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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
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Invisible Women

By Caroline Criado Perez ,

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Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
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Decisive

By Chip Heath , Dan Heath ,

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Queenship in Medieval Europe
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Queenship in Medieval Europe

By Theresa Earenfight ,

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Tactical Urbanism: Short-Term Action for Long-Term Change
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Tactical Urbanism

By Mike Lydon , Anthony Garcia ,

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Stuffocation: Why We've Had Enough of Stuff and Need Experience More Than Ever
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Stuffocation

By James Wallman ,

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Improbable Scholars: The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America's Schools
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Improbable Scholars

By David L. Kirp ,

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Becoming Beauvoir: A Life
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Becoming Beauvoir

By Kate Kirkpatrick ,

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The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling and the Making of Cultures
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The Strange Order of Things

By Antonio Damasio ,

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A Relational Theory of World Politics
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A Relational Theory of World Politics

By Yaqing Qin ,

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Gun Baby Gun: A Bloody Journey into the World of the Gun
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Gun Baby Gun

By Iain Overton ,

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Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan
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Revolution in Rojava

By Michael Knapp , Anja Flach , Ercan Ayboga

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Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present
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Fashion Victims

By Alison Matthews David ,

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The Tyranny of the Ideal: Justice in a Diverse Society
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The Tyranny of the Ideal

By Gerald Gaus ,

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Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die
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Predictive Analytics

By Eric Siegel ,

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Fundamentals of Data Visualization: A Primer on Making Informative and Compelling Figures
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Fundamentals of Data Visualization

By Claus O. Wilke ,

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Learn to Write Badly
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Learn to Write Badly

By Michael Billig ,

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Empty Labor: Idleness and Workplace Resistance
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Empty Labor

By Roland Paulsen ,

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Why Horror Seduces
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Why Horror Seduces

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice
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The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology

By Chris Chambers ,

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Triumph of Emptiness: Consumption, Higher Education, and Work Organization
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Triumph of Emptiness

By Mats Alvesson ,

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How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking
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How to Take Smart Notes

By Sonke Ahrens ,

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Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality
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Paying for the Party

By Elizabeth A. Armstrong , Laura T. Hamilton ,

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Introduction to Economics: Social Issues and Economic Thinking
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Introduction to Economics

By Wendy A. Stock ,

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Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Social Science
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Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Social Science

By David L Seim ,

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A Queer History of the United States
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A Queer History of the United States

By Michael Bronski ,

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Psychiatry Under the Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform
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Psychiatry Under the Influence

By Robert Whitaker , Robert Whitaker , Lisa Cosgrove

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Work Pause Thrive: How to Pause for Parenthood Without Killing Your Career
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Work Pause Thrive

By Lisen Stromberg ,

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The Sources of Social Power: Volume 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760
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The Sources of Social Power

By Michael Mann ,

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The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies
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The Social Meaning of Money

By Viviana A. Zelizer ,

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Folklore, Gender, and AIDS in Malawi: No Secret Under the Sun
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Folklore, Gender, and AIDS in Malawi

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Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization
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Making the Social World

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Arts and Humanities in Progress: A Manifesto of Numanities
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Arts and Humanities in Progress

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The Oxford Handbook of Adam Smith
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The Oxford Handbook of Adam Smith

By Christopher J. Berry (editor) , Maria Pia Paganelli (editor) , Craig Smith (editor)

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The Political Economy of Human Happiness: How Voters' Choices Determine the Quality of Life
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The Political Economy of Human Happiness

By Benjamin Radcliff ,

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Pareto's General Sociology
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Pareto's General Sociology

By Lawrence J. Henderson ,

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Aspects of Violence: A Critical Theory
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Aspects of Violence

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Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time
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Leadership BS

By Jeffrey Pfeffer ,

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The Reality of Social Construction
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The Reality of Social Construction

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