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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai UndercityKatherine Boo201244 pts4 wins9 listsRandom HouseSociety & CultureClass, Poverty & Inequality+2
Educated: A MemoirTara Westover201812 pts0 wins4 listsRandom HouseMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the WorldParmy Olson202410 pts1 wins1 listsSt. Martin's PressTechnologyBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
Right Kind of Wrong: Why learning to fail can teach us to thriveAmy Edmondson202310 pts1 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterBusiness & EconomicsBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of SlaveryJoseph P. Reidy202010 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of North Carolina PressHistorySlavery & Emancipation+3
This Red Line Goes Straight to Your HeartMadhur Anand202010 pts1 wins1 listsMcClelland & StewartSociety & CultureEducation & Universities+3
Infinite PowersSteven Strogatz201910 pts1 wins1 listsMariner BooksScienceEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+2
White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940Margaret D. Jacobs200910 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Nebraska PressRace & EthnicitySettler Colonialism+3
William James: In the Maelstrom of American ModernismRobert D. Richardson200610 pts1 wins1 listsHoughton Mifflin HarcourtBiographySocial Movements & Activism+2
From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial EqualityMichael J. Klarman200410 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+3
Notes from the Hyena's BellyNega Mezlekia200010 pts1 wins1 listsPenguin PressMemoir & AutobiographyEducation & Universities+3
Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim CrowNeil R. McMillen199010 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Illinois PressHistoryBlack History & Culture+3
American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876Lawrence A. Cremin198210 pts1 wins1 listsHarper & RowHistoryClass, Poverty & Inequality+1
A Liberal Descent: Victorian Historians and the English PastJohn Burrow198110 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistoryEducation & Universities+3
The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, vol. 1: The RenaissanceQuentin Skinner197810 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistoryAmerican Politics+1
Andrew CarnegieJoseph Frazier Wall197010 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressBiographyWorld War I+3
The Image Empire: A History of Broadcasting in the United States, Volume III—From 1953Erik Barnouw197010 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryEducation & Universities+3
A History of Negro Education in the South, from 1619 to the PresentHenry Allen Bullock196710 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryClass, Poverty & Inequality+1
The Transformation of the SchoolLawrence A. Cremin196110 pts1 wins1 listsKnopfSociety & CultureClass, Poverty & Inequality+1
Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of EqualityDanielle Allen201410 pts2 wins3 listsLiverightHistoryDemocracy & Elections+3
An American Summer: Love and Death in ChicagoAlex Kotlowitz20196 pts1 wins2 listsNan A. TaleseSociety & CultureDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End DeafnessKatie Booth20226 pts0 wins2 listsAvid Reader PressBiographyDisability & Difference+3
Earth History: Stories of Our Geological PastPeter Copeland, Janok P. Bhattacharya20254 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressScienceEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+1
Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in AmericaJeff Hobbs20254 pts1 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterSociety & CultureCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Atlantic Cataclysm: Rethinking the Atlantic Slave TradesDavid Eltis20244 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistoryEducation & Universities+3
Conscience Incorporated: Pursue Profits While Protecting Human RightsMichael H. Posner20244 pts1 wins1 listsNew York University PressBusiness & EconomicsClass, Poverty & Inequality+3
Introduction to Catastrophe Risk Modelling: A Physics-based ApproachArnaud Mignan20244 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressScienceBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's ClassroomsMike Hixenbaugh20244 pts1 wins1 listsMariner BooksPolitics & GovernmentEvangelicalism & Christian Nationalism+3
Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It ChangedDashka Slater20234 pts1 wins1 listsMacmillanRace & EthnicityMedia, Journalism & Public Opinion+2
Data Science for the GeosciencesLijing Wang, David Zhen Yin,, Jef Caers20234 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressScienceScience & Discovery+3
Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American CapitalismGlory M. Liu20224 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressBusiness & EconomicsBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar EraEmily Marker20224 pts1 wins1 listsCornell University PressHistoryBlack History & Culture+3
Giotto's Arena Chapel and the Triumph of HumilityHenrike Christiane Lange20224 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressArts & CriticismEducation & Universities+3
