Controversial Books for WBentleyLibrary

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
1.24 3.63 On Being a Christian por Hans Küng
1.118 4.19 Life and Times of Frederick Douglass por Frederick Douglass
1.092 3.91 From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans por John Hope Franklin
1.067 3.63 Civilization and Its Discontents por Sigmund Freud
1.049 3.73 Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, New and Expanded Edition por James H. Jones
1.035 3.9 Lady Sings the Blues por Billie Holiday
1.019 3.81 A Black Theology of Liberation por James H. Cone
1.005 3.74 Sounder por William H. Armstrong
0.997 3.81 The Jungle por Upton Sinclair
0.996 4.03 How Europe Underdeveloped Africa por Walter Rodney
0.994 3.5 The Ancient Near East, Volume 1: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures por James B. Pritchard
0.976 3.98 Soledad Brother por George Jackson
0.975 3.66 Soul on Ice por Eldridge Cleaver
0.974 4.21 Death at an Early Age por Jonathan Kozol
0.973 4.13 Pedagogy of the Oppressed por Paulo Freire
0.957 3.78 John Brown's Body por Stephen Vincent Benét
0.956 3.97 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl por Harriet A. Jacobs
0.949 4.12 Black Skin, White Masks por Frantz Fanon
0.949 3.75 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman por Ernest J. Gaines
0.942 4.06 Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787 por Catherine Drinker Bowen
0.937 3.93 Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America por Stokely Carmichael
0.923 3.86 Mules and Men por Zora Neale Hurston
0.922 4.02 Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made por Eugene D. Genovese
0.919 4.09 Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History por Norman O. Brown
0.917 4.23 God of the Oppressed por James H. Cone
0.912 4.11 The Wretched of the Earth por Frantz Fanon
0.909 4.02 The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology por Joseph Campbell
0.899 4.33 The Masters and the Slaves: A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization por Gilberto Freyre
0.895 3.78 Plays by George Bernard Shaw por George Bernard Shaw
0.892 3.88 Go Tell It on the Mountain por James Baldwin
0.892 4.13 No Name in the Street por James Baldwin
0.882 4.11 The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 por Christopher Paul Curtis
0.872 4.16 The Mis-Education of the Negro por Carter Godwin Woodson
0.863 4.08 The Mismeasure of Man por Stephen Jay Gould
0.854 3.98 The Best of Simple por Langston Hughes
0.852 4.06 The Americans: The National Experience por Daniel Boorstin
0.845 3.65 Dutchman and The Slave: Two Plays por Amiri Baraka
0.844 4 Shadow and Act por Ralph Ellison
0.842 3.62 Stonewall in the Valley: Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Spring 1862 por Robert G. Tanner
0.838 4.12 Manchild in the Promised Land por Claude Brown
0.825 3.74 Ideology and Utopia: An Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledge por Karl Mannheim
0.822 4.21 Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America por Lerone Bennett
0.82 3.81 A History of Israel por John Bright
0.819 4.18 Notes of a Native Son por James Baldwin
0.819 3.92 Documents of the Christian Church por Henry Bettenson
0.808 4.26 Roots por Alex Haley
0.805 4.35 The Fire Next Time por James Baldwin
0.8 3.76 I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson por Jackie Robinson
0.796 4.36 Strength to Love por Martin Luther King, Jr.
0.784 3.99 The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South por John W. Blassingame
0.762 4.52 Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 por W. E. B. Du Bois
0.755 4.2 Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone por James Baldwin
0.743 3.95 To Sir, With Love por E. R. Braithwaite
0.739 4.42 Why We Can't Wait por Martin Luther King, Jr.
0.735 4.4 Women, Race, and Class por Angela Y. Davis
0.725 3.8 Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict, 1941-45 por Alan Clark
0.717 4.31 Let Justice Roll Down por John M. Perkins
0.693 4.11 Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta por Robert Palmer
0.628 4.2 Black Music por Amiri Baraka
0.627 4.55 Simple Justice por Richard Kluger
0.609 4.16 Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton por Bobby Seale