Controversial Books for owen1611

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
1.31 3.46 How to Study with Mind Maps: The Concise Learning Method for Students and Lifelong Learners (Expanded Edition) by Toni Krasnic
1.29 4.09 The Oxford Companion to American Literature by James D. Hart
1.26 3.44 The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by Richard J. Herrnstein
1.242 3.71 How to Get Ideas by Jack Foster
1.24 3.63 On Being a Christian by Hans Küng
1.24 3.72 Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law & Education by Phillip E. Johnson
1.231 3.5 The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed by Mystery
1.215 3.88 Warfighting by United States Marine Corps
1.203 3.6 On Duties [in translation] by Marcus Tullius Cicero
1.203 3.49 The Good Book: A Humanist Bible by A. C. Grayling
1.183 3.69 Does God Exist?: An Answer for Today by Hans Küng
1.171 4.19 Becoming a Supple Leopard: The Ultimate Guide to Resolving Pain, Preventing Injury, and Optimizing Athletic Performance by Kelly Starrett
1.168 3.96 Psycho-Cybernetics, A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life by Maxwell Maltz
1.164 3.82 Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
1.161 3.81 How to Be an Adult: A Handbook for Psychological and Spiritual Integration by David Richo
1.16 3.41 Telling the Truth about History by Joyce Appleby
1.151 3.98 War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires by Peter Turchin
1.15 3.94 Icarus at the Edge of Time by Brian Greene
1.14 4 The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails by John W. Loftus
1.133 4.02 Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar by H. F. W. Gesenius
1.126 3.19 Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips
1.123 3.92 The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes
1.12 3.73 In His Steps by Charles M. Sheldon
1.118 3.76 The New Organon by Francis Bacon
1.109 3.93 Basics of Biblical Hebrew Grammar: Second Edition by Gary D. Pratico
1.103 3.58 Being Genuine: Stop Being Nice, Start Being Real by Thomas d'Ansembourg
1.097 3.33 Game Theory: A Nontechnical Introduction by Morton D. Davis
1.095 3.43 The American Pageant: A History of the Republic by Thomas A. Bailey
1.093 3.67 Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant
1.093 3.66 Psychology by David G. Myers
1.092 3.73 The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life by Avinash K. Dixit
1.088 4.07 Oxford Bible Atlas by Herbert G. May
1.082 3.88 Principles of Economics by N. Gregory Mankiw
1.081 3.44 Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes
1.078 3.43 Politics: A Very Short Introduction by Kenneth Minogue
1.077 3.7 The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life by A. C. Grayling
1.075 3.57 The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action by Jeffrey Pfeffer
1.074 3.82 The Relationship Cure by John Gottman
1.071 3.68 Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy by Bernard Williams
1.068 4.09 The Gnostic Bible by Willis Barnstone
1.068 3.67 The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat: A Comedy of Ideas by Steven Lukes
1.068 4.02 God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? by John C. Lennox
1.066 3.48 Liquid Life by Zygmunt Bauman
1.061 4.03 A Reader's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament by Sakae Kubo
1.06 4.12 Luke for Everyone by Tom Wright
1.056 3.61 A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World by Gregory Clark
1.056 3.99 Conceptual Physics by Paul G. Hewitt
1.055 3.91 On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman
1.054 3.94 Confessions by Saint Augustine
1.053 3.55 The Minutemen and Their World by Robert A. Gross
1.052 4.04 Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College by Doug Lemov
1.05 3.67 The Eureka Effect: The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking by David N. Perkins
1.047 3.36 On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
1.047 3.22 Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals by Niall Ferguson
1.045 3.8 The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy by Simon Blackburn
1.045 3.44 Economics: A Very Short Introduction by Partha Dasgupta
1.045 3.88 Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations by Garr Reynolds
1.045 3.85 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey
1.037 4.14 Tokens of Trust: An Introduction to Christian Belief by Rowan Williams
1.035 3.66 The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists by Neil Strauss
1.034 3.78 Fundamentals of Physics by David Halliday
1.032 4.02 slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations by Nancy Duarte
1.031 4.01 No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life by Thich Nhat Hanh
1.031 3.59 Going to Pieces without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness by Mark Epstein
1.03 3.82 Rhetorical Grammar: Grammatical Choices, Rhetorical Effects by Martha J. Kolln
1.03 3.48 Every Day Gets a Little Closer: A Twice-Told Therapy by Irvin Yalom
1.03 3.85 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1.029 4.1 The Imitation of Christ by Thomas : von Kempen
1.029 3.5 To Mock a Mockingbird by Raymond Smullyan
1.028 3.86 Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
1.028 4 The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
1.026 3.79 Mindfulness : a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world by Mark Williams
