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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond
4.04 average rating, · 468.2k ratings
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
Jared Diamond
4.09 average rating, · 29k ratings
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Benedict Anderson
4.11 average rating, · 16.9k ratings
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
James C. Scott
4.21 average rating, · 7.3k ratings
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
David Graeber
4.02 average rating, · 6.7k ratings
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
Karl Polanyi
4.21 average rating, · 5.5k ratings
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
James C. Scott
4.12 average rating, · 5.1k ratings
Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity
Christopher Ryan
4.12 average rating, · 5.1k ratings
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Joseph Henrich
4.13 average rating, · 4.6k ratings
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
Ethan Watters
4.09 average rating, · 4.5k ratings
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
Peter L. Berger
4.11 average rating, · 4.4k ratings
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
David Hackett Fischer
4.38 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio
Philippe Bourgois
4.21 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Study of the Urban Animal
Desmond Morris
4.00 average rating, · 3.1k ratings
