Controversial Books for ProfKG

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 Titel
1.215 2.96 Iracema af José Alencar
1.171 3.58 Imperiet af Michael Hardt
1.163 3.44 On Beauty and Being Just af Elaine Scarry
1.111 4.01 Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy af Dave Hickey
1.076 3.79 I tegnenes vold af Roland Barthes
1.067 3.77 Theory of Religion af Georges Bataille
1.065 3.96 Macunaíma af Mário de Andrade
1.064 3.85 We Have Never Been Modern af Bruno Latour
1.064 3.81 The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature af Pierre Bourdieu
1.061 3.68 A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America af Lizabeth Cohen
1.06 3.56 The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness af Paul Gilroy
1.032 3.59 Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other af Sherry Turkle
1.03 3.29 Long Black Veil: A Novel af Jennifer Finney Boylan
1.01 3.95 Ordene og tingene : en arkæologisk undersøgelse af videnskaberne om mennesket af Michel Foucault
1.008 3.48 The University of Chicago Spanish Dictionary af Carlos Castillo
1.007 3.73 Den artistiske morder af Rubem Fonseca
0.993 3.95 Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century af Greil Marcus
0.982 3.64 The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage af Todd Gitlin
0.98 4.18 Erindringer, drømme, tanker af C. G. Jung
0.974 3.8 Ghost world af Daniel Clowes
0.966 3.92 Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference af Dipesh Chakrabarty
0.966 3.9 Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands af Jorge Amado
0.962 3.71 Følelsernes intelligens af Daniel Goleman
0.962 4.03 City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles af Mike Davis
0.956 4.21 Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage af Paulo Freire
0.951 4.01 The Practice of Everyday Life af Michel de Certeau
0.943 4.23 Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste (33 1/3) af Carl Wilson
0.94 3.93 Class: A Guide Through the American Status System af Paul Fussell
0.94 4.16 Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey af Bill Brewster
0.939 3.68 This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession af Daniel J. Levitin
0.936 3.77 Rent Girl af Michelle Tea
0.935 3.92 The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte af Karl Marx
0.934 3.93 Seksualitetens historie. 1 : viljen til viden af Michel Foucault
0.934 3.94 The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays af Clifford Geertz
0.932 4.29 Tusind plateauer : kapitalisme og skizofreni af Gilles Deleuze
0.932 3.82 Den protestantiske etik og kapitalismens ånd af Max Weber
0.931 4.12 Latinamerikas åreladning af Eduardo Galeano
0.928 3.95 Grass af Sheri S. Tepper
0.927 3.46 Langt nede af Nick Hornby
0.925 4.05 A People's History of American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation af Paul Buhle
0.923 3.82 History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics af Georg Lukács
0.922 3.86 H Is for Hawk af Helen Macdonald
0.92 4.23 A People's History of the United States af Howard Zinn
0.919 3.67 Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers af Kwame Anthony Appiah
0.916 3.46 The Professor's Daughter af Joann Sfar
0.911 3.83 Marxism and Literature af Raymond Williams
0.907 4 Erotikken (org: L'Erotisme) af Georges Bataille
0.899 4.09 Energy Flash. A Journey through Rave Music and Dance Culture af Simon Reynolds
0.896 3.85 Simulacra and Simulation af Jean Baudrillard
0.895 3.94 Promethea, Volume 1 af Alan Moore
0.892 3.91 The History of Jazz af Ted Gioia
0.891 3.99 The Jewish Book of Why af Alfred J. Kolatch
0.888 3.76 The Elementary Forms of Religious Life af Emile Durkheim
0.884 3.12 Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives af John Palfrey
0.88 3.5 Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture af William R. Leach