What Babies Know: Core Knowledge and CompositionElizabeth S. Spelke20224 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressScienceNatural History & Animals+3
American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of EmancipationRoberto Saba20214 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
Do Not Erase: Mathematicians and Their ChalkboardsJessica Wynne20214 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressScienceEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Fox & I: An Uncommon FriendshipCatherine Raven20214 pts1 wins1 listsSpiegel & GrauMemoir & AutobiographyPrisons & Incarceration+3
Management as a Calling: Leading Business, Serving SocietyAndrew J. Hoffman20214 pts1 wins1 listsStanford University PressBusiness & EconomicsBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and LiteratureFarah Jasmine Griffin20214 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonArts & CriticismBlack History & Culture+3
Introduction to Social NeuroscienceStephanie Cacioppo, John T. Cacioppo20204 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressScienceNatural History & Animals+3
Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught MeKate Clanchy20194 pts1 wins1 listsPan MacmillanSociety & CultureEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising BrainNick Chater20184 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressScienceTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a GenderRevolution20184 pts1 wins1 listsNew York University PressGender & SexualityEducation & Universities+3
A Concise Geologic Time Scale: 2016James G. Ogg, Gabi Ogg, Felix M. Gradstein20164 pts1 wins1 listsElsevierScienceEnergy, Extraction & Resources+2
Ecosystems of CaliforniaHarold Mooney annd Erika Zaveleta20164 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of California PressNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+3
The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of ExplorationDavid Chang20164 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Minnesota PressRace & EthnicityLgbtq History & Life+3
American Geography and Geographers: Toward Geographical ScienceGeoffrey J. Martin20154 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryScience & Discovery+3
Nations Under God: How Churches Use Moral Authority to Influence PolicyAnna Grzymała-Busse20154 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressReligionReproductive Rights & Family Policy+3
Immigration Outside the LawHiroshi Motomura20144 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressPolitics & GovernmentConstitutional History+3
China Mission: A Personal History from the Last Imperial Dynasty to the People's RepublicAudrey Ronning Topping20134 pts1 wins1 listsLSU PressMemoir & AutobiographyDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Twentieth-Century Color Photographs: Identification and CareSylvie Penichon20134 pts1 wins1 listsGetty PublicationsArts & CriticismEducation & Universities+3
The Race Between Education & TechnologyClaudia Goldin, Lawrence F. Katz20084 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressBusiness & EconomicsTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
Maxed Out: Hard Times in the Age of Easy CreditJames Scurlock20074 pts1 wins1 listsScribnerBusiness & EconomicsDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
Rivers of North AmericaArthur C. Benke, Colbert E. Cushing20054 pts1 wins1 listsElsevierNature & EnvironmentEducation & Universities+3
The Career Mystique: Cracks in the American DreamPhyllis Moen, Patricia Roehling20054 pts1 wins1 listsRowman and LittlefieldSociety & CultureGender & Feminism+3
The End of the SoulJennifer Michael Hecht20034 pts1 wins1 listsColumbia University PressPolitics & GovernmentEducation & Universities+3
The Architect and His WifeJane Ridley20024 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyEducation & Universities+3
Cradle of Life: The Discovery of the Earth's Earliest FossilsJ. William Schopf20014 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressScienceEducation & Universities+3
Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945-56John Connelly20004 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of North Carolina PressHistoryRegional & Local History+1
Transcendental Wordplay: America's Romantic Punsters & the Search for the Language of NatureMichael West20004 pts1 wins1 listsOhio University PressArts & CriticismEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+3
A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-63Marc Trachtenberg19994 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, EntrepreneurshipJuliet E. K. Walker19984 pts1 wins1 listsMacmillanBusiness & EconomicsBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
The Econometrics of Financial MarketsJohn Y. Campbell, Andrew W. Lo, A. Craig MacKinlay19974 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressBusiness & EconomicsEducation & Universities+3
The American Corporation TodayCarl Kaysen19964 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressBusiness & EconomicsEducation & Universities+3
City on a Hill: Testing the American Dream at City CollegeJames Traub19954 pts1 wins1 listsPerseus BooksSociety & CultureClass, Poverty & Inequality+3
