812 ratings — published 2019
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as society)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,084,969 ratings — published 1932
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 66,315 ratings — published 2012
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 156 times as society)
avg rating 4.01 — 899,112 ratings — published 2005
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as society)
avg rating 4.01 — 856,897 ratings — published 2000
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as society)
avg rating 4.09 — 63,399 ratings — published 2012
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 125 times as society)
avg rating 4.21 — 43,211 ratings — published 2014
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as society)
avg rating 4.07 — 476,242 ratings — published 2012
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as society)
avg rating 4.17 — 38,743 ratings — published 1985
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as society)
avg rating 4.02 — 34,503 ratings — published 2018
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as society)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,594 ratings — published 2010
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as society)
avg rating 4.52 — 162,150 ratings — published 2020
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 869,463 ratings — published 2008
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as society)
avg rating 4.47 — 114,390 ratings — published 2016
Humankind: A Hopeful History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as society)
avg rating 4.32 — 80,597 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 107 times as society)
avg rating 4.23 — 56,599 ratings — published 2018
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as society)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,648 ratings — published 2010
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 99 times as society)
avg rating 4.39 — 331,704 ratings — published 2012
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as society)
avg rating 4.30 — 54,046 ratings — published 2007
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as society)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,087 ratings — published 2017
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 97 times as society)
avg rating 4.16 — 172,389 ratings — published 2018
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as society)
avg rating 4.29 — 109,016 ratings — published 2017
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 94 times as society)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,853,133 ratings — published 1953
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as society)
avg rating 4.40 — 367,617 ratings — published 2015
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as society)
avg rating 4.06 — 34,656 ratings — published 2013
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as society)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,492 ratings — published 2018
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as society)
avg rating 4.20 — 32,448 ratings — published 2018
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as society)
avg rating 3.84 — 505,745 ratings — published 2016
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as society)
avg rating 4.24 — 24,645 ratings — published 1988
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as society)
avg rating 4.31 — 183,077 ratings — published 2024
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as society)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,437,479 ratings — published 1985
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,520 ratings — published 2021
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as society)
avg rating 3.68 — 199,310 ratings — published 1848
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as society)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,211,247 ratings — published 1954
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as society)
avg rating 4.19 — 14,094 ratings — published 2020
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as society)
avg rating 4.00 — 337,782 ratings — published 2019
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as society)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,586 ratings — published 2019
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as society)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,896 ratings — published 2018
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 78 times as society)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,646 ratings — published 2001
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as society)
avg rating 4.21 — 27,029 ratings — published 2011
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as society)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,756 ratings — published 2014
No Logo (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as society)
avg rating 3.89 — 32,833 ratings — published 2000
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
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To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
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“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."
(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)”
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(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)”
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