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Walden & Civil Disobedience Summary
Walden & Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau 1849 320 pages
3.94
38.5K ratings
Classics
Philosophy
Essays
The Concise 48 Laws of Power Summary
The Concise 48 Laws of Power
by Robert Greene 2011 195 pages
4.13
4.7K ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Business
Basic Economics Summary
Basic Economics
A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
by Thomas Sowell 2000 448 pages
4.37
13.6K ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate Summary
Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
The Essential Guide for Progressives
by George Lakoff 2004 144 pages
3.97
6.9K ratings
Politics
Psychology
Philosophy
The Price of Tomorrow Summary
The Price of Tomorrow
Why Deflation is the Key to an Abundant Future
by Jeff Booth 2020 232 pages
4.09
3.4K ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
The Shah Summary
The Shah
by Abbas Milani 2007 496 pages
4.23
1.2K ratings
History
Iran
Biography
Discipline and Punish Summary
Discipline and Punish
The Birth of the Prison
by Michel Foucault 1975 333 pages
4.23
35.3K ratings
Philosophy
History
Sociology
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act Summary
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
by Bob Joseph 2018 160 pages
4.57
9.4K ratings
Indigenous
History
Canada
Lajja Summary
Lajja
Shame
by Taslima Nasrin 1993 216 pages
3.54
5.5K ratings
Bangladesh
Historical Fiction
India
The Network State Summary
The Network State
How To Start a New Country
by Balaji S. Srinivasan 2022 262 pages
3.97
984 ratings
Politics
Technology
Philosophy
Survival of the Richest Summary
Survival of the Richest
Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
by Douglas Rushkoff 2022 224 pages
3.85
2.0K ratings
Politics
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Technology
Economics in One Lesson Summary
Economics in One Lesson
by Henry Hazlitt 1946 218 pages
4.17
21.0K ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
Pedagogy of the Oppressed Summary
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
by Paulo Freire 1968 183 pages
4.30
37.3K ratings
Education
Philosophy
Politics
Free to Choose Summary
Free to Choose
A Personal Statement
by Milton Friedman 1979 356 pages
4.22
9.3K ratings
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
The Nordic Theory of Everything Summary
The Nordic Theory of Everything
In Search of a Better Life
by Anu Partanen 2016 448 pages
3.86
8.6K ratings
Politics
Sociology
Memoir
The Rebel Summary
The Rebel
by Albert Camus 1951 320 pages
4.14
17.7K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Essays
The Master Switch Summary
The Master Switch
The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
by Tim Wu 2010 384 pages
3.89
7.9K ratings
History
Technology
Business
A History of Western Philosophy Summary
A History of Western Philosophy
by Bertrand Russell 1945 906 pages
4.13
40.6K ratings
Philosophy
History
Classics
Good Economics for Hard Times Summary
Good Economics for Hard Times
Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
by Abhijit V. Banerjee 2019 417 pages
4.22
14.2K ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
Bad Samaritans Summary
Bad Samaritans
The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
by Ha-Joon Chang 2007 288 pages
4.20
5.6K ratings
Economics
Politics
History
Autocracy, Inc. Summary
Autocracy, Inc.
