Controversial Books for TheoSmit

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
1.308 3.56 Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence by Stefano Mancuso
1.219 3.54 The Philosopher's Diet: How to Lose Weight & Change the World (Nonpareil Book, 81) by Richard A. Watson
1.207 3.13 Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone by Immanuel Kant
1.188 3.77 Leviathan & the Air Pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life by Steven Shapin
1.187 3.62 A Cordiall Water: A Garland of Odd and Old Receipts to Assuage the Ills of Man and Beast by M. F. K. Fisher
1.158 3.44 Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide by Charles Foster
1.152 3.66 How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
1.15 3.89 Nancy Silverton's Breads from the La Brea Bakery: Recipes for the Connoisseur by Nancy Silverton
1.138 3.64 The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America's Underground Food Movements by Sandor Ellix Katz
1.135 3.22 Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair by Carlo Petrini
1.122 3.54 The Raw and the Cooked: Introduction to a Science of Mythology: I by Claude Lévi-Strauss
1.122 3.55 Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton
1.116 3.46 The River Cafe Cook Book by Rose Gray
1.115 3.69 Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists by Susan Neiman
1.11 3.38 Time for Outrage: Indignez-vous! by Stéphane Hessel
1.105 3.34 The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life by Michael Puett
1.098 3.42 Bouquiner : Autobiobibliographie by Annie François
1.098 3.23 The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die by Niall Ferguson
1.089 3.83 White Trash Cooking by Ernest Matthew Mickler
1.088 2.95 The Wet and the Dry: A Drinker's Journey by Lawrence Osborne
1.077 3.6 Strategy: A History by Lawrence Freedman
1.076 3.79 Empire of Signs by Roland Barthes
1.07 4 The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen
1.066 2.44 Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession by Julie Powell
1.064 3.88 Walden / Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
1.064 3.85 We Have Never Been Modern by Bruno Latour
1.057 3.9 The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy by Stephanie Kelton
1.054 3.74 The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
1.052 3.38 Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir by Eddie Huang
1.051 3.2 Against Everything: Essays by Mark Greif
1.049 3.88 Theological-Political Treatise by Baruch Spinoza
1.046 3.54 Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson
1.045 4.02 The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
1.043 3.92 Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy by Susan Neiman
1.042 3.32 Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion by Paul Bloom
1.04 3.23 Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth by A. O. Scott
1.04 3.94 Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and a Radical New Way to Make a Difference by William MacAskill
1.037 3.9 Die Kunst des klugen Handelns: 52 Irrwege, die Sie besser anderen überlassen by Rolf Dobelli
1.033 3.71 Fields of Greens: New Vegetarian Recipes From The Celebrated Greens Restaurant by Annie Somerville
1.032 4.1 The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen
1.031 4.08 The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist
1.029 4.22 The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating by Fergus Henderson
1.028 3.96 The Book About Books: The Anatomy of Bibliomania by Holbrook Jackson
1.026 3.97 Democracy in America, Volume 2 (Vintage Classics) by Alexis de Tocqueville
1.025 3.58 After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order by Emmanuel Todd
1.023 3.43 Sane New World: Taming the Mind by Ruby Wax
1.02 3.72 A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes by David Tanis
1.019 3.51 How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard
1.018 3.69 Appetite for Life by Noël Riley Fitch
1.017 3.55 Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy by Pascal Bruckner
1.017 3.51 The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu by Dan Jurafsky
1.016 3.72 Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People by Joan Roughgarden
1.013 4.02 Summer Cooking by Elizabeth David
1.01 3.95 The order of things: an archaeology of the human sciences by Michel Foucault
1.007 3.77 Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan
1.007 3.48 The Craftsman by Richard Sennett
1.004 3.79 The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self by Thomas Metzinger
1.003 3.47 Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell
1.003 4.09 The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude by Estienne de La Boètie
1.001 4.1 Seductions of Rice: A Cookbook by Jeffrey Alford
