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1.
Man's Search for Meaning
by:
Viktor E. Frankl
4.37 avg rating β 832,442 ratings
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
by:
Daniel Kahneman
4.17 avg rating β 564,563 ratings
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Beyond Good and Evil
by:
Friedrich Nietzsche
4.03 avg rating β 109,316 ratings
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The Visible and the Invisible (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)
by:
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
4.36 avg rating β 646 ratings
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Phenomenology of Perception
by:
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
4.18 avg rating β 6,330 ratings
6.
The Principles of Psychology: Volume 1
by:
William James
4.16 avg rating β 757 ratings
7.
Difference and Repetition
by:
Gilles Deleuze
4.26 avg rating β 3,774 ratings
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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
by:
Gloria E. AnzaldΓΊa
4.33 avg rating β 13,222 ratings
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
by:
Michel Foucault
4.24 avg rating β 35,774 ratings
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The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
by:
Michel Foucault
4.02 avg rating β 24,961 ratings
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The Second Sex
by:
Simone de Beauvoir
4.18 avg rating β 45,864 ratings
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On Photography
by:
Susan Sontag
3.88 avg rating β 54,147 ratings
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Silent Spring
by:
Rachel Carson
4.05 avg rating β 53,315 ratings
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Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by:
Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating β 445,036 ratings
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
by:
Susan Sontag
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 7,368 ratings
16.
The Society of the Spectacle
by:
Guy Debord
4.03 avg rating β 22,635 ratings
17.
The Case for Animal Rights
by:
Tom Regan
4.16 avg rating β 552 ratings
17.
Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications
by:
Jeremy Munday
3.59 avg rating β 560 ratings
19.
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
by:
Joseph A. Schumpeter
3.99 avg rating β 2,893 ratings
20.
A Room of Oneβs Own
by:
Virginia Woolf
4.22 avg rating β 246,452 ratings
21.
The Souls of Black Folk
by:
W.E.B. Du Bois
4.31 avg rating β 44,284 ratings
22.
Experience and Nature
by:
John Dewey
4.20 avg rating β 301 ratings
23.
The Origins of Totalitarianism
by:
Hannah Arendt
4.30 avg rating β 13,914 ratings
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The Organization of Behavior: A Neuropsychological Theory
by:
D.O. Hebb
4.21 avg rating β 62 ratings
25.
Education for Critical Consciousness
by:
Paulo Freire
4.28 avg rating β 1,373 ratings
26.
Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity
by:
Gregory Bateson
4.27 avg rating β 796 ratings
27.
Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 42)
by:
Humberto R. Maturana
4.28 avg rating β 329 ratings
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The Technological Society
by:
Jacques Ellul
4.31 avg rating β 1,158 ratings
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The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
by:
Fritjof Capra
4.18 avg rating β 1,910 ratings
30.
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
by:
Annette Lareau
4.15 avg rating β 3,384 ratings
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Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies and Paradoxes
by:
Paul Watzlawick
4.20 avg rating β 894 ratings
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The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding
by:
Humberto R. Maturana
4.20 avg rating β 1,302 ratings
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Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature
by:
Gilles Deleuze
4.15 avg rating β 1,974 ratings
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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
by:
Erich Auerbach
4.29 avg rating β 3,679 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by:
Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating β 73,872 ratings
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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
by:
Jonathan Kozol
4.26 avg rating β 18,905 ratings
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Selections from the Prison Notebooks
by:
Antonio Gramsci
4.20 avg rating β 5,187 ratings
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A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
by:
Gilles Deleuze
4.33 avg rating β 6,897 ratings
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
by:
Karl Marx
4.09 avg rating β 23,210 ratings
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Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy
by:
Karl Marx
4.28 avg rating β 1,923 ratings
41.
Black Skin, White Masks
by:
Frantz Fanon
4.26 avg rating β 18,207 ratings
42.
Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage
by:
Paulo Freire
4.37 avg rating β 2,133 ratings
43.
Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices
by:
Peter F. Drucker
4.29 avg rating β 1,344 ratings
44.
Language and Symbolic Power
by:
Pierre Bourdieu
4.19 avg rating β 968 ratings
45.
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
by:
James C. Scott
4.21 avg rating β 6,469 ratings
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Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
by:
Gregory Bateson
4.26 avg rating β 1,457 ratings
47.
The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, And The Human Condition
by:
Arthur Kleinman
4.17 avg rating β 540 ratings
48.
