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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 858,493 ratings
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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4.01 avg rating — 893,102 ratings
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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4.01 avg rating — 850,931 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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3.65 avg rating — 195,139 ratings
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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3.96 avg rating — 619,485 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 453,003 ratings
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SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 134,113 ratings
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The Communist Manifesto
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3.68 avg rating — 194,804 ratings
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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4.12 avg rating — 130,553 ratings
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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4.24 avg rating — 36,579 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma
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4.19 avg rating — 209,848 ratings
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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3.91 avg rating — 14,982 ratings
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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
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4.26 avg rating — 18,956 ratings
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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3.96 avg rating — 120,963 ratings
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
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4.05 avg rating — 6,539 ratings
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
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4.30 avg rating — 13,983 ratings
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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4.29 avg rating — 79,719 ratings
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Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
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3.89 avg rating — 26,529 ratings
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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3.75 avg rating — 206,450 ratings
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Frontlash / Backlash
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4.78 avg rating — 27 ratings
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NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
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4.03 avg rating — 26,571 ratings
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What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
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3.85 avg rating — 104,600 ratings
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
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3.87 avg rating — 3,993 ratings
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The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
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3.83 avg rating — 36,705 ratings
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Animal Farm
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4.01 avg rating — 4,475,110 ratings
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
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3.84 avg rating — 38,539 ratings
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Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
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4.07 avg rating — 25,381 ratings
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The God Delusion
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3.90 avg rating — 281,868 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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4.47 avg rating — 112,612 ratings
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The Division of Labor in Society
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3.84 avg rating — 2,301 ratings
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Suicide: A Study in Sociology
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3.85 avg rating — 4,490 ratings
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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,372,117 ratings
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The Logic of Practice
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4.09 avg rating — 532 ratings
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Language and Symbolic Power
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4.19 avg rating — 985 ratings
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Outline of a Theory of Practice
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4.05 avg rating — 1,692 ratings
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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
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4.11 avg rating — 4,303 ratings
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The McDonaldization of Society
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3.81 avg rating — 2,164 ratings
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Status Anxiety
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3.89 avg rating — 21,616 ratings
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Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness
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3.84 avg rating — 94,107 ratings
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Selections from the Prison Notebooks
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4.21 avg rating — 5,242 ratings
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Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology
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4.11 avg rating — 1,584 ratings
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The Sociological Imagination
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4.15 avg rating — 3,321 ratings
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Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
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4.11 avg rating — 8,121 ratings
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The Power Elite
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4.15 avg rating — 1,664 ratings
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Affluenza
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3.48 avg rating — 1,491 ratings
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
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3.85 avg rating — 8,977 ratings
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Stumbling on Happiness
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3.82 avg rating — 63,463 ratings
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Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled—and More Miserable Than Ever Before
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3.58 avg rating — 2,793 ratings
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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4.21 avg rating — 174,949 ratings
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
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4.16 avg rating — 3,568 ratings
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
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4.41 avg rating — 5,507 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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4.48 avg rating — 115,667 ratings
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History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics
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4.07 avg rating — 3,667 ratings
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For Marx
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3.93 avg rating — 1,647 ratings
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None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture
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4.12 avg rating — 547 ratings
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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
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3.93 avg rating — 3,747 ratings
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,790,747 ratings
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One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
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3.98 avg rating — 7,500 ratings
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Closing Deals: Make an Offer
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4.18 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
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4.15 avg rating — 1,587 ratings
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The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language
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4.11 avg rating — 7,383 ratings
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The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction
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3.96 avg rating — 575 ratings
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Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
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4.14 avg rating — 12,060 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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4.29 avg rating — 53,153 ratings
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Deschooling Society
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3.98 avg rating — 3,466 ratings
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Rules of Sociological Method
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3.76 avg rating — 1,939 ratings
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Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
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3.78 avg rating — 19,740 ratings
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An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology
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4.19 avg rating — 400 ratings
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Orientalism
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4.13 avg rating — 29,258 ratings
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Modernity and the Holocaust
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4.41 avg rating — 1,491 ratings
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The Rise of the Network Society
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3.97 avg rating — 927 ratings
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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
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3.87 avg rating — 2,181 ratings
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World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction
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3.93 avg rating — 1,639 ratings
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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3.84 avg rating — 499,202 ratings
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MindHub: Personality Profiler
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4.35 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
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3.91 avg rating — 11,261 ratings
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Pledged - Secret Life Of Sororities
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3.22 avg rating — 8,853 ratings
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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
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4.12 avg rating — 9,560 ratings
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Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber
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3.91 avg rating — 727 ratings
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The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
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4.38 avg rating — 213 ratings
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The Evolution of Cooperation
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4.25 avg rating — 2,314 ratings
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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4.03 avg rating — 29,677 ratings
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The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
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4.13 avg rating — 5,310 ratings
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
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4.14 avg rating — 7,829 ratings
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Outsiders: Studies In The Sociology Of Deviance
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3.97 avg rating — 1,343 ratings
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The Sublime Object of Ideology
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4.07 avg rating — 6,092 ratings
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
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3.98 avg rating — 2,647 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.94 avg rating — 74,423 ratings
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Silent Spring
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4.06 avg rating — 54,396 ratings
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The Authoritarian Personality
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3.80 avg rating — 369 ratings
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The Practice of Everyday Life
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4.10 avg rating — 4,020 ratings
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Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism
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4.08 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Epoca îndreptățirii
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Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football (Volume 19) (Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century)
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4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges -- and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
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3.67 avg rating — 984 ratings
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The Truth-Seeker’s Handbook: A Science-Based Guide
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4.18 avg rating — 77 ratings
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The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies are Harming Our Young Men
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3.94 avg rating — 1,662 ratings
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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4.09 avg rating — 41,554 ratings
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The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
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4.05 avg rating — 30,177 ratings
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A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence
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3.78 avg rating — 481 ratings
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#1: Journalism (even good journalism) is not sociology.
#2: "Social philosophy" is not social theory (though boundaries may be questionable)
#3: Sociology is not the residue of economics or psychology.
Still, most books are relevant to the title.