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Fist Stick Knife Gun
de Geoffrey Canada • 1995
Respect was won with fists on Union Avenue. Then guns came and rewrote the rules for everyone.
4.03
3.000+
🏙️ Urban Violence🧱 Street Culture🌱 Youth Mentorship🔫 Gun Violence💊 Drug Trade
Fist Stick Knife Gun Rezumat
Fist Stick Knife Gun
Respect was won with fists on Union Avenue. Then guns came and rewrote the rules for everyone.
de Geoffrey Canada 1995 179 pagini
4.03
3.000+ evaluări
🏙️ Urban Violence🧱 Street Culture🌱 Youth Mentorship🔫 Gun Violence💊 Drug Trade
Machines of Loving Grace
de John Markoff • 2015
Silicon Valley split between replacing humans and upgrading them. The fight isn't over.
3.67
500+
🖥️ History Of Computing🤖 Artificial Intelligence🖱️ Human-Computer Interaction🏭 Automation And Labor⚖️ Ai Ethics
Machines of Loving Grace Rezumat
Machines of Loving Grace
Silicon Valley split between replacing humans and upgrading them. The fight isn't over.
de John Markoff 2015 400 pagini
3.67
500+ evaluări
🖥️ History Of Computing🤖 Artificial Intelligence🖱️ Human-Computer Interaction🏭 Automation And Labor⚖️ Ai Ethics
Moral Combat
de Patrick M. Markey • 2017
Crime fell as gaming rose. The evidence never held, and the outrage is a recycled panic.
4.18
173
😱 Media Moral Panics🎮 Video Game Studies🔫 Violence And Media🧠 Gaming Benefits👴 Generational Divides
Moral Combat Rezumat
Moral Combat
Crime fell as gaming rose. The evidence never held, and the outrage is a recycled panic.
de Patrick M. Markey 2017 256 pagini
4.18
173 evaluări
😱 Media Moral Panics🎮 Video Game Studies🔫 Violence And Media🧠 Gaming Benefits👴 Generational Divides
JFK's Forgotten Crisis
de Bruce Riedel • 2015
A CIA shadow war in Tibet helped spark the 1962 Sino-Indian War. Asia never recovered.
4.17
445
🌐 Cold War Geopolitics🏔️ Sino-Indian Relations🕵️ Covert Operations🔍 Intelligence Failures⚡ Crisis Management
JFK's Forgotten Crisis Rezumat
JFK's Forgotten Crisis
A CIA shadow war in Tibet helped spark the 1962 Sino-Indian War. Asia never recovered.
de Bruce Riedel 2015 177 pagini
4.17
445 evaluări
🌐 Cold War Geopolitics🏔️ Sino-Indian Relations🕵️ Covert Operations🔍 Intelligence Failures⚡ Crisis Management
The Swerve
de Stephen Greenblatt • 2011
One manuscript, hunted across monasteries, reintroduced a dangerous idea: the soul is mortal.
3.87
35.000+
💡 History Of Ideas🖼️ Renaissance Humanism🏛️ Classical Recovery✍️ Textual Transmission📜 Lost Texts
The Swerve Rezumat
The Swerve
One manuscript, hunted across monasteries, reintroduced a dangerous idea: the soul is mortal.
de Stephen Greenblatt 2011 356 pagini
3.87
35.000+ evaluări
💡 History Of Ideas🖼️ Renaissance Humanism🏛️ Classical Recovery✍️ Textual Transmission📜 Lost Texts
The Housekeeper's Secret
de Sandra Schnakenburg • 2024
Beloved housekeeper's secret past: lost family, abusive asylum, promise kept for 50 years.
4.21
500+
🕵️‍♀️ Investigative Memoir🔑 Family Secrets🏚️ Institutional Abuse🏥 Mental Institutions🧠 Trauma And Memory
The Housekeeper's Secret Rezumat
The Housekeeper's Secret
Beloved housekeeper's secret past: lost family, abusive asylum, promise kept for 50 years.
de Sandra Schnakenburg 2024 290 pagini
4.21
500+ evaluări
🕵️‍♀️ Investigative Memoir🔑 Family Secrets🏚️ Institutional Abuse🏥 Mental Institutions🧠 Trauma And Memory
Why Read Moby-Dick?
de Nathaniel Philbrick • 2010
The whale is America: a historian on why Moby-Dick is the novel our present moment demands.
