Controversial Books for Doug1943

This page shows the most "controversial" books in this library, as measured by the highest standard deviation of members' star ratings.

Standard Deviation Avaliação Média Your Rating Título
1.466 3.63 Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution is Wrong por Jonathan Wells
1.404 3.58 Darwin's Black Box por Michael J. Behe
1.392 3.35 The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals por William J. Bennett
1.332 3.59 Intercourse por Andrea Dworkin
1.323 3.34 Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right por Ann Coulter
1.26 3.44 The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life por Richard J. Herrnstein
1.253 3.5 The End of Racism por Dinesh D'Souza
1.173 3.58 The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science por Tom Bethell
1.172 3.63 The Superior Person's Book of Words por Peter Bowler
1.172 3.65 Reflections on the Revolution in France por Edmund Burke
1.169 3.73 Slouching towards Gomorrah por Robert H. Bork
1.163 3.83 The Whig Interpretation of History por Herbert Butterfield
1.163 3.85 Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey por David Horowitz
1.16 3.41 Telling the Truth about History por Joyce Appleby
1.153 3.89 The Tempting of America por Robert H. Bork
1.152 3.45 Introducing Baudrillard por Chris Horrocks
1.152 3.82 The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History por Philip Bobbitt
1.136 3.64 Delta Force: The Army's Elite Counterterrorist Unit por Charlie A. Beckwith
1.135 4 Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation por Joseph Weizenbaum
1.131 3.6 The Third Wave por Alvin Toffler
1.123 3.63 Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love por Helen Fisher
1.117 4.26 Race and Culture: A World View por Thomas Sowell
1.108 3.46 The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market por George Soros
1.087 3.93 The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values por Tammy Bruce
1.082 3.8 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values por Robert M. Pirsig
1.082 3.48 The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror por Bernard Lewis
1.079 3.6 The Closing of the American Mind por Allan Bloom
1.078 3.69 The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-first Century por Thomas P. M. Barnett
1.076 3.6 Moses and Monotheism por Sigmund Freud
1.074 3.85 On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War por Harry G. Summers
1.063 3.86 Wellington: The Years of the Sword por Elizabeth Longford
1.056 3.55 The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization por Patrick J. Buchanan
1.047 3.7 Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace por Gore Vidal
1.047 3.46 If It Die por André Gide
1.041 4.26 The Vision of the Anointed por Thomas Sowell
1.039 3.97 The Force of Reason por Oriana Fallaci
1.037 3.91 Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism por Cornel West
1.033 3.54 Future Shock por Alvin Toffler
1.024 3.82 Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson por Camille Paglia
1.02 3.7 No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality por Judith Rich Harris
1.02 3.81 The Book of Great Books: A Guide to 100 World Classics por W. John Campbell Ph.D.
1.018 3.72 Terror and Liberalism por Paul Berman
1.016 3.32 The Story of an African Farm por Olive Schreiner
1.001 3.87 The Republic por Plato
0.998 3.48 Vamps and Tramps: New Essays por Camille Paglia
0.991 3.24 We're Right, They're Wrong: A Handbook for Spirited Progressives por James Carville
0.987 3.87 Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science por Alan Sokal
0.985 3.97 The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature por Geoffrey Miller
0.985 3.15 Introducing Postmodernism por Richard Appignanesi
0.984 3.47 Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray por Helen Fisher
0.981 4.1 America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It por Mark Steyn
0.98 3.75 Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government por P. J. O'Rourke
0.979 3.54 African Genesis: A Personal Investigation Into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man por Robert Ardrey
0.979 3.53 Coming of Age in Samoa por Margaret Mead
0.979 3.74 Why Truth Matters por Ophelia Benson
0.977 3.54 Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern por John Gray
0.976 3.61 The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714 por Christopher Hill
0.975 3.86 Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles por Robin Baker
0.973 3.86 The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe, and Power in the Heart of Africa por Bill Berkeley
0.972 3.62 Captains Courageous por Rudyard Kipling
0.971 3.67 How the Irish Saved Civilization por Thomas Cahill
0.968 4.15 The Elements of Style por William Jr. Strunk
0.968 3.89 Why Americans Hate Politics por E. J. Dionne, Jr.
