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Our Kind Summary
Our Kind
Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going – A Witty Study of Humanity by a Noted Anthropologist
by Marvin Harris 1989 547 pages
4.17
500+ ratings
Anthropology
Science
History
Human Devolution Summary
Human Devolution
A Vedic Alternative to Darwin's Theory
by Michael A. Cremo 2003 554 pages
4.11
157 ratings
History
Science
Biology
Minds Make Societies Summary
Minds Make Societies
How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
by Pascal Boyer 2018 359 pages
3.90
397 ratings
Psychology
Science
Anthropology
How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Summary
How Many Friends Does One Person Need?
Dunbar’s Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks
by Robin I.M. Dunbar 2010 312 pages
3.50
500+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Anthropology
Coding Freedom Summary
Coding Freedom
The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking
by Gabriella Coleman 2012 272 pages
3.82
280 ratings
Technology
Anthropology
Programming
Lady Sapiens Summary
Lady Sapiens
Breaking Stereotypes About Prehistoric Women
by Thomas Cirotteau 2011 240 pages
3.64
500+ ratings
History
Feminism
Science
Everyday Survival Summary
Everyday Survival
Why Smart People Do Stupid Things
by Laurence Gonzales 2008 289 pages
3.59
500+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Survival
On Human Nature Summary
On Human Nature
by Roger Scruton 2017 151 pages
3.73
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Politics
Tupaia Summary
Tupaia
Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator
by Joan Druett 2010 272 pages
4.25
201 ratings
History
Biography
Travel
Low Anthropology Summary
Low Anthropology
The Unlikely Key to a Gracious View of Others
by David Zahl 2022 195 pages
4.31
500+ ratings
Christian
Theology
Psychology
Chief Culture Officer Summary
Chief Culture Officer
How to Create a Living, Breathing Corporation
by Grant McCracken 2009
3.76
254 ratings
Business
Anthropology
Sociology
Economies and Cultures Summary
Economies and Cultures
Foundations of Economic Anthropology
by Richard R. Wilk 1996 252 pages
3.79
114 ratings
Anthropology
Economics
Social Science
Pandora's Seed Summary
Pandora's Seed
The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
by Spencer Wells 2010 256 pages
3.76
1k+ ratings
Science
History
Anthropology
Aging Thoughtfully Summary
Aging Thoughtfully
Conversations about Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles, and Regret
by Martha C. Nussbaum 2017 261 pages
3.42
119 ratings
Philosophy
Essays
Self Help
The Case of the Female Orgasm Summary
The Case of the Female Orgasm
Bias in the Science of Evolution
by Elisabeth A. Lloyd 2005 320 pages
3.97
124 ratings
Science
Sexuality
Feminism
The Birth of the Clinic Summary
The Birth of the Clinic
An Archaeology of Medical Perception
by Michel Foucault 1963 240 pages
3.94
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Medicine
Batı'nın İnsan Doğası Yanılsaması Summary
Batı'nın İnsan Doğası Yanılsaması
by Marshall Sahlins 2008 133 pages
4.10
322 ratings
Anthropology
Philosophy
History
The Invisible History of the Human Race Summary
The Invisible History of the Human Race
How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures
by Christine Kenneally 2014 370 pages
3.81
1k+ ratings
Science
History
Genetics
100 Million Years of Food Summary
100 Million Years of Food
by Stephen Le 2016 320 pages
3.62
500+ ratings
Food
History
Health
The Myths and Gods of India Summary
The Myths and Gods of India
The Classic Work on Hindu Polytheism from the Princeton Bollingen Series
by Alain Daniélou 1960 512 pages
3.99
138 ratings
Religion
India
Hinduism
Ils y étaient avant Christophe Colomb Summary
Ils y étaient avant Christophe Colomb
by Ivan Van Sertima 1976 320 pages
4.46
2k+ ratings
History
Africa
Race
The Human Swarm Summary
The Human Swarm
How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
by Mark W. Moffett 2019 468 pages
3.65
466 ratings
Science
History
Sociology
Did God Have a Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel Summary
Did God Have a Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel
by William G. Dever 2005 344 pages
3.93
307 ratings
History
Religion
Archaeology
The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City Summary
The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City
