Controversial Books for kevinwoneill

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
1.111 3.71 Experience and Education por John Dewey
1.105 4.26 The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness por John Yates
1.09 3.64 Angels and Demons por Dan Brown
1.068 3.55 The New Geography of Jobs por Enrico Moretti
1.065 3.75 The Corrections por Jonathan Franzen
1.057 3.53 The Road to Character por David Brooks
1.054 3.74 The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable por Nassim Nicholas Taleb
1.047 3.88 I Beat the Odds : from Homelessness, to the Blind Side, and Beyond por Michael Oher
1.042 3.32 Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion por Paul Bloom
1.017 3.58 Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds por Carmine Gallo
1.012 3.87 White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism por Robin DiAngelo
1.003 3.56 Inferno por Dan Brown
1 3.8 Why Liberalism Failed por Patrick J. Deneen
0.993 3.78 The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters por Thomas M. Nichols
0.986 3.81 Never Let Me Go por Kazuo Ishiguro
0.985 3.73 Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are por Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
0.985 3.78 Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty por Daron Acemoglu
0.984 3.73 The Ugly American por William J. Lederer
0.983 3.97 Principles: Life and Work por Ray Dalio
0.972 3.75 Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success por Brad Stulberg
0.968 4.1 Principles of Mathematical Analysis por Walter Rudin
0.965 3.73 Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World por William H. McRaven
0.963 3.91 Mockingjay por Suzanne Collins
0.962 3.91 The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains por Robert H. Lustig
0.961 3.95 Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow por Yuval Noah Harari
0.961 3.89 A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival por Melissa Fleming
0.955 3.62 Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier por Edward L. Glaeser
0.949 3.86 The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure por Hans Magnus Enzensberger
0.948 3.87 What the Best College Teachers Do por Ken Bain
0.945 3.85 The mind-gut connection por Emeran Mayer
0.944 3.99 Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience por Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
0.94 4.12 Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organization por John Wooden
0.94 4.07 The Overstory por Richard Powers
0.938 3.52 Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness por Richard H. Thaler
0.938 3.95 The Case Against Sugar por Gary Taubes
0.937 3.89 The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath por Leslie Jamison
0.936 3.95 The Stranger por Albert Camus
0.935 3.76 I Am America (And So Can You!) por Stephen Colbert
0.934 3.92 The Sympathizer por Viet Thanh Nguyen
0.934 3.94 Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction por Philip E. Tetlock
0.934 3.86 The Music of the Primes por Marcus du Sautoy
0.93 3.6 Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body por Daniel Goleman
0.926 4.02 The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World por Melinda Gates
0.924 4 Redwall por Brian Jacques
0.923 4.18 The Poisonwood Bible por Barbara Kingsolver
0.914 3.98 The Death and Life of the Great American School System por Diane Ravitch
0.914 3.96 The Fifth Risk por Michael Lewis
0.91 3.7 What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America por Thomas Frank
0.903 4.01 The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power por Shoshana Zuboff
0.9 4.14 This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate por Naomi Klein
0.898 3.99 21 Lessons for the 21st Century por Yuval Noah Harari
0.896 3.58 Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream por Doris Kearns Goodwin
0.896 3.98 Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance por Angela Duckworth
0.896 3.98 Advanced Marathoning por Pete Pfitzinger
0.892 4.01 How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain por Lisa Feldman Barrett
0.891 3.63 The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect por Judea Pearl
0.887 3.71 An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1 por Paul J. Nahin
0.887 3.61 Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive por Stephanie Land
0.887 3.99 Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World por Rutger Bregman
0.886 4.11 Thinking, Fast and Slow por Daniel Kahneman
0.884 3.97 A Feast for Crows por George R. R. Martin
0.883 3.7 The Great Pretender por Susannah Cahalan
0.88 3.62 In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History por Mitch Landrieu
0.88 4.12 Another Day in the Death of America por Gary Younge
0.878 3.71 Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis por J. D. Vance
0.878 3.83 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything por Steven D. Levitt
0.878 3.58 Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality por Edward Frenkel
0.877 3.75 The First Three Minutes por Steven Weinberg
0.877 3.96 How the Mind Works por Steven Pinker
0.876 3.83 Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging por Sebastian Junger
