Social Science Books

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We Are Called to Be a Movement
We Are Called to Be a Movement 4.48 avg rating — 460 ratings
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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences: Severe Deprivation in America
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences: Severe Deprivation in America really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Beyond the Culture of Contest
Beyond the Culture of Contest 4.69 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Woman, Life, Freedom
Woman, Life, Freedom 4.46 avg rating — 3,179 ratings
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The New Science of Social Change: A Modern Handbook for Activists
The New Science of Social Change: A Modern Handbook for Activists 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Master Harold...and the Boys
Master Harold...and the Boys 3.78 avg rating — 6,696 ratings
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Reason and Cause: Social Science and the Social World
Reason and Cause: Social Science and the Social World 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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I Escaped a Chinese Internment Camp
I Escaped a Chinese Internment Camp 4.17 avg rating — 406 ratings
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Interviewing for Education and Social Science Research: The Gateway Approach
Interviewing for Education and Social Science Research: The Gateway Approach really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Breathing Space: Iranian Women Photographers
Breathing Space: Iranian Women Photographers 4.62 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography
Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare: A Guide to the Armed Phase of the African Revolution.
Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare: A Guide to the Armed Phase of the African Revolution. 4.37 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Recording Oral History: A Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Recording Oral History: A Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences 3.79 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Inherit the Wind
Inherit the Wind 3.93 avg rating — 23,931 ratings
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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century 4.26 avg rating — 2,337 ratings
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Koreatown Dreaming: Stories & Portraits of Korean Immigrant Life
Koreatown Dreaming: Stories & Portraits of Korean Immigrant Life 4.18 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Sacred Economics, Revised: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition
Sacred Economics, Revised: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition 4.22 avg rating — 1,844 ratings
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Solzhenitsyn: A Pictorial Autobiography
Solzhenitsyn: A Pictorial Autobiography 3.78 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World 3.91 avg rating — 3,109 ratings
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Edicts of Asoka (Midway Reprint Series)
Edicts of Asoka (Midway Reprint Series)
by: Asoka
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life 3.93 avg rating — 3,693 ratings
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Life of Che
Life of Che 3.76 avg rating — 475 ratings
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Suicide: A Study in Sociology
Suicide: A Study in Sociology 3.85 avg rating — 4,381 ratings
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Peeling the Onion: Library Edition
Peeling the Onion: Library Edition 3.86 avg rating — 2,112 ratings
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Stolen Lightning: Social Theory of Magic
Stolen Lightning: Social Theory of Magic
by: OKEEFE,
3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Camp notes and other poems
Camp notes and other poems 4.19 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel
The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel 4.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Bloodbath Nation
Bloodbath Nation 3.87 avg rating — 1,447 ratings
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction
W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction 4.51 avg rating — 3,199 ratings
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Soul on Ice
Soul on Ice 3.97 avg rating — 14,658 ratings
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The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology 4.38 avg rating — 213 ratings
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Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice
Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice 4.41 avg rating — 2,645 ratings
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Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles
Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles 4.36 avg rating — 355 ratings
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The Way of Man
The Way of Man 4.27 avg rating — 913 ratings
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W.E.B. Du Bois: A Reader
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Reader 4.40 avg rating — 85 ratings
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The Analects
The Analects
by: Confucius
3.81 avg rating — 23,510 ratings
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Patterns of American Culture: Ethnography and Estrangement
Patterns of American Culture: Ethnography and Estrangement
by: Dan Rose
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Fred Korematsu: All American Hero
Fred Korematsu: All American Hero really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Cloth and Human Experience
Cloth and Human Experience 3.97 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Putin's Russia: The Rise of a Dictator
Putin's Russia: The Rise of a Dictator 3.97 avg rating — 1,302 ratings
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Selling Salem's Witches: An Ethnography of a New England Tourist Town
Selling Salem's Witches: An Ethnography of a New England Tourist Town liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Doctrine of Fascism
The Doctrine of Fascism 3.12 avg rating — 1,281 ratings
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After War: The Weight of Life at Walter Reed (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography)
After War: The Weight of Life at Walter Reed (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography) 4.06 avg rating — 49 ratings
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(Dis)placement
(Dis)placement 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn
American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Native Son
Native Son 4.04 avg rating — 103,289 ratings
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Ethnographic Film
Ethnographic Film 3.58 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Make Trouble
Make Trouble 4.08 avg rating — 1,598 ratings
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You Owe Yourself a Drunk: An Ethnography of Urban Nomads
You Owe Yourself a Drunk: An Ethnography of Urban Nomads 3.96 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Just Americans: How Japanese Americans Won a War at Home and Abroad: the Story of the 100th Battalion/442d Regimental Combat Team in World War II, Library Edition
Just Americans: How Japanese Americans Won a War at Home and Abroad: the Story of the 100th Battalion/442d Regimental Combat Team in World War II, Library Edition 4.13 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science 3.85 avg rating — 587 ratings
