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Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society

by Nicholas A. Christakis MD PhD

427 members

13 reviews

3.9

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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

by Charles Mackay

2,963 members

43 reviews

3.8

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Children's Play in Diverse Cultures (Suny Series, Children's Play in Society)

by Jaipaul L. Roopnarine

3 members

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Children of Six Cultures: A Psycho-Cultural Analysis, in collaboration with Richard Longabaugh

by Beatrice Whiting

13 members

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Play: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis (Play and Cultural Studies)

by Felicia McMahon

3 members

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The Anthropology of Childhood: Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings

by David F. Lancy

108 members

1 review

½ 4.4

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The Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups

by Erika Christakis

229 members

5 reviews

½ 3.4

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Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

by Johan Huizinga

1,427 members

13 reviews

3.9

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Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil

385 members

27 reviews

½ 3.5

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The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution

68 members

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Convention on the Rights of the Child

by United Nations

12 members

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They Make Themselves: Work and Play among the Baining of Papua New Guinea (Worlds of Desire - The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender and Culture)

11 members

1 review

4

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The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume 2

by Charles Darwin

25 members

1 review

½ 3.5

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The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays

by Clifford Geertz

1,864 members

9 reviews

3.9

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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

by Steven Pinker

4,951 members

61 reviews

4.1

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Human Universals

by Donald E. Brown

113 members

3 reviews

3.8

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Handbook of Cognition and Emotion

by Tim Dalgleish

22 members

1 review

3

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Syntactic Structures

by Noam Chomsky

563 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

by Steven Pinker

6,521 members

63 reviews

4

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The Social Conquest of Earth

by Edward O. Wilson

989 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

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Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are

by Robert Plomin

231 members

5 reviews

4.1

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The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron

by Roger Shattuck

139 members

3.2

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Natural Experiments of History

by Jared Diamond

160 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

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The Mariner's Chronicle: Containing Narratives of the Most Remarkable Disasters at Sea, Such as Shipwrecks, Storms,

by Archibald Duncan

8 members

1 review

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Natural Disasters and Cultural Change (One World Archaeology)

by John Grattan

2 members

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Perils and Captivity: Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family aft

by Pierre Raymond de Brisson

5 members

1 review

3

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The shipwreck and adventures of Monsieur Pierre Viaud ... Translated from the French, by Mrs. Griffith

by Jean Gaspard Dubois-Fontanelle

1 member

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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors

by Piers Paul Read

2,669 members

69 reviews

4

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The Sydney Cove shipwreck survivors camp

by Michael Nash

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Offshore Asia: Maritime Interactions in Eastern Asia Before Steamships

by Fujita Kayoko

8 members

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Divine Providence: The Wreck and Rescue of The Julia Ann (DVD Included)

by Fred E. Woods

3 members

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Blenden Hall; the True Story of a Shipwreck, a Casting Away and Life on a Desert Island,

by John Gilbert Lockhart

5 members

½ 3.5

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Sydney Cove : the history and archaeology of an eighteenth-century shipwreck

by Michael Nash

1 member

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A journal from Calcutta ... to England, in the year, 1750. To which are added, Directions by E. Eliot, for passing over the little desart from Busserah. ... proceedings of the Doddington East-Indiaman

by Bartholomew Plaisted

1 member

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Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

700 members

43 reviews

3.9

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Wake of the Invercauld: Shipwrecked in the Sub-Antarctic: A Great-Granddaughter's Pilgrimage

by Madelene Allen

8 members

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Wrecked On A Reef

by François Édouard Raynal

18 members

4

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Castaway on the Auckland Isles

by Thomas Musgrave

4 members

4

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Islands of despair, being an account of a survey expedition to the sub-Antarctic islands of New Zealand

by Allan William Eden

2 members

5

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The Pitcairners

by Robert B. Nicolson

13 members

½ 3.5

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Life and Death in Eden: The Story of the Bounty Mutineers and Pitcairn Island

by Trevor Lummis

56 members

1 review

2.9

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Pitcairn Island, the Bounty Mutineers and Their Descendants: A History

by Robert W. Kirk

6 members

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The Heritage of the Bounty

by Harry L. Shapiro

26 members

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Mutiny and Romance in the South Seas: A Companion to the Bounty Adventure

by Sven Wahlroos

10 members

½ 3.7

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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

by Jared M. Diamond

13,443 members

190 reviews

3.9

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The Vocation Lectures

652 members

8 reviews

3.9

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by Margery Turner Fisher

21 members

4

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The diaries of Frank Hurley, 1912-1941

by Frank Hurley

7 members

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Social Stratification in Polynesia

by Marshall D. Sahlins

5 members

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Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History