3.78
4.000+
🇺🇸 American Literature🎭 Tragic Obsession🔍 Literary Analysis🦅 American Identity🌊 Existential Literature
Why Read Moby-Dick? Rezumat
Why Read Moby-Dick?
The whale is America: a historian on why Moby-Dick is the novel our present moment demands.
de Nathaniel Philbrick 2010 131 pagini
3.78
4.000+ evaluări
🇺🇸 American Literature🎭 Tragic Obsession🔍 Literary Analysis🦅 American Identity🌊 Existential Literature
Master Slave Husband Wife
de Ilyon Woo • 2023
Enslaved woman as white gentleman, husband as slave: a 1,000-mile escape in plain sight.
3.97
18.000+
🏃 Slave Escapes⛓️‍💥 Abolitionist Movement🎭 Racial Passing⚖️ Fugitive Slave Law🏛️ Antebellum America
Master Slave Husband Wife Rezumat
Master Slave Husband Wife
Enslaved woman as white gentleman, husband as slave: a 1,000-mile escape in plain sight.
de Ilyon Woo 2023 416 pagini
3.97
18.000+ evaluări
🏃 Slave Escapes⛓️‍💥 Abolitionist Movement🎭 Racial Passing⚖️ Fugitive Slave Law🏛️ Antebellum America
Brave Genius
de Sean B. Carroll • 2013
Forged in the Resistance, a philosopher and a biologist fought the Cold War with different weapons.
4.28
500+
✊ French Resistance🧠 Intellectual History🧬 Molecular Biology🎭 Existentialism✍️ Dissident Intellectuals
Brave Genius Rezumat
Brave Genius
Forged in the Resistance, a philosopher and a biologist fought the Cold War with different weapons.
de Sean B. Carroll 2013 594 pagini
4.28
500+ evaluări
✊ French Resistance🧠 Intellectual History🧬 Molecular Biology🎭 Existentialism✍️ Dissident Intellectuals
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 1
de Garry Kasparov • 2003
A world champion dissects the six minds who built modern chess, and what they reveal about winning.
4.39
474
🧱 Chess History👑 World Champions♟️ Positional Play⚡ Dynamic Chess🧠 Psychological Chess
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 1 Rezumat
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 1
A world champion dissects the six minds who built modern chess, and what they reveal about winning.
de Garry Kasparov 2003 464 pagini
4.39
474 evaluări
🧱 Chess History👑 World Champions♟️ Positional Play⚡ Dynamic Chess🧠 Psychological Chess
Isaac Newton
de James Gleick • 2003
His solitary, obsessive mind decoded the cosmos, while his secret alchemy and heresy stayed hidden.
3.79
9.000+
🔭 History Of Science⚛️ History Of Physics📚 Intellectual Biography🏔️ Solitude And Creativity🔬 Empirical Method
Isaac Newton Rezumat
Isaac Newton
His solitary, obsessive mind decoded the cosmos, while his secret alchemy and heresy stayed hidden.
de James Gleick 2003 272 pagini
3.79
9.000+ evaluări
🔭 History Of Science⚛️ History Of Physics📚 Intellectual Biography🏔️ Solitude And Creativity🔬 Empirical Method
A Culture of Growth
de Joel Mokyr • 2016
What fueled modern growth? Not property rights. A cultural shift that made nature a solvable puzzle.
3.94
427
💰 Economic History📜 Intellectual History🧬 Cultural Evolution🕸️ Knowledge Networks🔬 Philosophy Of Science
A Culture of Growth Rezumat
A Culture of Growth
What fueled modern growth? Not property rights. A cultural shift that made nature a solvable puzzle.
de Joel Mokyr 2016 403 pagini
3.94
427 evaluări
💰 Economic History📜 Intellectual History🧬 Cultural Evolution🕸️ Knowledge Networks🔬 Philosophy Of Science
Marco Polo
de Laurence Bergreen • 2007
A merchant, a Mongol emperor, and seventeen years that redrew the map of the known world.