0.878 3.75 DMZ, Volume 01: On the Ground af Brian Wood
0.873 4.31 Dom Casmurro af Machado de Assis
0.868 4.13 Overvågning og straf : fængslets fødsel af Michel Foucault
0.867 4.2 Rosens navn : roman af Umberto Eco
0.866 4.3 Raízes do Brasil af Sérgio Buarque de Holanda
0.863 3.85 The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince af Mayte Garcia
0.863 3.9 Focusing: How To Gain Direct Access To Your Body's Knowledge af Eugene T. Gendlin
0.852 4.03 Monstress, volume 1: Awakening af Marjorie M. Liu
0.851 3.93 A Darker Shade of Magic af V. E. Schwab
0.85 3.92 Quincas Borba af Machado de Assis
0.849 3.98 The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World af Lawrence Lessig
0.848 3.94 Outline of a Theory of Practice af Pierre Bourdieu
0.846 3.79 Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality af Eric Hobsbawm
0.845 4.04 Y: The Last Man Vol. 01: Unmanned af Brian K. Vaughan
0.845 4.31 Watchmen af Alan Moore
0.842 3.9 How Music Works af David Byrne
0.838 3.71 Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System af Nick Montfort
0.832 4.01 Mytologier : udvalgte essays om vor mytologiske hverdag af Roland Barthes
0.828 3.78 Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness af Peter Godfrey-Smith
0.821 3.85 The German Ideology, including Theses on Feuerbach af Karl Marx
0.821 4.2 Præludier af Neil Gaiman
0.813 3.7 Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy af Barbara Ehrenreich
0.81 3.96 Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide af Henry Jenkins
0.81 4.04 Music, The Brain, And Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination af Robert Jourdain
0.807 4 The Invention of Tradition af Eric Hobsbawm
0.802 4.22 The Sandman: Endless Nights af Neil Gaiman
0.797 4.3 The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century af Alex Ross
0.797 3.97 Promethea, Volume 3 af Alan Moore
0.795 3.98 Promethea, Volume 2 af Alan Moore
0.794 4.33 Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn af David Hajdu
0.789 3.88 The Perfect Wagnerite af George Bernard Shaw
0.78 3.79 Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina af David Hajdu
0.779 3.6 Black Panther Vol. 1: A Nation Under Our Feet, Book One af Ta-Nehisi Coates
0.775 3.93 Runaways [2003] Volume 1: Pride and Joy af Brian K. Vaughan
0.771 3.86 Runaways [2005] Volume 4: True Believers af Brian K. Vaughan
0.77 4.03 Fables, Vol. 02: Animal Farm af Bill Willingham
0.761 3.93 Runaways [2003] Volume 3: The Good Die Young af Brian K. Vaughan
0.761 3.84 Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood af William J. Mann
0.758 4.2 NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity af Steve Silberman
0.748 3.98 Things a Bright Girl Can Do af Sally Nicholls
0.742 3.85 Runaways [2003] Volume 2: Teenage Wasteland af Brian K. Vaughan
0.741 4.07 Fables, Vol. 03: Storybook Love af Bill Willingham
0.739 4.07 Y: The Last Man Vol. 02: Cycles af Brian K. Vaughan
0.734 4.05 Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues af Elijah Wald
0.729 3.95 Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy af Lawrence Lessig
0.727 4.43 Maus : en overlevende fortæller af Art Spiegelman
0.71 4 DMZ, Volume 02: Body of a Journalist af Brian Wood
0.705 3.95 Female Masculinity af Jack Halberstam
0.704 4.48 Maus II - og her begyndte mine problemer : en overlevende fortæller af Art Spiegelman
0.696 4.45 The Sandman: Season of Mists af Neil Gaiman
0.696 4.17 The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies af Vito Russo
0.687 4.46 The Sandman: The Wake af Neil Gaiman
0.676 4.52 The Sandman: The Kindly Ones af Neil Gaiman
0.654 4.15 Bossa Nova: The Story of the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World af Ruy Castro
0.589 4.07 Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age af Sherry Turkle
0.53 3.68 Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil af Caetano Veloso