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Ninety Percent of Everything Summary
Ninety Percent of Everything
Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
by Rose George 2013 304 pages
3.79
4.3K ratings
Business
Economics
History
Letters to a Young Mathematician Summary
Letters to a Young Mathematician
by Ian Stewart 2006 224 pages
3.86
1.8K ratings
Mathematics
Science
Philosophy
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy Summary
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
by RenΓ© Descartes 1637 103 pages
3.77
35.6K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
France
The Longevity Paradox Summary
The Longevity Paradox
How to Die Young at a Ripe Old Age
by Steven R. Gundry 2019 384 pages
3.74
3.1K ratings
Health
Science
Self Help
The World Until Yesterday Summary
The World Until Yesterday
What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
by Jared Diamond 2012 512 pages
3.78
10.8K ratings
History
Anthropology
Science
The Dorito Effect Summary
The Dorito Effect
The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor
by Mark Schatzker 2015 259 pages
4.01
8.8K ratings
Food
Health
Science
Cognitive Surplus Summary
Cognitive Surplus
Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
by Clay Shirky 2010 256 pages
3.83
5.8K ratings
Technology
Business
Psychology
The Mind & the Brain Summary
The Mind & the Brain
Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
by Jeffrey M. Schwartz 2001 432 pages
4.10
6.7K ratings
Psychology
Science
Neuroscience
Men of Mathematics Summary
Men of Mathematics
by Eric Temple Bell 1937 590 pages
4.09
2.1K ratings
Mathematics
Science
History
The Language of God Summary
The Language of God
A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
by Francis S. Collins 2006 294 pages
3.87
13.3K ratings
Science
Christian
Theology
Numbers Rule Your World Summary
Numbers Rule Your World
The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do
by Fung 2010 208 pages
3.56
1.2K ratings
Psychology
Science
Economics
Streetlights and Shadows Summary
Streetlights and Shadows
Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making
by Gary Klein 2009 337 pages
4.27
301 ratings
Psychology
Business
Science
Math-ish Summary
Math-ish
Finding Creativity, Diversity, and Meaning in Mathematics
by Jo Boaler 2024 304 pages
4.24
367 ratings
Mathematics
Education
Science
Down to Earth Summary
Down to Earth
Politics in the New Climatic Regime
by Bruno Latour 2017 140 pages
3.76
1.6K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Environment
A Brief History of Earth Summary
A Brief History of Earth
Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
by Andrew H. Knoll 2021 272 pages
3.94
4.1K ratings
Science
History
Geology
This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health Summary
This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health
A Journey into the Heartland of Psychiatry
by Nathan Filer 2019
4.28
2.3K ratings
Mental Health
Psychology
Science
Origin Story Summary
Origin Story
A Big History of Everything
by David Christian 2008 357 pages
4.06
7.4K ratings
History
Science
Anthropology
The Sixth Extinction Summary
The Sixth Extinction
An Unnatural History
by Elizabeth Kolbert 2014 336 pages
4.16
76.4K ratings
Science
History
Environment
The Depression Cure Summary
The Depression Cure
The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression without Drugs
by Stephen S. Ilardi 2010 304 pages
4.11
2.4K ratings
Self Help
Psychology
Health
Women in White Coats Summary
Women in White Coats
How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
by Olivia Campbell 2021 368 pages
3.71
5.3K ratings
History
Medicine
Science
How to Invent Everything Summary
How to Invent Everything
A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
by Ryan North 2018 437 pages
4.15
5.9K ratings
Science
History
Humor
Awakening the Entrepreneur Within Summary
Awakening the Entrepreneur Within
How Ordinary People Can Create Extraordinary Companies
by Michael E. Gerber 2008 304 pages
3.58
449 ratings
Business
Entrepreneurship
Self Help
The Golem Summary
The Golem
What You Should Know about Science
by Harry Collins 1992 212 pages
3.77
329 ratings
Science
Philosophy
History
The Things We Make Summary
The Things We Make
The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
by Bill Hammack 2023 272 pages
3.76
1.1K ratings
History
Science
Engineering
The Map of Heaven Summary
The Map of Heaven
How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife
by Eben Alexander 2014 208 pages
3.81
1.9K ratings
Spirituality
Religion
Science
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Summary
