Controversial Books for Selenaria

This page shows the most "controversial" books in this library, as measured by the highest standard deviation of members' star ratings.

Standard Deviation Average Rating Your Rating Title
1.306 3.76 Adventures of Ideas by Alfred North Whitehead
1.203 3.49 The Good Book: A Humanist Bible by A. C. Grayling
1.135 3.67 Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look at the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fall, and Other Strange Connections by Charles R. Pellegrino
1.115 3.62 Science and the Modern World by Alfred North Whitehead
1.077 3.71 The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life by A. C. Grayling
1.066 3.55 Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness by Ian Tattersall
1.056 3.69 The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions by Robert Todd Carroll
1.052 3.92 Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk by Massimo Pigliucci
1.046 3.45 Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould
1.026 3.32 The Edge of the World by Kevin J. Anderson
1.016 3.76 Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People by Joan Roughgarden
1.013 3.47 The Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman
1.009 3.57 The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense by Michael Shermer
1.008 3.36 On Equilibrium by John Ralston Saul
1.006 4.00 Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West by John Ralston Saul
0.996 3.55 Gorgon: Paleontology, Obsession, and the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History by Peter Ward
0.991 3.72 The Unconscious Civilization by John Ralston Saul
0.989 3.99 Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead
0.956 4.25 Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings by Firdausi
0.946 3.75 The Wave Watcher's Companion: From Ocean Waves to Light Waves Via Shock Waves, Stadium Waves, and all the Rest of Life's Undulations by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
0.944 3.98 David and Solomon : in search of the Bible's sacred kings and the roots of the Western tradition by Israel Finkelstein
0.943 3.98 The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts by Israel Finkelstein
0.943 3.08 In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life by Henry Gee
0.943 3.80 An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas by Stephen Jay Gould
0.940 3.75 The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century by A. C. Grayling
0.937 3.60 The Map that Changed the World: The Tale of William Smith and the Birth of a Science by Simon Winchester
0.937 3.74 The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France by David Andress
0.936 3.64 The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks? by Jan Zalasiewicz
0.935 4.05 The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery
0.934 3.64 The Reason of Things: Living with Philosophy by A. C. Grayling
0.932 3.72 Heavenly Pleasures by Kerry Greenwood
0.928 3.89 What is Good?: The Search for the Best Way to Live by A. C. Grayling
0.928 3.94 The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould
0.923 3.58 A Few Right Thinking Men by Sulari Gentill
0.919 3.69 Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey
0.916 3.49 Aberystwyth Mon Amour by Malcolm Pryce
0.915 3.75 I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
0.909 3.50 Absolution by Murder by Peter Tremayne
0.902 3.47 Last Tango in Aberystwyth by Malcolm Pryce
0.899 3.71 Chambers Dictionary of World History by Bruce P. Lenman
0.898 4.00 King Solomon's Ring: New Light on Animals' Ways by Konrad Lorenz
0.898 3.90 Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
0.894 3.57 Truth: A Guide by Simon Blackburn
0.893 3.78 Earth: An Intimate History by Richard Fortey
0.893 3.90 The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson
0.890 3.93 Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature by Riley Black
0.890 3.76 Suffer Little Children by Peter Tremayne
0.889 3.51 Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved by Frans de Waal
0.887 3.88 Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet by Ted Nield
0.886 3.82 The Cloudspotter's Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
0.886 3.77 Ideas That Changed the World by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
0.885 4.06 The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
0.880 3.53 Heresy by S. J. Parris
0.879 3.98 The Jesus Dynasty: The Hidden History of Jesus, His Royal Family, and the Birth of Christianity by James D. Tabor
0.875 3.74 The Art of Detection by Laurie R. King
0.874 3.82 The Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis
0.872 3.80 Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester
0.872 3.52 A Death in Vienna by Frank Tallis
0.868 3.82 The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
0.868 3.94 The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
0.859 3.67 Last Act in Palmyra by Lindsey Davis
0.859 4.00 The emerald planet: how plants changed Earth's history by David Beerling
0.857 4.11 Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
0.857 3.85 Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer
0.856 4.13 Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea by Carl Zimmer
0.856 3.56 Captain Alatriste by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
0.855 3.82 The Philosopher's Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods by Julian Baggini
0.855 4.06 The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution by Sean B. Carroll
0.854 3.62 The Novice's Tale by Margaret Frazer
0.852 4.00 Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo by Sean B. Carroll
0.852 4.09 The Mismeasure of Man [Revised & Expanded] by Stephen Jay Gould
0.852 3.78 The Moor by Laurie R. King
0.849 3.67 Earthly Delights by Kerry Greenwood
0.846 3.58 Blood and Circuses by Kerry Greenwood
0.846 3.70 The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
0.846 4.36 Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters by Donald R. Prothero
0.842 3.78 The Harper's Quine by Pat McIntosh
0.841 4.10 The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People by Tim Flannery
0.835 3.50 Martyr by Rory Clements
0.834 3.59 The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities by Stephen Jay Gould
0.834 3.73 Night Work by Laurie R. King
0.834 3.66 Fatal Lies by Frank Tallis
0.831 3.92 The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule by Michael Shermer
