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Facing violence

Facing violence

ByRory Miller

2011 • 2 Readers • 242 pages

Fight Like a Girl...and Win: Defense Decisions for Women

Fight Like a Girl...and Win: Defense Decisions for Women

ByLori Hartman Gervasi

2007 • 1 Reader • 304 pages

Living With the Passive-Aggressive Man

Living With the Passive-Aggressive Man

ByScott Wetzler

1992 • 1 Reader • 208 pages

Dead Or Alive: The Choice is Yours

Dead Or Alive: The Choice is Yours

ByGeoff Thompson

2004 • 1 Reader

Principles of Personal Defense

Principles of Personal Defense

ByJeff Cooper

1972 • 5 Readers • 44 pages • 4.5

On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace

On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace

ByDave Grossman,Loren W. Christensen

2004 • 7 Readers • 395 pages

The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense

The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense

BySuzette Haden Elgin

1980 • 4 Readers • 311 pages • 4

Fight Like a Physicist

Fight Like a Physicist

ByJason Thalken

2015 • 3 Readers • 128 pages

The Little Black Book of Violence

The Little Black Book of Violence

ByLawrence A. Kane,Kris Wilder,+1 more

2009 • 1 Reader • 336 pages

Design in nature

Design in nature

ByAdrian Bejan

2012 • 1 Reader • 296 pages

Foundations of Human Sociality

Foundations of Human Sociality

ByHerbert Gintis

2004 • 1 Reader • 472 pages

Stigma

ByErving Goffman

1963 • 12 Readers • 174 pages

The Political Mind

The Political Mind

ByGeorge Lakoff

2008 • 5 Readers • 320 pages • 4.5

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Marriage Is a Bad Habit

Marriage Is a Bad Habit

ByRuth Dickson

1970 • 1 Reader

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

ByElyn R. Saks

2007 • 55 Readers • 352 pages • 4

The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity

The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity

ByEsther Perel

2017 • 62 Readers • 352 pages • 4.5

Things They Cannot Say

Things They Cannot Say

ByKevin Sites

2012 • 3 Readers • 384 pages

An introduction to philosophical logic

An introduction to philosophical logic

ByA.C. Grayling

1982 • 1 Reader • 343 pages

The Utopia of Rules

The Utopia of Rules

ByDavid Graeber

2015 • 87 Readers • 272 pages • 3.9

Just My Type

BySimon Garfield

2010 • 11 Readers • 400 pages • 3.5

Jumping at Shadows

Jumping at Shadows

BySasha Abramsky

2017 • 1 Reader • 336 pages

The Beauty

#1 of 3 in The Beauty Series

ByJeremy Haun,Jason A. Hurley

2016 • 9 Readers • 164 pages • 3.5

Naked Statistics

2 Naked

Naked Statistics

ByCharles Wheelan

2012 • 47 Readers • 3

How to Think Clearly: A Guide to Critical Thinking

How to Think Clearly: A Guide to Critical Thinking

ByDoug Erlandson

2012 • 1 Reader

A Philosophy of Boredom

A Philosophy of Boredom

ByLars Fredrik Händler Svendsen,John Irons(Translator)

1999 • 3 Readers • 192 pages

Macbeth

ByGareth Hinds

4 Readers • 5

Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat: How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics

Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat: How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics

ByPaul Halpern

2015 • 3 Readers • 288 pages • 4.5

If A, Then B

ByMichael Shenefelt,Heidi White

2013 • 1 Reader • 352 pages

The Social Contract

The Social Contract

ByJean-Jacques Rousseau,Maurice Cranston(Translator)

