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Practical Ethics Summary
Practical Ethics
by Peter Singer 1979 411 pages
4.07
3.4K ratings
Philosophy
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Capitalism and Freedom Summary
Capitalism and Freedom
by Milton Friedman 1962 208 pages
3.90
14.6K ratings
Economics
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Philosophy
What Money Can't Buy Summary
What Money Can't Buy
The Moral Limits of Markets
by Michael J. Sandel 2012 256 pages
3.93
13.6K ratings
Philosophy
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Politics
Empire Summary
Empire
How Britain Made the Modern World
by Niall Ferguson 2003 422 pages
3.93
9.5K ratings
History
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Tower of Basel Summary
Tower of Basel
The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World
by Adam LeBor 2013 360 pages
3.81
551 ratings
Economics
History
Finance
The Wisdom of Crowds Summary
The Wisdom of Crowds
by James Surowiecki 2004 306 pages
3.82
24.6K ratings
Psychology
Business
Economics
Feminism Is for Everybody Summary
Feminism Is for Everybody
Passionate Politics
by bell hooks 2000 123 pages
4.16
26.7K ratings
Feminism
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Social Justice
The Discovery of India Summary
The Discovery of India
by Jawaharlal Nehru 1946 656 pages
4.09
8.5K ratings
History
India
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The Singapore Story Summary
The Singapore Story
Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew
by Lee Kuan Yew 1998 680 pages
4.28
3.2K ratings
Biography
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Toward a Feminist Theory of the State Summary
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
by Catharine A. MacKinnon 1989 352 pages
4.00
516 ratings
Feminism
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Albion's Seed Summary
Albion's Seed
Four British Folkways in America
by David Hackett Fischer 1989 946 pages
4.37
3.4K ratings
History
American History
American
One-Dimensional Man Summary
One-Dimensional Man
Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
by Herbert Marcuse 1964 260 pages
3.98
7.3K ratings
Philosophy
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Design Justice Summary
Design Justice
Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
by Sasha Costanza-Chock 2020 360 pages
4.18
506 ratings
Design
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Social Justice
The India Way Summary
The India Way
Strategies for an Uncertain World
by S. Jaishankar 2020 240 pages
3.94
1.5K ratings
India
Politics
International Relations
Pakistan Summary
Pakistan
A Hard Country
by Anatol Lieven 2011 592 pages
4.12
2.4K ratings
Pakistan
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The Corrosion of Character Summary
The Corrosion of Character
The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
by Richard Sennett 1996 176 pages
3.94
1.9K ratings
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The Concise 33 Strategies Of War Summary
The Concise 33 Strategies Of War
by Robert Greene 2008 194 pages
4.12
478 ratings
Psychology
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Self Help
Democracy Summary
Democracy
The God That Failed
by Hans-Hermann Hoppe 2001 304 pages
4.15
2.4K ratings
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Naked Economics Summary
Naked Economics
Undressing the Dismal Science
by Charles Wheelan 2002 384 pages
4.03
19.2K ratings
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Business
Finance
The Shah Summary
The Shah
by Abbas Milani 2007 496 pages
4.23
1.2K ratings
History
Iran
Biography
Autocracy, Inc. Summary
Autocracy, Inc.
by Anne Applebaum 2024 224 pages
4.23
10.1K ratings
Politics
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Political Science
Civilization Summary
Civilization
The West and the Rest
by Niall Ferguson 2011 402 pages
3.86
10.0K ratings
History
Politics
Economics
The Meritocracy Trap Summary
The Meritocracy Trap
How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
by Daniel Markovits 2019 448 pages
3.83
2.1K ratings
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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
The Rule of Law Summary
The Rule of Law
by Tom Bingham 2010 203 pages
4.11
3.1K ratings
Law
Politics
Philosophy
Lajja Summary
Lajja
Shame
by Taslima Nasrin 1993 216 pages
3.54
5.5K ratings
Bangladesh
Historical Fiction
India
Post-Truth Summary
Post-Truth
by Lee McIntyre 2018 240 pages
4.03
1.9K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Psychology
The Sociological Imagination Summary
The Sociological Imagination
by C. Wright Mills 1959 248 pages
4.16
3.2K ratings
Sociology
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Social Science
From Poor Law to Welfare State Summary
From Poor Law to Welfare State
A History of Social Welfare in America
by Walter I. Trattner 1974 464 pages
3.71
308 ratings
Social Work
History
Politics
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
Poverty, by America Summary
Poverty, by America
by Matthew Desmond 2023 304 pages
4.27
54.2K ratings
Politics
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Sociology
The Image Summary
The Image
A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
by Daniel J. Boorstin 1961 336 pages
4.08
1.4K ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
The Discourses Summary
The Discourses
by Niccolò Machiavelli 1517 544 pages
4.07
9.5K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
Expert Political Judgment Summary
Expert Political Judgment
How Good Is It? How Can We Know?
by Philip E. Tetlock 2005 344 pages
3.98
684 ratings
Politics
Psychology
Science
The Better Angels of Our Nature Summary
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker 2010 806 pages
4.16
29.1K ratings
History
Psychology
Science
The Wealth of Nations Summary
The Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith 2010 416 pages
3.92
372 ratings
Economics
Business
Philosophy
Animal Liberation Summary
Animal Liberation
by Peter Singer 1975 324 pages
4.30
11.0K ratings
Philosophy
Animals
Vegan
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
The Oil Curse Summary
The Oil Curse
How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations
by Michael L. Ross 2012 312 pages
3.96
199 ratings
Politics
Economics
History
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
Economics
Technology
Trump Summary
Trump
The Art of the Deal
by Donald J. Trump 1987 384 pages
3.70
23.8K ratings
Business
Biography
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
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
The Case for Christian Nationalism Summary
The Case for Christian Nationalism
by Stephen Wolfe 2022 479 pages
3.55
524 ratings
Politics
Theology
Philosophy
Are Prisons Obsolete? Summary
Are Prisons Obsolete?
by Angela Y. Davis 2003 128 pages
4.52
28.1K ratings
Politics
Race
Social Justice
Military Inc. Summary
Military Inc.
Inside Pakistan's Military Economy
by Ayesha Siddiqa 2007 292 pages
3.74
527 ratings
Pakistan
Politics
History
Women, Race & Class Summary
Women, Race & Class
by Angela Y. Davis 1981 271 pages
4.59
32.3K ratings
Feminism
Politics
History
Twitter and Tear Gas Summary
Twitter and Tear Gas
The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
by Zeynep Tufekci 2017 326 pages
4.08
1.4K ratings
Politics
Technology
Sociology
The Biggest Secret Summary
Immersive
The Biggest Secret
The Book That Will Change the World
by David Icke 1998 517 pages
3.79
1.8K ratings
Conspiracy Theories
History
Politics
Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare Summary
Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare
by Michael A. Hoffman II 1992 215 pages
4.11
339 ratings
Conspiracy Theories
History
Politics
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