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Philosophy Book Summaries

Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
He kills a pawnbroker to prove some men stand beyond conscience. Then his own mind arrests him.
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Crime and Punishment
He kills a pawnbroker to prove some men stand beyond conscience. Then his own mind arrests him.
by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866 671 pages
4.29
1.1M+ ratings
Awareness
by Osho • 2001
Self-improvement and morality are cages. True freedom is learning to watch your own mind.
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Awareness Summary
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Awareness
Self-improvement and morality are cages. True freedom is learning to watch your own mind.
by Osho 2001 194 pages
4.31
3k+ ratings
The God Code
by Gregg Braden • 2003
What if an ancient name for God is spelled out in the atoms of your DNA?
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The God Code Summary
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The God Code
What if an ancient name for God is spelled out in the atoms of your DNA?
by Gregg Braden 2003 316 pages
4.06
500+ ratings
Islam
by Karen Armstrong • 2000
Political triumph, not suffering, became Islam's proof of God. That made decline a crisis of faith.
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Islam
Political triumph, not suffering, became Islam's proof of God. That made decline a crisis of faith.
by Karen Armstrong 2000 230 pages
4.04
11k+ ratings
365 Days With Self-Discipline
by Martin Meadows • 2017
Willpower is self-discipline's weakest tool. 365 readings that replace it with smarter ones.
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365 Days With Self-Discipline
Willpower is self-discipline's weakest tool. 365 readings that replace it with smarter ones.
by Martin Meadows 2017 697 pages
3.89
500+ ratings
The Rational Male - The Players Handbook
by Rollo Tomassi • 2022
The missing textbook on attraction: build your value, hold your ground, make her come to you.
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The Rational Male - The Players Handbook Summary
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The Rational Male - The Players Handbook
The missing textbook on attraction: build your value, hold your ground, make her come to you.
by Rollo Tomassi 2022 502 pages
4.34
500+ ratings
Bringers of the Dawn
by Barbara Marciniak • 1992
You're a volunteer who incarnated to fix a sabotage 300,000 years in the making.
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Bringers of the Dawn Summary
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Bringers of the Dawn
You're a volunteer who incarnated to fix a sabotage 300,000 years in the making.
by Barbara Marciniak 1992 288 pages
4.30
3k+ ratings
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
A dry-eyed son buries his mother, kills a stranger, and watches a courtroom prosecute his heart.
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The Stranger Summary
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The Stranger
A dry-eyed son buries his mother, kills a stranger, and watches a courtroom prosecute his heart.
by Albert Camus 1942 123 pages
4.03
1.4M+ ratings
Gods in Everyman
by Jean Shinoda Bolen • 1989
Eight Greek gods map the male psyche. The ones patriarchy rewards are the ones that empty you.
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Gods in Everyman Summary
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Gods in Everyman
Eight Greek gods map the male psyche. The ones patriarchy rewards are the ones that empty you.
by Jean Shinoda Bolen 1989 368 pages
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Owning Your Own Shadow
by Robert A. Johnson • 1991
Civilization split you in two. The buried half still runs you, and it holds your best.
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Owning Your Own Shadow Summary
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Owning Your Own Shadow
Civilization split you in two. The buried half still runs you, and it holds your best.
by Robert A. Johnson 1991 118 pages
3.97
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The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
A salesman wakes as an insect, and his family's care hardens into a quiet death sentence.
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The Metamorphosis
A salesman wakes as an insect, and his family's care hardens into a quiet death sentence.
by Franz Kafka 1915 201 pages
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Courage
by Osho • 1977
Fear and courage start identically. The coward obeys the shaking; the courageous person sails.
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Courage
Fear and courage start identically. The coward obeys the shaking; the courageous person sails.
by Osho 1977 208 pages
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8k+ ratings
The Concise 48 Laws of Power
by Robert Greene • 2013
Power moves are ancient and predictable. The person who cannot read them is already a target.
