Controversial Books for mahakapi

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
1.233 3.37 Sanskrit: A Complete Course for Beginners by Michael Coulson
1.228 4.08 Light on Pranayama: The Yogic Art of Breathing by B. K. S. Iyengar
1.14 3.5 The Complete Kama Sutra by Alain Daniélou
1.133 2.76 Infinite Ascent: A Short History of Mathematics by David Berlinski
1.13 4.06 The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton
1.128 3.12 The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana
1.127 3.77 The Teaching of Buddha by Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai
1.116 3.58 The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier
1.113 3.85 Statistics Without Tears: A Primer for Non-Mathematicians (Allyn & Bacon Classics Edition) by Derek Rowntree
1.097 4.26 Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible by Jerry A. Coyne
1.076 3.6 The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World by Peter Frankopan
1.068 3.83 Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra by Vimalakirti
1.054 3.74 The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
1.052 3.67 Pancatantra: The Book of India's Folk Wisdom by Vishnu Sharma
1.052 3.84 What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology by Addy Pross
1.046 3.54 The Elements: A Very Short Introduction by Philip Ball
1.044 3.85 The Outsider by Colin Wilson
1.043 3.37 A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design by Frank Wilczek
1.037 3.25 Hindu Myths by Wendy Doniger
1.036 3.87 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
1.033 3.71 The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
1.029 3.9 The Complete Poems by Andrew Marvell
1.028 3.84 The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet by Robert M. Hazen
1.02 3.92 The Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation by William Hart
1.003 3.82 Myth = Mithya A Handbook of Hindu Mythology by Devdutt Pattanaik
0.996 3.97 An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
0.99 3.65 The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics by Roger Penrose
0.99 3.63 The Rig Veda (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
0.989 3.61 Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe by Mario Livio
0.989 3.41 The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
0.986 3.94 The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
0.985 3.9 Origin Story: A Big History of Everything by David Christian
0.985 3.79 Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu
0.982 3.97 The Upanishads by Anonymous
0.981 3.95 Writings on an Ethical Life by Peter Singer
0.977 3.43 My Life by Bill Clinton
0.974 3.68 Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth by James E. Lovelock
0.969 3.64 To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science by Steven Weinberg
0.965 4.08 The Merck Manual of Medical Information, Home Edition by Mark H. Beers
0.965 4 The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
0.965 3.31 Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem by Amir D. Aczel
0.964 3.83 In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art by Sue Roe
0.961 3.59 The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen by Brian Edward Cox
0.96 3.74 How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space by Janna Levin
0.957 3.94 The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Patañjali.,
0.954 3.78 The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science by Marcus Du Sautoy
0.949 3.96 The Bhagavad Gita by Vyasa
0.948 3.59 The Greatest Story Ever Told--So Far: Why Are We Here? by Lawrence M. Krauss
0.947 4.13 The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
0.947 3.61 From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett
0.941 4.13 The Complete Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
0.938 3.52 Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler
0.938 3.94 The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us by Alice Roberts
0.937 4.05 The Dhammapada by Anonymous
0.937 3.63 Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy by Raghuram G. Rajan
0.933 4.2 The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
0.932 4.42 The Long Discourses of the Buddha by Maurice Walshe
0.923 4 The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living by Dalai Lama XIV
0.92 3.98 The Hindus: An Alternative History by Wendy Doniger
0.919 3.74 Why Does E=mc²?: (And Why Should We Care?) by Brian Cox
0.919 4.07 The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself by Daniel Boorstin
0.917 3.62 Four Laws That Drive the Universe by Peter Atkins
0.911 3.58 Marathon: You Can Do It! by Jeff Galloway
0.91 3.81 The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination by Daniel Boorstin
0.909 3.64 Bookshops: A Reader's History by Jorge Carrión
0.908 4.3 John Keats: The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) by John Keats
0.907 4.09 The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
0.902 3.49 Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution by Lisa Jardine
0.902 3.73 The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic by R. K. Narayan
0.899 3.81 Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
0.898 4.07 The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple
0.893 3.79 Earth: An Intimate History by Richard Fortey
0.893 3.9 Living With Books by Alan Powers
0.89 3.9 How to Meditate: A Practical Guide by Kathleen McDonald
0.886 4.11 Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
0.885 3.97 The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene by Richard Dawkins
0.884 4.1 Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
0.884 3.89 The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin
0.884 4.29 Light on Yoga by B. K. S. Iyengar
0.883 4.16 The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief by Clair Davies
0.882 4.15 The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation by Thich Nhat Hanh
0.881 3.97 Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension by Michio Kaku
0.878 3.84 The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World by Sean M. Carroll
0.878 3.83 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
0.878 3.69 The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors by John Gribbin
0.877 3.93 White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India by William Dalrymple
0.877 3.96 How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
0.876 4.07 The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse by Vikram Seth
0.873 4.14 The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science by Andrea Wulf
0.872 3.81 Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester
0.872 3.31 A History of India: Volume 1 (Penguin History) by Romila Thapar
0.869 4.16 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
0.869 3.9 Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
0.869 3.69 The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World by Daniel Boorstin
0.868 3.8 E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis
0.866 3.9 A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