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Everything
Everything 4.09 avg rating — 75 ratings
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With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson
With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson 3.95 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Become the Media
Become the Media 4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Fateful Hoaxing Of Margaret Mead: A Historical Analysis Of Her Samoan Research
The Fateful Hoaxing Of Margaret Mead: A Historical Analysis Of Her Samoan Research 3.09 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times 4.19 avg rating — 17,158 ratings
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Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle
Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle 3.58 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Notes on Grief
Notes on Grief 4.22 avg rating — 37,703 ratings
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The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy
The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy 4.09 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Her Honor: My Life on the Bench...What Works, What's Broken, and How to Change It
Her Honor: My Life on the Bench...What Works, What's Broken, and How to Change It 4.37 avg rating — 498 ratings
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Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation 3.55 avg rating — 3,150 ratings
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The Dead Lecturer
The Dead Lecturer 4.09 avg rating — 199 ratings
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Kwakiutl Texts
Kwakiutl Texts really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Sweating in the Land of Smiles: Living in Bangkok During the Year of Radical Change
Sweating in the Land of Smiles: Living in Bangkok During the Year of Radical Change 4.83 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Machine Gun in the Clown's Hand
Machine Gun in the Clown's Hand 4.36 avg rating — 25 ratings
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A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911
A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911 4.38 avg rating — 24 ratings
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This Is Your Time
This Is Your Time 4.51 avg rating — 2,985 ratings
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Anthropology and the Public Interest: Fieldwork and Theory
Anthropology and the Public Interest: Fieldwork and Theory liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Mas! Cine Mexicano: Sensational Mexican Movie Posters 1957 - 1990
Mas! Cine Mexicano: Sensational Mexican Movie Posters 1957 - 1990 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Experimental Archaeology and Theory: Recent Approaches to Archaeological Hypotheses
Experimental Archaeology and Theory: Recent Approaches to Archaeological Hypotheses 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Dictionary Of Dangerous Ideas
The Dictionary Of Dangerous Ideas 3.58 avg rating — 24 ratings
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A General Theory of Magic
A General Theory of Magic 3.80 avg rating — 341 ratings
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Man Without a Country
Man Without a Country 4.10 avg rating — 48,829 ratings
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Bioarchaeology: An Integrated Approach to Working with Human Remains
Bioarchaeology: An Integrated Approach to Working with Human Remains 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Trotsky for Beginners
Trotsky for Beginners
by: Tariq Ali
3.73 avg rating — 379 ratings
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The Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Theories of Culture
The Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Theories of Culture 3.77 avg rating — 140 ratings
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T-Minus: The Race to the Moon
T-Minus: The Race to the Moon 3.73 avg rating — 552 ratings
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Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being
Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being 3.99 avg rating — 1,346 ratings
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Phoolan Devi, Rebel Queen
Phoolan Devi, Rebel Queen 4.41 avg rating — 480 ratings
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The Book That Changed America: How Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation
The Book That Changed America: How Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation 3.61 avg rating — 527 ratings
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 4.07 avg rating — 370,611 ratings
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Archaeological Theory: An Introduction
Archaeological Theory: An Introduction 3.81 avg rating — 413 ratings
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Wizzywig: Portrait of a Serial Hacker
Wizzywig: Portrait of a Serial Hacker
by: Ed Piskor
3.69 avg rating — 1,429 ratings
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Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory
Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory 3.93 avg rating — 647 ratings
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Guns
Guns 4.18 avg rating — 9,744 ratings
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Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture
Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture 3.86 avg rating — 4,038 ratings
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Peace, Love, and Pepper Spray
Peace, Love, and Pepper Spray 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Clifford Geertz by His Colleagues
Clifford Geertz by His Colleagues liked it 3.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin - Penguin 60's Series (Full Audio book)
Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin - Penguin 60's Series (Full Audio book) 4.32 avg rating — 9,289 ratings
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Local Knowledge: Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology
Local Knowledge: Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology 4.06 avg rating — 337 ratings
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180 Days Abroad with the Chinese Locals: What Textbooks and Classrooms Don't Tell Us About China
180 Days Abroad with the Chinese Locals: What Textbooks and Classrooms Don't Tell Us About China 4.75 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author
Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author 3.91 avg rating — 266 ratings
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The Twists and Turns of Living in Shanghai: Before, During, and After the Honeymoon
The Twists and Turns of Living in Shanghai: Before, During, and After the Honeymoon 4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Interpretation of Cultures
The Interpretation of Cultures 4.11 avg rating — 3,827 ratings
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The Wisdom of Malcolm X
The Wisdom of Malcolm X
by: Malcolm X
3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Constructive Drinking
Constructive Drinking 3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Fragments
Fragments 3.87 avg rating — 227 ratings
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War, Peace, and Human Nature: The Convergence of Evolutionary and Cultural Views
War, Peace, and Human Nature: The Convergence of Evolutionary and Cultural Views 4.58 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Jungle
The Jungle 4.24 avg rating — 811 ratings
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