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India Wins Freedom Summary
India Wins Freedom
The Complete Version
by Abul Kalam Azad 1978 297 pages
4.20
1.1K ratings
History
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Politics
Drift Summary
Drift
by Rachel Maddow 2012 288 pages
4.07
20.8K ratings
Politics
History
War
Three Cups of Deceit Summary
Three Cups of Deceit
How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way
by Jon Krakauer 2011 77 pages
3.72
11.4K ratings
Biography
History
Journalism
The End of Wall Street Summary
The End of Wall Street
by Roger Lowenstein 2010 368 pages
3.91
2.2K ratings
Finance
Economics
Business
Fallen Leaves Summary
Fallen Leaves
Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God
by Will Durant 2014 208 pages
3.93
1.3K ratings
Philosophy
History
Essays
The Stonewall Riots Summary
The Stonewall Riots
Coming Out in the Streets
by Gayle E. Pitman 2019 224 pages
4.04
1.3K ratings
LGBT
History
Middle Grade
A Natural History of Human Thinking Summary
A Natural History of Human Thinking
by Michael Tomasello 2014 192 pages
3.98
197 ratings
Psychology
Science
Anthropology
Triumph of the City Summary
Triumph of the City
How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
by Edward L. Glaeser 2011 352 pages
3.92
6.2K ratings
Economics
Urban Planning
Urbanism
Politics Is for Power Summary
Politics Is for Power
How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change
by Eitan D. Hersh 2020 288 pages
4.10
1.4K ratings
Politics
Political Science
Social Justice
The Social Leap Summary
The Social Leap
The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy
by William Von Hippel 2018 294 pages
4.24
1.9K ratings
Science
Psychology
Evolution
The Battle For Syria Summary
The Battle For Syria
International Rivalry In The New Middle East
by Christopher Phillips 2016 320 pages
4.16
277 ratings
Politics
History
International Relations
Plunder Summary
Plunder
Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America
by Brendan Ballou 2023 368 pages
4.09
1.5K ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism Summary
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism
And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
by Kristen R. Ghodsee 2018 240 pages
4.00
6.8K ratings
Feminism
Politics
History
The Diversity Illusion Summary
The Diversity Illusion
What We Got Wrong About Immigration & How to Set It Right
by Ed West 2012 312 pages
4.04
223 ratings
Politics
Sociology
History
The Universe Within Summary
The Universe Within
Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
by Neil Shubin 2013 240 pages
3.87
2.9K ratings
Science
Biology
Evolution
The Country of the Blind Summary
The Country of the Blind
A Memoir at the End of Sight
by Andrew Leland 2023 368 pages
4.10
5.4K ratings
Memoir
Disability
Biography Memoir
Tulipomania Summary
Tulipomania
The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused
by Mike Dash 2000 273 pages
3.66
2.9K ratings
History
Economics
Microhistory
Shakespeare's Freedom Summary
Shakespeare's Freedom
by Stephen Greenblatt 2010 160 pages
3.82
166 ratings
Literary Criticism
Literature
History
Makers and Takers Summary
Makers and Takers
The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
by Rana Foroohar 2016 400 pages
3.97
1.6K ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
The Socialist Manifesto Summary
The Socialist Manifesto
The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
by Bhaskar Sunkara 2019 288 pages
3.62
1.9K ratings
Politics
Economics
History
Suicide of a Superpower Summary
Suicide of a Superpower
Will America Survive to 2025?
