SOCIAL SCIENCE
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The Shipping News
Authority and the Individual
Gender Trouble
Black Boy
Superforecasting
Primates of Park Avenue
INFERIOR
Everything Is Miscellaneous
The Second Machine Age
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
"Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?" and other conversations about race
A Doll's House
The city in history
Escape from Camp 14
Omnivore's Dilemma. A Natural History of Four Meals
Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus
Stamped from the Beginning
From Here to Eternity
The mushroom at the end of the world
One-Dimensional Man
Asking for it
Assholes
Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
Twelve years a slave
The New Jim Crow
Архипелаг ГУЛАГ
Shake hands with the devil
In Real Life
White Rage
Feminist theory
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