by Anne Applebaum 2024 224 pages
4.23
10.1K ratings
Politics
History
Political Science
Politics Summary
Politics
by Aristotle 368 pages
3.98
41.4K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Classics
Das Kapital Summary
Das Kapital
by Karl Marx 1867 356 pages
4.09
22.9K ratings
Philosophy
Economics
Politics
Misbelief Summary
Misbelief
What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
by Dan Ariely 2023 320 pages
3.92
1.9K ratings
Psychology
Science
Sociology
Trump Summary
Trump
The Art of the Deal
by Donald J. Trump 1987 384 pages
3.70
23.8K ratings
Business
Biography
Politics
The Trial and Death of Socrates Summary
The Trial and Death of Socrates
by Plato 58 pages
4.12
44.4K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
History
How to Have Impossible Conversations Summary
How to Have Impossible Conversations
A Very Practical Guide
by Peter Boghossian 2019 272 pages
3.91
2.5K ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Philosophy
Long Walk to Freedom Summary
Long Walk to Freedom
by Nelson Mandela 1994 656 pages
4.36
91.5K ratings
Biography
History
Memoir
Debt Summary
Debt
The First 5,000 Years
by David Graeber 2011 534 pages
4.21
25.0K ratings
History
Economics
Anthropology
Globalization and its Discontents Summary
Globalization and its Discontents
by Joseph E. Stiglitz 2002 304 pages
3.87
8.1K ratings
Economics
Politics
History
The Panama Papers Summary
The Panama Papers
Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money
by Frederik Obermaier 2016 400 pages
4.08
4.3K ratings
Politics
Economics
History
Guns, Germs, and Steel Summary
Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond 1997 498 pages
4.04
440.0K ratings
History
Science
Anthropology
Too Big to Fail Summary
Too Big to Fail
The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves
by Andrew Ross Sorkin 2009 600 pages
4.15
41.6K ratings
Business
Finance
Economics
The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939 Summary
The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939
An Introduction to the Study of International Relations
by Edward Hallett Carr 1939 244 pages
4.08
1.3K ratings
History
International Relations
Politics
Policy Paradox Summary
Policy Paradox
The Art of Political Decision Making
by Deborah Stone 1988 448 pages
3.87
1.2K ratings
Politics
Political Science
Grad School
The Knowledge Gap Summary
The Knowledge Gap
The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it
by Natalie Wexler 2019 336 pages
4.14
5.2K ratings
Education
Teaching
Parenting
The Signal and the Noise Summary
The Signal and the Noise
Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
by Nate Silver 2012 544 pages
3.97
51.6K ratings
Science
Business
Economics
The Spook Who Sat by the Door Summary
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
by Sam Greenlee 1969 256 pages
4.35
3.4K ratings
Historical Fiction
Race
Classics
Leadership Summary
Leadership
by James MacGregor Burns 1978 546 pages
3.87
487 ratings
Leadership
History
Business
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison Summary
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison
Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice
by Jeffrey H. Reiman 1979 288 pages
3.93
568 ratings
Politics
Sociology
Social Justice
Chaos Summary
Chaos
Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
by Tom O'Neill 2019 504 pages
4.04
30.2K ratings
History
True Crime
Crime
Cicero Summary
Cicero
The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
by Anthony Everitt 2001 364 pages
3.89
8.0K ratings
History
Biography
Ancient History
Civilization Summary
Civilization
The West and the Rest
by Niall Ferguson 2011 402 pages
3.86
10.0K ratings
History
Politics
Economics
History of Modern India Summary
History of Modern India
by Bipan Chandra 2009 352 pages
4.08
2.3K ratings
History
India
Politics
A Secular Age Summary
A Secular Age
by Charles Margrave Taylor 2007 874 pages
4.27
1.8K ratings
Philosophy
Religion
History
Weapons of Math Destruction Summary
Weapons of Math Destruction
How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by Cathy O'Neil 2016 259 pages
3.88
29.0K ratings
Science
Technology
Politics
The Grand Chessboard Summary
The Grand Chessboard
American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives
by Zbigniew Brzeziński 1997 240 pages
3.97
3.2K ratings
Politics
History
International Relations
The Great Divergence Summary
The Great Divergence
China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
by Kenneth Pomeranz 2000 392 pages
3.69
946 ratings
History
Economics
China
The Wealth of Nations Summary
The Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith 2010 416 pages
3.92
372 ratings
Economics
Business
Philosophy
Hood Feminism Summary
Hood Feminism
Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
by Mikki Kendall 2020 267 pages
4.36
59.5K ratings
Feminism
Race
Social Justice
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