3.85
3.000+
🐪 Silk Road🐎 Mongol Empire🏰 Medieval Travel🚢 Venetian Republic🌏 Global Trade
Marco Polo Rezumat
Marco Polo
A merchant, a Mongol emperor, and seventeen years that redrew the map of the known world.
de Laurence Bergreen 2007 415 pagini
3.85
3.000+ evaluări
🐪 Silk Road🐎 Mongol Empire🏰 Medieval Travel🚢 Venetian Republic🌏 Global Trade
The Quants
de Scott Patterson • 2010
In August 2007, models designed for once-in-ten-millennia failures broke three days running.
3.89
9.000+
🧮 Quantitative Finance🏦 Wall Street History💰 Hedge Funds📊 Financial Modeling🔧 Financial Engineering
The Quants Rezumat
The Quants
In August 2007, models designed for once-in-ten-millennia failures broke three days running.
de Scott Patterson 2010 352 pagini
3.89
9.000+ evaluări
🧮 Quantitative Finance🏦 Wall Street History💰 Hedge Funds📊 Financial Modeling🔧 Financial Engineering
Hamlet's BlackBerry
de William Powers • 2010
Writing, print, telegraph: each sparked an overload crisis. The old solutions still work.
3.59
1.000+
🌊 Digital Overload⚖️ Tech-Life Balance🧹 Digital Minimalism🎯 Attention Management📜 Historical Analogies
Hamlet's BlackBerry Rezumat
Hamlet's BlackBerry
Writing, print, telegraph: each sparked an overload crisis. The old solutions still work.
de William Powers 2010 267 pagini
3.59
1.000+ evaluări
🌊 Digital Overload⚖️ Tech-Life Balance🧹 Digital Minimalism🎯 Attention Management📜 Historical Analogies
Leadership in War
de Andrew Roberts • 2019
Wartime leaders share a playbook. So why do some become Churchill and others become Hitler?
3.80
1.000+
🎖️ Military Leadership📖 Historical Case Studies📚 Comparative Biography👤 Great Man Theory⚔️ Military History
Leadership in War Rezumat
Leadership in War
Wartime leaders share a playbook. So why do some become Churchill and others become Hitler?
de Andrew Roberts 2019 256 pagini
3.80
1.000+ evaluări
🎖️ Military Leadership📖 Historical Case Studies📚 Comparative Biography👤 Great Man Theory⚔️ Military History
Caesar's Last Breath
de Sam Kean • 2017
Your next breath shares molecules with Caesar's last, and with every war and volcano since.
4.25
4.000+
🌀 Atmospheric Science🔬 Periodic Table📜 Science History🌍 Geoengineering🦋 Chaos Theory
Caesar's Last Breath Rezumat
Caesar's Last Breath
Your next breath shares molecules with Caesar's last, and with every war and volcano since.
de Sam Kean 2017 384 pagini
4.25
4.000+ evaluări
🌀 Atmospheric Science🔬 Periodic Table📜 Science History🌍 Geoengineering🦋 Chaos Theory
Fooling some of the People all of the time
de David Einhorn • 2007
He exposed their accounting fraud and shorted the stock. So they stole his phone records.
4.01
4.000+
🔍 Corporate Fraud📉 Short Selling⚡ Activist Investing📢 Whistleblowing🏛️ Regulatory Failure
Fooling some of the People all of the time Rezumat
Fooling some of the People all of the time
He exposed their accounting fraud and shorted the stock. So they stole his phone records.
de David Einhorn 2007 380 pagini
4.01
4.000+ evaluări
🔍 Corporate Fraud📉 Short Selling⚡ Activist Investing📢 Whistleblowing🏛️ Regulatory Failure
Capitalism, Alone
de Branko Milanović • 2019
Capitalism has no rivals left, only two forms. Each carries a contradiction that could unravel it.