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The Concise 48 Laws of Power
Power moves are ancient and predictable. The person who cannot read them is already a target.
by Robert Greene 2013 195 pages
4.08
5k+ ratings
End Times
by Peter Turchin • 2023
Ten millennia of data point to two conditions for state collapse. America now meets both.
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End Times Summary
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End Times
Ten millennia of data point to two conditions for state collapse. America now meets both.
by Peter Turchin 2023 368 pages
4.06
2k+ ratings
Reality Transurfing 2
by Vadim Zeland • 2008
Pushing harder makes life push back. Align your inner state and reality rearranges itself.
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Reality Transurfing 2 Summary
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Reality Transurfing 2
Pushing harder makes life push back. Align your inner state and reality rearranges itself.
by Vadim Zeland 2008 198 pages
4.43
1k+ ratings
The Practice of Management
by Peter F. Drucker • 1954
Customers define a company's purpose, not profit. The principles that follow from that reversal.
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The Practice of Management Summary
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The Practice of Management
Customers define a company's purpose, not profit. The principles that follow from that reversal.
by Peter F. Drucker 1954 420 pages
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The Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
A Roman emperor's private journal: suffering comes from opinions you hold, not events that happen.
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The Meditations Summary
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The Meditations
A Roman emperor's private journal: suffering comes from opinions you hold, not events that happen.
by Marcus Aurelius 114 pages
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300k+ ratings
Dune
by Frank Herbert
His house betrayed, a young duke flees to a desert world where warriors name him messiah.
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Dune Summary
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Dune
His house betrayed, a young duke flees to a desert world where warriors name him messiah.
by Frank Herbert 1965 658 pages
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Intimacy
by Osho • 2001
You cannot be close to another while hiding from yourself; no method gets around that.
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Intimacy Summary
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Intimacy
You cannot be close to another while hiding from yourself; no method gets around that.
by Osho 2001 172 pages
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The Dictator's Handbook
by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita • 2011
Why do democracies build schools and dictators build palaces? The size of the leader's inner circle.
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The Dictator's Handbook Summary
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The Dictator's Handbook
Why do democracies build schools and dictators build palaces? The size of the leader's inner circle.
by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita 2011 426 pages
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11k+ ratings
The Camp of the Saints
by Jean Raspail
When a refugee fleet sails for the French coast, the West discovers it has already surrendered.
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The Camp of the Saints Summary
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The Camp of the Saints
When a refugee fleet sails for the French coast, the West discovers it has already surrendered.
by Jean Raspail 1987 316 pages
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2k+ ratings
The Red Book
by C.G. Jung • 2009
The book Jung hid for fifty years reveals the terrifying self-experiment behind all his psychology.
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The Red Book Summary
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The Red Book
The book Jung hid for fifty years reveals the terrifying self-experiment behind all his psychology.
by C.G. Jung 2009 371 pages
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A Brief History of Time
by Stephen W. Hawking • 1988
A universe from nothing, glowing black holes, and the question physics still cannot answer.
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A Brief History of Time Summary
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A Brief History of Time
A universe from nothing, glowing black holes, and the question physics still cannot answer.
by Stephen W. Hawking 1988 226 pages
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Sun and Steel
by Yukio Mishima • 1968
Words trapped him. The body gave him a second grammar: its final word was death.
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Sun and Steel
Words trapped him. The body gave him a second grammar: its final word was death.
by Yukio Mishima 1968 110 pages
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Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare
by Michael A. Hoffman II • 1992
The powerful stopped hiding their crimes because they learned you will only watch, never act.
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Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare Summary
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Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare
The powerful stopped hiding their crimes because they learned you will only watch, never act.
by Michael A. Hoffman II 1992 215 pages
4.10
366 ratings
Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl • 1946
A psychiatrist survived the camps and found: meaning, not pleasure or power, is our deepest drive.