0.965 3.37 Language, Truth and Logic por A. J. Ayer
0.964 3.65 Three Tales por Gustave Flaubert
0.963 2.98 Debunked! ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience por Georges Charpak
0.961 3.52 Megatrends 2000 por John Naisbitt
0.961 3.73 Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army por Jeremy Scahill
0.96 3.35 Tudor England por S. T. Bindoff
0.96 3.77 The English Constitution por Walter Bagehot
0.96 3.49 Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays por Camille Paglia
0.959 3.68 Postcards por Annie Proulx
0.959 3.5 Europe since Napoleon por David Thomson
0.958 3.72 God and Man at Yale por William F. Buckley, Jr.
0.957 3.79 While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within por Bruce Bawer
0.956 4.02 Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist por Adrian Desmond
0.955 3.45 Living History por Hillary Rodham Clinton
0.952 3.86 Conservatives without Conscience por John W. Dean
0.949 3.74 Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America por Barbara Ehrenreich
0.949 3.84 The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages por Harold Bloom
0.949 3.51 Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles por Anthony Swofford
0.948 3.8 Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation por Lynne Truss
0.947 3.4 Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World por Benjamin Barber
0.945 4.18 Conquests And Cultures: An International History por Thomas Sowell
0.945 3.85 Literary Theory: An Introduction por Terry Eagleton
0.944 3.97 The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations por Robert Ardrey
0.942 3.63 The Great Philosophers: An Introduction to Western Philosophy por Bryan Magee
0.941 3.72 Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory por Peter Barry
0.938 3.93 On War por Carl von Clausewitz
0.938 3.41 How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions por Francis Wheen
0.938 3.8 Ecclesiastical History of the English People por Bede
0.936 3.82 New Ideas from Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economic Thought por Todd G. Buchholz
0.936 3.86 The Origins of the Second World War: 1919-1939 por A. J. P. Taylor
0.935 4.03 The Americans : The democratic experience por Daniel Boorstin
0.933 4.2 The Ascent of Man por Jacob Bronowski
0.933 3.47 Primary Colors por Joe Klein
0.93 4.05 The Struggle for Mastery in Europe: 1848-1918 por Alan J. P. Taylor
0.93 3.96 Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women por Susan Faludi
0.93 3.71 Asimov's Guide to the Bible: The Old Testament por Isaac Asimov
0.928 3.97 Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century por Peter Watson
0.928 3.77 What Cops Know por Connie Fletcher
0.923 4.04 Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography por Benazir Bhutto
0.923 3.93 To the Finland Station por Edmund Wilson
0.923 3.7 Comrades!: A History of World Communism por Robert Service
0.92 3.67 Introducing Wittgenstein por John Heaton
0.919 4.14 Testament of Youth por Vera Brittain
0.918 3.94 A Very Short History of the World por Geoffrey Blainey
0.917 3.7 The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague por Timothy Garton Ash
0.914 3.68 The History Man por Malcolm Bradbury
0.913 3.91 The Americans: The Colonial Experience por Daniel Boorstin
0.912 4.21 A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 por Orlando Figes
0.909 3.08 Introducing Stephen Hawking por J. P. McEvoy
0.908 3.74 Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language por Steven Pinker
0.907 4.09 The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature por Steven Pinker
0.906 3.67 Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated por Steve Jones
0.899 4.25 Dreadnought : Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War por Robert K. Massie
0.899 3.7 The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language por Melvyn Bragg
0.897 4.23 A Personal Odyssey por Thomas Sowell
0.895 3.41 Brush Up Your Shakespeare! por Michael Macrone
0.894 3.54 The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy por David Brock
0.893 4.1 The Meditations por Marcus Aurelius
0.893 4.01 The Waning of the Middle Ages por Johan Huizinga
0.893 3.63 The Arabs in History por Bernard Lewis
0.892 4.03 A Rumor of War por Philip Caputo
0.891 3.44 Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World por Justin Marozzi
0.887 3.73 The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought por Alan Bullock
0.887 3.49 What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been por Robert Cowley
0.886 3.74 See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism por Robert Baer
0.884 4.1 Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies por Jared Diamond
0.883 3.2 Red Herrings and White Elephants por Albert Jack
0.881 3.8 The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap por Stephanie Coontz
0.881 3.86 The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power por Max Boot
0.88 3.88 The Future of Freedom por Fareed Zakaria
0.88 4.19 The Kite Runner por Khaled Hosseini
0.878 3.83 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything por Steven D. Levitt
0.878 3.37 Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict por Michael T. Klare
0.878 3.7 The Queen's Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Adviser to Queen Elizabeth I por Benjamin Woolley
0.877 3.96 How the Mind Works por Steven Pinker
0.875 3.45 Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles por Simon Winchester
0.874 4.04 The Radicalism of the American Revolution por Gordon S. Wood
0.873 3.86 The Green Flag [3-volume set] por Robert Kee
0.873 3.66 The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 por Ron Suskind
0.872 3.94 The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers por Robert L. Heilbroner
0.872 4.02 Generations of Winter por Vasily Aksyonov
0.872 3.99 The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change por David Harvey
0.872 4.13 A Natural History of the Senses por Diane Ackerman
0.87 3.79 The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA por James D. Watson
0.868 4.13 Migrations And Cultures: A World View por Thomas Sowell
0.867 3.95 Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives Think por George Lakoff
0.867 4.05 Lincoln por Gore Vidal
0.864 3.97 The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating por David M. Buss
0.863 4.01 The Blue and Brown Books (Preliminary Studies for the Philosophical Investigations) por Ludwig Wittgenstein
0.862 4.22 Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions since World War II por William Blum
0.861 3.86 What's Left? por Nick Cohen
0.86 3.39 Einstein: The Life and Times por Ronald W. Clark
0.86 3.7 The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution por Barbara W. Tuchman
0.857 3.92 The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History por Isaiah Berlin
0.856 3.82 Heroes por John Pilger
0.856 3.76 The People's Almanac #3 por David Wallechinsky
0.856 3.46 What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East por Bernard Lewis
0.856 3.79 Reflections on a Ravaged Century por Robert Conquest
0.849 3.65 The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium por Robert Lacey
0.849 4.15 Shakespearean Tragedy por A. C. Bradley
0.848 3.59 Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror por Michael F. Scheuer
0.841 3.71 The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization por James Bamford
0.839 3.98 Frozen Desire: The Meaning of Money por James Buchan
0.839 3.98 The Working Poor: Invisible in America por David K. Shipler
0.838 3.98 The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language por Steven Pinker
0.837 3.82 Bad Dirt por Annie Proulx
0.836 4.36 Life and Fate por Vasily Grossman
0.836 3.88 On Anarchism por Noam Chomsky
0.836 4.2 Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage por Kathryn Edin
0.835 3.98 From Beirut to Jerusalem por Thomas L. Friedman
0.834 3.99 The Fatal Shore por Robert Hughes
0.833 3.67 Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam por John A. Nagl
0.833 3.6 English Social History por G.M. Trevelyan
0.833 3.62 Write Right por Jan Venolia
0.833 4.18 American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass por Douglas S. Massey
0.833 3.42 Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul por Francis Crick
0.832 4.1 Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America por Garry Wills
0.831 4.18 A Short History of Nearly Everything por Bill Bryson
0.828 3.61 Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality por Jared Diamond
0.827 4.27 The Autobiography of Malcolm X por Malcolm X
0.825 3.3 Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West por Timothy Garton Ash
0.824 4.11 Undaunted Courage por Stephen E. Ambrose
0.823 4.07 The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 por Eric Hobsbawm
0.82 4.14 A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century por Barbara W. Tuchman
0.819 3.87 The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce por Judith S. Wallerstein
0.817 3.84 The End of Iraq por Peter W. Galbraith
0.816 3.89 Inside the Third Reich por Albert Speer
0.815 4.1 The Tragedy of American Diplomacy por William Appleman Williams
0.814 3.81 The Penguin History of Greece por A. R. Burn
0.813 3.65 Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative por David Brock
0.813 4.19 Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 por Barbara W. Tuchman
0.811 3.98 The Purple Decades por Tom Wolfe
0.811 3.29 Matter and Consciousness: A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind por Paul M. Churchland
0.81 3.67 Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes por Paul Strathern
0.81 3.98 The Struggle for Europe por Chester Wilmot
0.807 3.52 The Middle East: 2000 Years of History From the Rise of Christianity to the Present Day por Bernard Lewis
0.806 4.16 Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America por John McWhorter
0.804 4.14 The Making of the English Working Class por E. P. Thompson
0.803 4.17 The Evolution of Cooperation por Robert Axelrod
0.803 4.03 The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders por Ernst Klee
0.802 4.27 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee por Dee Brown
0.8 4.08 On Human Nature por Edward O. Wilson
0.8 4.04 Culloden por John Prebble
0.799 4.3 The Killer Angels por Michael Shaara
0.798 4.15 Rifles: Six Years with Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters por Mark Urban
0.795 3.88 American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America por Chris Hedges
0.795 3.92 The Trial of Charles I por C. V. Wedgwood
0.794 4.2 Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War por Mark Bowden
0.793 3.41 A Brief History of Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable por Brian Clegg
0.792 3.88 Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia por Karl E. Meyer
0.789 3.57 Tudor England por John Guy
0.788 4.41 The Quest for Cosmic Justice por Thomas Sowell
0.788 4.01 Cities of the Plain por Cormac McCarthy
0.787 4.12 Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq por Thomas E. Ricks
0.786 3.99 The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848 por Eric Hobsbawm
0.785 3.62 Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's Odyssey por Fouad Ajami
0.784 4 When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor por William Julius Wilson
0.782 4.15 Gulag: A History por Anne Applebaum
0.78 4.15 Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army por Donald W. Engels
0.779 4.18 The Good War: An Oral History of World War II por Studs Terkel
0.779 4.17 My Life por Golda Meir
0.778 3.84 Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam por Jason Burke
0.777 4.31 A History of the Crusades [3-volume set] por Steven Runciman
0.774 3.73 The Oxford Book of Essays por John Gross
0.774 4.13 Western Intellectual Tradition: From Leonardo to Hegel por Jacob Bronowski
0.773 4.11 The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s por Piers Brendon
0.772 3.74 The Victorians por A. N. Wilson
0.77 3.8 Tycho & Kepler por Kitty Ferguson
0.768 3.76 The Elizabethan World Picture por E. M. W. Tillyard
0.767 4.04 Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope por Shirin Ebadi
0.764 3.91 Adolf Hitler por John Toland
0.763 4.01 Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth por Richard A. Fortey
0.763 4.2 The Alchemy of Race and Rights por Patricia J. Williams
0.762 3.85 Under Fire por Henri Barbusse
0.762 3.91 Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet por James Mann
0.759 4.05 The Age of Empire, 1875-1914 por Eric Hobsbawm
0.757 3.96 Bully for Brontosaurus por Stephen Jay Gould
0.754 4.07 The Thirty Years War por C. V. Wedgwood
0.751 3.95 Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder por Richard Dawkins
0.747 4.16 The Rising Sun: the Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945. por John Toland
0.746 3.85 History of the World por J. M. Roberts
0.743 3.87 Marriage, a History: from Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage por Stephanie Coontz
0.742 4.15 The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do por Judith Rich Harris
0.741 4.12 Hidden Agendas por John Pilger
0.733 3.79 Three Who Made a Revolution por Bertram D. Wolfe
0.732 3.97 The Age of Capital, 1848-1875 por Eric Hobsbawm
0.731 4.14 The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 por George H. Nash
0.728 4.35 Woody Guthrie: A Life por Joe Klein
0.719 3.85 A Shortened History of England por George Macaulay Trevelyan
0.717 3.58 Napoleon por Felix Markham
0.715 3.88 Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938 por Stephen E. Ambrose
0.712 4.12 How to Read Wittgenstein por Ray Monk
0.711 3.47 America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy por Francis Fukuyama
0.705 3.72 A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures por Ben Bradlee
0.703 4.05 Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel about the American Obsession por Studs Terkel
0.7 3.94 Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq por Michael R. Gordon
0.697 4.06 Ever Since Darwin: Reflections on Natural History por Stephen Jay Gould
0.696 3.89 The Transformation of War: The Most Radical Reinterpretation of Armed Conflict Since Clausewitz por Martin van Creveld
0.695 4.06 Karl Marx por Francis Wheen
0.688 4.4 Survival in the Killing Fields por Haing S. Ngor
0.658 3.73 Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia por Ahmed Rashid
0.658 4.22 the Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax, and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language por Geoffrey K. Pullum
0.568 4.39 Ethnic America: A History por Thomas Sowell
0.558 3.98 Trafalgar: The Nelson Touch (Great Battles) por David Howarth