1.001 3.99 Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste by Pierre Bourdieu
1.001 3.89 Momofuku by David Chang
1 3.61 Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain by Antonio Damasio
0.994 3.77 The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester
0.994 3.46 Cigarettes Are Sublime by Richard Klein
0.994 3.54 The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically by Peter Singer
0.994 3.98 Honey from a Weed: Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades, and Apulia by Patience Gray
0.993 3.44 Logic: A Very Short Introduction by Graham Priest
0.99 3.48 Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole by Benjamin R. Barber
0.987 3.72 The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Wilson
0.986 3.82 The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories by Christopher Booker
0.986 3.37 This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress (Edge Question Series) by John Brockman
0.985 3.79 Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu
0.984 3.97 The Nature of Things by Francis Ponge
0.979 3.89 Keys to Good Cooking: A Guide to Making the Best of Foods and Recipes by Harold McGee
0.975 3.74 This Is Not the End of the Book by Umberto Eco
0.975 4 Home Baking: The Artful Mix of Flour and Traditions from Around the World by Jeffrey Alford
0.974 3.51 A History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel
0.973 3.8 What Is History? by E. H. Carr
0.972 4.02 The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape by James Rebanks
0.972 4.07 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
0.97 3.57 Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
0.969 4.07 Vegetables, Revised: The Most Authoritative Guide to Buying, Preparing, and Cooking, with More than 300 Recipes by James Peterson
0.969 4.32 Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook: Recipes from Hunan Province by Fuchsia Dunlop
0.968 4.07 Tapas: The Little Dishes of Spain by Penelope Casas
0.967 3.66 A Short History of Drunkenness by Mark Forsyth
0.967 3.57 Olives: The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit by Mort Rosenblum
0.967 3.81 The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen: Recipes for the Passionate Cook by Paula Wolfert
0.966 4.13 The Roads to Sata by Alan Booth
0.965 3.59 How to Read a French Fry: And Other Stories of Intriguing Kitchen Science by Russ Parsons
0.964 3.13 Socrates : A Very Short Introduction by C. C. W. Taylor
0.964 3.87 A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
0.964 4.18 English Bread and Yeast Cookery by Elizabeth David
0.964 3.82 Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
0.963 2.98 Debunked! ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience by Georges Charpak
0.963 3.92 The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created by William J. Bernstein
0.962 3.97 Tassajara Cooking by Edward Espe Brown
0.962 4.01 Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan (Kodansha Globe) by Alan Booth
0.962 3.97 The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes it Hard to be Happy by Michael Foley
0.962 3.73 The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life by Timothy Ferriss
0.96 3.99 Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber
0.958 3.62 Toast by Nigel Slater
0.958 3.65 Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting that Revolutionized Wine by George M. Taber
0.957 3.73 In Defence of English Cooking by George Orwell
0.955 3.22 Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays by Joel Waldfogel
0.954 4.13 The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt
0.954 3.93 The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook by Gloria Bley Miller
0.952 3.81 Chez Panisse Café Cookbook by Alice L. Waters
0.95 3.63 Spice: The History of a Temptation by Jack Turner
0.95 3.94 The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve by Stephen Greenblatt
0.95 3.06 A World Full of Gods: The Strange Triumph of Christianity by Keith Hopkins
0.948 3.55 Just Food: Where Locavores Get it Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly by James E. McWilliams
0.948 3.73 Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny by Amartya Sen
0.947 3.4 Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World by Benjamin Barber
0.947 3.72 Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
0.947 4.17 Madhur Jaffrey's Ultimate Curry Bible by Madhur Jaffrey
0.945 3.46 The Man Who Ate the World: In Search of the Perfect Dinner by Jay Rayner
0.944 3.96 Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz
0.944 4.15 French Country Cooking by Elizabeth David
0.943 3.67 A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century by Alasdair MacIntyre
0.942 3.67 The Pedant in the Kitchen by Julian Barnes