4.11
1.000+
🏭 Global Capitalism🏛️ Political Economy📊 Inequality Economics🏗️ State-Led Development🇨🇳 China's Rise
Capitalism, Alone Rezumat
Capitalism, Alone
Capitalism has no rivals left, only two forms. Each carries a contradiction that could unravel it.
de Branko Milanović 2019 304 pagini
4.11
1.000+ evaluări
🏭 Global Capitalism🏛️ Political Economy📊 Inequality Economics🏗️ State-Led Development🇨🇳 China's Rise
A More Beautiful and Terrible History
de Jeanne Theoharis • 2018
The civil rights story you know is a sanitized myth that hides an ongoing fight for justice.
4.32
500+
✊ Civil Rights Movement🧹 Sanitized History🏙️ Northern Racism📰 Media Bias🔥 Youth Activism
A More Beautiful and Terrible History Rezumat
A More Beautiful and Terrible History
The civil rights story you know is a sanitized myth that hides an ongoing fight for justice.
de Jeanne Theoharis 2018 278 pagini
4.32
500+ evaluări
✊ Civil Rights Movement🧹 Sanitized History🏙️ Northern Racism📰 Media Bias🔥 Youth Activism
King John and the Road to Magna Carta
de Stephen Church • 2015
John lost a continent, defied the pope, and signed a charter that still checks power.
3.58
171
🏰 Medieval Politics👑 Plantagenet England⚔️ Feudal Monarchy📜 Royal Biography🏛️ Magna Carta
King John and the Road to Magna Carta Rezumat
King John and the Road to Magna Carta
John lost a continent, defied the pope, and signed a charter that still checks power.
de Stephen Church 2015 330 pagini
3.58
171 evaluări
🏰 Medieval Politics👑 Plantagenet England⚔️ Feudal Monarchy📜 Royal Biography🏛️ Magna Carta
Flesh and Stone
de Richard Sennett • 1996
Why Western cities silence the body, and how the body fights back in stone.
4.28
500+
🏙️ Urban History🧬 History Of The Body🏛️ Architectural Theory👃 Sensory History🗺️ Spatial Politics
Flesh and Stone Rezumat
Flesh and Stone
Why Western cities silence the body, and how the body fights back in stone.
de Richard Sennett 1996 432 pagini
4.28
500+ evaluări
🏙️ Urban History🧬 History Of The Body🏛️ Architectural Theory👃 Sensory History🗺️ Spatial Politics
The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise
de Darío Fernández-Morera • 2014
Behind the poetry of Islamic Spain lay a regime of subjugation, not the celebrated tolerance.
3.84
500+
🏰 Medieval Spain🕌 Islamic History📜 Revisionist History🤝 Convivencia Myth🔒 Dhimmitude
The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise Rezumat
The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise
Behind the poetry of Islamic Spain lay a regime of subjugation, not the celebrated tolerance.
de Darío Fernández-Morera 2014 376 pagini
3.84
500+ evaluări
🏰 Medieval Spain🕌 Islamic History📜 Revisionist History🤝 Convivencia Myth🔒 Dhimmitude
So You Want to Talk About Race
de Ijeoma Oluo • 2018
Why 'I don't see color' stops the conversation cold, and what to say instead.
4.48
100.000+
✊ Racial Justice🔗 Systemic Racism🛑 Anti-Racism🪞 Privilege Awareness🎯 Intersectionality
So You Want to Talk About Race Rezumat
So You Want to Talk About Race
Why 'I don't see color' stops the conversation cold, and what to say instead.
de Ijeoma Oluo 2018 248 pagini
4.48
100.000+ evaluări
✊ Racial Justice🔗 Systemic Racism🛑 Anti-Racism🪞 Privilege Awareness🎯 Intersectionality
Healing Resistance
de Kazu Haga • 2020
Nonviolence is harder than fighting back. The discipline for it, from inner work to reconciliation.
4.61
500+
✊ Nonviolent Resistance🕊️ Restorative Justice🙏 Spiritual Activism🤝 Conflict Transformation🗺️ Movement Strategy
Healing Resistance Rezumat
Healing Resistance
Nonviolence is harder than fighting back. The discipline for it, from inner work to reconciliation.
de Kazu Haga 2020 297 pagini
4.61
500+ evaluări
✊ Nonviolent Resistance🕊️ Restorative Justice🙏 Spiritual Activism🤝 Conflict Transformation🗺️ Movement Strategy
Clothing Poverty
de Andrew Brooks • 2015
The fashion industry's hidden second-hand trade fuels the inequality cheap clothes thrive on.