by Patrick J. Buchanan 2011 496 pages
4.02
757 ratings
Politics
History
Cult Classics
Travels With Myself and Another Summary
Travels With Myself and Another
by Martha Gellhorn 1979 320 pages
3.83
2.2K ratings
Travel
Memoir
Biography
When Markets Collide Summary
When Markets Collide
Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change
by EL-ERIAN 2008 361 pages
3.52
784 ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
Churchill Summary
Churchill
Walking with Destiny
by Andrew Roberts 2018 1105 pages
4.37
10.5K ratings
Biography
History
Politics
To Explain the World Summary
To Explain the World
The Discovery of Modern Science
by Steven Weinberg 2015 432 pages
3.78
2.1K ratings
Science
History
Physics
The Elephant in the Universe Summary
The Elephant in the Universe
Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter
by Govert Schilling 2022 376 pages
4.06
225 ratings
Science
Physics
Space
Sandworm Summary
Sandworm
A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
by Andy Greenberg 2019 368 pages
4.35
9.3K ratings
Technology
Politics
History
The Race of My Life Summary
The Race of My Life
An Autobiography
by Milkha Singh 2013 160 pages
4.21
1.2K ratings
Biography
Sports
Autobiography
Men of Mathematics Summary
Men of Mathematics
by Eric Temple Bell 1937 590 pages
4.09
2.1K ratings
Mathematics
Science
History
Diplomacy Summary
Diplomacy
A Very Short Introduction
by Joseph M. Siracusa 2010 160 pages
3.16
223 ratings
Politics
History
Political Science
Dark Territory Summary
Dark Territory
The Secret History of Cyber War
by Fred Kaplan 2016 339 pages
3.90
3.1K ratings
History
Technology
Politics
The Founding Fathers on Leadership Summary
The Founding Fathers on Leadership
Classic Teamwork in Changing Times
by Donald T. Phillips 1997 272 pages
3.85
286 ratings
Leadership
History
Business
Mao's America Summary
Mao's America
A Survivor’s Warning
by Xi Van Fleet 2023 320 pages
4.45
473 ratings
Politics
History
China
Human Evolution Summary
Human Evolution
A Very Short Introduction
by Bernard Wood 2005 144 pages
3.63
795 ratings
Science
Evolution
Anthropology
The Existentialist's Survival Guide Summary
The Existentialist's Survival Guide
How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age
by Gordon Marino 2018 272 pages
3.69
1.2K ratings
Philosophy
Self Help
Psychology
Babel No More Summary
Babel No More
The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
by Michael Erard 2012 307 pages
3.54
1.5K ratings
Language
Linguistics
Psychology
The Room Where It Happened Summary
The Room Where It Happened
A White House Memoir
by John Bolton 2020 588 pages
3.16
14.5K ratings
Politics
History
Memoir
Kamala's Way Summary
Kamala's Way
An American Life
by Dan Morain 2021 288 pages
3.33
1.1K ratings
Biography
Politics
Womens
The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam Summary
The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
by Muhammad Iqbal 1934 252 pages
4.28
1.5K ratings
Islam
Philosophy
Religion
On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo Summary
On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
by Friedrich Nietzsche 1887 367 pages
4.17
15.8K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
German Literature
White Feminism Summary
White Feminism
From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind
by Koa Beck 2021 300 pages
4.25
2.3K ratings
Feminism
History
Race
An Anatomy of Pain Summary
An Anatomy of Pain
How the Body and the Mind Experience and Endure Physical Suffering
by Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen 2021 256 pages
3.58
460 ratings
Science
Health
Medicine
The Geography of Genius Summary
The Geography of Genius
A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
by Eric Weiner 2016 368 pages
3.79
4.2K ratings
History
Travel
Science
The Book of Basketball Summary
The Book of Basketball
The NBA According to The Sports Guy
by Bill Simmons 2009 736 pages
4.20
37.2K ratings
Sports
Basketball
History
Unhumans Summary
Unhumans
The Secret History of Communist Revolutions
by Jack Posobiec 2024 272 pages
4.08
625 ratings
History
Politics
Sociology
Hegel Summary
Hegel
A Very Short Introduction
by Peter Singer 1983 131 pages
3.86
2.9K ratings
Philosophy
History
Biography
Medici Money Summary
Medici Money
Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence
by Tim Parks 2005 288 pages
3.62
1.4K ratings
History
Italy
Economics
Chavs Summary
Chavs
The Demonization of the Working Class
by Owen Jones 2011 298 pages
4.09
10.3K ratings
Politics
Sociology
History
Surprise, Kill, Vanish Summary
Surprise, Kill, Vanish
The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins
by Annie Jacobsen 2019 560 pages
4.33
6.1K ratings
History
Military Fiction
Politics
No Filter Summary
No Filter
The Inside Story of Instagram
by Sarah Frier 2020 352 pages
4.11
10.6K ratings
Business
Technology
Biography
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