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Man's Search for Meaning Summary
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Man's Search for Meaning
A psychiatrist survived the camps and found: meaning, not pleasure or power, is our deepest drive.
by Viktor E. Frankl 1946 165 pages
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800k+ ratings
Ride the Tiger
by Julius Evola • 1961
Civilizations die. The real move: stop defending ruins and anchor in something death can't touch.
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Ride the Tiger Summary
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Ride the Tiger
Civilizations die. The real move: stop defending ruins and anchor in something death can't touch.
by Julius Evola 1961 242 pages
3.96
1k+ ratings
Keys to the Kingdom
by Alison A. Armstrong
A Ferrari, a courtroom collapse: ten Himalayan rituals for the kind of success money cannot buy.
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Keys to the Kingdom Summary
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Keys to the Kingdom
A Ferrari, a courtroom collapse: ten Himalayan rituals for the kind of success money cannot buy.
by Alison A. Armstrong 2003 216 pages
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1k+ ratings
A Conflict of Visions
by Thomas Sowell • 1986
Two hidden assumptions about human nature explain every political fight.
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A Conflict of Visions Summary
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A Conflict of Visions
Two hidden assumptions about human nature explain every political fight.
by Thomas Sowell 1986 329 pages
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Many Lives, Many Masters
by Brian L. Weiss • 1988
A Yale psychiatrist's patient recalled past lives, then named his dead son's secret heart defect.
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Many Lives, Many Masters Summary
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Many Lives, Many Masters
A Yale psychiatrist's patient recalled past lives, then named his dead son's secret heart defect.
by Brian L. Weiss 1988 219 pages
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84k+ ratings
Twelve Pillars
by Jim Rohn
Why your career, wealth, and relationships stay stuck: the inner work you must do first.
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Twelve Pillars Summary
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Twelve Pillars
Why your career, wealth, and relationships stay stuck: the inner work you must do first.
by Jim Rohn 2005 126 pages
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2k+ ratings
Fooled by Randomness
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb • 2001
Ten thousand coin-flippers produce three hundred geniuses. The biographies write themselves.
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Fooled by Randomness Summary
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Fooled by Randomness
Ten thousand coin-flippers produce three hundred geniuses. The biographies write themselves.
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2001 368 pages
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71k+ ratings
Basic Economics
by Thomas Sowellm • 2000
Prices coordinate strangers. Ignore their signal and good intentions breed shortages and decay.
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Basic Economics Summary
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Basic Economics
Prices coordinate strangers. Ignore their signal and good intentions breed shortages and decay.
by Thomas Sowellm 2000 786 pages
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14k+ ratings
The Nature of Personal Reality
by Jane Roberts • 1974
Your beliefs are the bricks of your world, says a voice from beyond, and you are the builder.
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The Nature of Personal Reality Summary
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The Nature of Personal Reality
Your beliefs are the bricks of your world, says a voice from beyond, and you are the builder.
by Jane Roberts 1974 480 pages
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2k+ ratings
Prometheus Rising
by Robert Anton Wilson • 1983
You inherited a mental operating system. A guide to spotting the code and rewriting it yourself.
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Prometheus Rising Summary
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Prometheus Rising
You inherited a mental operating system. A guide to spotting the code and rewriting it yourself.
by Robert Anton Wilson 1983 284 pages
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The Book of Five Rings
by Miyamoto Musashi • 1645
A legendary swordsman's rule: the duel and the war are the same problem, solved identically.
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The Book of Five Rings Summary
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The Book of Five Rings
A legendary swordsman's rule: the duel and the war are the same problem, solved identically.
by Miyamoto Musashi 1645 112 pages
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The Biggest Secret
by David Icke • 1998
The people running the planet are not human, and their greatest weapon is your fear.
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The Biggest Secret Summary
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The Biggest Secret
The people running the planet are not human, and their greatest weapon is your fear.
by David Icke 1998 517 pages
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1k+ ratings
The Tartar Steppe
by Dino Buzzati
A young officer at a remote fort waits a lifetime for a battle that never comes.