3.75
173
👔 Fashion Industry⛓️ Commodity Chains🌾 Cotton Industry👕 Fast Fashion♻️ Second-Hand Clothing
Clothing Poverty Rezumat
Clothing Poverty
The fashion industry's hidden second-hand trade fuels the inequality cheap clothes thrive on.
de Andrew Brooks 2015 296 pagini
3.75
173 evaluări
👔 Fashion Industry⛓️ Commodity Chains🌾 Cotton Industry👕 Fast Fashion♻️ Second-Hand Clothing
Crashed
de Adam Tooze • 2018
The 2008 crash was a transatlantic bank run, and what it really broke was politics, not markets.
4.29
4.000+
💥 Financial Crises🏦 Central Banking🏛️ Political Economy✂️ Austerity Politics🌍 Geopolitics
Crashed Rezumat
Crashed
The 2008 crash was a transatlantic bank run, and what it really broke was politics, not markets.
de Adam Tooze 2018 720 pagini
4.29
4.000+ evaluări
💥 Financial Crises🏦 Central Banking🏛️ Political Economy✂️ Austerity Politics🌍 Geopolitics
River Kings
de Cat Jarman • 2021
A bead from India, buried in England, reveals the Silk Road world the Vikings actually built.
4.04
4.000+
🛡️ Viking History🌍 Global Middle Ages🧬 Bioarchaeology🐪 Silk Roads🪙 Silver Trade
River Kings Rezumat
River Kings
A bead from India, buried in England, reveals the Silk Road world the Vikings actually built.
de Cat Jarman 2021 336 pagini
4.04
4.000+ evaluări
🛡️ Viking History🌍 Global Middle Ages🧬 Bioarchaeology🐪 Silk Roads🪙 Silver Trade
Make Something Wonderful
de Steve Jobs • 2023
Steve Jobs in his own words: the real philosophy behind Apple, Pixar, and the black turtleneck.
4.48
1.000+
🏞️ Silicon Valley History🎨 Product Design📈 Corporate Turnarounds🧭 Leadership Principles💡 Innovation Culture
Make Something Wonderful Rezumat
Make Something Wonderful
Steve Jobs in his own words: the real philosophy behind Apple, Pixar, and the black turtleneck.
de Steve Jobs 2023 194 pagini
4.48
1.000+ evaluări
🏞️ Silicon Valley History🎨 Product Design📈 Corporate Turnarounds🧭 Leadership Principles💡 Innovation Culture
Work Won't Love You Back
de Sarah Jaffe • 2021
From unpaid interns to burned-out coders, one ideology fuels it all: devotion to the job.
3.94
5.000+
✊ Labor Organizing🧡 Passion Economy🎭 Emotional Labor🔥 Burnout Culture📝 Unpaid Internships
Work Won't Love You Back Rezumat
Work Won't Love You Back
From unpaid interns to burned-out coders, one ideology fuels it all: devotion to the job.
de Sarah Jaffe 2021 432 pagini
3.94
5.000+ evaluări
✊ Labor Organizing🧡 Passion Economy🎭 Emotional Labor🔥 Burnout Culture📝 Unpaid Internships
Buffett
de Roger Lowenstein • 1995
When a salad oil scandal knocked American Express flat, Buffett bet everything. The story of how.
4.20
15.000+
🏢 Corporate Biography💰 Value Investing📉 Contrarian Investing📈 Compound Interest🛒 Buy And Hold
Buffett Rezumat
Buffett
When a salad oil scandal knocked American Express flat, Buffett bet everything. The story of how.
de Roger Lowenstein 1995 638 pagini
4.20
15.000+ evaluări
🏢 Corporate Biography💰 Value Investing📉 Contrarian Investing📈 Compound Interest🛒 Buy And Hold
Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine
de Andrew Chevallier • 2000
550 herbs and the chemistry that makes them heal, with recipes for a safe home pharmacy.
