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The Birth of the Clinic Summary
The Birth of the Clinic
An Archaeology of Medical Perception
by Michel Foucault 1994 240 pages
3.95
2.5K ratings
Philosophy
History
Medicine
The Lost Keys of Freemasonry Summary
The Lost Keys of Freemasonry
by Manly P. Hall 2006 352 pages
4.16
977 ratings
Occult
History
Philosophy
A Methodology of Possession Summary
A Methodology of Possession
On the Philosophy of Nick Land
by James Ellis 2020 185 pages
3.63
82 ratings
Philosophy
Awakening From the Meaning Crisis Summary
Awakening From the Meaning Crisis
Part 1: Origins
by John Vervaeke 2024 426 pages
4.71
41 ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Religion
Who Would You Be Without Your Story? Summary
Who Would You Be Without Your Story?
Dialogues with Byron Katie
by Byron Katie 2008 330 pages
4.27
602 ratings
Self Help
Psychology
Spirituality
The Tao Made Easy Summary
The Tao Made Easy
Timeless Wisdom to Navigate a Changing World
by Alan Cohen 2018 233 pages
4.36
291 ratings
Philosophy
Self Help
Spirituality
Pyrrhonism Summary
Pyrrhonism
How the Ancient Greeks Reinvented Buddhism
by Adrian Kuzminski 2008 170 pages
4.01
70 ratings
Philosophy
Buddhism
History
Health Guide Summary
Health Guide
by Mahatma Gandhi 2004 212 pages
3.58
146 ratings
Health
Philosophy
Biology
Wars and Capital (Semiotext Summary
Wars and Capital (Semiotext
by Éric Alliez 2018 453 pages
3.89
27 ratings
Philosophy
War
Politics
Stella Maris Summary
Stella Maris
by Cormac McCarthy 2022 190 pages
3.84
23.0K ratings
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Literature
Phyl-Undhu Summary
Phyl-Undhu
Abstract Horror, Exterminator
by Nick Land 2014 71 pages
3.55
279 ratings
Horror
Philosophy
Science Fiction
What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches Summary
What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
by Erwin Schrödinger 1992 184 pages
4.13
7.7K ratings
Science
Philosophy
Biology
Misquoting Truth Summary
Misquoting Truth
A Guide to the Fallacies of Bart Ehrman's "Misquoting Jesus"
by Timothy Paul Jones 2007 176 pages
3.45
269 ratings
Religion
Theology
Christianity
Dialogism Summary
Dialogism
Bakhtin and His World
by Michael Holquist 2002 228 pages
4.08
87 ratings
Philosophy
Theory
Criticism
Epistles 1-65 Summary
Epistles 1-65
by Seneca 2014 242 pages
4.45
804 ratings
Philosophy
Classics
History
A Brief History of Intelligence Summary
A Brief History of Intelligence
Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
by Max Solomon Bennett 2023 432 pages
4.46
4.5K ratings
Science
Artificial Intelligence
History
The Embodied Mind Summary
The Embodied Mind
Cognitive Science and Human Experience
by Francisco J. Varela 1992 328 pages
4.14
1.3K ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism Summary
The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism
The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
by Christopher Hitchens 2011 332 pages
4.11
1.1K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Religion
Fire in the Belly Summary
Fire in the Belly
On Being a Man
by Sam Keen 1992 288 pages
3.81
1.4K ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Self Help
The Consequences of Ideas Summary
The Consequences of Ideas
Understanding the Concepts that Shaped Our World
by R.C. Sproul 2000 224 pages
4.18
1.8K ratings
Philosophy
Theology
Christian
The Philosophy of 'as If ' Summary
The Philosophy of 'as If '
by Hans Vaihinger 2009 418 pages
4
72 ratings
Philosophy
Goliath's Curse Summary
Goliath's Curse
The History and Future of Societal Collapse
by Luke Kemp 2025 592 pages
4.16
511 ratings
History
Politics
Sociology
Manufacturing Consent Summary
Manufacturing Consent
Noam Chomsky and the Media
by Mark Achbar 1994 264 pages
4.4
677 ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
12 Commandments Summary
12 Commandments
For Extraordinary People To Master Ordinary Life
by Hanzi Freinacht 2022 415 pages
4.39
41 ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Politics
No Straight Road Takes You There Summary
No Straight Road Takes You There
Essays for Uneven Terrain
by Rebecca Solnit 2025 176 pages
4.17
801 ratings
Essays
Politics
Feminism
The Frontiers of Knowledge Summary
The Frontiers of Knowledge
What We Know about Science, History and the Mind
by A.C. Grayling 2021 432 pages
3.98
337 ratings
Science
Philosophy
History
Agonistics Summary
Agonistics
Thinking the World Politically
by Chantal Mouffe 2013 176 pages
3.86
348 ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Theory
Deviate Summary
Deviate
The Science of Seeing Differently
by Beau Lotto 2017 352 pages
3.73
1.5K ratings
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Metamodernism and the Return of Transcendence Summary
Metamodernism and the Return of Transcendence
by A. Severan 2021 108 pages
4.25
40 ratings
Philosophy
Intellectual Property Summary
Intellectual Property
A Very Short Introduction
by Siva Vaidhyanathan 2017 144 pages
3.94
172 ratings
Law
Economics
Politics
Reveille for Radicals Summary
Reveille for Radicals
by Saul D. Alinsky 1989 256 pages
3.83
585 ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
Active Hope Summary
Active Hope
How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy
by Joanna Macy 2012
4.1
1.6K ratings
Spirituality
Environment
Activism
Excuses Begone! Summary
Excuses Begone!
