Controversial Books for EwuPlanning

This page shows the most "controversial" books in this library, as measured by the highest standard deviation of members' star ratings.

Standard Deviation Average Rating Your Rating Title
1.25 3.66 The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations by Peter Senge
1.22 2.89 The Greening of America: How the Youth Revolution Is Trying to Make America Livable (WRONG ISBN) by Charles A. Reich
1.194 3.35 The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition by Theodore Roszak
1.178 3.85 Rand McNally Goode's World Atlas by J. Paul Goode
1.157 3.56 The New Industrial State by John Kenneth Galbraith
1.155 3.86 The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind by Donella H. Meadows
1.153 3.73 Writing the Natural Way by Gabriele Lusser Rico
1.123 3.93 Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
1.118 3.62 Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis by Sigmund Freud
1.11 3.76 APA 7th Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by American Psychological Association
1.09 3.96 Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi
1.077 3.6 Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
1.075 3.65 The experience economy: work is theatre & every business a stage by B. Joseph Pine
1.039 4.19 A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method by Sir Banister Fletcher
1.03 3.78 The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World by Peter Schwartz
1.029 3.88 The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck
1.025 3.63 In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies by Thomas J. Peters
1.02 3.7 What Color Is Your Parachute?: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers by Richard N. Bolles
1.019 3.67 The Archaeology of Greece by William R. Biers
1.016 3.26 The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People by E. E. Evans-Pritchard
1.009 3.21 Organizational Behavior: Research and Issues by Stephen P. Robbins
1.009 3.63 Long emergency : Surviving the end of oil, climate change, and other converging catastrophes of the twenty-first century by James Howard Kunstler
1.007 3.72 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Personal Workbook by Stephen R. Covey
1.004 3.88 A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations by Kate L. Turabian
0.991 3.45 The New Russians by Hedrick Smith
0.99 4 Handbook of Mathematical Functions: with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables by Milton Abramowitz
0.984 3.86 Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
0.968 4.15 The Elements of Style by William Jr. Strunk
0.961 3.52 Megatrends 2000 by John Naisbitt
0.955 3.62 Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier by Edward L. Glaeser
0.954 4.04 The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter Senge
0.948 4.11 The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
0.942 4.07 Diffusion of Innovations by Everett M. Rogers
0.938 3.66 The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
0.937 3.96 The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
0.935 3.92 The Hidden Dimension by Edward T. Hall
0.933 3.97 Random House College Dictionary by Dictionary
0.925 3.56 Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership by Lee G. Bolman
0.924 3.99 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
0.92 3.57 An Outline of European Architecture by Nikolaus Pevsner
0.916 3.4 Off the Map: The Curious Histories of Place-Names by Derek Nelson
0.912 3.83 Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos by M. Mitchell Waldrop
0.905 3.64 Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things by Alan Thein Durning
0.903 4.07 The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge by Peter L. Berger
0.901 4 Primer of Visual Literacy by Donis A. Dondis
0.898 3.94 Tally's Corner by Elliot Liebow
0.898 3.77 All I Asking for Is My Body by Milton Murayama
0.896 3.64 Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 by Anna Deavere Smith
0.888 3.67 Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches by John W. Cresswell
0.887 3.98 The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups by Mancur Olson
0.885 3.81 The Russians by Hedrick Smith
0.884 4.08 As Far As You Can Go Without A Passport: The View From The End Of The Road by Tom Bodett
0.884 3.58 Edge City: Life on the New Frontier by Joel Garreau
0.88 3.55 The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
0.879 3.93 Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins
0.875 3.98 Europe: A History by Norman Davies
0.873 4 The West: An Illustrated History by Geoffrey C. Ward
0.871 3.53 Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution by Tom Peters
0.866 3.52 The Practice of Social Research by Earl R. Babbie
0.861 3.92 The Nine Nations of North America by Joel Garreau
0.852 4.09 The Farther Reaches of Human Nature by Abraham H. Maslow
0.84 3.92 Economics by Paul A. Samuelson
0.838 4.27 Connections by James Burke
0.837 3.82 Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus
0.834 4.19 The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
0.831 4.05 The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination by Robert Coles
0.829 3.54 The Organization Man by William H. Whyte
0.812 3.5 The Reshaping of Everyday Life: 1790-1840 by Jack Larkin
0.809 4.06 The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806 by Jonathan Israel
0.793 4.21 The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America by Leo Marx
0.79 3.53 Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids by Julie Salamon
0.79 3.82 The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter
0.777 4.15 The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects by Lewis Mumford
0.761 4.26 Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford
0.746 3.97 The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace
0.742 4.31 Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative by Edward R. Tufte
0.74 3.56 Far Appalachia: Following the New River North by Noah Adams
0.728 4.37 Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices by Peter F. Drucker
0.724 4.42 The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte
0.721 4.18 The Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert A. Simon
0.699 4.02 City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America by Donald L. Miller
0.673 4.37 Thought and Language by Lev S. Vygotsky