0.876 3.95 The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force por Jeffrey M. Schwartz
0.873 4.08 Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics por John Derbyshire
0.873 4.02 Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms por Hannah Fry
0.873 4.14 On Writing Well por William Zinsser
0.872 4.09 The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion por Jonathan Haidt
0.871 4.04 A Dance With Dragons por George R. R. Martin
0.871 3.76 Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate por George Lakoff
0.869 4.16 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind por Yuval Noah Harari
0.868 3.97 The Final Days por Bob Woodward
0.865 3.89 Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions por Dan Ariely
0.863 4.13 Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones por James Clear
0.861 4.18 The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems por Billy Collins
0.858 4.17 The Godfather por Mario Puzo
0.858 4.03 Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream por Buzz Bissinger
0.855 3.6 White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America por Nancy Isenberg
0.854 3.89 The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains por Nicholas Carr
0.852 3.71 How Doctors Think por Jerome Groopman
0.85 3.98 Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? por Thomas Frank
0.85 3.87 What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets por Michael J. Sandel
0.847 3.84 Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy por Cathy O'Neil
0.845 4.01 Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking por Susan Cain
0.844 3.94 Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art por James Nestor
0.843 4.21 Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen por Christopher McDougall
0.842 3.83 The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't por Nate Silver
0.842 3.89 The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business por Charles Duhigg
0.841 4.28 The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels por Jon Meacham
0.84 4 The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays por Esmé Weijun Wang
0.84 3.73 When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing por Daniel H. Pink
0.839 4.35 A Game of Thrones por George R. R. Martin
0.839 4.09 The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House por Ben Rhodes
0.837 4.14 Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning por Peter C. Brown
0.837 3.96 Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World por Liaquat Ahamed
0.836 4.09 America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction por Jon Stewart
0.835 3.79 Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked por Adam Alter
0.834 4.04 The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America por George Packer
0.833 3.84 First Aid Manual por St. John Ambulance
0.83 4.01 A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power por Jimmy Carter
0.83 4.29 Night por Elie Wiesel
0.83 4.18 Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams por Matthew Walker
0.829 4.21 The Song of Achilles por Madeline Miller
0.828 3.91 Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence por James R. Clapper
0.828 4.17 Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope por Nicholas D. Kristof
0.828 3.78 Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness por Peter Godfrey-Smith
0.823 3.98 The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate, Discoveries from a Secret World por Peter Wohlleben
0.822 4.17 Catching Fire por Suzanne Collins
0.822 3.86 The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future por Joseph E. Stiglitz
0.82 4.11 I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban por Malala Yousafzai
0.819 4.22 Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst por Robert M. Sapolsky
0.818 4.22 Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character por Richard Feynman
0.818 4.17 The Brain That Changes Itself : Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science por Norman Doidge
0.813 4.31 The Hunger Games por Suzanne Collins
0.812 4.21 Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? por Michael J. Sandel
0.811 4.43 Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents por Isabel Wilkerson
0.811 4.02 Janesville: An American Story por Amy Goldstein
0.807 4 Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions por Brian Christian
0.805 4.21 The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals por Michael Pollan
0.803 4.24 When Breath Becomes Air por Paul Kalanithi
0.803 4.29 Toda a luz que não podemos ver por Anthony Doerr
0.798 4.02 Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World por David Epstein
0.798 4.23 The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down por Anne Fadiman
0.797 3.57 The Burden of Proof por Scott Turow
0.795 3.8 Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages por Guy Deutscher
0.794 4 I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer por Michelle McNamara
0.794 4.17 The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance por David Epstein
0.792 4.05 Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt por Michael Lewis