1.026 3.97 Contemporary Abstract Algebra by Joseph A. Gallian
1.025 3.72 Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive by Noah J. Goldstein
1.022 4.14 Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace by Joseph M. Williams
1.021 3.65 The Relaxation Response by Herbert Benson
1.02 3.46 On Kindness by Adam Phillips
1.018 3.15 Islam: A Very Short Introduction by Malise Ruthven
1.017 4.06 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
1.016 3.26 The Myth of the Great War: A New Military History of World War I by John Mosier
1.015 2.91 An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy by Roger Scruton
1.014 3.81 The Major Works: Including Songs and Sonnets and Sermons by John Donne
1.014 3.85 On War [abridged - Oxford World's Classics] by Carl von Clausewitz
1.013 3.89 Thinking from A to Z by Nigel Warburton
1.009 3.22 Reluctant Disciplinarian: Advice on Classroom Management From a Softy who Became (Eventually) a Successful Teacher by Gary Rubinstein
1.009 4.06 50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God by Guy P. Harrison
1.007 3.59 The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution by Gregory Cochran
1.006 3.88 The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (American Empire Project) by Andrew Bacevich
1.005 3.8 The Book of Five Rings by Musashi Miyamoto
1.004 3.88 A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations by Kate L. Turabian
1.004 3.96 Personality Types: Using the Enneagram for Self-Discovery by Don Richard Riso
1.003 3.78 A Practical Grammar for Classical Hebrew by Jacob Weingreen
1.003 3.95 How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
1.002 3.69 Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America by John Charles Chasteen
1.001 3.87 The Republic by Plato
1.001 4.09 Ethics by Baruch Spinoza
1 3.71 Hagakure by Tsunetomo Yamamoto
1 3.61 Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective by Peter L. Berger
0.999 3.78 Errata: An Examined Life by George Steiner
0.999 4.13 Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior by Kerry Patterson
0.998 3.94 A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
0.998 3.54 The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction by Terry Eagleton
0.997 3.81 Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity by John W. Loftus
0.997 3.91 The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
0.996 4.02 Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (Penguin Philosophy) by Iris Murdoch
0.995 3.83 The Craft of Research by Wayne C. Booth
0.994 3.84 The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation & ... Tolerance (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) by Matthew McKay
0.994 3.9 When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin Yalom
0.993 3.44 Logic: A Very Short Introduction by Graham Priest
0.992 3.48 Kant: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
0.992 4.08 Lone Survivor : The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell
0.992 3.94 An Introduction to General Systems Thinking by Gerald M. Weinberg
0.991 3.87 Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement without Giving In by Roger Fisher
0.991 3.86 Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by Steven C. Hayes
0.989 4.1 On Combat, The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace by Dave Grossman
0.987 4.37 Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization by Karen Horney
0.987 4.13 Roots of Strategy by Thomas R. Phillips
0.986 3.92 The Dance of Connection: How to Talk to Someone When You're Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, Insulted, Betrayed, or Desperate by Harriet Lerner
0.986 3.94 The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
0.985 4.14 The Major Works by John Milton
0.985 3.8 The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living by Russ Harris
0.985 3.81 The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live--and How You Can Change Them by Richard J. Davidson
0.984 3.33 Rules of the Game by Neil Strauss
0.981 3.85 The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell
0.981 3.98 The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander by Barbara Coloroso
0.98 3.43 Social Psychology by Elliot Aronson
0.98 3.8 For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church by N. T. Wright
0.977 3.87 Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
0.977 3.51 On Truth by Harry G. Frankfurt
0.977 4 The Enneads: Abridged Edition (Penguin Classics) by Plotinus
0.976 3.58 Discourse on Method by René Descartes
0.975 3.78 Beauty: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
0.975 3.36 Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction by James Fulcher
0.975 3.89 The Oxford Companion to United States History by Paul S. Boyer
0.975 3.79 The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations by Dietrich Dörner
0.974 4.27 When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do: A Guide for Teachers 6-12 by Kylene Beers
0.974 3.92 Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
0.974 3.24 Belief in God in an Age of Science by John Polkinghorne
0.974 3.51 A History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel
0.973 3.58 A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History by Nicholas Wade
0.973 3.57 Co-Opetition by Adam M. Brandenburger
0.973 3.8 What Is History? by E. H. Carr
0.972 3.72 The Practicing Mind: Bringing Discipline and Focus Into Your Life by Thomas M. Sterner
