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Beyond Order Summary
Beyond Order
12 More Rules For Life
by Jordan B. Peterson 2021 382 pages
4.15
28.7K ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Philosophy
How to Lie with Statistics Summary
How to Lie with Statistics
by Darrell Huff 1954 142 pages
3.84
17.4K ratings
Science
Business
Mathematics
Animal Liberation Summary
Animal Liberation
by Peter Singer 1975 324 pages
4.30
11.0K ratings
Philosophy
Animals
Vegan
Are Prisons Obsolete? Summary
Are Prisons Obsolete?
by Angela Y. Davis 2003 128 pages
4.52
28.1K ratings
Politics
Race
Social Justice
A People’s History of the United States Summary
A People’s History of the United States
1492 - Present
by Howard Zinn 1980 729 pages
4.08
257.1K ratings
History
Politics
American History
Enrique's Journey Summary
Enrique's Journey
by Sonia Nazario 2005 294 pages
3.88
16.7K ratings
Biography
Book Club
School
The Bottom Billion Summary
The Bottom Billion
Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
by Paul Collier 2007 205 pages
3.85
7.9K ratings
Economics
Politics
International Development
Trust Me, I'm Lying Summary
Trust Me, I'm Lying
Confessions of a Media Manipulator
by Ryan Holiday 2012 259 pages
3.86
12.0K ratings
Business
Psychology
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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
Sociology
Economics
Politics
The Price of Inequality Summary
The Price of Inequality
How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
by Joseph E. Stiglitz 2012 523 pages
4.02
9.7K ratings
Politics
Sociology
Business
The Next 100 Years Summary
The Next 100 Years
A Forecast for the 21st Century
by George Friedman 2008 272 pages
3.67
10.9K ratings
Politics
History
Economics
A Promised Land Summary
A Promised Land
by Barack Obama 2020 768 pages
4.32
258.5K ratings
Biography
Memoir
Politics
Capitalism and Freedom Summary
Capitalism and Freedom
by Milton Friedman 1962 208 pages
3.90
14.6K ratings
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
Requiem for the American Dream Summary
Requiem for the American Dream
The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power
by Noam Chomsky 2017 192 pages
4.21
3.7K ratings
Politics
Economics
History
On War Summary
On War
by Carl von Clausewitz 1832 732 pages
3.96
14.1K ratings
History
Philosophy
War
Pleasure Activism Summary
Pleasure Activism
The Politics of Feeling Good
by Adrienne Maree Brown 2019 441 pages
4.24
9.0K ratings
Feminism
Politics
Social Justice
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar Summary
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar
What Everyone Needs to Know
by P.W. Singer 2013 320 pages
3.83
1.4K ratings
Technology
Science
Politics
The Irrational Ape Summary
The Irrational Ape
Why Flawed Logic Puts us all at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World
by David Robert Grimes 2019 482 pages
4.27
1.0K ratings
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
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
Women, Race & Class Summary
Women, Race & Class
by Angela Y. Davis 1981 271 pages
4.59
32.3K ratings
Feminism
Politics
History
The Struggle for Pakistan Summary
The Struggle for Pakistan
A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics
by Ayesha Jalal 2014 447 pages
4.01
240 ratings
History
Pakistan
Politics
Black Wave Summary
Black Wave
Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
by Kim Ghattas 2020 400 pages
4.40
5.2K ratings
History
Politics
Iran
Military Inc. Summary
Military Inc.
Inside Pakistan's Military Economy
by Ayesha Siddiqa 2007 292 pages
3.74
527 ratings
Pakistan
Politics
History
On Language Summary
On Language
by Noam Chomsky 1998 481 pages
3.82
1.0K ratings
Linguistics
Philosophy
Language
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress Summary
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
by Robert A. Heinlein 1966 288 pages
4.15
136.0K ratings
Science Fiction
Classics
Science Fiction Fantasy
Ten Myths About Israel Summary
Ten Myths About Israel
by Ilan Pappé 2017 192 pages
4.40
5.0K ratings
History
Politics
Israel
The Demon of Unrest Summary
The Demon of Unrest
A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
by Erik Larson 2024 565 pages
4.19
46.6K ratings
History
Civil War
Politics
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
Politics
Sociology
Message to the Blackman in America Summary
Message to the Blackman in America
by Elijah Muhammad 1965 386 pages
4.45
897 ratings
Religion
Race
Islam
Say Nothing Summary
Say Nothing
A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
by Patrick Radden Keefe 2018 441 pages
4.47
141.7K ratings
History
True Crime
Ireland
Obedience to Authority Summary
Obedience to Authority
by Stanley Milgram 1974 256 pages
4.20
4.4K ratings
Psychology
Science
Sociology
The Prosperity Paradox Summary
The Prosperity Paradox
How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty
by Clayton M. Christensen 2019 355 pages
4.27
1.4K ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
The Story Paradox Summary
The Story Paradox
How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down
by Jonathan Gottschall 2021 272 pages
3.72
393 ratings
Psychology
Politics
Science
High Conflict Summary
High Conflict
Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out
by Amanda Ripley 2021 368 pages
4.27
4.3K ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Politics
Animal Farm / 1984 Summary
Animal Farm / 1984
by George Orwell 1949 400 pages
4.30
209.3K ratings
Classics
Dystopia
Literature
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Summary
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
A History of Nazi Germany
by William L. Shirer 1960 1147 pages
4.22
142.8K ratings
History
War
World War II
Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology Summary
Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology
by Vandana Shiva 2015 192 pages
3.95
410 ratings
Food
Agriculture
Politics
Moral Tribes Summary
Moral Tribes
Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
by Joshua D. Greene 2013 432 pages
4.02
3.2K ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Science
Secrets to Winning at Office Politics Summary
Secrets to Winning at Office Politics
by Marie G. McIntyre 2005 288 pages
4.03
751 ratings
Business
Psychology
Management
Recoding America Summary
Recoding America
Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
by Jennifer Pahlka 2023 336 pages
4.41
2.3K ratings
Politics
Technology
Government
Post-Truth Summary
Post-Truth
by Lee McIntyre 2018 240 pages
4.03
1.9K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Psychology
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 Rule of Law Summary
The Rule of Law
by Tom Bingham 2010 203 pages
4.11
3.1K ratings
Law
Politics
Philosophy
The Rise and Fall of Nations Summary
The Rise and Fall of Nations
Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World
by Ruchir Sharma 2016 480 pages
4.14
2.7K ratings
Economics
Politics
History
Behold a Pale Horse Summary
Behold a Pale Horse
by Milton William Cooper 1991 534 pages
3.85
5.6K ratings
Conspiracy Theories
Politics
History
Network Propaganda Summary
Network Propaganda
Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics
by Yochai Benkler 2018 472 pages
4.14
370 ratings
Politics
Technology
Sociology
This Time Is Different Summary
This Time Is Different
Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
by Carmen M. Reinhart 2009 460 pages
3.76
7.3K ratings
Economics
History
Finance
How the World Ran Out of Everything Summary
How the World Ran Out of Everything
Inside the Global Supply Chain
by Peter S. Goodman 2024 416 pages
4.11
950 ratings
Economics
Business
History
Machiavelli Summary
Machiavelli
A Very Short Introduction
by Quentin Skinner 1981 110 pages
3.84
882 ratings
Philosophy
History
Politics
The Road to Unfreedom Summary
The Road to Unfreedom
Russia, Europe, America
by Timothy Snyder 2018 359 pages
4.37
10.0K ratings
History
Politics
Russia
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