0.863 3.81 Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel by Rebecca Goldstein
0.863 3.72 Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
0.861 3.68 A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
0.859 4 The emerald planet: how plants changed Earth's history by David Beerling
0.858 4.23 The Major Works: Including The Prelude (Oxford World's Classics) by William Wordsworth
0.856 3.98 The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View by Richard Tarnas
0.854 3.52 The Constants of Nature: The Numbers That Encode the Deepest Secrets of the Universe by John D. Barrow
0.851 4.19 Life on Earth: A Natural History by David Attenborough
0.848 4.14 The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicolson
0.847 3.9 The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
0.847 3.96 Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors by Lizzie Collingham
0.842 3.83 The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't by Nate Silver
0.842 3.89 The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
0.84 4.06 Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India by Diana L. Eck
0.84 3.85 The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean
0.839 3.85 In Search Of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality by John Gribbin
0.839 4.09 Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli
0.833 3.7 India: A History by John Keay
0.833 3.88 Baburnama by Zahir Uddin Muhammad Babur
0.833 3.64 Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond by William Dalrymple
0.831 4.26 The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
0.831 4.18 A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
0.83 4.18 Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
0.829 4.15 The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
0.829 3.84 The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human by V. S. Ramachandran
0.827 4 Ethics for the New Millennium by Dalai Lama XIV
0.825 4.09 Interpreter of Maladies: Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
0.824 4.34 The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English by H.W. Fowler
0.824 3.75 Shadows of the Mind by Roger Penrose
0.82 3.81 Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction by Derek Thompson
0.819 3.55 The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design by Leonard Susskind
0.817 4.22 The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life by Richard Dawkins
0.816 3.82 The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance by Anthony Gottlieb
0.816 4.07 Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley
0.811 4.24 Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins
0.811 4.07 India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age by Gurcharan Das
0.809 4.22 Anatomy of Hatha Yoga: A Manual for Students, Teachers, and Practitioners by H. David Coulter
0.809 4.21 Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World by Nick Lane
0.809 4.12 The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Russell Shorto
0.802 3.43 Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science by Michael White
0.801 3.97 The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
0.801 4.06 The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
0.8 4.18 Yoga: The Path to Holistic Health by B. K. S. Iyengar
0.795 3.85 The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity by Pedro G. Ferreira
0.795 4.16 The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
0.795 4.02 Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality by Manjit Kumar
0.794 4.14 What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada by Walpola Rahula
0.793 3.66 Cosmology: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Coles
0.79 4.08 The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene
0.789 4.19 The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
0.789 4.18 Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
0.788 3.65 The Great Mutiny by Christopher Hibbert
0.786 4.12 Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are (The MIT Press) by Robert Plomin
0.786 4.05 Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard H. Thaler
0.782 4.18 A History of Art by H. W. Janson
0.776 3.68 Dictionary of Subjects & Symbols in Art by James Hall
0.773 4.01 The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple
0.773 4.29 The Wisdom of Forgiveness: Intimate Journeys and Conversations by Dalai Lama XIV
0.769 3.86 In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce
0.769 3.84 The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa by Michael Kimmelman
0.763 4.19 Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of The Dalai Lama by Dalai Lama XIV
0.762 4.24 Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March by Adam Zamoyski
0.762 4.21 Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42 by William Dalrymple
0.758 3.78 A Buddhist Bible by Dwight Goddard
0.757 4.02 Wodehouse: A Life by Robert McCrum
0.757 4.16 Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
0.751 4.28 American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird
0.751 4.18 Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe by Simon Singh
0.751 3.95 Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins
0.747 3.81 Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water by Philip Ball
0.747 4.3 The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
0.746 3.98 New Enlarged Pocket Anthology of Robert Frost's Poems by Louis Untermeyer
0.746 3.85 History of the World by J. M. Roberts
0.745 4.2 The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
0.741 4.09 Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies by Geoffrey West
0.731 4.31 The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse
0.729 4.08 10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness by Alanna Collen
0.725 4.29 Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne
0.716 4.07 The Wonder That Was India by A. L. Basham
0.712 3.96 Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World by Amir R. Alexander
0.697 4.59 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
0.696 4.24 Coming of Age in the Milky Way by Timothy Ferris
0.691 4.14 The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
0.688 4.19 The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy by Anthony Gottlieb
0.685 3.58 Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe by Lisa Randall
0.68 4.29 The Oxford Companion to Wine by Jancis Robinson
0.674 4.09 Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe by Steven Strogatz
0.668 4.12 The Heart of Buddhist Meditation by Nyanaponika Thera
0.659 4.1 Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time by Michio Kaku
0.651 4.22 Tennyson: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) by Alfred Tennyson
0.639 4.43 New York: An Illustrated History by Ric Burns
0.59 4.69 The Sibley Guide to Birds by David Allen Sibley
0.568 4.4 National Geographic Visual History of the World by National Geographic
0.433 4.79 The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha by Ñāṇamoli