Social Sciences includes pscyhology, sociology, social issues, self-awareness, self-help, and related subjects.
Harper's editor Bill Wasik recounts his 2003 experimenation with flash mobs and later with Internet-based viral culture in And Then There's This, an examination of how nanostories live and die in the blink of an eye.
It would be easy to pick up 'The Other Side of Desire' voyeuristically, enticed by the word “desire” and the beautiful, possibly slightly bruised, blossom on the cover. However, Daniel Bergner is a journalist with a knack for drawing readers into the lives of the people he portrays. You may begin with a sense of titillation and danger, but you’ll end with a far more complex view of human desire and the ways it can draw people in like a moth to flame.
In 'Outliers,' Gladwell, the founding father of pop-sociology, examines high-achieving individuals and questions what makes them different from everyone else.
Kluger draws on research in fields including economics, biology, cosmology, chemistry, psychology, politics, and the arts to see patterns that make our world both full of complexity and reducible.
Benjamin Nugent delves into the subculture and history of the nerd in an engaging exploration into the archetype, for those who care to make the trip.
In Microtrends, Mark Penn identifies more than 70 microtrends in religion, leisure, politics, and family life that are changing the way we live.
Johnson's account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London - and how the solution revolutionized the way we think about disease, cities, science, and the modern world.
'Naked Economics' delivers what it promises to: a basic understanding of core economic principles. And more than that, it’s a good read.
Surviving Justice details the tragic histories of 13 innocents wrongly convicted, incarcerated, and later released from prison.
The story of the political, social, and cultural forces that shaped the personal computer in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant - in the blink of an eye.
A vision of world history, telling the story of humanity from the Stone Age to the twenty-first century through the lens of beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and Coca-Cola.
The Long Emergency tells us just what to expect after we pass the tipping point of global peak oil production and the honeymoon of affordable energy is over, preparing us for changes of an unimaginable scale.
No matter who your ancestors were, and where they had the misfortune of living, Victorian children's book writer Mrs. Mortimer had something nasty to say about them.
The Tipping Point purports to answer two questions, "Why is it that some ideas or behaviors or products start epidemics and others don't? And what can we do to deliberately start and control positive epidemics of our own?"
Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life, and his conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head.
Michael Lewis's irreverent reporting takes us from the dugouts and locker rooms to the boardrooms, where we meet owners who begin to look like fools at the poker table.
Emergence is the ability of low-level components to self-organize into a higher-level system of sophistication and intelligence, a fascinating phenomenon that Steven Johnson approaches from numerous angles.
Subtitled "The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys," HJNTIY is Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo's attempt to turn "Sex and the City" humor into a self-help dating guide.