0.792 4.26 Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right por Jane Mayer
0.79 4.12 All the President's Men por Bob Woodward
0.789 4.19 Leadership: In Turbulent Times por Doris Kearns Goodwin
0.788 4 Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose por Joe Biden
0.787 3.77 The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin por Corey Robin
0.785 4.04 Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution por Kenneth R. Miller
0.784 4.27 Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela por Nelson Mandela
0.783 4.38 A Gentleman in Moscow por Amor Towles
0.778 4.06 Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right por Arlie Russell Hochschild
0.777 4 When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management por Roger Lowenstein
0.776 4.37 Between the World and Me por Ta-Nehisi Coates
0.776 3.78 Men Without Women por Haruki Murakami
0.775 3.64 Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter por Dr. Dan Ariely
0.77 4.29 The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America por Timothy Snyder
0.765 4.22 A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form por Paul Lockhart
0.763 4.32 Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think por Hans Rosling
0.754 4.23 The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia por Masha Gessen
0.752 4.3 Educated: A Memoir por Tara Westover
0.747 4.3 The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer por Siddhartha Mukherjee
0.746 3.84 A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety por Jimmy Carter
0.746 4.31 A Clash of Kings por George R. R. Martin
0.745 4.2 The Gene: An Intimate History por Siddhartha Mukherjee
0.745 4.03 Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools por Diane Ravitch
0.743 4.42 A Clash of Kings por George R. R. Martin
0.742 3.93 Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won por Tobias J. Moskowitz
0.742 4.33 Alexander Hamilton por Ron Chernow
0.74 3.9 What Does it Mean to Be Well Educated? And Other Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies por Alfie Kohn
0.738 4.1 The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure por Greg Lukianoff
0.736 3.94 The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way por Amanda Ripley
0.736 3.83 Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism por Anne Applebaum
0.734 4.49 Hamilton: The Revolution por Lin-Manuel Miranda
0.733 4.44 Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption por Laura Hillenbrand
0.731 4.2 The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism por Doris Kearns Goodwin
0.731 3.95 Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic por David Frum
0.728 4.44 Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln por Doris Kearns Goodwin
0.724 4.25 The Nickel Boys por Colson Whitehead
0.723 4.28 American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment por Shane Bauer
0.721 4.22 Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist por Eli Saslow
0.718 4.21 Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed por Lori Gottlieb
0.717 4.12 Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law por Preet Bharara
0.707 4.06 Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future por Pete Buttigieg
0.705 4.29 Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth por Rachel Maddow
0.7 3.92 Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland por Jonathan M. Metzl
0.695 4.08 A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms por George R. R. Martin
0.691 4.14 The Body: A Guide for Occupants por Bill Bryson
0.69 4.21 A Fighting Chance por Elizabeth Warren
0.687 3.9 If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body por James Hamblin
0.686 4.12 Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America por Paul Tough
0.684 3.7 The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest por Dan Buettner
0.679 4.46 Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End por Atul Gawande
0.679 4.44 Becoming por Michelle Obama
0.678 4.11 Reporter: A Memoir por Seymour M. Hersh
0.675 4.36 Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood por Trevor Noah
0.673 4.24 How Democracies Die por Steven Levitsky
0.673 4.4 The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness por Michelle Alexander
0.656 4.3 The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir por Samantha Power
0.65 3.69 Stronger por Jeff Bauman
0.648 4.2 Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations por Amy Chua
0.645 4.43 Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City por Matthew Desmond
0.643 4.27 Why We're Polarized por Ezra Klein
0.639 4.11 Them por Benjamin E. Sasse
0.635 4.63 The Princeton Companion to Mathematics por Timothy Gowers
0.635 3.89 The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Myths por Mariana Mazzucato
0.629 4.6 Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption por Bryan Stevenson
0.611 4.21 Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few por Robert B. Reich
0.609 3.97 The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind por Alison Gopnik
0.512 4.45 Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals por Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic