18 Best nonfiction books like Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy by Mark Regnerus

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Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy

By: Mark Regnerus

4.03

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Sex is cheap. Coupled sexual activity has become more widely available than ever. Cheap sex has bee…

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1. Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

By: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. , Robert F. Kennedy

3.60

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over it… read more

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  • nonfiction

2. On the Incarnation

By: C.S. Lewis , Athanasius of Alexandria , None

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

A universally acknowledged masterpiece of fourth-century patristic theology. As C. S. Lewis observe… read more

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3. Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape

By: Peggy Orenstein

3.80

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

With casual hookups and campus rape relentlessly in the news, parents can be forgiven for feeling a… read more

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4. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

By: Siddharth Kara

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more

Similar categories in Siddharth Kara's Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives book and Mark Regnerus's Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Now you understand how people like us work?"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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5. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

By: David Brooks

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more

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  • relationships
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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6. Troubled

By: Rob Henderson

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Oth… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"Successful people tell the world they got lucky, then tell their loved ones about the importance of hard work and sacrifice. Critics of successful people tell the world those successful people got lu…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"People don't need motivation; they need self-discipline. Motivation is just a feeling. Self-discipline is: 'I'm going to do this regardless of how I feel.' Seldom do people relish doing something har…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"Mom's friends were worried that their son isn't talking as much as other six-year-olds. They, like many parents, were concerned with how "smart" their kid is. "Should we be reading to him more?" they…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"You should keep your expectations in line with reality. If you view the military as a job, you will be miserable. It's not a job, it's a lot more than that. As long as you wear that uniform, it is yo…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

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7. Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past

By: David Reich

4.13

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human histo… read more

Similar categories in David Reich's Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past book and Mark Regnerus's Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told by Harrison Scott Key

8. How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

By: Harrison Scott Key

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, How to Stay Married tells … read more

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  • relationships
  • christian
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"He was "as deep as bro country and possessed all the charm of an unsalted potato."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"I play the drums, an instrument that has caused more divorces than any other musical instrument in history, after the banjo."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"The memories do not dissolve. They cohere into captivating art films that play endlessly in the International Infidelity Film Festival of my mind."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"Coco will be gone in less than two years and Pippi and Ginsburg not long after, and then it'll just be the two of us again and this weird-ass marriage."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

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9. This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences

By: Sarah E. Hill

4.06

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening book that reveals crucial information every woman taking hormonal birth control shou… read more

Similar categories in Sarah E. Hill's This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences book and Mark Regnerus's Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"Although the science is still new and there is a lot to be learned, it is unacceptable for you to stay in the dark any longer. We know too much for you to know so little."

-Sarah E. Hill, This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences

"Despite the newness of the science and tentativeness of the conclusions that can currently be drawn, changing women's hormones changes women. And this is a big deal. Although we don't yet know that t…"

-Sarah E. Hill, This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences

"It should come as absolutely no surprise that research has ignored women for so long because the establishment: the journal publishers, the reviewers and the funding agencies has rewarded it. Althoug…"

-Sarah E. Hill, This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences

"For a long time being female was treated by science and medicine as being akin to having a serious psychological disorder. Women were routinely prescribed hysterectomies or anxiolytics like valium to…"

-Sarah E. Hill, This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences

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10. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

By: Abigail Shrier

4.06

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more

Similar categories in Abigail Shrier's Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up book and Mark Regnerus's Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy

  • cultural
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

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11. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

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12. Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents

By: Rod Dreher

4.36

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Benedict Option draws on the wisdom of Christian survi… read more

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  • cultural
  • christian
  • nonfiction
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13. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, educa… read more

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  • cultural
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Practice the virtue of "intellectual humility." Intellectual humility is the recognition that our reasoning is so flawed, so prone to bias, that we can rarely be certain that we are right."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"The college admissions process nowadays makes it harder for high school students to enjoy school and pursue intrinsic fulfillment. The process "warps the values of students drawn into a competitive f…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

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14. The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning

By: Scott Galloway

3.79

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An unconventional book of wisdom and life advice from renowned business school professor and New Yo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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15. Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality

By: Helen Joyce

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Gender identity ideology is about more than twitter storms and using the right pronouns. In just te… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • psychology
"Most people are in the dark about what is being demanded by transactivists. They understand the call for ‘trans rights’ to mean compassionate concessions that enable a suffering minority to live full…"

-Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality

"On the Right, the extremists are white ethno-nationalist majoritarians; on the Left, they are identitarians who see progress as a process of bringing one marginalized group after another in from the …"

-Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality

"What same-sex marriage, women's franchise and the end of segregation all have in common is that they extend the rights of a privileged group to everyone. And when people hear the phrase 'trans rights…"

-Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality

"In the spread of gender-identity ideology, developments in academia played a crucial role. This is not the place for an extended critique of the thinking that evolved on American campuses out of the …"

-Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality

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16. The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

By: Louise Perry

4.28

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Ditching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously po… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • psychology
  • sexuality
"Prostitution has never been a matter of personal choice or female empowerment. Rather, the role of 'buyer' versus 'seller' has always been determined not only by sex but also by race, nationality and…"

-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

"Sex workers can act as sources of sex advice only if we understand sex to be a skillset that must be learned and refined across different partners, with good sex a result not of intimacy but of good …"

-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

"We should treat our sexual partners with dignity. We should not regard other people as merely body parts to be enjoyed. We should aspire to love and mutuality in all of our sexual relationships, rega…"

-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

Cover of The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility by Lisa Hendrickson-Jack

17. The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility

By: Lisa Hendrickson-Jack

4.39

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

MENSTRUATION ISN'T JUST ABOUT HAVING BABIES Your menstrual cycle is a vital sign, just like your pu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Introduction to Internal Family Systems by Richard C. Schwartz

18. Introduction to Internal Family Systems

By: Richard C. Schwartz

4.28

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A highly accessible introduction to a therapeutic approach that brings our inner “parts” into harmo… read more

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  • relationships
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
Cover of We've Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America's Soul and Sanity by Phillip C. McGraw

19. We've Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America's Soul and Sanity

By: Phillip C. McGraw

4.33

Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and beloved television host comes We’ve Got How You … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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20. Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy

By: Mark Regnerus

4.03

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Sex is cheap. Coupled sexual activity has become more widely available than ever. Cheap sex has bee… read more

Similar categories in Mark Regnerus's Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy book and Mark Regnerus's Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy

  • cultural
  • relationships
  • christian
  • psychology
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • social issues
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Cohabitation Nation: Gender, Class, and the Remaking of Relationships by Sharon Sassler

21. Cohabitation Nation: Gender, Class, and the Remaking of Relationships

By: Sharon Sassler

3.69

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

“We have fun and we enjoy each other’s company, so why shouldn’t we just move in together?”—Lauren,… read more

Similar categories in Sharon Sassler's Cohabitation Nation: Gender, Class, and the Remaking of Relationships book and Mark Regnerus's Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy

  • sociology

14 Top audiobook books like Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy by Mark Regnerus

Transform Your Habits

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

4.37

Transform Your Habits

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Troubled

Rob Henderson

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past

David Reich

4.13

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8 Top audiobook books like Introduction to Internal Family Systems by Richard C. Schwartz

Transform Your Habits

Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief: Guided Practices for Reclaiming Your Body and Your Life

Jon Kabat-Zinn

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Disentangling from Emotionally Immature People: Avoid Emotional Traps, Stand Up for Your Self, and Transform Your Relationships as an Adult Child of Emotionally Immature Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.49

Transform Your Habits

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

Gabor Maté

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation

Janina Fisher

4.53

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