0.942 3.39 Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages by Anne Mendelson
0.941 3.74 The Tuscan Year: Life and Food in an Italian Valley by Elizabeth Romer
0.94 3.77 Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA by Richard C. Lewontin
0.939 4.14 Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty
0.939 3.39 This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking by John Brockman
0.938 3.93 On War by Carl von Clausewitz
0.937 3.49 The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia by Michael Booth
0.937 3.78 The Epic of Gilgamesh by Gilgamesh Poet
0.937 3.24 Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the New York Times by Amanda Hesser
0.936 3.63 Gourmet by Jirô Taniguchi
0.936 3.7 Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste by Luke Barr
0.936 3.28 What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories by Laura Shapiro
0.934 4.07 Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King
0.932 3.62 The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond
0.932 3.61 Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire by Caroline Finkel
0.931 3.86 Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals by Hal Herzog
0.93 4.02 Simple French Food by Richard Olney
0.93 3.9 The Minimalist Cooks Dinner by Mark Bittman
0.93 3.91 Memory and the Mediterranean / The Mediterranean in the Ancient World by Fernand Braudel
0.929 3.82 Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology by Johnjoe McFadden
0.928 3.9 The True History of Chocolate by Sophie D. Coe
0.927 3.69 The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction by Matthew B. Crawford
0.927 3.66 Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Cooking by Hervé This
0.926 3.89 Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han
0.926 3.81 A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Gödel and Einstein by Palle Yourgrau
0.924 3.99 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
0.924 4.04 Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It by Gabriel Wyner
0.923 4.02 Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Peter Godfrey-Smith
0.923 4 Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought by Pascal Boyer
0.921 3.93 On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
0.92 3.15 The Gourmet by Muriel Barbery
0.919 3.67 Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers by Kwame Anthony Appiah
0.918 3.97 The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel
0.917 3.29 Information: The New Language of Science by Hans Christian Von Baeyer
0.916 3.7 Mencius by Mencius
0.915 3.57 A History of Food in 100 Recipes by William Sitwell
0.913 4.16 The Key to Chinese Cooking by Irene Kuo
0.913 3.74 Casa Moro: The Second Cookbook by Samantha Clark
0.912 3.95 The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps by Eric Hazan
0.912 4.08 The Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume I: The Spell of Plato by Karl Raimund Popper
0.911 4.01 Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
0.91 3.9 A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) by Barbara Oakley
0.91 4.12 Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine
0.91 4.15 Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys of a Sceptical Muslim by Ziauddin Sardar
0.909 4.11 Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris by A. J. Liebling
0.908 4.01 The White Nile by Alan Moorehead
0.907 4.16 Democracy in America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville
0.907 4.09 American Fried: Adventures of a Happy Eater by Calvin Trillin
0.906 4.04 How to Cook a Wolf by M. F. K. Fisher
0.904 4.09 After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory by Alasdair MacIntyre
0.902 3.91 The Merchant of Prato by Iris Origo
0.901 4.02 Momofuku Milk Bar by Christina Tosi
0.901 4.23 The Greens Cookbook: Extraordinary Vegetarian Cuisine from the Celebrated Restaurant by Deborah Madison
0.9 3.37 The English: A Portrait of a People by Jeremy Paxman
0.899 4.24 Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin
0.898 3.95 Sauces: Classical and Contemporary Sauce Making by James Peterson
0.898 4.07 The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki
0.897 3.96 Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood by Martin Booth
0.896 3.87 As They Were by M. F. K. Fisher
0.896 4.05 The Story of Tea: A Cultural History and Drinking Guide by Mary Lou Heiss
0.894 3.96 Philosophy in the Flesh : The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought by George Lakoff
0.893 3.98 Chez Panisse Cooking by Paul Bertolli
0.892 3.96 Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Buyer's Tour of France by Kermit Lynch
0.892 4.01 How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
