Recommended social science-related books from library staff

At the ROI open house yesterday, many folks from the library named one of their favorate social science-related books. It's an interesting list! Thanks to all who contributed a title. Links go to Amazon for reviews, etc.  --Steve

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and
Stephen J. Dubner

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks


Making the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson


Nickel & Dimed: on (not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich


David L. Rosenhan, “On Being Sane in Insane Places,” Science, Vol. 179 (Jan. 1973), 250-258.


Censorship in American Film


What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell


Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006,
Third Edition by Manning Marable


The Forest People: A Study of the Pygmies of the Congo by Colin Turnball


Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals by Hal Herzog


Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece by Patrick Leigh Fermor


Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World
War II by Eric L. Muller (Editor)