by Wayne W. Dyer 2009 257 pages
4.12
9.4K ratings
Self Help
Spirituality
Personal Development
Blue Truth Summary
Blue Truth
by David Deida 2004 184 pages
4.12
649 ratings
Spirituality
Sexuality
Philosophy
OUTSMARTING REALITY Summary
OUTSMARTING REALITY
by Nero Knowledge 2025 261 pages
4.72
599 ratings
Spirituality
Self Help
Philosophy
Complexity Summary
Complexity
The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
by M. Mitchell Waldrop 1992 384 pages
4.05
3.1K ratings
Science
Philosophy
Economics
Les Thanatonautes Summary
Les Thanatonautes
by Bernard Werber 1996 502 pages
4.06
8.8K ratings
Science Fiction
Fantasy
France
Che Guevara Reader Summary
Che Guevara Reader
Writings on Politics & Revolution
by Ernesto Che Guevara 2003 420 pages
4.07
355 ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
The Druidry Handbook Summary
The Druidry Handbook
Spiritual Practice Rooted in the Living Earth
by John Michael Greer 2006 272 pages
3.98
1.2K ratings
Spirituality
Paganism
Religion
On Looking Summary
On Looking
Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
by Alexandra Horowitz 2013 308 pages
3.51
5.0K ratings
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
In a Flight of Starlings Summary
In a Flight of Starlings
The Wonder of Complex Systems
by Giorgio Parisi 2023 144 pages
3.41
1.6K ratings
Science
Physics
Nature
The Essential Edgar Cayce Summary
The Essential Edgar Cayce
by Edgar Evans Cayce 2004 287 pages
3.9
173 ratings
Spirituality
Metaphysics
Paranormal
The Great Leveler Summary
The Great Leveler
Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
by Walter Scheidel 2017 528 pages
3.81
1.6K ratings
History
Economics
Politics
The Immortal Mind Summary
The Immortal Mind
A Neurosurgeon’s Case for the Existence of the Soul
by Michael Egnor 2025 272 pages
4.39
151 ratings
Science
Psychology
Philosophy
The Myth of the State Summary
The Myth of the State
by Ernst Cassirer 1961 303 pages
3.91
206 ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
The Necessity of Exile Summary
The Necessity of Exile
Essays from a Distance
by Shaul Magid 2023 295 pages
4.22
241 ratings
Judaism
Jewish
Religion
The Question of God Summary
The Question of God
C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life
by Armand M. Nicholi Jr. 2003 295 pages
4.02
4.6K ratings
Philosophy
Religion
Theology
Limits to Medicine Summary
Limits to Medicine
Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health
by Ivan Illich 1976 320 pages
4.04
599 ratings
Philosophy
Medicine
Health
When the Past Is Present Summary
When the Past Is Present
Healing the Emotional Wounds That Sabotage Our Relationships
by David Richo 2008 224 pages
4.13
867 ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Relationships
A Pattern Language Summary
A Pattern Language
Towns, Buildings, Construction
by Christopher W. Alexander 1977 1171 pages
4.42
5.4K ratings
Architecture
Design
Urban Planning
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