0.891 3.77 Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
0.89 4.19 Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
0.89 3.61 The Accidental Theorist and Other Dispatches from the Dismal Science by Paul Krugman
0.889 3.59 For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History by Sarah Rose
0.889 3.69 Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction by Tom Raabe
0.888 3.27 Eating My Words: An Appetite For Life by Mimi Sheraton
0.888 3.7 First Bite: How We Learn to Eat by Bee Wilson
0.888 4.06 Between Past and Future by Hannah Arendt
0.887 3.95 The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
0.887 4.06 The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger by Richard Wilkinson
0.887 4 Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World by Rutger Bregman
0.886 3.25 You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice by Tom Vanderbilt
0.886 4.11 Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
0.884 4.1 Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
0.884 4.3 Thai Food by David Thompson
0.884 3.84 The Book of Tea by Kakuzō Okakura
0.883 3.47 Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook by Alice Waters
0.882 3.96 The Physiology of Taste or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
0.882 3.87 The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten
0.882 4.21 Culinary Artistry by Andrew Dornenburg
0.882 3.65 Mediterranean Street Food by Anissa Helou
0.882 4.13 Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory by Bruno Latour
0.881 3.99 Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler
0.881 3.76 The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God by David J. Linden
0.88 3.86 Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham
0.88 3.59 Normal by Amy Bloom
0.879 3.88 Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine by Edward Lee
0.877 3.38 The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy by Sasha Issenberg
0.877 3.94 In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
0.877 3.66 In Defense of Lost Causes by Slavoj Žižek
0.876 3.75 Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Roy F. Baumeister
0.875 3.84 The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data by David Spiegelhalter
0.872 3.69 The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor--and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car by Tim Harford
0.872 4.03 With Bold Knife and Fork by M. F. K. Fisher
0.872 4.09 The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
0.872 3.57 Why We Eat What We Eat by Raymond Sokolov
0.869 3.78 Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford
0.869 3.49 The Balkans: A Short History by Mark Mazower
0.869 4.16 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
0.869 3.81 The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection by Michael Ruhlman
0.868 3.67 Schott's Food and Drink Miscellany by Ben Schott
0.867 3.67 Acquiring Genomes: The Theory of the Origins of the Species by Lynn Margulis
0.866 3.91 Bread Alone: Bold Fresh Loaves from Your Own Hands by Daniel Leader
0.865 3.62 Our Cosmic Habitat by Martin J. Rees
0.865 4.08 The French Laundry Cookbook by Thomas Keller
0.865 4.07 The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat by Charles Clover
0.863 3.77 Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe by Norman Davies
0.863 3.72 Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
0.863 4.03 Chez Panisse Vegetables by Alice Waters
0.862 3.93 The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
0.862 4.06 Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater by Calvin Trillin
0.862 3.92 Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods by Gary Paul Nabhan
0.862 3.63 The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food by Adam Gopnik
0.862 4.17 The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
0.861 4.07 The Italian Baker by Carol Field
0.861 3.92 It Must've Been Something I Ate by Jeffrey Steingarten
0.86 3.91 On Revolution by Hannah Arendt
0.86 3.95 The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
0.859 4.13 Ottolenghi: The Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi
0.859 3.92 Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
0.859 4.17 Italian Food by Elizabeth David
0.858 3.93 You Must Change Your Life by Peter Sloterdijk
0.857 4.06 Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joseph A. Schumpeter
0.855 3.89 The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy by Raj Patel
0.855 3.85 The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand by Jim Harrison
0.855 3.92 Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by James C. Scott
0.855 3.92 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
0.855 4.09 50 Great Curries of India by Camellia Panjabi