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering
by Steven H. Strogatz 1994 497 pages
4.38
1.5K ratings
Mathematics
Science
Physics
The Science of Positivity Summary
The Science of Positivity
Stop Negative Thought Patterns by Changing Your Brain Chemistry
by Loretta Graziano Breuning 2013 224 pages
3.59
489 ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Personal Development
The Disordered Mind Summary
The Disordered Mind
What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves
by Eric R. Kandel 2018 304 pages
4.12
2.7K ratings
Psychology
Science
Neuroscience
Theories, Predictions, and Diagnoses Summary
Theories, Predictions, and Diagnoses
Part Two from What the Dog Saw
by Malcolm Gladwell 2009 120 pages
3.98
1.3K ratings
Psychology
Business
Self Help
12 Bytes Summary
12 Bytes
How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next
by Jeanette Winterson 2021 324 pages
3.90
1.7K ratings
Essays
Science
Technology
I Contain Multitudes Summary
I Contain Multitudes
The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
by Ed Yong 2016 368 pages
4.18
29.7K ratings
Science
Biology
Health
Crimes Against Logic Summary
Crimes Against Logic
Exposing the Bogus Arguments of Politicians, Priests, Journalists, and Other Serial Offenders
by Jamie Whyte 2004 157 pages
3.67
1.6K ratings
Philosophy
Logic
Politics
Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness Summary
Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness
by Rupert Sheldrake 1992 208 pages
4.06
736 ratings
Philosophy
Science
Spirituality
How Ideas Spread Summary
How Ideas Spread
by Jonah Berger 2014 6 pages
3.70
369 ratings
Business
Psychology
Science
Peak Summary
Peak
The New Science of Athletic Performance That Is Revolutionizing Sports
by Marc Bubbs 2019 384 pages
4.28
126 ratings
Fitness
Science
Health
Decoding the Heavens Summary
Decoding the Heavens
A 2,000-Year-Old Computer and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets
by Jo Marchant 2009 336 pages
4.09
543 ratings
History
Science
Technology
Fermat's Enigma Summary
Fermat's Enigma
by Simon Singh 1997 315 pages
4.30
32.4K ratings
Science
Mathematics
History
Psycho-Logical Summary
Psycho-Logical
Why Mental Health Goes Wrong – and How to Make Sense of It
by Dean Burnett 2021 288 pages
3.86
938 ratings
Psychology
Science
Mental Health
Hooked Summary
Hooked
Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions
by Michael Moss 2021 304 pages
3.80
4.5K ratings
Food
Health
Science
The Accidental Universe Summary
The Accidental Universe
The World You Thought You Knew
by Alan Lightman 2013 157 pages
3.85
4.7K ratings
Science
Philosophy
Physics
Breaking the Spell Summary
Breaking the Spell
Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
by Daniel C. Dennett 2006 464 pages
3.89
12.8K ratings
Philosophy
Science
Atheism
Identically Different Summary
Identically Different
Why You Can Change Your Genes
by Tim Spector 2012 338 pages
3.75
432 ratings
Science
Health
Biology
The AI Con Summary
The AI Con
How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
by Emily M. Bender 2025 288 pages
3.82
693 ratings
Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Politics
Good Thinking Summary
Good Thinking
Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World
by David Robert Grimes 2021 400 pages
4.32
279 ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Politics
The Microbiome Diet Summary
The Microbiome Diet
The Scientifically Proven Way to Restore Your Gut Health and Achieve Permanent Weight Loss
by Raphael Kellman 2014 352 pages
3.78
645 ratings
Health
Nutrition
Food
The Future of Humanity Summary
The Future of Humanity
Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
by Michio Kaku 2018 368 pages
4.19
11.8K ratings
Science
Physics
Space
Overcoming Destructive Beliefs, Feelings, and Behaviors Summary
Overcoming Destructive Beliefs, Feelings, and Behaviors
New Directions for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
by Albert Ellis 2001 419 pages
4.21
230 ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Science
Heroes of the Environment Summary
Heroes of the Environment
True Stories of People Who Help Protect Our Planet
by Harriet Rohmer 2009 112 pages
3.97
144 ratings
Science
Biography
Environment
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World Summary
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
by Fareed Zakaria 2020 320 pages
3.96
5.8K ratings
Politics
History
Economics
Plato at the Googleplex Summary
Plato at the Googleplex
Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
by Rebecca Goldstein 2014 461 pages
3.85
1.9K ratings
Philosophy
History
Science
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