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
by:
Karl Polanyi
4.20 avg rating β 5,132 ratings
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
by:
Audre Lorde
4.53 avg rating β 39,726 ratings
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
by:
Patricia Hill Collins
4.41 avg rating β 5,475 ratings
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On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
by:
Elisabeth KΓΌbler-Ross
4.16 avg rating β 27,320 ratings
52.
Marxism and the Philosophy of Language
by:
Valentin Voloshinov
4.22 avg rating β 312 ratings
53.
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
by:
Daniel C. Dennett
4.07 avg rating β 16,863 ratings
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
by:
Benedict Anderson
4.11 avg rating β 15,874 ratings
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Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
by:
Judith Lewis Herman
4.39 avg rating β 15,052 ratings
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Philosophical Investigations
by:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
4.26 avg rating β 15,519 ratings
57.
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
by:
Joseph Campbell
4.13 avg rating β 44,163 ratings
58.
The Selfish Gene
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.16 avg rating β 189,059 ratings
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GΓΆdel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by:
Douglas R. Hofstadter
4.29 avg rating β 51,681 ratings
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Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics
by:
Mikhail Bakhtin
4.36 avg rating β 1,140 ratings
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by:
Thomas S. Kuhn
4.03 avg rating β 29,126 ratings
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Beyond Culture
by:
Edward T. Hall
3.95 avg rating β 875 ratings
63.
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
by:
Walter Benjamin
4.29 avg rating β 12,264 ratings
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Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind
by:
Geert Hofstede
4.10 avg rating β 1,279 ratings
65.
The Making of the English Working Class
by:
E.P. Thompson
4.21 avg rating β 3,644 ratings
66.
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by:
Naomi Klein
4.29 avg rating β 51,932 ratings
67.
Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
by:
Erving Goffman
3.94 avg rating β 3,172 ratings
68.
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
by:
Erving Goffman
4.05 avg rating β 6,388 ratings
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The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
by:
R.D. Laing
4.11 avg rating β 6,311 ratings
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The Interpretation of Dreams
by:
Sigmund Freud
3.84 avg rating β 79,564 ratings
71.
Democracy and Education
by:
John Dewey
4.02 avg rating β 2,141 ratings
72.
The Farther Reaches of Human Nature (Esalen Book)
by:
Abraham H. Maslow
4.15 avg rating β 948 ratings
73.
The Wretched of the Earth
by:
Frantz Fanon
4.34 avg rating β 30,601 ratings
74.
Orientalism
by:
Edward W. Said
4.13 avg rating β 28,509 ratings
75.
The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
by:
Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.29 avg rating β 7,609 ratings
76.
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
by:
Harry Braverman
4.30 avg rating β 854 ratings
77.
Public Opinion
by:
Walter Lippmann
3.96 avg rating β 1,510 ratings
78.
A History of Western Philosophy
by:
Bertrand Russell
4.13 avg rating β 40,911 ratings
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Toward a Psychology of Being
by:
Abraham H. Maslow
4.17 avg rating β 5,946 ratings
80.
A Brief History of Neoliberalism
by:
David Harvey
4.13 avg rating β 7,146 ratings
81.
The Origin of Species: A Variorum Text
by:
Charles Darwin
4.01 avg rating β 120,186 ratings
82.
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
by:
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
3.96 avg rating β 119,249 ratings
83.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
by:
Adam Smith
3.88 avg rating β 34,380 ratings
84.
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: with Hume's Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature and A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh
by:
David Hume
3.81 avg rating β 908 ratings
85.
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by:
Edward S. Herman
4.24 avg rating β 23,236 ratings
86.
The Communist Manifesto
by:
Karl Marx
3.67 avg rating β 189,251 ratings
87.
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
by:
C.G. Jung
4.17 avg rating β 37,267 ratings
88.
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
by:
Daniel Goleman
4.05 avg rating β 131,724 ratings
89.
Escape from Freedom
by:
Erich Fromm
4.27 avg rating β 15,569 ratings
90.
Deschooling Society
by:
Ivan Illich
3.99 avg rating β 3,414 ratings
91.
No Logo
by:
Naomi Klein
3.89 avg rating β 32,434 ratings
92.
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
by:
Carl R. Rogers
4.16 avg rating β 18,082 ratings
93.
The Theory of the Leisure Class
by:
Thorstein Veblen
3.87 avg rating β 3,938 ratings
94.
Rabelais and His World
by:
Mikhail Bakhtin
4.25 avg rating β 1,521 ratings
95.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
by:
Paulo Freire
4.30 avg rating β 37,857 ratings
96.
The Sources of Social Power: Volume 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760
by:
Michael Mann
4.34 avg rating β 149 ratings