Sociology Books

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A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence
A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence 3.78 avg rating โ€” 480 ratings
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Stripped: Inside the Lives of Exotic Dancers
Stripped: Inside the Lives of Exotic Dancers 3.57 avg rating โ€” 122 ratings
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The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids
The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids 3.86 avg rating โ€” 3,499 ratings
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Social Movements, 1768-2004
Social Movements, 1768-2004 3.84 avg rating โ€” 139 ratings
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Folk Devils and Moral Panics
Folk Devils and Moral Panics 3.98 avg rating โ€” 373 ratings
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Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life...
Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life... 3.87 avg rating โ€” 501,706 ratings
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Genghis: Birth of an Empire (Conqueror, #1)
Genghis: Birth of an Empire (Conqueror, #1) 4.39 avg rating โ€” 36,858 ratings
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The Civilizing Process
The Civilizing Process 4.25 avg rating โ€” 970 ratings
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Ghettonation: A Journey Into the Land of Bling and the Home of the Shameless
Ghettonation: A Journey Into the Land of Bling and the Home of the Shameless 3.77 avg rating โ€” 257 ratings
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The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It
The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It 3.65 avg rating โ€” 797 ratings
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The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America 4.24 avg rating โ€” 17,335 ratings
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Who Rules America? Power, Politics and Social Change
Who Rules America? Power, Politics and Social Change 4.04 avg rating โ€” 460 ratings
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Politics, Sociology, and Social Theory: Encounters with Classical and Contemporary Social Thought
Politics, Sociology, and Social Theory: Encounters with Classical and Contemporary Social Thought 4.10 avg rating โ€” 41 ratings
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The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures
The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures 3.89 avg rating โ€” 1,251 ratings
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The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol 1: Reason & the Rationalization of Society
The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol 1: Reason & the Rationalization of Society 3.93 avg rating โ€” 854 ratings
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The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol 2: Lifeworld & System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason
The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol 2: Lifeworld & System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason 3.95 avg rating โ€” 452 ratings
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Losing Ground
Losing Ground 3.85 avg rating โ€” 691 ratings
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The Handbook of Economic Sociology
The Handbook of Economic Sociology 3.95 avg rating โ€” 39 ratings
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Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers 4.16 avg rating โ€” 10,828 ratings
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The Gray Rhino: How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore
The Gray Rhino: How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore 3.56 avg rating โ€” 367 ratings
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Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex 4.34 avg rating โ€” 18,724 ratings
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The Social Conquest of Earth
The Social Conquest of Earth 4.01 avg rating โ€” 4,286 ratings
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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us 3.72 avg rating โ€” 8,118 ratings
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The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work
The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work 3.80 avg rating โ€” 368 ratings
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Lion of Ireland (Celtic World of Morgan Llywelyn, 5)
Lion of Ireland (Celtic World of Morgan Llywelyn, 5) 4.14 avg rating โ€” 4,303 ratings
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Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class
Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class 3.42 avg rating โ€” 336 ratings
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Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism really liked it 4.00 avg rating โ€” 7,446 ratings
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The Political Unconscious
The Political Unconscious 4.05 avg rating โ€” 1,126 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager
The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager 3.65 avg rating โ€” 247 ratings
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The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn
The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn 3.65 avg rating โ€” 694 ratings
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Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter
Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter 3.48 avg rating โ€” 502 ratings
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Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling 4.23 avg rating โ€” 3,294 ratings
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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty 4.28 avg rating โ€” 23,741 ratings
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Poverty, by America
Poverty, by America 4.27 avg rating โ€” 56,643 ratings
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The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling
The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling 4.31 avg rating โ€” 1,296 ratings
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism 4.16 avg rating โ€” 170,210 ratings
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ู…ู‚ุฏู…ุฉ ุงุจู† ุฎู„ุฏูˆู†
ู…ู‚ุฏู…ุฉ ุงุจู† ุฎู„ุฏูˆู† 4.30 avg rating โ€” 4,709 ratings
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men 4.34 avg rating โ€” 156,579 ratings
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On Becoming a Servant-Leader
On Becoming a Servant-Leader 4.33 avg rating โ€” 75 ratings
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The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy
The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy 3.80 avg rating โ€” 2,654 ratings
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Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective
Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective 3.87 avg rating โ€” 1,233 ratings
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Existentialism and Sociology: A Study of Jean-Paul Sartre
Existentialism and Sociology: A Study of Jean-Paul Sartre
by: Ian Craib
4.23 avg rating โ€” 13 ratings
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Connections
Connections 4.25 avg rating โ€” 2,479 ratings
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Mass Deception: Moral Panic and the U.S. War on Iraq
Mass Deception: Moral Panic and the U.S. War on Iraq 3.64 avg rating โ€” 22 ratings
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Modern Romance
Modern Romance 3.80 avg rating โ€” 189,344 ratings
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American Nerd: The Story of My People
American Nerd: The Story of My People 2.96 avg rating โ€” 1,436 ratings
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What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics
What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics 3.72 avg rating โ€” 106 ratings
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A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy 3.95 avg rating โ€” 59,365 ratings
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The Sources of Social Power: Volume 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760
The Sources of Social Power: Volume 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760 4.34 avg rating โ€” 149 ratings
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The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food
The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food 3.85 avg rating โ€” 1,139 ratings
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I Choose: Subtlety in Cults
I Choose: Subtlety in Cults 3.90 avg rating โ€” 10 ratings
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The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge 3.81 avg rating โ€” 5,740 ratings
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The Spinster and Her Enemies: Feminism and Sexuality 1880-1930
The Spinster and Her Enemies: Feminism and Sexuality 1880-1930 4.09 avg rating โ€” 148 ratings
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S Street Rising: Crack, Murder, and Redemption in D.C.