0.971 3.4 Use Both Sides of Your Brain: New Mind-Mapping Techniques, Third Edition (Plume) by Tony Buzan
0.971 3.36 How To Start A Conversation And Make Friends by Don Gabor
0.971 3.82 Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers by Thich Nhat Hanh
0.971 3.93 The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking by Edward B. Burger
0.97 3.43 Psychology: A Very Short Introduction by Gillian Butler
0.97 3.65 Mathematician's Delight by W. W. Sawyer
0.97 3.89 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
0.969 4 How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method by George Pólya
0.968 3.9 The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
0.968 3.69 The First World War: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Howard
0.967 4 This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War by James M. McPherson
0.966 3.4 Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George A. Akerlof
0.966 3.56 Aristotle: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Barnes
0.965 3.37 Language, Truth and Logic by A. J. Ayer
0.965 4 The First Days of School by Harry K. Wong
0.964 3.74 Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush vs. Gore by James T. Patterson
0.964 3.85 Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach
0.964 3.64 The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason by Victor J. Stenger
0.962 3.7 Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman
0.961 3.9 The Aeneid by Virgil
0.96 3.9 The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt by Russ Harris
0.96 3.49 Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction by A. C. Grayling
0.96 3.46 Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Simon Critchley
0.959 3.88 Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson
0.958 3.04 Modern Latin America by Thomas E. Skidmore
0.958 3.73 The Search for Order, 1877-1920 by Robert H. Wiebe
0.956 4.22 Truth and Method by Hans-Georg Gadamer
0.956 4.03 The Iliad by Homer
0.954 3.8 The Oxford Essential Guide to Writing by Thomas S. Kane
0.953 3.75 The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization by Peter Senge
0.953 3.66 Freefall: America, Free Markets, And the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
0.952 3.81 Ancient Philosophy: A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 1 by Anthony Kenny
0.952 3.92 An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
0.952 4.09 Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction by James M. McPherson
0.952 3.99 The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose
0.952 3.86 Conservatives without Conscience by John W. Dean
0.952 3.86 The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself From Chronic Unhappiness by Mark Williams
0.951 4.04 Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management by Jeffrey Pfeffer
0.951 4.05 The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict by The Arbinger Institute
0.95 3.8 The Schopenhauer Cure by Irvin Yalom
0.949 3.7 The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook by Martha Davis
0.949 3.87 The Little Book of Talent by Daniel Coyle
0.947 4.1 Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican by Galileo Galilei
0.947 3.83 Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success by Kerry Patterson
0.946 3.74 Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas by James L. Adams
0.945 3.54 Europe in the High Middle Ages by William Chester Jordan
0.945 3.69 The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism by Olivia Fox Cabane
0.945 3.54 Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos by Roger Lewin
0.944 3.62 Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
0.944 3.99 Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
0.944 3.61 What Happy People Know: How the New Science of Happiness Can Change Your Life for the Better by Dan Baker
0.944 3.99 Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
0.944 4.14 Schaum's Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables by Murray R. Spiegel
0.944 3.36 Judaism: A Very Short Introduction by Norman Solomon
0.943 4.13 The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
0.943 3.87 The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever by Christopher Hitchens
0.942 4.03 The Odyssey by Homer
0.942 3.88 God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
0.942 3.63 The Great Philosophers: An Introduction to Western Philosophy by Bryan Magee
0.941 3.86 Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to Christian Theology by Daniel L. Migliore
0.941 3.73 Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions by Thich Nhat Hanh
0.941 3.52 Collins Gem Latin Dictionary by D. A. Kidd
0.941 3.8 One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way by Robert Maurer
0.94 3.76 A History of Christianity: To A.D. 1500 by Kenneth Scott Latourette
0.94 3.85 The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
0.94 3.67 The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century by A. C. Grayling
0.939 3.64 The Finishing School: Earning the Navy SEAL Trident by Dick Couch
0.939 3.56 Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan D. Culler
0.938 3.93 On War by Carl von Clausewitz
0.938 3.86 Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age by Peter Paret
0.938 3.82 The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century by Thomas X. Hammes
0.936 3.44 Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing by Po Bronson
0.935 4.06 Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior by Chogyam Trungpa
0.935 4.05 The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God by Robert Louis Wilken
0.934 4.41 The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism by Edward Feser
0.934 3.64 The Reason of Things: Living with Philosophy by A. C. Grayling
0.933 3.58 Introducing Logic by Dan Cryan
0.933 4.15 Basic Writings of Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
0.932 4.03 Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell
0.932 4.04 The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types by Don Richard Riso
0.931 3.78 The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
0.93 3.85 The First World War by Hew Strachan
0.93 4.05 The Struggle for Mastery in Europe: 1848-1918 by Alan J. P. Taylor
0.93 4.12 The Law of Success by Napoleon Hill
0.928 4.22 English Grammar and Composition by John E. Warriner
0.928 3.98 Understanding by Design, Expanded 2nd Edition by Grant Wiggins
0.928 3.48 Logic by Wilfrid Hodges
0.928 3.89 What is Good?: The Search for the Best Way to Live by A. C. Grayling
0.928 3.41 The Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort
0.926 3.98 The Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant
0.925 4.21 Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness: Walking the Buddha's Path by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
0.925 4.03 A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B Irvine
0.924 4.2 Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows
0.924 3.99 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
0.924 3.69 Inerrancy by Norman L. Geisler
0.923 3.85 Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers by Dave Gray
0.923 4.02 Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Peter Godfrey-Smith
0.923 4.05 Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach
0.923 3.79 Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence by Esther Perel
0.922 3.88 Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights?: Fitness Myths, Training Truths, and Other Surprising Discoveries from the Science of Exercise by Alex Hutchinson
0.922 4.05 Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail
0.922 3.72 Casanova: Actor Lover Priest Spy by Ian Kelly
0.921 4.22 Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals by Heidi Grant Halvorson
0.921 3.8 The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine by Simon Price
0.92 4.18 The Dhammapada: Verses on the Way (Modern Library Classics) by Buddha
0.92 3.69 38 Latin Stories Designed to Accompany Frederic M. Wheelock's Latin by Anne H. Groton
0.92 4.23 A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
0.919 3.74 Why Does E=mc²?: (And Why Should We Care?) by Brian Cox
0.919 4.17 Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault by Pierre Hadot
0.918 3.74 How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing by Paul J. Silvia
0.918 4.14 Early Christian Doctrines by J. N. D. Kelly
0.918 3.48 What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy by Thomas Nagel
0.917 3.71 A Pocket Guide to Writing in History by Mary Lynn Rampolla
0.917 3.95 Against Method by Paul Feyerabend
0.917 3.77 Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships by Daniel Goleman
0.917 3.97 Paul: In Fresh Perspective by N. T. Wright
0.917 4.13 Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully by Gerald M. Weinberg
0.917 4.09 Yoga Anatomy by Leslie Kaminoff
0.916 3.37 The Naked Woman: A Study of the Female Body by Desmond Morris
0.916 4.14 The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
0.916 3.34 What Do Women Want?: Adventures in the Science of Female Desire by Daniel Bergner
0.916 3.52 Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up by John Allen Paulos
0.915 3.96 Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn
0.913 3.61 The curmudgeon's guide to getting ahead : dos and don'ts of right behavior, tough thinking, clear writing, and living a good life by Charles Murray
0.913 4 Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone
0.913 4.11 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
0.912 4.01 The Tao Is Silent by Raymond Smullyan
0.911 3.9 Just and Unjust Wars by Michael Walzer
0.911 3.9 The Way of Men by Jack Donovan
0.91 3.7 What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank
0.91 3.71 The Mystery of Things: Life, and What it Means by A. C. Grayling
0.91 4.34 The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 by David M. Potter
0.909 3.93 Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation by Daniel J. Siegel
0.909 3.95 The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How. by Daniel Coyle
0.908 4.06 The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl R. Popper
0.908 3.77 Lying on the Couch by Irvin Yalom
0.907 2.91 Theology: A Very Short Introduction by David F. Ford
0.907 4.11 Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861 by William W. Freehling
0.907 3.38 Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction by Kim Knott
0.907 3.63 Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being by Martin E. P. Seligman
0.906 4.18 Loving-kindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness by Sharon Salzberg
0.906 3.47 Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard White
0.906 3.69 Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best... and Learn from the Worst by Robert I. Sutton