by Barbara E. Mundy 2015 256 pages
4.11
71 ratings
History
Architecture
Anthropology
Ultrasociety Summary
Ultrasociety
How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth
by Peter Turchin 2015 274 pages
4.11
464 ratings
History
Anthropology
Sociology
Directing the Documentary by Michael Rabiger (1992-01-01) Paperback Summary
Directing the Documentary by Michael Rabiger (1992-01-01) Paperback
by Michael Rabiger 1987
4.21
336 ratings
Film
Photography
Art
Goliath's Curse Summary
Goliath's Curse
The History and Future of Societal Collapse
by Luke Kemp 2025 592 pages
4.12
500+ ratings
History
Politics
Sociology
Bandits Summary
Bandits
by Eric J. Hobsbawm 1969 240 pages
3.75
500+ ratings
History
Sociology
Crime
The Forest People Summary
The Forest People
by Colin M. Turnbull 1961 295 pages
3.96
2k+ ratings
Anthropology
Africa
Ethnography
Hegemony How-To Summary
Hegemony How-To
A Roadmap for Radicals
by Jonathan Smucker 2017 290 pages
4.24
442 ratings
Politics
Activism
Social Justice
The Origin of Language Summary
The Origin of Language
How We Learned to Speak and Why
by Madeleine Beekman 2025 320 pages
3.67
154 ratings
Science
Language
History
El lenguaje de la seducción Summary
El lenguaje de la seducción
Atracción, conversación, contacto y sexo
by David Givens 1985 288 pages
3.78
326 ratings
Psychology
Anthropology
Relationships
René Girard's Mimetic Theory Summary
René Girard's Mimetic Theory
by Wolfgang Palaver 2008 419 pages
4.21
168 ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Anthropology
Women's Work Summary
Women's Work
The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
by Elizabeth Wayland Barber 1994 334 pages
4.31
2k+ ratings
History
Feminism
Womens
The Social Conquest of Earth Summary
The Social Conquest of Earth
by Edward O. Wilson 2012 352 pages
4.02
4k+ ratings
Science
History
Biology
The Goodness Paradox Summary
The Goodness Paradox
The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution
by Richard W. Wrangham 2019 377 pages
4.20
1k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Evolution
After 1177 B.C. Summary
After 1177 B.C.
The Survival of Civilizations
by Eric H. Cline 2024 352 pages
3.77
1k+ ratings
History
Ancient History
Archaeology
The Mismeasure of Man Summary
The Mismeasure of Man
by Stephen Jay Gould 1982 446 pages
4.06
9k+ ratings
Science
History
Psychology
Escape from Rome Summary
Escape from Rome
The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity
by Walter Scheidel 2019 670 pages
4.05
482 ratings
History
Economics
Ancient History
Sidewalk Summary
Sidewalk
by Mitchell Duneier 1999 400 pages
4.15
1k+ ratings
Sociology
Ethnography
Anthropology
The Sociology of Georg Simmel Summary
The Sociology of Georg Simmel
by George Simmel 1964 445 pages
3.90
73 ratings
Sociology
Philosophy
Anthropology
The Power of Not Thinking Summary
The Power of Not Thinking
How Our Bodies Learn and Why We Should Trust Them
by Simon Roberts 2020 336 pages
3.51
181 ratings
Anthropology
Psychology
Why the West Rules—for Now Summary
Why the West Rules—for Now
The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
by Ian Morris 2010 1162 pages
4.11
5k+ ratings
History
Politics
Economics
Chimpanzee Politics Summary
Chimpanzee Politics
Power and Sex among Apes
by Frans de Waal 1982 256 pages
4.27
2k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Politics
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life Summary
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
by Émile Durkheim 1912 416 pages
3.93
3k+ ratings
Sociology
Religion
Philosophy
The Division of Labor in Society Summary
The Division of Labor in Society
by Émile Durkheim 1893 416 pages
3.84
2k+ ratings
Sociology
Philosophy
Economics
Lizards Hold the Sun Summary
Lizards Hold the Sun
by Dani Trujillo 2023 266 pages
3.87
315 ratings
Romance
Indigenous
Contemporary
Distinction Summary
Distinction
by Pierre Bourdieu 1979 640 pages
4.16
3k+ ratings
Sociology
Philosophy
Theory
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Summary
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
by Erving Goffman 1959 259 pages
4.04
6k+ ratings
Sociology
Psychology
Philosophy
Born to Rebel Summary
Born to Rebel
Birth Order, Family Dynamics and Creative Lives
by Frank J. Sulloway 1996 672 pages
3.73
324 ratings
Psychology
Science
Parenting
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