Rhetoric and strategy of social change
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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
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Carol Tavris
4.04 avg rating — 28,667 ratings 2. 
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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Malcolm Gladwell
4.01 avg rating — 844,317 ratings 3. 
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
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Chip Heath
3.98 avg rating — 97,584 ratings 4. 
The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement
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Hajar Yazdiha
4.11 avg rating — 36 ratings 5. 
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
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Charles Duhigg
4.13 avg rating — 549,188 ratings 
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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Dan Ariely
4.12 avg rating — 129,375 ratings 12. 
Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure WeAre Way Above Average 3.90 avg rating — 9,048 ratings
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Striking at the Roots: A Practical Guide to Animal Activism
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Mark Hawthorne
4.14 avg rating — 217 ratings 16. 
Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives
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Michael Specter
3.73 avg rating — 2,246 ratings 
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Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment
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Thomas Gilovich
4.39 avg rating — 475 ratings 19. 
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
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Daniel H. Pink
3.95 avg rating — 123,673 ratings 20. 
How To Re-Imagine The World: A Pocket Guide for Practical Visionaries
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Anthony Weston
3.85 avg rating — 84 ratings 
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Terrorists or Freedom Fighters?: Reflections on the Liberation of Animals
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Steven Best
4.26 avg rating — 163 ratings 25. 
Strategic Action for Animals: A Handbook on Strategic Movement Building, Organizing, and Activism for Animal Liberation
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Melanie Joy
4.19 avg rating — 113 ratings 26. 
The Animal Activist's Handbook: Maximizing Our Positive Impact in Today's World (Flashpoint
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Matt Ball
4.21 avg rating — 277 ratings 
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The Impulse Factor: Why Some of Us Play It Safe and Others Risk It All
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Nick Tasler
3.25 avg rating — 117 ratings 29. 
Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind
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Gary F. Marcus
3.82 avg rating — 2,068 ratings 30. 
Language Intelligence: Lessons on Persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga
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Joseph J. Romm
3.86 avg rating — 387 ratings 31. 
The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
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Joel Bakan
4.07 avg rating — 4,787 ratings 
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Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better
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Clive Thompson
3.94 avg rating — 2,484 ratings 31. 
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
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Malala Yousafzai
4.16 avg rating — 612,744 ratings 
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To the Survivors: One Man's Journey as a Rape Crisis Counselor with True Stories of Sexual Violence
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Robert Uttaro
4.03 avg rating — 184 ratings 31. 
BILLIONAIRES and BAGMEN: What Happens When A Small Town Takes Them On
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Ray Bourhis
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 31. 
Text Structure: A Window into Discourse, Context and Mind
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Nelly Tincheva
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 
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How to Make Trouble and Influence People: Pranks, Protests, Graffiti & Political Mischief-Making from across Australia
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Iain McIntyre
4.56 avg rating — 16 ratings 31. 
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Our Better Angels: Seven Simple Virtues That Will Change Your Life and the World 4.04 avg rating — 221 ratings
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The Case for Cancel Culture: How This Democratic Tool Works to Liberate Us All
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Ernest Owens
3.32 avg rating — 216 ratings 31. 
We Don't Want YOU, Uncle Sam: Examining the Military Recruiting Crisis with Generation Z
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Matthew Weiss
4.09 avg rating — 57 ratings 31. 
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
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Malcolm Gladwell
4.04 avg rating — 45,768 ratings 
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Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
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Steven Johnson
3.99 avg rating — 15,388 ratings 
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The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order
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George Monbiot
3.79 avg rating — 536 ratings 51. 
Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation
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Jonathan Rieder
4.24 avg rating — 517 ratings 51. 
God Hates Flags! Buy This Book or Go to Hell.: With an Introduction by God
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Lin Xun
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 51. 
High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out
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Amanda Ripley
4.27 avg rating — 4,489 ratings 
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Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
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Noam Chomsky
3.97 avg rating — 13,936 ratings 
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¡Sí, Ella Puede!: The Rhetorical Legacy of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers 4.23 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism
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Ashis Nandy
4.03 avg rating — 331 ratings 63. 
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Nonviolence Ain't What It Used To Be: Unarmed Insurrection and the Rhetoric of Resistance
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Shon Meckfessel
4.15 avg rating — 48 ratings 69. 
Body Politics: Five Practices of the Christian Community Before the Watching World 4.11 avg rating — 280 ratings
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Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation 4.28 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Writing to Persuade: How to Bring People Over to Your Side
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Trish Hall
3.70 avg rating — 605 ratings 77. 
On Politics: A History of Political Thought From Herodotus to the Present
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Alan Ryan
4.19 avg rating — 652 ratings 
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Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness
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George Saunders
4.18 avg rating — 8,984 ratings 
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Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches
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Catherine Ellis
4.43 avg rating — 47 ratings 82. 
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
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Toni Morrison
4.30 avg rating — 4,087 ratings 83. 
Say It Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity
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Catherine Ellis
4.32 avg rating — 31 ratings 
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We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama
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Joy-Ann Reid
4.34 avg rating — 552 ratings 87. 
The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies)
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Fannie Lou Hamer
4.51 avg rating — 49 ratings 88. 
For the Prevention of Cruelty: The History and Legacy of Animal Rights Activism in the United States
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Diane L. Beers
4.11 avg rating — 81 ratings 
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Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech That Transformed a Nation 4.12 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Power in Words: The Stories Behind Barack Obama's Speeches, from the State House to the White House 3.73 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Soapbox Rebellion: The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916
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Matthew S. May
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings 97. 
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The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle
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Clayborne Carson
4.42 avg rating — 286 ratings 99. 
Paul Robeson Speaks: Writings, Speeches, and Interviews, a Centennial Celebration
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Paul Robeson
4.43 avg rating — 28 ratings 100. 
The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Churchill's World War II Speeches
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Richard Toye
3.88 avg rating — 34 ratings