0.906 4.03 She Who Is by Elizabeth A. Johnson
0.905 4.06 Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
0.904 4.09 After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory by Alasdair MacIntyre
0.903 4.19 The HarperCollins Study Bible by Wayne A. Meeks
0.903 4.15 The Attributes of God: A Journey into the Father's Heart by A. W. Tozer
0.903 4.07 The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge by Peter L. Berger
0.903 3.74 The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000 by Chris Wickham
0.902 4.18 The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
0.9 3.97 Influencer: The Power to Change Anything by Kerry Patterson
0.9 3.98 Classroom Instruction That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement by Robert J. Marzano
0.899 3.81 Great Virtues by André Comte-Sponville
0.898 3.91 Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics / Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
0.898 3.63 On Moral Ends by Marcus Tullius Cicero
0.898 3.81 Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went by John Kenneth Galbraith
0.898 3.88 The Early Church by Henry Chadwick
0.898 4.3 The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer
0.898 3.86 A Rulebook for Arguments by Anthony Weston
0.896 4.03 Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown
0.895 4.11 The Portable Machiavelli by Peter Bondanella
0.895 4.05 Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery by Garr Reynolds
0.895 4.14 Asimov's New Guide to Science by Isaac Asimov
0.894 3.53 A Short History of the World by John M. Roberts
0.894 3.9 Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition by Kerry Patterson
0.893 4.09 The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
0.892 3.84 Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data by Charles Wheelan
0.891 3.84 Calculus by James Stewart
0.89 3.73 The Code of the Samurai: A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke by Daidōji Yūzan
0.89 3.5 The Road to Verdun: World War I's Most Momentous Battle and the Folly of Nationalism by Ian Ousby
0.89 3.61 The Accidental Theorist and Other Dispatches from the Dismal Science by Paul Krugman
0.888 4.44 The Thirteen Books of the Elements by Euclid
0.886 3.98 The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children by Ross W. Greene
0.886 4.03 Getting Past No: Negotiating in Difficult Situations by William Ury
0.886 3.85 The Art of Power by Thich Nhat Hanh
0.886 4.11 Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
0.886 3.61 The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How We Can: Exercise Better, Train Smarter, Live Longer by Gretchen Reynolds
0.884 3.84 Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan by A. C. Grayling
0.884 4.15 Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner
0.883 3.37 Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Butler
0.883 3.6 The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology by Arthur S. Reber
0.883 3.71 Halley's Bible Handbook: An Abbreviated Bible Commentary by Henry H. Halley
0.883 4.08 Wheelock's Latin by Frederic M. Wheelock
0.882 3.86 The Cartoon Guide to Physics by Larry Gonick
0.882 4.06 The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills
0.882 4.06 The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
0.882 3.78 Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong by J. L. Mackie
0.882 4.15 The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation by Thich Nhat Hanh
0.881 3.91 The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece by Victor Davis Hanson
0.881 3.96 Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today by N. T. Wright
0.88 4.07 The Secrets of Mental Math by Arthur Benjamin
0.88 3.99 Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume
0.88 3.79 Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective by Mark Epstein
0.88 3.82 The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
0.879 4.07 Stretching Anatomy by Arnold G. Nelson
0.879 3.98 Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan
0.879 3.81 Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina
0.878 3.84 On Sparta (Penguin Classics) by Plutarch
0.878 3.7 Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz
0.878 3.38 Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance by Nouriel Roubini
0.878 4.34 Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne
0.878 3.96 Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy by Max Hastings
0.878 4.1 Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense by N. T. Wright
0.878 3.87 The American Heritage History of World War I by S. L. A. Marshall
0.876 4.03 The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert by John M. Gottman
0.876 3.8 Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age by Duncan J. Watts
0.876 3.75 Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Roy F. Baumeister
0.875 3.9 The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
0.875 3.91 The Pursuit of Glory: The Five Revolutions that Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815 (Penguin History of Europe) by Tim Blanning
0.875 3.75 The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman
0.875 4 Love's Executioner & Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin Yalom
0.874 4.06 How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition by John D. Bransford
0.874 3.8 Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life by Paul Ekman