0.830 3.96 What Evolution Is by Ernst Mayr
0.828 3.62 Sacred Treason by James Forrester
0.827 4.06 His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
0.827 3.38 The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor by Colin Tudge
0.826 3.83 Shadows in Bronze by Lindsey Davis
0.825 3.76 Touchstone by Laurie R. King
0.825 3.77 A Dying Light in Corduba by Lindsey Davis
0.824 3.68 Vienna Twilight by Frank Tallis
0.823 3.93 Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes by Stephen Jay Gould
0.822 3.81 Affluenza: When Too Much is Never Enough by Clive Hamilton
0.821 3.50 The Sun Over Breda by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
0.821 3.64 Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy by Simon Blackburn
0.817 4.22 The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life by Richard Dawkins
0.816 3.84 With Child by Laurie R. King
0.816 3.93 Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin
0.813 3.98 The Language of Bees by Laurie R. King
0.809 3.76 Two for the Lions by Lindsey Davis
0.808 3.72 Vienna Blood by Frank Tallis
0.807 4.08 O Jerusalem by Laurie R. King
0.806 3.47 Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time by Stephen Jay Gould
0.803 3.71 The Collapse of Globalism: And the Reinvention of the World by John Ralston Saul
0.801 3.88 Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould
0.801 4.02 Unearthing Atlantis: An Archaeological Odyssey by Charles R. Pellegrino
0.800 3.54 The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense by John Ralston Saul
0.796 3.97 A Monstrous Regiment of Women by Laurie R. King
0.794 3.82 Roman Blood by Steven Saylor
0.792 3.58 In The Blink Of An Eye: How Vision Sparked The Big Bang Of Evolution by Andrew Parker
0.791 3.76 Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society by David Sloan Wilson
0.791 3.81 Black Powder War by Naomi Novik
0.791 3.98 Death Mask by Ellis Peters
0.791 3.90 Dinosaur in a Haystack by Stephen Jay Gould
0.791 3.73 The Subtle Serpent by Peter Tremayne
0.790 3.85 A Grave Talent by Laurie R. King
0.788 3.87 The Iron Hand of Mars by Lindsey Davis
0.788 4.19 Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution by Nick Lane
0.787 3.46 Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik
0.786 3.86 The Serpent's Tale by Ariana Franklin
0.785 4.04 Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution by Kenneth R. Miller
0.785 3.80 Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
0.783 4.08 Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life by Eva Jablonka
0.781 4.08 Locked Rooms by Laurie R. King
0.781 3.93 Dead Man's Chest by Kerry Greenwood
0.779 3.80 Time to Depart by Lindsey Davis
0.778 3.85 Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik
0.771 3.90 A Letter of Mary by Laurie R. King
0.770 3.91 Three Hands in the Fountain by Lindsey Davis
0.770 4.01 The Game by Laurie R. King
0.768 4.11 Justice Hall by Laurie R. King
0.763 4.01 Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth by Richard A. Fortey
0.763 3.54 Purity of Blood by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
0.758 3.87 To Play the Fool by Laurie R. King
0.758 3.81 The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals by Simon Conway-Morris
0.758 4.26 The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays by Isaiah Berlin
0.757 3.96 Bully for Brontosaurus by Stephen Jay Gould
0.754 4.07 The Thirty Years War by C. V. Wedgwood
0.750 3.83 Murder on a Midsummer Night by Kerry Greenwood
0.749 4.01 Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution by Richard Fortey
0.749 3.75 Vienna Secrets by Frank Tallis
0.749 3.71 The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth by Malcolm Pryce
0.748 3.90 The Nicholas Feast by Pat McIntosh
0.748 3.92 Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik
0.746 3.93 Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
0.743 4.48 The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories by Herodotus
0.743 4.24 The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel by Nikos Kazantzakis
0.743 3.68 From Aberystwyth with Love by Malcolm Pryce
0.742 3.95 Grave Goods by Ariana Franklin
0.742 4.01 How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science by Michael Shermer
0.741 3.81 Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms by Stephen Jay Gould
0.741 3.84 The Accusers by Lindsey Davis
0.740 3.92 The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth by Stephen Jay Gould
0.737 3.55 Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown by Stephen Jay Gould
0.733 4.53 Natural History: The Ultimate Visual Guide to Everything on Earth by Kathryn Hennessy
0.733 4.04 The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
0.730 3.93 The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies - How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths by Michael Shermer
0.727 3.64 The King's Gold by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
0.727 3.74 The Green Mill Murder by Kerry Greenwood
0.725 4.27 Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne
0.723 3.51 A Little Book of Language by David Crystal
0.722 3.88 Venus in Copper by Lindsey Davis
0.702 4.43 The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe by Theodore W. Gray
0.700 3.86 Shroud for the Archbishop by Peter Tremayne
0.697 4.06 Ever Since Darwin: Reflections on Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
0.696 3.93 A Murderous Procession by Ariana Franklin
0.690 3.63 The Dragon Seekers: How an Extraordinary Circle of Fossilists Discovered the Dinosaurs and Paved the Way for Darwin by Christopher McGowan
0.681 4.18 The Oxford Companion to Philosophy by Ted Honderich
0.680 3.99 The Spider's Web by Peter Tremayne
0.678 4.27 Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth by Andrew H. Knoll
0.674 3.86 Don't Cry For Me Aberystwyth by Malcolm Pryce
0.668 3.80 The Merchant's Mark by Pat McIntosh
0.662 4.17 The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization by Simon Hornblower
0.660 4.07 Tolstoy: a Russian life by Rosamund Bartlett
0.620 3.70 Archaeology: The Definitive Guide by Paul G. Bahn
0.612 3.60 Ovid by David Wishart
0.610 4.48 Smithsonian Rock And Gem by Ronald Bonewitz
0.604 3.74 Growth Fetish by Clive Hamilton
0.597 4.34 Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth by Lynn Margulis
0.553 4.60 Charles Darwin: A Biography, Volume 1: Voyaging by Janet Browne