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The Tartar Steppe
A young officer at a remote fort waits a lifetime for a battle that never comes.
by Dino Buzzati 1940 198 pages
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Hagakure
by Yamamoto Tsunetomo • 1716
Rehearse your death every morning. The samurai's paradox: imagining the worst fate frees you to act.
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Hagakure
Rehearse your death every morning. The samurai's paradox: imagining the worst fate frees you to act.
by Yamamoto Tsunetomo 1716 288 pages
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Journeys Out of the Body
by Robert A. Monroe • 1971
To prove out-of-body travel was real, he pinched someone from afar and left bruises.
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Journeys Out of the Body
To prove out-of-body travel was real, he pinched someone from afar and left bruises.
by Robert A. Monroe 1971 280 pages
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4k+ ratings
Roadside Picnic
by Arkady Strugatsky
A stalker braves invisible death traps and prison to steal alien litter from a forbidden Zone.
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Roadside Picnic
A stalker braves invisible death traps and prison to steal alien litter from a forbidden Zone.
by Arkady Strugatsky 1972 145 pages
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A Rulebook for Arguments
by Anthony Weston • 1986
Argument isn't combat. It's construction. A slim guide to building claims that actually hold up.
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A Rulebook for Arguments Summary
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A Rulebook for Arguments
Argument isn't combat. It's construction. A slim guide to building claims that actually hold up.
by Anthony Weston 1986 120 pages
3.82
3k+ ratings
Don't Believe Everything You Think
by Joseph Nguyen • 2022
All your mental suffering comes from one activity you have never questioned.
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Don't Believe Everything You Think Summary
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Don't Believe Everything You Think
All your mental suffering comes from one activity you have never questioned.
by Joseph Nguyen 2022 114 pages
3.79
57k+ ratings
Mathematical Thinking - For People Who Hate Math
by Albert Rutherford • 2021
Math class already gave you a reasoning toolkit. Put it to work, zero equations required.
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Mathematical Thinking - For People Who Hate Math Summary
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Mathematical Thinking - For People Who Hate Math
Math class already gave you a reasoning toolkit. Put it to work, zero equations required.
by Albert Rutherford 2021 155 pages
3.58
158 ratings
Change
by Paul Watzlawick • 1974
When fixing things only makes them worse, the problem is the solution.
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Change Summary
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Change
When fixing things only makes them worse, the problem is the solution.
by Paul Watzlawick 1974 200 pages
4.24
500+ ratings
The Strangest Secret
by Earl Nightingale • 1956
What you think about when no one is watching is writing your entire future.
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The Strangest Secret Summary
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The Strangest Secret
What you think about when no one is watching is writing your entire future.
by Earl Nightingale 1956 96 pages
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7k+ ratings
When Things Don't Go Your Way
by Haemin Sunim • 2018
A Zen teacher publicly shamed: his hard-won practices for when your world comes apart.
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When Things Don't Go Your Way Summary
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When Things Don't Go Your Way
A Zen teacher publicly shamed: his hard-won practices for when your world comes apart.
by Haemin Sunim 2018 240 pages
4.12
3k+ ratings
The Three-Body Problem
by Liu Cixin
A countdown in a researcher's eyes reveals an alien invasion rooted in China's Cultural Revolution.
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The Three-Body Problem Summary
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The Three-Body Problem
A countdown in a researcher's eyes reveals an alien invasion rooted in China's Cultural Revolution.
by Liu Cixin 2006 472 pages
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500k+ ratings
Awake
by Angelo DiLullo • 2021
The voice in your head says 'I' so you obey. See through it and suffering ends.
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Awake Summary
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Awake
The voice in your head says 'I' so you obey. See through it and suffering ends.
by Angelo DiLullo 2021 476 pages
4.59
500+ ratings
Technopoly
by Neil Postman • 1992
When a culture worships its tools, the old stories that held it together quietly disappear.
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Technopoly Summary
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Technopoly
When a culture worships its tools, the old stories that held it together quietly disappear.
by Neil Postman 1992 222 pages
3.97
5k+ ratings
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