0.873 4.23 Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh
0.873 3.68 On the orator [De oratore] by Marcus Tullius Cicero
0.873 4 The West: An Illustrated History by Geoffrey C. Ward
0.872 4.13 The Historian's Craft by Marc Bloch
0.872 4.23 A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II by Gerhard L. Weinberg
0.872 3.46 Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern by Ernst Breisach
0.872 4.05 The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion by Peter L. Berger
0.869 3.74 Classical Mythology‎ by Mark P. O. Morford
0.869 3.87 Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin Yalom
0.867 3.94 A History of Warfare by John Keegan
0.866 4.04 The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society by Frans de Waal
0.865 4 Poems and Fragments by Sappho
0.865 4.41 Plato: Complete Works by Plato
0.863 4.03 Following Jesus: Biblical Reflections on Discipleship by N. T. Wright
0.863 3.72 Advice for a Young Investigator by Santiago Ramón y Cajal
0.863 3.94 Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well (Even When It Is Off Base, Unfair, Poorly Delivered, And, Frankly, You're Not in the Mood) by Douglas Stone
0.862 3.93 The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
0.862 3.98 Jesus among Other Gods by Ravi Zacharias
0.862 3.93 Confessions of a Philosopher: A Personal Journey Through Western Philosophy from Plato to Popper (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Bryan Magee
0.862 3.99 Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam by H. R. McMaster
0.862 4.08 Understanding Physics by Isaac Asimov
0.861 4.1 She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman by Ian Kerner
0.86 4.33 In the Buddha's Words : An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon by Bhikkhu Bodhi
0.859 3.66 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot by Richard Wiseman
0.858 3.86 Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo by Vanessa Woods
0.858 4.21 The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is by N. T. Wright
0.858 3.64 The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
0.858 3.64 Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra by John Derbyshire
0.857 4.17 Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
0.857 3.87 Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific by Robert Leckie
0.857 3.98 Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War by Paul Fussell
0.856 3.54 Classics: A Very Short Introduction by Mary Beard
0.856 4.04 To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949 by Ian Kershaw
0.856 4.08 The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt
0.855 3.79 The Philosopher's Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods by Julian Baggini
0.855 3.51 Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson
0.855 3.89 The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy by Raj Patel
0.855 3.96 How to Speak How to Listen by Mortimer J. Adler
0.855 3.8 Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage by Paul Ekman
0.854 4.15 The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
0.853 3.86 Letters to a Young Therapist by Mary Pipher
0.852 3.74 Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life (Masterminds Series) by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
0.852 4.37 The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.852 3.83 Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists by Dan Barker
0.851 4.18 Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
0.851 4.25 House to House: An Epic Memoir of War by David Bellavia
0.851 4.03 On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
0.85 3.5 A Concise Introduction to Logic by Patrick J. Hurley
0.85 3.91 Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation (Shambhala Classics) by Joseph Goldstein
0.849 3.67 Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity by John H. Holland
0.849 4.14 Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the Younger
0.849 4.1 Where God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another by Rowan Williams
0.849 3.84 Historians' Fallacies : Toward a Logic of Historical Thought by David Hackett Fischer
0.848 3.8 The Christians as the Romans Saw Them by Robert Louis Wilken
0.848 4.11 The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It by Kelly McGonigal
0.847 3.76 An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume
0.847 4.49 The Greek New Testament by Eberhard Nestle
0.847 3.76 Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin
0.847 3.92 Ethics by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
0.846 4.16 How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends With Your Mind by Pema Chödrön
0.846 4.04 The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes by William Ury
0.845 3.97 The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
0.845 4.25 The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
0.844 3.76 The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940 by Julian Jackson
0.844 4.05 The Face of Battle by John Keegan
0.844 4.1 Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis by Karen Horney
0.844 3.55 Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction by Ian J. Deary
0.843 3.87 To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others by Daniel H. Pink
0.843 3.95 The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach by Robin Behn
0.843 4.05 A War To Be Won: Fighting the Second World War by Williamson Murray