0.854 4.03 The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
0.854 3.83 Rethinking Thin by Gina Kolata
0.854 4.2 Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health by Jo Robinson
0.853 4.32 La Technique: An Illustrated Guide to the Fundamental Techniques of Cooking by Jacques Pepin
0.852 3.89 Food in History by Reay Tannahill
0.852 3.42 The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett
0.851 3.42 Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas by Mark Kurlansky
0.851 3.85 The Enchanted Broccoli Forest and Other Timeless Delicacies by Mollie Katzen
0.851 4.42 The Cake Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum
0.85 3.55 One World: the Ethics of Globalization by Peter Singer
0.849 3.74 The Reach of a Chef: Beyond the Kitchen by Michael Ruhlman
0.848 3.8 Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates by Slavoj Žižek
0.847 3.54 Inventing the Victorians by Matthew Sweet
0.847 3.68 Eat a Peach: A Memoir by David Chang
0.847 3.96 Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors by Lizzie Collingham
0.846 4.06 The Cooking of the Eastern Mediterranean: 215 Healthy, Vibrant, and Inspired Recipes by Paula Wolfert
0.846 3.97 A Visit to Don Otavio by Sybille Bedford
0.846 4.12 The Zuni Cafe Cookbook: A Compendium of Recipes and Cooking Lessons from San Francisco's Beloved Restaurant by Judy Rodgers
0.846 3.94 Long Ago in France: The Years in Dijon by M. F. K. Fisher
0.846 4.32 Splendid Soups: Recipes and Master Techniques for Making the World's Best Soups by James Peterson
0.845 3.65 The Barbarians: An Essay On the Mutation of Culture by Alessandro Baricco
0.845 3.33 Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception by George A. Akerlof
0.845 3.97 The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
0.845 4.12 Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai by Shunryu Suzuki
0.845 4.01 Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
0.844 4.5 The Art of Mexican Cooking by Diana Kennedy
0.844 3.99 Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food by Jeff Potter
0.842 4.4 Larousse Gastronomique by Prosper Montagné
0.842 3.83 The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't by Nate Silver
0.842 3.91 Roast Chicken And Other Stories by Simon Hopkinson
0.841 3.65 Blue Ginger: East Meets West Cooking with Ming Tsai by Ming Tsai
0.84 4.15 The Gastronomical Me by M. F. K. Fisher
0.84 3.56 The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton by Kathryn Hughes
0.84 3.89 Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
0.84 3.89 Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think by Brian Wansink
0.84 4.07 Couscous and Other Good Food from Morocco by Paula Wolfert
0.839 4.01 In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell
0.839 3.99 The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True by Richard Dawkins
0.838 3.86 Essentials of Cooking by James Peterson
0.838 4.03 Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Meal by Margaret Visser
0.836 4.06 A Book of Mediterranean Food by Elizabeth David
0.835 3.68 The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell by Mark Kurlansky
0.835 3.74 Creation: How Science Is Reinventing Life Itself by Adam Rutherford
0.834 4.22 Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey through Southeast Asia by Jeffrey Alford
0.833 4.04 Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions by Martha Nussbaum
0.832 3.6 Alpha Beta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World by John Man
0.832 3.88 A History of Food by Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat
0.832 4.3 Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne
0.831 3.83 The utility of force : the art of war in the modern world by Rupert Smith
0.831 4.19 Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
0.83 4 The Medieval Kitchen: Recipes from France and Italy by Odile Redon
0.83 3.84 How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg
0.829 4.08 Classic Indian Cooking by Julie Sahni
0.829 3.94 Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
0.828 3.78 Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
0.828 4.02 Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan
0.828 3.92 Anständig essen: Ein Selbstversuch by Karen Duve
0.828 3.83 Irrational Exuberance by Robert J. Shiller
0.826 4 The Blue Nile by Alan Moorehead
0.826 3.71 I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That by Ben Goldacre
0.826 3.72 The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury by Richard de Bury
0.825 3.83 A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines by Anthony Bourdain
0.824 4.06 Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well by Pellegrino Artusi
0.824 3.88 Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking by Bill Buford