Memory in Oral Traditions: The Cognitive Psychology of Epic, Ballads, and Counting-out RhymesDavid C. Rubin19954 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressScienceDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Thinking for a Living: Education and the Wealth of NationsRay Marshall, Marc Tucker19934 pts1 wins1 listsBasic BooksBusiness & EconomicsReconstruction+3
Trade—The Engine of Growth in East AsiaPeter C.Y. Chow, Mitchell H. Kellman19934 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressBusiness & EconomicsClass, Poverty & Inequality+3
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United StatesTheda Skocpol19924 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressPolitics & GovernmentDemocracy & Elections+3
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural HistoryStephen Jay Gould19834 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonScienceScience & Discovery+2
History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905Walter Rodney19814 pts1 wins1 listsJohns Hopkins University PressHistoryEducation & Universities+3
Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914Eugen Weber19764 pts1 wins1 listsStanford University PressHistoryBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
Race: The History of An Idea in AmericaThomas F. Gossett19634 pts1 wins1 listsSouthern Methodist University PressRace & EthnicityLiterature & Writers+3
The Rhetoric of FictionWayne C. Booth19614 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressPolitics & GovernmentConstitutional History+3
Joseph ConradJocelyn Baines19604 pts1 wins1 listsWeidenfeld & NicolsonBiographyBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
Bitter LemonsLawrence Durrell19574 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintTravel & PlaceEducation & Universities+3
A History of the Arab PeoplesAlbert Hourani19914 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryClass, Poverty & Inequality+3
Backwoods Utopias: The Sectarian and Owenite Phases of Communitarian Socialism in America, 1663-1829Arthur Bestor19464 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Pennsylvania PressHistoryEducation & Universities+3
Computer Applications in Engineering EducationMagdy F. Iskander19934 pts1 wins1 listsWileyTechnologyInfrastructure, Engineering & Built Environment+3
Finding the TrapdoorAdam Hochschild19984 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintJournalism & ReportageCivil Rights & Racial Justice+3
From Higher Aims to Hired HandsRakesh Khurana20074 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressBusiness & EconomicsClass, Poverty & Inequality+3
Music and the Making of Modern SciencePeter Pesic20154 pts1 wins1 listsMIT PressScienceArt, Music & Performance+3
That Wilder Image: The Painting of America's Native School from Thomas Cole to Winslow HomerJames Thomas Flexner19634 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityEducation & Universities+2
The Politics of Evolution: Morphology, Medicine, and Reform in Radical LondonAdrian Desmond19914 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressScienceEducation & Universities+3
The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University AdmissionsWilliam G. Bowen, Derek Bok19984 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressRace & EthnicityEducation & Universities+3
Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient WorldIrene Vallejo20224 pts0 wins1 listsKnopfHistoryEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in AmericaChristopher Leonard20194 pts0 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterBusiness & EconomicsEducation & Universities+3
Six Impossible ThingsJohn Gribbin20194 pts0 wins1 listsMIT PressScienceDeath, Memory & Commemoration+2
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant RevolutionGregory Zuckerman20194 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBusiness & EconomicsClass, Poverty & Inequality+3
The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of LongevityLynda Gratton, Andrew Scott20164 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBusiness & EconomicsBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird's EggTim Birkhead20164 pts0 wins1 listsBloomsburyScienceScience & Discovery+2
Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackberryJacquie McNish, Sean Silcoff20154 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBusiness & EconomicsEducation & Universities+2
Unfinished Business: Women Men Work FamilyAnne-Marie Slaughter20154 pts0 wins1 listsRandom House CanadaGender & SexualityEducation & Universities+3
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our LivesLeonard Mlodinow20084 pts0 wins1 listsPantheonScienceEducation & Universities+3
A Life Decoded, My Genome: My LifeJ. Craig Venter20074 pts0 wins1 listsVikingMemoir & AutobiographyDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Dark Age AheadJane Jacobs20044 pts0 wins1 listsRandom House CanadaSociety & CultureTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
Cut Time: An Education at the FightsCarlo Rotella20034 pts0 wins1 listsHoughton MifflinSportsLabor, Work & Organizing+2
One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain ForestWade Davis19964 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintNature & EnvironmentArt, Music & Performance+3
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All awards · Topic: Education & Universities · Sorted by score · 153 books · filtered