4.53
1.000+
🌿 Herbal Medicine🪴 Medicinal Plants🏡 Home Remedies🫖 Herbal Preparations🌍 Global Traditions
Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine Rezumat
Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine
550 herbs and the chemistry that makes them heal, with recipes for a safe home pharmacy.
de Andrew Chevallier 2000 336 pagini
4.53
1.000+ evaluări
🌿 Herbal Medicine🪴 Medicinal Plants🏡 Home Remedies🫖 Herbal Preparations🌍 Global Traditions
The Heart of a Woman
de Maya Angelou • 2009
Marrying a South African freedom fighter took her from Harlem to Cairo, where love met its limits.
4.23
25.000+
🪧 Civil Rights Memoir🎭 Art And Activism👩‍👦 Single Motherhood🌍 Pan-African Movement✈️ Expat Life In Africa
The Heart of a Woman Rezumat
The Heart of a Woman
Marrying a South African freedom fighter took her from Harlem to Cairo, where love met its limits.
de Maya Angelou 2009 352 pagini
4.23
25.000+ evaluări
🪧 Civil Rights Memoir🎭 Art And Activism👩‍👦 Single Motherhood🌍 Pan-African Movement✈️ Expat Life In Africa
10 Judgements That Changed India
de Zia Mody • 2013
Ten verdicts that stretched the right to life, reined in parliament, and filled gaps lawmakers left.
4.08
1.000+
🏛️ Constitutional Law⚖️ Indian Law🔥 Judicial Activism📜 Landmark Judgments🛡️ Fundamental Rights
10 Judgements That Changed India Rezumat
10 Judgements That Changed India
Ten verdicts that stretched the right to life, reined in parliament, and filled gaps lawmakers left.
de Zia Mody 2013 256 pagini
4.08
1.000+ evaluări
🏛️ Constitutional Law⚖️ Indian Law🔥 Judicial Activism📜 Landmark Judgments🛡️ Fundamental Rights
Bright-Sided
de Barbara Ehrenreich • 2009
America demands cheerfulness. It quiets dissent, blames victims, and helped cause the 2008 crash.
3.74
10.000+
🚫 Toxic Positivity🔍 Cultural Criticism🔬 Pseudoscience Debunking⛪ Prosperity Gospel📚 Self-Help Critique
Bright-Sided Rezumat
Bright-Sided
America demands cheerfulness. It quiets dissent, blames victims, and helped cause the 2008 crash.
de Barbara Ehrenreich 2009 206 pagini
3.74
10.000+ evaluări
🚫 Toxic Positivity🔍 Cultural Criticism🔬 Pseudoscience Debunking⛪ Prosperity Gospel📚 Self-Help Critique
The Campaigns of Alexander
de Arrian
How Alexander conquered the Persian Empire and was conquered by his own ambition.
4.17
5.000+
🏛️ Ancient Warfare📜 Classical Biography⚔️ Military Genius👑 Charismatic Leader🗺️ Conquest And Empire
The Campaigns of Alexander Rezumat
The Campaigns of Alexander
How Alexander conquered the Persian Empire and was conquered by his own ambition.
de Arrian 430 pagini
4.17
5.000+ evaluări
🏛️ Ancient Warfare📜 Classical Biography⚔️ Military Genius👑 Charismatic Leader🗺️ Conquest And Empire
Science Fictions
de Stuart Ritchie • 2020
From power posing to cancer cures, how fraud, hype, and broken incentives corrupt science.
4.34
2.000+
🧪 Metascience🔁 Replication Crisis🕵️ Scientific Misconduct📉 Publication Bias🔓 Open Science
Science Fictions Rezumat
Science Fictions
From power posing to cancer cures, how fraud, hype, and broken incentives corrupt science.
de Stuart Ritchie 2020 352 pagini
4.34
2.000+ evaluări
🧪 Metascience🔁 Replication Crisis🕵️ Scientific Misconduct📉 Publication Bias🔓 Open Science
Forbidden Archeology
de Michael A. Cremo • 1993
Modern human fossils appear in Miocene strata. For over a century, science has looked away.