0.824 4.06 Real Fast Puddings by Nigel Slater
0.824 3.5 Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century by Laura Shapiro
0.823 3.66 Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergrast
0.823 3.37 Dawkins vs. Gould : Survival of the Fittest by Kim Sterelny
0.822 3.42 Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe by Lee Smolin
0.822 4.01 In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
0.822 3.95 Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
0.821 4.3 Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life by Nick Lane
0.821 3.32 The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future by Robert Darnton
0.82 3.84 Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle
0.818 4.21 Flatbreads and Flavors: A Baker's Atlas by Jeffrey Alford
0.818 4.08 End This Depression Now! by Paul Krugman
0.818 3.98 An Alphabet for Gourmets by M. F. K. Fisher
0.818 4.25 Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
0.817 4 Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
0.817 4.08 Play With Your Food by Joost Elffers
0.816 3.33 From Here, You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurant by Michael S. Sanders
0.815 3.66 The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food by Jennifer Lee
0.814 4.18 The Open Society and Its Enemies, Vol. 2: Hegel, Marx, and the Aftermath by Karl R. Popper
0.813 3.53 Recipes for a Small Planet by Ellen Buchwald Ewald
0.812 4.2 Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel
0.812 3.72 The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World by Larry Zuckerman
0.812 4.1 Chez Panisse Fruit by Alice Waters
0.811 3.85 How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens by Benedict Carey
0.81 4 The Ethics of What We Eat by Peter Singer
0.81 3.62 Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook by Anthony Bourdain
0.81 4.04 Economics: The User's Guide by Ha-Joon Chang
0.81 4.14 Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
0.808 3.79 The Other by Ryszard Kapuściński
0.807 3.99 Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian
0.807 4.1 The Curious Cook: More Kitchen Science and Lore by Harold McGee
0.807 3.8 Learning Irish: An Introductory Self-Tutor by Micheal O'Siadhail
0.807 4.07 Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture by Marvin Harris
0.806 4.09 The Old Regime and the French Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville
0.805 4.21 The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
0.805 3.5 How Much Is Enough? Money and the Good Life by Robert Skidelsky
0.805 3.53 Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World's Most Coveted Delicacy by Inga Saffron
0.805 3.86 Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure by Donald Kladstrup
0.805 4.21 Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum
0.803 3.93 Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach
0.802 4.09 Maps of Time : An Introduction to Big History by David Christian
0.801 4.06 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann
0.801 4.19 Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
0.801 3.77 The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation by Mark Kurlansky
0.8 4.14 The World According to Monsanto: Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of the World's Food Supply by Marie-Monique Robin
0.8 4.12 Fangs by Sarah Andersen
0.8 3.83 How to Pick a Peach: The Search for Flavor from Farm to Table by Russ Parsons
0.8 4.35 The Art of Eating by M. F. K. Fisher
0.799 3.7 On Violence by Hannah Arendt
0.799 3.78 No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach by Anthony Bourdain
0.799 3.81 Alice Waters and Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution by Thomas McNamee
0.798 3.6 The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement by David Graeber
0.798 4.13 At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries by Estelle Ellis
0.798 3.99 The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute by Michael Ruhlman
0.797 4.09 Classic Indian Vegetarian and Grain Cooking by Julie Sahni
0.797 3.84 The Golem: What Everyone Should Know About Science by Harry M. Collins
0.797 3.79 Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction by Susan Blackmore
0.797 3.29 Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius
0.797 4.27 Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen by Laurie Colwin
0.796 4.15 Nigel Slater's Real Food by Nigel Slater
0.795 4.16 The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
0.794 3.94 Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It by Karl Weber
0.794 3.66 The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones by Anthony Bourdain