734 members

45 reviews

3.9

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / Walden / The Maine Woods / Cape Cod

by Henry David Thoreau

935 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

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Henry David Thoreau (Literary Greats)

by Milton Meltzer

22 members

4

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Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau

8,811 members

60 reviews

3.9

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Community and Society

by Ferdinand Tönnies

132 members

½ 4.3

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Economy and Society [complete]

665 members

5 reviews

½ 4.3

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Alienation and Charisma: A Study of Contemporary American Communes

by Benjamin David Zablocki

2 members

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America's Communal Utopias

by Donald E. Pitzer

72 members

½ 4.7

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13,726 members

135 reviews

½ 3.5

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The Communistic Societies of the United States: Economic Social and Religious Utopias of the Nineteenth Century

by Charles Nordhoff

235 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

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History of American Socialisms

by John Humphrey Noyes

57 members

1 review

4.2

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Freedoms Ferment Phases of American Social History from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Civil War

by Alice Felt Tyler

110 members

1 review

4.2

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Democracy in America

by Alexis de Tocqueville

5,369 members

28 reviews

4.2

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Brotherly Tomorrows: Movements for a Cooperative Society in America, 1820-1920

by Edward K. Spann

5 members

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Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia

by Sterling F. Delano

36 members

½ 3.5

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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

by Jonathan Haidt

4,207 members

93 reviews

4.1

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An account of the matter, form, and manner of a new and strange religion, taught and propagated by a number of Europeans, living in a place called Nisqueunia, in the state of New-York

by Valentine Rathbun

1 member

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The Shaker Experience in America: A History of the United Society of Believers

by Stephen J. Stein

165 members

1 review

4

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The Hutterites in North America (Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies)

19 members

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Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development

by George E. Vaillant

267 members

3 reviews

3.8

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A Theory of Justice

3,546 members

28 reviews

3.9

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Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood

by Steven Mintz

251 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

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Women in the kibbutz

by Lionel Tiger

63 members

1 review

½ 0.5

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Crisis and Transformation: The Kibbutz at Century's End (S U N Y Series in Israeli Studies)

by Eliezer Ben-Rafael

4 members

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One hundred years of kibbutz life : a century of crises and reinvention

by Michal Palgi

7 members

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The Imperial Animal

by Lionel Tiger

95 members

½ 3.7

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Gender and Culture: Kibbutz Women Revisited

by Melford E. Spiro

20 members

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by B. F. Skinner

2,313 members

27 reviews

½ 3.3

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SHAPING OF A BEHAVIORIST (Particulars of My Life, Part 2)

by B. F. Skinner

27 members

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Living the dream: A documentary study of the Twin Oaks community (Communal societies and utopian studies book series)

by Ingrid Komar

11 members

1 review

½ 2.5

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The philosophy of utopia

by Barbara Goodwin

12 members

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Living Walden Two: B. F. Skinner's Behaviorist Utopia and Experimental Communities

by Hilke Kuhlmann

14 members

3.8

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Working communally : patterns and possibilities

by David G. French

4 members

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From Antarctica to Outer Space: Life in Isolation and Confinement

by Albert A. Harrison

4 members

5

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Polar human biology : the proceedings of the SCAR/IUPS/IUBS Symposium on Human Biology and Medicine in the Antarctic

2 members

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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

by Alfred Lansing

6,290 members

153 reviews

½ 4.4

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The Great United States Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842

by William Ragan Stanton

37 members

½ 3.5

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Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives

by Nicholas A. Christakis

806 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

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88

From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology

by Hans H. Gerth

997 members

1 review

3.9

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89

The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine

by Tom Standage

463 members

10 reviews

3.8

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Complex Organizations: A Sociological Reader

by Amitai Etzioni

5 members

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Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human

by Tom Boellstorff

167 members

3 reviews

3.8

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Climbing Mount Improbable

by Richard Dawkins

2,214 members

8 reviews

3.9

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A New Kind of Science

by Stephen Wolfram

1,656 members

19 reviews

3.2

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That Complex Whole: Culture And The Evolution Of Human Behavior

30 members

3.8

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The Time Machine

20,295 members

386 reviews

½ 3.7

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Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

61,659 members

871 reviews

3.9

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Orphans of the Sky

by Robert A. Heinlein

2,644 members

44 reviews

½ 3.5

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

94,540 members

1,452 reviews

4.2

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by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

2,898 members

77 reviews

½ 3.5

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Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

57,506 members

818 reviews

½ 3.7

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