4.05
1.000+
🦴 Paleoanthropology🏺 Alternative Archaeology🌍 Human Origins🔍 Fossil Anomalies⛓️ Scientific Dogmatism
Forbidden Archeology Rezumat
Forbidden Archeology
Modern human fossils appear in Miocene strata. For over a century, science has looked away.
de Michael A. Cremo 1993 914 pagini
4.05
1.000+ evaluări
🦴 Paleoanthropology🏺 Alternative Archaeology🌍 Human Origins🔍 Fossil Anomalies⛓️ Scientific Dogmatism
Killing Hitler
de Roger Moorhouse • 2006
Over forty attempts on Hitler's life failed. The near-misses and the luck that saved him.
3.83
399
🏴 Nazi Germany🌍 World War II✊ German Resistance🗺️ Resistance Movements🎯 Political Assassination
Killing Hitler Rezumat
Killing Hitler
Over forty attempts on Hitler's life failed. The near-misses and the luck that saved him.
de Roger Moorhouse 2006 400 pagini
3.83
399 evaluări
🏴 Nazi Germany🌍 World War II✊ German Resistance🗺️ Resistance Movements🎯 Political Assassination
Capital Ideas
de Peter L. Bernstein • 1991
How a handful of academics with no money and little respect rebuilt the financial world.
3.99
500+
📈 Financial Economics📜 History Of Finance🧱 Portfolio Theory⚖️ Risk Management🤖 Quantitative Investing
Capital Ideas Rezumat
Capital Ideas
How a handful of academics with no money and little respect rebuilt the financial world.
de Peter L. Bernstein 1991 368 pagini
3.99
500+ evaluări
📈 Financial Economics📜 History Of Finance🧱 Portfolio Theory⚖️ Risk Management🤖 Quantitative Investing
Under the Black Flag
de David Cordingly • 1995
Real pirates raped, tortured, and died at the gallows. How fiction gave us the romance.
3.67
10.000+
🏴‍☠️ Golden Age Of Piracy⚓ Maritime History🚢 Naval History🔍 Debunking Myths🗺️ Pirate Lore
Under the Black Flag Rezumat
Under the Black Flag
Real pirates raped, tortured, and died at the gallows. How fiction gave us the romance.
de David Cordingly 1995 320 pagini
3.67
10.000+ evaluări
🏴‍☠️ Golden Age Of Piracy⚓ Maritime History🚢 Naval History🔍 Debunking Myths🗺️ Pirate Lore
Forensics
de Val McDermid • 2014
How maggots, burn patterns, and DNA turn invisible traces into courtroom proof.
4.09
13.000+
🧬 Forensic Science🕵️ Criminalistics🔍 Crime Scene Analysis💀 Death Investigation🩺 Forensic Pathology
Forensics Rezumat
Forensics
How maggots, burn patterns, and DNA turn invisible traces into courtroom proof.
de Val McDermid 2014 310 pagini
4.09
13.000+ evaluări
🧬 Forensic Science🕵️ Criminalistics🔍 Crime Scene Analysis💀 Death Investigation🩺 Forensic Pathology
The Silent Life
de Thomas Merton • 1957
What four monastic orders discovered by stripping life to silence: a Trappist's survey.
4.06
192
⛪ Catholic Monasticism🙏 Contemplative Spirituality🤫 Silence And Solitude🕯️ Contemplative Prayer🏜️ Ascetic Practice
The Silent Life Rezumat
The Silent Life
What four monastic orders discovered by stripping life to silence: a Trappist's survey.
de Thomas Merton 1957 192 pagini
4.06
192 evaluări
⛪ Catholic Monasticism🙏 Contemplative Spirituality🤫 Silence And Solitude🕯️ Contemplative Prayer🏜️ Ascetic Practice
China's Great Wall of Debt
de Dinny McMahon • 2018
Ghost cities, $12 trillion in debt, and shadow banks hiding the risk. China's miracle was borrowed.
4.13
1.000+
🏮 Chinese Economy🏦 Shadow Banking🏛️ State Capitalism💸 Emerging Market Debt📊 Debt And Leverage
China's Great Wall of Debt Rezumat
China's Great Wall of Debt
Ghost cities, $12 trillion in debt, and shadow banks hiding the risk. China's miracle was borrowed.
de Dinny McMahon 2018 288 pagini
4.13
1.000+ evaluări
🏮 Chinese Economy🏦 Shadow Banking🏛️ State Capitalism💸 Emerging Market Debt📊 Debt And Leverage
Hard Landing
de Thomas Petzinger Jr. • 1995
A busted union here, a rigged screen there: how two men's rivalry built modern air travel.