S Street Rising: Crack, Murder, and Redemption in D.C. 3.97 avg rating โ€” 1,016 ratings
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A Social History of the Third Reich
A Social History of the Third Reich 4.05 avg rating โ€” 184 ratings
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century 3.69 avg rating โ€” 102,339 ratings
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Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality 3.98 avg rating โ€” 31,320 ratings
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Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy
Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy 3.86 avg rating โ€” 1,507 ratings
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Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications
Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications 3.70 avg rating โ€” 111 ratings
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The Mapmaker's Wife : A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon
The Mapmaker's Wife : A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon 3.63 avg rating โ€” 1,814 ratings
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Future Arctic: Field Notes from a World on the Edge
Future Arctic: Field Notes from a World on the Edge 4.03 avg rating โ€” 65 ratings
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Ideology: An Introduction
Ideology: An Introduction 4.05 avg rating โ€” 694 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemicโ€”and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemicโ€”and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 3.89 avg rating โ€” 55,256 ratings
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A Small Place
A Small Place 4.05 avg rating โ€” 17,326 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by: Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating โ€” 99,680 ratings
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Lakota Woman
Lakota Woman 3.97 avg rating โ€” 8,729 ratings
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Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery
Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery
by: Abby Sher
3.88 avg rating โ€” 342 ratings
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Regarding the Pain of Others
Regarding the Pain of Others 4.10 avg rating โ€” 20,919 ratings
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Happiness: Lessons from a New Science
Happiness: Lessons from a New Science 3.71 avg rating โ€” 1,055 ratings
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Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity
Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity 3.82 avg rating โ€” 762 ratings
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Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia
Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia 4.01 avg rating โ€” 73 ratings
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The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos 3.83 avg rating โ€” 156 ratings
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Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom, Updated Edition
Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom, Updated Edition 4.13 avg rating โ€” 4,592 ratings
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Americanah
Americanah 4.31 avg rating โ€” 401,482 ratings
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There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America 4.30 avg rating โ€” 15,925 ratings
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery
The Logic of Scientific Discovery 4.03 avg rating โ€” 5,360 ratings
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Eclipse of Reason
Eclipse of Reason 4.11 avg rating โ€” 908 ratings
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Conflict / The Web Of Group Affiliations
Conflict / The Web Of Group Affiliations 3.79 avg rating โ€” 78 ratings
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Violence: Six Sideways Reflections
Violence: Six Sideways Reflections 3.89 avg rating โ€” 5,314 ratings
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The People's Republic of Chemicals
The People's Republic of Chemicals 4.09 avg rating โ€” 56 ratings
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined 4.16 avg rating โ€” 29,269 ratings
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Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics 3.83 avg rating โ€” 1,439 ratings
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Patterns of Culture
Patterns of Culture 3.82 avg rating โ€” 1,626 ratings
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Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety
Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety 3.22 avg rating โ€” 260 ratings
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Doubting Jesus' Resurrection: What Happened in the Black Box?
Doubting Jesus' Resurrection: What Happened in the Black Box? 4.06 avg rating โ€” 112 ratings
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Thinking Sociologically
Thinking Sociologically 3.93 avg rating โ€” 836 ratings
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The Advanced Genius Theory: Are They Out of Their Minds or Ahead of Their Time?
The Advanced Genius Theory: Are They Out of Their Minds or Ahead of Their Time? 3.56 avg rating โ€” 405 ratings
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The Madhouse: A critical study of Swedish society
The Madhouse: A critical study of Swedish society really liked it 4.00 avg rating โ€” 11 ratings
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Race 2008: Critical Reflections on an Historic Campaign
Race 2008: Critical Reflections on an Historic Campaign 3.50 avg rating โ€” 2 ratings
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Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality At The Border
Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality At The Border 4.02 avg rating โ€” 95 ratings
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Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body in Western Societies
Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body in Western Societies 3.87 avg rating โ€” 53 ratings
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With a Closed Fist: Growing Up in Canada's Toughest Neighborhood
With a Closed Fist: Growing Up in Canada's Toughest Neighborhood 3.91 avg rating โ€” 107 ratings
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Social Commitments in a Depersonalized World
Social Commitments in a Depersonalized World 3.82 avg rating โ€” 17 ratings
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The Peacemakers: India and the Quest for One World
The Peacemakers: India and the Quest for One World 3.75 avg rating โ€” 20 ratings
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Dying in Indian Country: A Family Journey from Self-destruction to Opposing Tribal Sovereignty
Dying in Indian Country: A Family Journey from Self-destruction to Opposing Tribal Sovereignty
by: Beth Ward
3.79 avg rating โ€” 48 ratings
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The Global Pigeon
The Global Pigeon 4.16 avg rating โ€” 63 ratings
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The Undercover Economist
The Undercover Economist 3.81 avg rating โ€” 29,087 ratings
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Work 2.0: Nowhere to Hide
Work 2.0: Nowhere to Hide 3.60 avg rating โ€” 42 ratings
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America Never Promised Us Happiness
America Never Promised Us Happiness 3.14 avg rating โ€” 7 ratings
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Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China
Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China 3.98 avg rating โ€” 631 ratings
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