Controversial Books for darylrobbins

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
1.11 3.51 Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by American P... Association
1.045 3.86 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
1.036 3.37 Elementary Linear Algebra by Howard Anton
1.019 4.3 Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton
1.017 3.88 A Really Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
0.995 3.7 Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Iterative Development by Craig Larman
0.99 3.45 Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications by Kenneth H. Rosen
0.988 4.18 Dictionnaire de douze mille verbes (Bescherelle : L'Art de conjuguer) by Louis Nicolas Bescherelle
0.984 3.86 Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation by John E. Hopcroft
0.968 4.16 The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.
0.953 4.02 Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions by Gregor Hohpe
0.951 4.11 Proofs from The Book by Martin Aigner
0.948 4.01 Introduction to the Theory of Computation by Michael Sipser
0.939 4.2 The Thirteen Books of the Elements, Vol. 1, books 1-2 by Euclid
0.904 3.59 Modern Information Retrieval by Ricardo Baeza-Yates
0.896 3.95 The Plague by Albert Camus
0.891 3.84 Calculus by James Stewart
0.889 4.29 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
0.88 4.06 The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks
0.875 3.98 Europe: A History by Norman Davies
0.867 4.22 Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction by Steve McConnell
0.866 4.02 Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
0.865 4.41 Plato: Complete Works by Plato
0.864 4.02 The C++ Programming Language {Special 3rd Edition} by Bjarne Stroustrup
0.856 4.12 Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma
0.852 4.36 The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
0.839 4.07 Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools by Alfred V. Aho
0.837 4.06 Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition by Merriam-Webster
0.823 4.33 Roget's International Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
0.815 4.28 The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson
0.811 4.38 Collins-Robert French-English, English-French Dictionary by Beryl T. Atkins
0.805 4.19 Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley
0.804 4.14 The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
0.8 4.14 How to Prove It: A Structured Approach by Daniel J. Velleman
0.794 4.34 Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science by Ronald L. Graham
0.794 4.41 Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume One (Bollingen) by Aristotle
0.792 4.28 Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
0.783 4.18 C: A Reference Manual (5th Edition) by Samuel P. Harbison
0.78 4.02 Abstract Algebra by David S. Dummit
0.778 4.13 Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
0.775 4.29 Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. Cormen
0.773 4.37 The Chicago Manual of Style by University of Chicago Press Staff
0.766 4.2 Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold
0.764 4.32 The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt
0.756 4.27 What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods by Richard Courant
0.755 4 The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine by Charles Petzold
0.742 4.43 The C Programming Language (2nd Edition) by Brian W. Kernighan
0.731 4.58 Calculus by Michael Spivak
0.704 4.49 The Oxford Companion to Food by Alan Davidson
0.697 4.59 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
0.692 4.41 The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots by Calvert Watkins
0.68 4.3 The Oxford Companion to Wine by Jancis Robinson
0.675 4.02 Writing Effective Use Cases by Alistair Cockburn
0.667 4.52 A Game of Thrones / A Clash of Kings / A Storm of Swords / A Feast of Crows / A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin
0.661 4.5 The Art of Electronics by Paul Horowitz
0.658 4.53 The Feynman lectures on physics [3-volume set] by Richard P. Feynman
0.647 4.65 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson
0.629 4.47 Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Merriam-Webster
0.596 4.11 The Seasoned Schemer by Daniel P. Friedman
0.583 4.32 The Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume Two (Revised Oxford Translation) by Aristotle