0.794 4.29 A Mediterranean Feast: The Story of the Birth of the Celebrated Cuisines of the Mediterranean from the Merchants of Venice to the Barbary Corsairs, with More than 500 Recipes by Clifford A. Wright
0.793 3.42 How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics by Eugenia Cheng
0.792 3.84 Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin by Kenny Shopsin
0.792 4.16 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
0.792 4.15 Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China by Jeffrey Alford
0.791 4.35 Mangoes and Curry Leaves: Culinary Travels through the Great Subcontinent by Jeffrey Alford
0.791 4.15 Stalking The Wild Asparagus by Euell Gibbons
0.791 3.65 Weeds: How vagabond plants gatecrashed civilisation and changed the way we think about nature by Richard Mabey
0.791 3.99 Not on the Label by Felicity Lawrence
0.79 4.13 An Omelette and a Glass of Wine by Elizabeth David
0.79 3.8 Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older: How Memory Shapes our Past by Douwe Draaisma
0.79 4.15 The rule of law by Tom Bingham
0.79 4.15 My Life in France by Julia Child
0.787 3.9 Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe by Andrew Spielman
0.787 4.15 Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
0.786 4.05 Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard H. Thaler
0.785 4.35 Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity by Charles Taylor
0.785 3.63 A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros
0.785 4.41 The Bread Baker's Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread by Peter Reinhart
0.785 3.98 Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century by Mark Mazower
0.784 4.45 Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan
0.784 4.32 The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food by Dan Barber
0.784 3.71 Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger
0.783 4.08 Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life by Eva Jablonka
0.783 3.58 Au Revoir to All That: Food, Wine, and the End of France by Michael Steinberger
0.782 3.92 The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow
0.781 4.03 The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners by Margaret Visser
0.781 3.31 Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History by Mark Kurlansky
0.779 3.96 Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn
0.779 3.66 The Accidental Connoisseur: An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World by Lawrence Osborne
0.778 3.76 Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play by James C. Scott
0.777 3.94 The Alice B.Toklas Cookbook by Alice B. Toklas
0.775 3.9 Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark Miodownik
0.775 4.05 Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions by Gerd Gigerenzer
0.775 4.15 Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks by Ben Goldacre
0.774 3.91 Mathematics for the Nonmathematician by Morris Kline
0.773 4.13 Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe by Mark Mazower
0.772 3.96 Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland before the Romans by Francis Pryor
0.772 3.53 Cooking for Kings: The Life of Antonin Careme, the First Celebrity Chef by Ian Kelly
0.772 4.1 Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit Banerjee
0.771 3.8 Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir by Kwame Onwuachi
0.771 4.35 Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes from London's Ottolenghi by Yotam Ottolenghi
0.769 4.35 Cookwise: The Secrets of Cooking Revealed by Shirley O. Corriher
0.769 3.69 Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer
0.769 3.99 Britain AD: A Quest for Arthur, England and the Anglo-Saxons by Francis Pryor
0.768 4.11 Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 by Mark Mazower
0.768 3.71 Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food by John Dickie
0.767 4.18 Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
0.766 3.93 Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History by Sidney Mintz
0.766 3.63 Phantoms on the Bookshelves by Jacques Bonnet
0.766 3.87 Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything by Kelly Weinersmith
0.766 4.2 The World Atlas of Wine by Hugh Johnson
0.764 3.99 Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table by Ruth Reichl
0.763 3.94 Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens by James Davidson
0.763 4.32 Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
0.763 3.52 On Rue Tatin: Living and Cooking in a French Town by Susan Herrmann Loomis
0.762 4.34 More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen by Laurie Colwin
0.762 4.42 Jerusalem: A Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi
0.761 4.17 Real Cooking by Nigel Slater
0.76 4.31 French Provincial Cooking by Elizabeth David
