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Spiritual Growth Summary
Spiritual Growth
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by Sanaya Roman 1989 225 pages
4.19
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Aping Mankind Summary
Aping Mankind
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by Raymond Tallis 2011 400 pages
4.04
213 ratings
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The Reactionary Spirit Summary
The Reactionary Spirit
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by Zack Beauchamp 2024 263 pages
4.03
155 ratings
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The Other Side of Change Summary
The Other Side of Change
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4.23
804 ratings
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Democracy Summary
Democracy
by Charles Tilly 2007 248 pages
3.63
172 ratings
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Radical American Partisanship Summary
Radical American Partisanship
Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy
by Nathan P. Kalmoe 2022 222 pages
3.74
43 ratings
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The Age of Responsibility Summary
The Age of Responsibility
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by Yascha Mounk 2017 288 pages
3.67
81 ratings
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Inner Christianity Summary
Inner Christianity
A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition
by Richard Smoley 2002 292 pages
4.14
359 ratings
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What Makes a Hero? Summary
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by Elizabeth Svoboda 2013 240 pages
3.34
128 ratings
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American Citizenship Summary
American Citizenship
The Quest for Inclusion
by Judith Nisse Shklar 1991 134 pages
3.60
67 ratings
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The Efficiency Paradox Summary
The Efficiency Paradox
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by Edward Tenner 2018 320 pages
3.28
310 ratings
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You Are Now Less Dumb Summary
You Are Now Less Dumb
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by David McRaney 2013 320 pages
3.95
4.7K ratings
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No Exit Summary
No Exit
by Jean-Paul Sartre 1958 60 pages
4.11
47.2K ratings
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Patterns of Democracy Summary
Patterns of Democracy
Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries
by Arend Lijphart 1999 368 pages
3.68
698 ratings
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Love and Other Thought Experiments Summary
Love and Other Thought Experiments
by Sophie Ward 2020 272 pages
3.59
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Religion in Human Evolution Summary
Religion in Human Evolution
From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age
by Robert N. Bellah 2011 776 pages
3.97
451 ratings
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On Settler Colonialism Summary
On Settler Colonialism
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by Adam Kirsch 2024 160 pages
3.99
633 ratings
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Incompletos Summary
Incompletos
Filosofía para un pensamiento elegante
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3.84
140 ratings
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The Watchman's Rattle Summary
The Watchman's Rattle
Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction
by Rebecca D. Costa 2010 347 pages
3.96
579 ratings
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Democracy for Realists Summary
Democracy for Realists
Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government
by Christopher H. Achen 2016 408 pages
3.98
1.1K ratings
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Ancient Worlds Summary
Ancient Worlds
An Epic History of East and West
by Michael Scott 2016 402 pages
3.78
630 ratings
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Learn To Think Using Thought Experiments Summary
Learn To Think Using Thought Experiments
How to Expand Your Mental Horizons, Understand Metacognition, Improve Your Curiosity, and Think Like a Philosopher
by Patrick King 2020 160 pages
3.84
101 ratings
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The Great Disruption Summary
The Great Disruption
Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order
by Francis Fukuyama 2000 368 pages
3.63
352 ratings
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Power Summary
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by Dennis Wrong 1995 356 pages
4
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Why Nudge? Summary
Why Nudge?
The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism
by Cass R. Sunstein 2014 208 pages
3.47
245 ratings
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El arte de pensar Summary
El arte de pensar
by José Carlos Ruiz 2018 226 pages
4.07
1.7K ratings
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Cave in the Snow Summary
Cave in the Snow
A Western Woman's Quest for Enlightenment
by Vicki Mackenzie 1998
4.29
2.5K ratings
Buddhism
Biography
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Capital and Ideology Summary
Capital and Ideology
by Thomas Piketty 2020 1104 pages
4.28
3.1K ratings
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The Age of Choice Summary
The Age of Choice
A History of Freedom in Modern Life
by Sophia Rosenfeld 2025 480 pages
3.62
138 ratings
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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Summary
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
by Jürgen Habermas 1991 301 pages
3.87
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The Great Delusion Summary
The Great Delusion
Liberal Dreams and International Realities
by John J. Mearsheimer 2018 328 pages
4.1
1.2K ratings
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Democracy Summary
Democracy
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by Paul Cartledge 2016 416 pages
3.8
212 ratings
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October Junction (Preview Edition) Summary
October Junction (Preview Edition)
by Divya Prakash Dubey 25 pages
4.09
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Romance
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Why I Am Not an Atheist Summary
Why I Am Not an Atheist
The Confessions of a Skeptical Believer
by Christopher Beha 2026 432 pages
3.6
15 ratings
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No Nonsense Spirituality Summary
No Nonsense Spirituality
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by Brittney Hartley 2024 272 pages
4.47
742 ratings
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The Authoritarian Personality Summary
The Authoritarian Personality
by Theodor W. Adorno 1993 976 pages
3.8
385 ratings
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Filosofía ante el desánimo Summary
Filosofía ante el desánimo
by José Carlos Ruiz 2021 320 pages
3.99
512 ratings
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Start Making Sense Summary
Start Making Sense
How Existential Psychology Can Help Us Build Meaningful Lives in Absurd Times
by Steven J. Heine 2025 352 pages
3.94
77 ratings
Psychology
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The Great Cosmic Mother Summary
The Great Cosmic Mother
Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth
by Monica Sjöö 1987 501 pages
4.07
2.3K ratings
Spirituality
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The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece Summary
The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece
by Josiah Ober 2015 416 pages
3.93
307 ratings
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Why Leaders Lie Summary
Why Leaders Lie
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by John J. Mearsheimer 2011 160 pages
3.47
881 ratings
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The Quest for Community Summary
The Quest for Community
A Study in the Ethics of Order & Freedom
by Robert A. Nisbet 1990 272 pages
4.26
357 ratings
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In the Ruins of Neoliberalism Summary
In the Ruins of Neoliberalism
The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West
by Wendy Brown 2019 264 pages
4.11
473 ratings
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Feminist Theory Summary
Feminist Theory
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by bell hooks 1984 174 pages
4.45
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The Act of Living Summary
The Act of Living
What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us About Finding Fulfillment
by Frank Tallis 2020 336 pages
4.17
707 ratings
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Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? Summary
Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?
by Robert Kuttner 2018 384 pages
4.1
318 ratings
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The Bet Summary
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by Anton Chekhov 1889 48 pages
4.12
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The Two Faces of American Freedom Summary
The Two Faces of American Freedom
by Aziz Rana 2010 432 pages
4.03
90 ratings
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My Ishmael Summary
My Ishmael
by Daniel Quinn 1997 293 pages
4.11
10.6K ratings
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Shaolin Spirit Summary
Shaolin Spirit
The Way to Self-Mastery
by Shi Heng Yi 2026 288 pages
3.83
614 ratings
Self Help
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