1762 • 104 Readers • 168 pages • 3.5

Soccernomics

BySimon Kuper,Stefan Szymanski

2009 • 38 Readers • 444 pages • 3.8

How to Prove It A Structured Approach

How to Prove It: A Structured Approach

ByDaniel J. Velleman

1994 • 11 Readers • 471 pages

Everything Bad Is Good for You

Everything bad is good for you

BySteven Johnson

2005 • 30 Readers • 238 pages • 3.4

I am not a number

I am not a number

ByJenny Kay Dupuis

2016 • 3 Readers

Two Cheers for Anarchism

Two Cheers for Anarchism

ByJames C. Scott

2012 • 7 Readers • 198 pages • 4

5001 Nights at the Movies

6 The Film Writings

5001 Nights at the Movies

ByPauline Kael

1991 • 4 Readers • 959 pages

Violent Love, Vol. 1: Stay Dangerous

Violent Love, Vol. 1: Stay Dangerous

ByFrank J. Barbiere

2017 • 4 Readers • 160 pages • 4

The improbability principle

The improbability principle

ByD. J. Hand

2014 • 6 Readers • 269 pages

The Metamorphosis

The Metamorphosis

ByFranz Kafka

1915 • 24 Readers • 3.8

Thank You for Your Service

Thank You for Your Service

ByDavid Finkel

2013 • 14 Readers • 272 pages • 4

Modern Romance

ByAziz Ansari,Eric Klinenberg

2015 • 252 Readers • 279 pages • 3.6

The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics

The Theoretical Minimum

The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics

ByLeonard Susskind

2013 • 28 Readers • 165 pages • 4

The Customer is Always Wrong

The Customer is Always Wrong

ByMimi Pond

2017 • 5 Readers • 445 pages • 4

Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension

Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension

ByMatt Parker

2014 • 42 Readers • 453 pages • 4.4

With good reason

With good reason

ByS. Morris Engel

1976 • 1 Reader • 317 pages

Attacking Faulty Reasoning

Attacking Faulty Reasoning

ByT. Edward Damer

1980 • 2 Readers • 200 pages

The power of religion in the public sphere

The power of religion in the public sphere

ByJudith Butler,Jürgen Habermas,+2 more

2011 • 2 Readers • 128 pages • 4

Thinking Toolbox

Thinking Toolbox

ByNathaniel Bluedorn,Hans Bluedorn

2005 • 3 Readers • 234 pages • 5

Methods of Logic

Methods of Logic

ByWillard Van Orman Quine

1950 • 1 Reader • 344 pages

Jessica Jones Vol. 1

#1 of 1 in Jessica Jones (2016)

Jessica Jones Vol. 1

ByBrian Michael Bendis(Writer),Michael Gaydos(Artist)

2017 • 7 Readers • 136 pages • 3.3

Olive Kitteridge

#1 of 2 in Olive Kitteridge

Olive Kitteridge

ByElizabeth Strout

2008 • 212 Readers • 337 pages • 4.2

Experience on demand

Experience on demand

ByJeremy Bailenson

2018 • 1 Reader • 290 pages

Bonfire

ByKrysten Ritter

2017 • 57 Readers • 3.6

Counter Culture: Following Christ in an Anti-Christian Age

Counter Culture Booklets

Counter Culture: Following Christ in an Anti-Christian Age

ByDavid Platt

2015 • 2 Readers • 267 pages

Before the Big Bang

Before the Big Bang

ByBrian Clegg

2006 • 2 Readers • 320 pages • 3

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

ByDavid Hume

2006 • 82 Readers • 96 pages • 4.4

Daemon Voices

ByPhilip Pullman

2017 • 21 Readers • 480 pages • 3.7

No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters

No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters

ByUrsula K. Le Guin

2017 • 66 Readers • 241 pages • 4

Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

BySatya Nadella,Greg Shaw,+1 more

2017 • 58 Readers • 176 pages • 3.1

Anna and the French Kiss

#1 of 3 in Anna and the French Kiss

Anna and the French Kiss

ByStephanie Perkins

When Dimple Met Rishi

#1 of 3 in Dimple and Rishi

When Dimple Met Rishi

BySandhya Menon

War, Its Causes and Correlates

War, Its Causes and Correlates

ByMartin A. Nettleship(Editor),R. Dale Givens(Editor)

1975 • 1 Reader • 832 pages

What Happened

ByHillary Rodham Clinton

2017 • 104 Readers • 512 pages • 4

You are now less dumb

You Are Now Less Dumb

ByDavid McRaney

2013 • 19 Readers • 309 pages • 4.2

The Invention of Russia

The Invention of Russia

ByArkady Ostrovsky

2015 • 9 Readers • 384 pages • 4

Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped

Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped

ByGarry Kasparov

2015 • 13 Readers • 290 pages • 3.5

The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin

The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin

BySteven Lee Myers

2014 • 16 Readers • 592 pages • 4

The Perfume Collector

The Perfume Collector

ByKathleen Tessaro

2013 • 29 Readers • 469 pages • 3.4

The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep: Russia's Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin

The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep: Russia's Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin

ByDavid Satter

2016 • 2 Readers • 240 pages

Crazy Like Me

ByErin Lee

1 Reader • 324 pages

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

ByCaitlin Doughty

2017 • 182 Readers • 4.4

Lenin on the Train

Lenin on the Train

ByCatherine Merridale

2016 • 6 Readers • 368 pages • 3.3

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

ByDouglas Coupland

1991 • 69 Readers • 211 pages • 3.5

The Science Delusion

The Science Delusion

ByCurtis White

2013 • 2 Readers • 224 pages

His Bloody Project

His Bloody Project

ByGraeme Macrae Burnet

2015 • 49 Readers • 280 pages • 4.2

The Future Is History

The Future Is History

ByMasha Gessen

2017 • 31 Readers • 528 pages • 4.3

A Secret Sisterhood

A Secret Sisterhood

ByEmily Midorikawa,Emma Claire Sweeney

2017 • 2 Readers • 331 pages

I Can't Breathe

I Can't Breathe

ByMatt Taibbi

2017 • 11 Readers • 304 pages • 4.3

The Last Empire

The Last Empire

BySerhii Plokhy

2015 • 9 Readers • 544 pages • 4

Moxie

ByJennifer Mathieu

2017 • 79 Readers • 352 pages • 4.2

Desperation Road

Desperation Road

ByMichael Farris Smith

2017 • 10 Readers • 289 pages • 4

Goodbye days a novel

Goodbye days a novel

ByJeff Zentner

2017 • 27 Readers • 399 pages • 3.9

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Crooked Little Vein

Crooked Little Vein

ByWarren Ellis

2007 • 7 Readers • 288 pages • 4.5

White Bodies

ByJane Robins

2017 • 7 Readers • 304 pages • 2

A Curious Beginning

#1 of 6 in Veronica Speedwell

A Curious Beginning

ByDeanna Raybourn

2015 • 253 Readers • 370 pages • 4

Woman at Point Zero

Woman at Point Zero

ByNawal El Saadawi

1975 • 34 Readers • 3.6

The Last Namsara

#1 of 3 in Iskari

The Last Namsara

ByKristen Ciccarelli

2017 • 82 Readers • 432 pages • 3.9

A Love Like Blood

A Love Like Blood

ByMarcus Sedgwick

2014 • 4 Readers • 320 pages • 3

The Future of Humanity

The Future of Humanity

ByMichio Kaku

2018 • 69 Readers • 339 pages • 3.9

Emotional First Aid: Practical Strategies for Treating Failure, Rejection, Guilt, and Other Everyday Psychological Injuries

Emotional First Aid: Healing Rejection, Guilt, Failure, and Other Everyday Hurts

ByGuy Winch

2013 • 15 Readers • 304 pages • 3.3

Far from the Tree

Far from the Tree

ByRobin Benway

2017 • 77 Readers • 384 pages • 4.2

Starfish

ByAkemi Dawn Bowman

2017 • 47 Readers • 352 pages • 4.1

The Gatekeepers

The Gatekeepers

ByJen Lancaster

2017 • 4 Readers • 448 pages

These Violent Delights

These Violent Delights

ByVictoria Namkung

2017 • 5 Readers • 243 pages • 4

The Quick

ByLauren Owen

2014 • 24 Readers • 560 pages • 3

The Man in the Moon

#1 of 3 in Guardians of Childhood

The Man in the Moon

ByWilliam Joyce

2010 • 8 Readers • 56 pages • 4.8

Smile Please

ByJean Rhys

1979 • 2 Readers • 176 pages

The Girl Who Came Back to Life

The Girl Who Came Back to Life

ByCraig Staufenberg

2014 • 2 Readers • 180 pages

The Reapers are the Angels

#1 of 2 in Reapers

The Reapers are the Angels

ByAlden Bell

2010 • 47 Readers • 240 pages • 3.9

Girl on a Wire

#1 of 2 in Cirque American

ByGwenda Bond

2014 • 22 Readers • 386 pages • 4

Unschooling Rules 55 Ways To Unlearn What We Know About Schools And Rediscover Education

Unschooling Rules 55 Ways To Unlearn What We Know About Schools And Rediscover Education

ByClark Aldrich

2010 • 2 Readers