0.759 3.79 Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography by Christopher Hitchens
0.758 4.13 Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients by Ben Goldacre
0.757 3.82 Trying Not to Try: The Art and Science of Spontaneity by Edward Slingerland
0.757 3.93 Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste by Bianca Bosker
0.756 3.93 Food: A Culinary History (European Perspectives) by Jean-Louis Flandrin
0.751 3.38 The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food--Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation's Food Was Seasonal by Mark Kurlansky
0.75 3.63 Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo by Tim Parks
0.75 4.23 Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street by Tomáš Sedláček
0.749 4.3 The Cooking of Southwest France: Recipes from France's Magnificent Rustic Cuisine by Paula Wolfert
0.749 3.93 Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson
0.748 4.08 Madhur Jaffrey's World-of-the-East Vegetarian Cooking by Madhur Jaffrey
0.748 3.88 Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt
0.747 3.81 Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water by Philip Ball
0.747 4.09 Deutsch für Profis. Wege zu gutem Stil. by Wolf Schneider
0.747 4.3 The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
0.745 3.78 Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants by Wolfgang Schivelbusch
0.745 4.2 The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
0.745 3.91 The Unknown Unknown by Mark Forsyth
0.745 4.1 Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life by George Monbiot
0.743 3.94 Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague by Richard Rhodes
0.742 3.61 The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics by John B. Judis
0.742 3.82 An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America's Future by Robert D. Kaplan
0.74 3.88 Conspicuous Consumption by Thorstein Veblen
0.737 3.44 Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out by Slavoj Žižek
0.736 4.05 Feynman Lectures on Computation by Richard Feynman
0.734 4.54 Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume Two by Julia Child
0.733 4.29 Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World by Irene Vallejo
0.733 4.26 From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium by William Dalrymple
0.733 4.58 The Book of Jewish Food by Claudia Roden
0.732 4.18 The New Book of Middle Eastern Food by Claudia Roden
0.729 4.34 Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art by Shizuo Tsuji
0.729 4.2 Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon by Claudia Roden
0.728 3.58 Secrets from the Eating Lab: The Science of Weight Loss, the Myth of Willpower, and Why You Should Never Diet Again by Traci Mann
0.728 3.62 Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live by Marlene Zuk
0.728 4.32 The Life of the Mind: One-Volume Edition by Hannah Arendt
0.726 3.88 The Spice Route: A History by John Keay
0.723 3.76 The Medieval Cookbook by Maggie Black
0.722 3.96 Intellectuals in the Middle Ages by Jacques Le Goff
0.722 3.5 Bacchus and Me: Adventures in the Wine Cellar by Jay McInerney
0.719 4.41 Chuang Tsu / Inner Chapters by Zhuangzi
0.716 3.97 The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber
0.715 3.8 Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil by Tom Mueller
0.714 4.48 Simple Chinese Cooking by Kylie Kwong
0.714 4.39 The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection by Robert Farrar Capon
0.712 3.77 Is There a Nutmeg in the House?: Essays on Practical Cooking with More Than 150 Recipes by Elizabeth David
0.712 4.17 Civilization and capitalism, 15th-18th century [3 volumes] by Fernand Braudel
0.712 4.17 Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
0.712 3.53 Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Julia Annas
0.711 4.04 The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War by Robert J. Gordon
0.711 4.31 A Taste of India by Madhur Jaffrey
0.71 3.82 Yes, Chef: A Memoir by Marcus Samuelsson
0.709 4.14 How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
0.708 3.67 Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human by Susan Blackmore
0.705 3.84 The City of Words by Alberto Manguel
0.705 4.49 The River Cottage Meat Book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
0.704 4.48 The Oxford Companion to Food by Alan Davidson
0.701 3.56 Anything That Moves: Renegade Chefs, Fearless Eaters, and the Making of a New American Food Culture by Dana Goodyear
0.701 4.41 French Cheeses: The Visual Guide to More Than 350 Cheeses from Every Region of France by Kazuko Masui
0.699 4 The Way We Eat Now: How the Food Revolution Has Transformed Our Lives, Our Bodies, and Our World by Bee Wilson
0.699 4.19 Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser