Controversial Books for jborgatti

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
1.357 3.61 Art as Therapy por Alain De Botton
1.26 2.97 Tintin in the Congo por Hergé
1.171 3 Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad por Jacqueline L. Tobin
1.143 3.35 Totemism por Claude Lévi-Strauss
1.122 3.54 The Raw and the Cooked: Introduction to a Science of Mythology: I por Claude Lévi-Strauss
1.083 3.92 Experiencing Architecture por Steen Eiler Rasmussen
1.081 3.8 Popol Vuh por Quiché Maya
1.077 3.71 Journey to Ixtlan por Carlos Castaneda
1.06 3.56 The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness por Paul Gilroy
1.059 3.55 Girls at War por Chinua Achebe
1.05 3.64 Tales of Power por Carlos Castaneda
1.035 3.6 A Separate Reality por Carlos Castaneda
1.025 3.89 Noli Me Tangere por José Rizal
1.023 3.75 The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico por Miguel León Portilla
1.018 4.01 Earth Prayers From around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth por Elizabeth Roberts
1.017 3.83 History of the Conquest of Peru por William H. Prescott
1 4.02 Treasures of Tutankhamun por Katherine Stoddert Gilbert
1 3.89 The Art of Mesoamerica from Olmec to Aztec por Mary Ellen Miller
0.995 3.8 Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali por D. T. Niane
0.994 3.57 The Palm-Wine Drinkard and his Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town por Amos Tutuola
0.979 3.53 Coming of Age in Samoa por Margaret Mead
0.979 3.86 History of Beauty por Umberto Eco
0.978 3.72 A Short Guide to Writing About Art por Sylvan Barnet
0.962 3.63 Argonauts of the Western Pacific por Bronislaw Malinowski
0.959 3.69 Art History por Marilyn Stokstad
0.959 3.76 Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure por Tim Jeal
0.947 3.99 Art as Experience por John Dewey
0.941 3.65 Return to Laughter: An Anthropological Novel (The Natural History Library) por Elenore Smith Bowen
0.941 3.78 The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women por Naomi Wolf
0.941 3.8 Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman por Marjorie Shostak
0.927 3.67 Black Mischief por Evelyn Waugh
0.925 3.97 Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty por Nancy Etcoff
0.912 3.49 Dictionary of Symbolism: Cultural Icons and the Meanings Behind Them por Hans Biedermann
0.906 3.99 Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux por John G. Neihardt
0.901 4 On Ugliness por Umberto Eco
0.899 3.8 Mexico: Ancient Peoples and Places por Michael D. Coe
0.892 3.6 Patterns of Culture por Ruth Benedict
0.886 3.62 Structural Anthropology por Claude Lévi-Strauss
0.877 3.99 Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye por Rudolf Arnheim
0.875 3.92 Ishi: Last of His Tribe por Theodora Kroeber
0.869 3.88 Seashells of the World - A Guide to the Better-Known Species (Golden Nature Guides) por R. Tucker Abbott
0.867 4.01 The Forest People: A Study of the Pygmies of the Congo por Colin Turnbull
0.864 2.83 Indigo: In Search of the Color That Seduced the World por Catherine E. McKinley
0.862 4.04 Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism por Benedict Anderson
0.853 4.28 The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics por Norton Juster
0.853 3.69 Visual Thinking por Rudolf Arnheim
0.837 4.16 Gardner's Art through the Ages por Helen Gardner
0.837 3.43 The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World―and Globalization Began por Valerie Hansen
0.833 3.76 Voodoo in Haiti por Alfred Métraux
0.833 3.94 The Savage Mind por Claude Lévi-Strauss
0.828 3.85 The Silent Language por Edward T. Hall
0.827 3.97 Aké: The Years of Childhood por Wole Soyinka
0.823 3.68 Black Tudors: The Untold Story por Miranda Kaufmann
0.803 4.51 The Americans por Robert Frank
0.802 4.12 Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn por Karen McCarthy Brown
0.801 4.16 The Empty Space: A Book about the Theatre por Peter Brook
0.794 3.63 A Man of the People por Chinua Achebe
0.78 4.13 Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier por Joanna Stratton
0.76 3.75 Travels in the Interior of Africa por Mungo Park
0.747 4.37 Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti por Maya Deren
0.745 4.13 Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance por Erwin Panofsky
0.744 3.65 The Radiance of the King por Camara Laye
0.738 4.12 Monique and the Mango Rains por Kris Holloway
0.731 4.37 Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy por Robert Farris Thompson
0.728 4.2 Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache por Keith H. Basso
0.728 3.99 A History of Western Music por Donald Jay Grout
0.723 4.08 Meaning in the Visual Arts por Erwin Panofsky
0.701 3.97 Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style por Michael Baxandall
0.689 4.16 On Reading por André Kertész
0.634 4.53 The History of Beads: From 30,000 B.C. to the Present por Lois Sherr Dubin
0.542 4.04 Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 (Studies in Comparative World History) por John Thornton