Social Science
Our world pulses with invisible patterns of human behavior, group dynamics, and societal forces that shape everything from friendships to financial markets. Through rigorous research and compelling analysis, these books illuminate how people think, connect, and organize themselves—revealing the hidden architecture of our social world.
Social Science Book Summaries
How We Know What Isn't So
The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Covert Regime Change
America's Secret Cold War
History
Politics
International Relations
The Control Revolution
Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society
History
Technology
Economics
Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life
A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity are Revolutionizing our View of Human Nature
Psychology
Science
Evolution
Authoritarian Nightmare
Trump and His Followers
Politics
Psychology
History
Tits Up
What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts
Feminism
History
Science
Unforgiving Places
The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence
Crime
Politics
History
Off the Edge
Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
History
Politics
Psychology
The Frontiers of Knowledge
What We Know about Science, History and the Mind
Science
Philosophy
History
The Myth of the State
Philosophy
Politics
History
Cults
Faith, Healing and Coercion
Cults
Psychology
Religion
The Big Myth
How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
Economics
Politics
History
The Unthinkable
Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why
Psychology
Science
Survival
Copaganda
How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
Politics
Social Justice
History
A Lot of People Are Saying
The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy
Politics
Sociology
Philosophy
Captains Of Consciousness
Advertising And The Social Roots Of The Consumer Culture
History
Sociology
Politics
