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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
A World Without Work Summary
A World Without Work
Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
by Daniel Susskind 2020 307 pages
3.84
1.8K ratings
Economics
Business
Technology
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump Summary
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President
by Bandy X. Lee 2017 360 pages
4.05
3.1K ratings
Politics
Psychology
History
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World Summary
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World
A Handbook for Personal Liberty
by Harry Browne 1973 387 pages
4.06
1.5K ratings
Philosophy
Self Help
Politics
The Will to Change Summary
The Will to Change
Men, Masculinity, and Love
by bell hooks 2003 208 pages
4.36
25.8K ratings
Feminism
Philosophy
Psychology
Drug Use for Grown-Ups Summary
Drug Use for Grown-Ups
Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
by Carl L. Hart 2021 304 pages
4.02
4.5K ratings
Science
Psychology
Politics
The World Is Flat Summary
The World Is Flat
A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
by Thomas L. Friedman 2005 593 pages
3.69
102.3K ratings
History
Business
Economics
The Anarchy Summary
The Anarchy
The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
by William Dalrymple 2019 544 pages
4.20
16.9K ratings
History
India
Politics
Teaching to Transgress Summary
Teaching to Transgress
Education as the Practice of Freedom
by bell hooks 1994 216 pages
4.45
12.1K ratings
Teaching
Feminism
Social Justice
The Best and the Brightest Summary
The Best and the Brightest
by David Halberstam 1969 688 pages
4.27
12.6K ratings
History
Politics
War
No Logo Summary
No Logo
by Naomi Klein 2000 528 pages
3.89
32.2K ratings
Politics
Economics
Business
The Locust Effect Summary
The Locust Effect
Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
by Gary A. Haugen 2013 368 pages
4.32
1.5K ratings
Politics
Social Justice
Sociology
Logically Fallacious Summary
Logically Fallacious
The Ultimate Collection of Over 300 Logical Fallacies - Academic Edition
by Bo Bennett 2012 460 pages
3.85
596 ratings
Philosophy
Logic
Psychology
Rationality Summary
Rationality
by Steven Pinker 2021 432 pages
3.84
6.0K ratings
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
What Went Wrong with Capitalism Summary
What Went Wrong with Capitalism
by Ruchir Sharma 2024 384 pages
3.91
462 ratings
Economics
Politics
History
Learning from the Germans Summary
Learning from the Germans
Race and the Memory of Evil
by Susan Neiman 2019 434 pages
4.21
1.1K ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
Lincoln on Leadership Summary
Lincoln on Leadership
Executive Strategies for Tough Times
by Donald T. Phillips 1993 193 pages
4.15
7.5K ratings
Leadership
Business
History
Starry Messenger Summary
Starry Messenger
Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
by Neil deGrasse Tyson 2022 271 pages
4.11
14.2K ratings
Science
Philosophy
History
The True Believer Summary
The True Believer
Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
by Eric Hoffer 1951 177 pages
4.20
11.4K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Psychology
Women, Race & Class Summary
Women, Race & Class
by Angela Y. Davis 1981 271 pages
4.59
32.3K ratings
Feminism
Politics
History
The Golden Road Summary
The Golden Road
How Ancient India Transformed the World
by William Dalrymple 2024 432 pages
4.18
1.4K ratings
History
India
Politics
Why Vegan? Summary
Why Vegan?
by Peter Singer 2020 87 pages
4.04
806 ratings
Philosophy
Vegan
Food
Naked Economics Summary
Naked Economics
Undressing the Dismal Science
by Charles Wheelan 2002 384 pages
4.03
19.2K ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
The Good-Enough Life Summary
The Good-Enough Life
by Avram Alpert 2022 336 pages
3.38
348 ratings
Philosophy
Self Help
Psychology
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
The Culture Code Summary
The Culture Code
An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do
by Clotaire Rapaille 2006 208 pages
3.94
3.8K ratings
Business
Psychology
Cultural
The Expanding Circle Summary
The Expanding Circle
Ethics and Sociobiology
by Peter Singer 1981 190 pages
4.05
594 ratings
Philosophy
Science
Psychology
The Culture of Narcissism Summary
The Culture of Narcissism
American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
by Christopher Lasch 1978 368 pages
3.97
4.1K ratings
Psychology
Sociology
Philosophy
1984 and Philosophy Summary
1984 and Philosophy
Is Resistance Futile?
by Ezio Di Nucci 2018 256 pages
4.26
39 ratings
Politics
Philosophy
The Concept of the Political Summary
The Concept of the Political
by Carl Schmitt 1927 144 pages
3.95
3.4K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Political Science
The Privileged Poor Summary
The Privileged Poor
How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
by Anthony Abraham Jack 2019 288 pages
4.25
2.2K ratings
Education
Sociology
Social Justice
Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War" Summary
Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War"
How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
by Patrick J. Buchanan 2008 544 pages
4.19
1.9K ratings
History
Politics
World War II
Banker to the Poor Summary
Banker to the Poor
Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
by Muhammad Yunus 1991 289 pages
4.12
10.3K ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
Geopolitics Summary
Geopolitics
A Very Short Introduction
by Klaus Dodds 2007 184 pages
3.34
532 ratings
Politics
History
Geography
Atlas Shrugged Summary
Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand 1957 1168 pages
3.69
401.0K ratings
Classics
Philosophy
Politics
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
Poor Economics Summary
Poor Economics
A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
by Abhijit V. Banerjee 2011 320 pages
4.28
23.5K ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
The World As It Is Summary
The World As It Is
Inside the Obama White House
by Ben Rhodes 2018 480 pages
4.30
12.3K ratings
Politics
Memoir
History
Soil Not Oil Summary
Soil Not Oil
Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis
by Vandana Shiva 2008 144 pages
4.09
523 ratings
Environment
Politics
Climate Change
Freefall Summary
Freefall
America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy
by Joseph E. Stiglitz 2010 361 pages
3.88
4.0K ratings
Economics
Politics
Finance
Red Team Summary
Red Team
How to Succeed By Thinking Like the Enemy
by Micah Zenko 2015 336 pages
3.73
543 ratings
Business
Leadership
Military Fiction
The Crisis of Narration Summary
The Crisis of Narration
by Byung-Chul Han 2023 77 pages
3.90
1.6K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Essays
Hillbilly Elegy Summary
Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by J.D. Vance 2016 264 pages
3.85
480.8K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
Lady Justice Summary
Lady Justice
Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
by Dahlia Lithwick 2022 368 pages
4.39
2.9K ratings
Feminism
Politics
History
Nomad Century Summary
Nomad Century
How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
by Gaia Vince 2022 288 pages
3.85
1.4K ratings
Science
Environment
Climate Change
On Grand Strategy Summary
On Grand Strategy
by John Lewis Gaddis 2018 368 pages
3.75
5.0K ratings
History
Politics
Business
Human Action Summary
Human Action
A Treatise on Economics
by Ludwig von Mises 1940 924 pages
4.34
4.2K ratings
Economics
Philosophy
Politics
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
Until We Are Free Summary
Until We Are Free
My Fight for Human Rights in Iran
by Shirin Ebadi 2016 304 pages
4.27
1.9K ratings
Iran
Memoir
Politics
The Vision of the Anointed Summary
The Vision of the Anointed
Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
by Thomas Sowell 1995 320 pages
4.40
3.3K ratings
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
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