Controversial Books for andre.manhaes

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
1.181 3.82 Formação econômica do Brasil by Celso Furtado
1.144 3.44 Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation: An Introduction to Theory and History by Joseph S. Nye
1.104 3.85 Political Liberalism by John Rawls
1.094 3.4 The Law of Peoples - with "the Idea of Public" by John Rawls
1.071 3.58 Intermediate Microeconomics: A Modern Approach by Hal R. Varian
1.067 3.83 Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through The Wilds of Strategic Management by Henry Mintzberg
1.017 3.46 The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone by Joseph S. Nye Jr.
1.012 3 Planet India: How the Fastest Growing Democracy Is Transforming America and the World by Mira Kamdar
0.998 3.33 The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
0.98 3.43 Social Psychology by Elliot Aronson
0.979 3.81 Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World by Noam Chomsky
0.976 3.61 The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714 by Christopher Hill
0.964 3.87 A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
0.949 3.5 Dr. Strangelove's Game: A Brief History of Economic Genius by Paul Strathern
0.94 4.06 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
0.932 3.82 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
0.93 3.76 Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think by Dennis Greenberger
0.912 3.97 The Gods of the Greeks by Karl Kerényi
0.897 4.03 Man and His Symbols by Carl Gustav Jung
0.895 3.27 The Principles of Scientific Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor
0.883 3.82 The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
0.883 4.04 Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
0.872 4.13 The Historian's Craft by Marc Bloch
0.866 4.3 Raízes do Brasil by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda
0.857 3.71 Sociology by Anthony Giddens
0.856 3.64 First as Tragedy, Then as Farce by Slavoj Žižek
0.85 3.74 A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani
0.85 3.9 The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor
0.848 3.8 Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates by Slavoj Žižek
0.829 4.31 The Brazilian People: The Formation and Meaning of Brazil by Darcy Ribeiro
0.826 3.65 Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
0.826 4.1 The twenty years' crisis 1919-1939 by E. H. Carr
0.807 3.52 The Middle East: 2000 Years of History From the Rise of Christianity to the Present Day by Bernard Lewis
0.806 4.02 Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
0.802 4.34 Modernity and the Holocaust by Zygmunt Bauman
0.8 4.34 The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich
0.799 4.2 A History of the Crusades, Volume I: The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem by Steven Runciman
0.795 4.25 We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
0.792 4.16 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
0.786 3.99 The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm
0.767 4.21 The Hour of Our Death by Philippe Ariès
0.766 3.67 Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?: An Essay on the Constitutive Imagination by Paul Veyne
0.765 3.87 The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos by Leonard Mlodinow
0.76 4.31 The Story of Art by E. H. Gombrich
0.753 4.24 Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V. S. Ramachandran
0.733 4.15 From a Logical Point of View: 9 Logico-Philosophical Essays by W. V. Quine
0.719 3.56 A Concise History of Germany by Mary Fulbrook
0.64 4.39 Chronicle of the Murdered House by Lúcio Cardoso
0.596 4.47 Hitler: Ascent: 1889-1939 by Volker Ullrich