0.842 3.94 The Anabasis [in translation] by Xenophon
0.842 4.13 Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are by Frans de Waal
0.842 4.26 Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences by Nancy Duarte
0.84 4.22 Influence: Science and Practice by Robert B. Cialdini
0.839 4.34 Discourses and Selected Writings by Epictetus
0.838 3.99 The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by Richard Dawkins
0.837 3.93 Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
0.836 4 The Art of Communicating by Thich Nhat Hanh
0.836 4.04 The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauff
0.836 3.81 The Spinoza Problem by Irvin Yalom
0.835 4.07 The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients by Irvin Yalom
0.835 3.83 The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century by Paul R. Krugman
0.835 3.59 The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction by Robert J. McMahon
0.835 3.9 A First Course in Probability by Sheldon Ross
0.835 4.07 The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind by Mark A. Noll
0.834 4.27 The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
0.833 4.05 1776 by David McCullough
0.833 3.73 Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam by James M. McPherson
0.833 4.16 Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five by John Medina
0.832 4.05 What is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula & Other Logical Puzzles by Raymond Smullyan
0.832 3.87 The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too by James K. Galbraith
0.831 3.96 Jung: A Very Short Introduction by Anthony Stevens
0.831 3.62 Paul: A Very Short Introduction by E. P. Sanders
0.83 3.79 Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative by Ken Robinson
0.83 3.98 How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving by David Richo
0.829 4.24 Strength Training Anatomy by Frédéric Delavier
0.827 3.81 Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon
0.827 3.02 Hume: A Very Short Introduction by A. J. Ayer
0.827 3.92 The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past by John Lewis Gaddis
0.827 3.94 The Story of American Freedom by Eric Foner
0.826 4.31 The Text of the New Testament by Bruce M. Metzger
0.826 4.12 American Colonies: The Settling of North America by Alan Taylor
0.825 3.93 The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule by Thomas Frank
0.824 4.34 The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English by H.W. Fowler
0.823 4.07 The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm
0.821 3.67 Mindfulness for Beginners by Jon Kabat-Zinn
0.821 3.64 Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy by Simon Blackburn
0.82 4.24 When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chödrön
0.82 4.06 Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade
0.82 3.62 Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction by Timothy Gowers
0.818 3.95 Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin Yalom
0.817 4.08 Mark for Everyone by Tom Wright
0.815 3.91 Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness by A. C. Grayling
0.814 4.13 The Sane Society by Erich Fromm
0.813 4.19 Mosaic of Thought, Second Edition: The Power of Comprehension Strategy Instruction by Ellin Oliver Keene
0.813 3.93 Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by Sue Johnson
0.813 3.83 Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Theory of Networks by Mark Buchanan
0.81 4 A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking
0.81 4.37 The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
0.809 3.83 How to Stay Christian in College (Th1nk Edition) by J. Budziszewski
0.807 3.77 The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind by B. Alan Wallace
0.807 3.77 The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely
0.807 4.02 Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
0.806 3.88 The Cartoon History of the United States by Larry Gonick
0.806 4.24 Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy by Irvin Yalom
0.805 4.25 The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell
0.805 4.04 Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon
0.804 4.28 Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation by Larry Rosenberg
0.803 3.6 American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 by H. W. Brands
0.803 3.99 The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
0.803 4.32 Dialogues and Essays (Oxford World's Classics) by Seneca
0.802 4.15 Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them by Ross W. Greene
0.801 3.77 The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction by Eric Rauchway
0.801 3.97 The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
0.8 4.08 On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson
0.8 3.73 The First World War: An Illustrated History (Penguin Books) by A. J. P. Taylor
0.799 4.48 Biblia Sacra Vulgata by R. Weber
0.799 4.23 Islands of the damned : a Marine at war in the Pacific by R. V. Burgin
0.799 3.98 Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution by James M. McPherson
0.797 4.06 501 Latin Verbs by Richard E. Prior
0.797 3.93 Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914? by David Fromkin
0.795 3.88 American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America by Chris Hedges
0.795 4.56 A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature by Walter Bauer