4.41
500+
✈️ Airline Industry🏢 Corporate History📜 Deregulation⚒️ Labor Wars🔄 Corporate Turnarounds
Hard Landing Rezumat
Hard Landing
A busted union here, a rigged screen there: how two men's rivalry built modern air travel.
de Thomas Petzinger Jr. 1995 616 pagini
4.41
500+ evaluări
✈️ Airline Industry🏢 Corporate History📜 Deregulation⚒️ Labor Wars🔄 Corporate Turnarounds
The Clash of the Cultures
de John C. Bogle • 2012
Your fund manager trades constantly. The index fund pioneer showed why that helps them, not you.
3.87
500+
📊 Index Investing💼 Mutual Funds🧠 Investment Philosophy🎰 Market Speculation🏛️ Corporate Governance
The Clash of the Cultures Rezumat
The Clash of the Cultures
Your fund manager trades constantly. The index fund pioneer showed why that helps them, not you.
de John C. Bogle 2012 384 pagini
3.87
500+ evaluări
📊 Index Investing💼 Mutual Funds🧠 Investment Philosophy🎰 Market Speculation🏛️ Corporate Governance
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
de Bertrand Russell • 1957
Religion begins in fear, not truth. A philosopher's case against the foundations of belief.
4.00
22.000+
⛪ Religious Criticism🏛️ Philosophy Of Religion🌍 Secular Humanism⚖️ Moral Philosophy🔬 Science And Religion
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects Rezumat
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
Religion begins in fear, not truth. A philosopher's case against the foundations of belief.
de Bertrand Russell 1957 266 pagini
4.00
22.000+ evaluări
⛪ Religious Criticism🏛️ Philosophy Of Religion🌍 Secular Humanism⚖️ Moral Philosophy🔬 Science And Religion
The Fire Next Time
de James Baldwin • 1963
White America's denial is the crime, and a reckoning is coming: Baldwin's hardest truths.
4.55
100.000+
🏛️ Civil Rights Movement🎭 Racial Denial⛪ Race And Religion✊ Black Liberation🇺🇸 American Hypocrisy
The Fire Next Time Rezumat
The Fire Next Time
White America's denial is the crime, and a reckoning is coming: Baldwin's hardest truths.
de James Baldwin 1963 106 pagini
4.55
100.000+ evaluări
🏛️ Civil Rights Movement🎭 Racial Denial⛪ Race And Religion✊ Black Liberation🇺🇸 American Hypocrisy
The Evolution of Useful Things
de Henry Petroski • 1994
Annoyance, not function, gave us forks, zippers, paper clips. The real driver of everyday design.
3.52
1.000+
🏭 Industrial Design🥄 Everyday Objects🔄 Design Evolution⚙️ History Of Technology🏺 Material Culture
The Evolution of Useful Things Rezumat
The Evolution of Useful Things
Annoyance, not function, gave us forks, zippers, paper clips. The real driver of everyday design.
de Henry Petroski 1994 304 pagini
3.52
1.000+ evaluări
🏭 Industrial Design🥄 Everyday Objects🔄 Design Evolution⚙️ History Of Technology🏺 Material Culture
Exposure
de Robert Bilott • 2019
A farmer's dying cattle pulled a corporate defense lawyer into a two-decade fight with DuPont.
4.49
2.000+
💧 Water Contamination🌍 Environmental Justice🕵️ Corporate Cover-Ups⚖️ Class Action Lawsuits🏛️ Public Interest Law
Exposure Rezumat
Exposure
A farmer's dying cattle pulled a corporate defense lawyer into a two-decade fight with DuPont.
de Robert Bilott 2019 400 pagini
4.49
2.000+ evaluări
💧 Water Contamination🌍 Environmental Justice🕵️ Corporate Cover-Ups⚖️ Class Action Lawsuits🏛️ Public Interest Law
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