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The Culture of Fear Summary
The Culture of Fear
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Dreams from My Father Summary
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The Bond King Summary
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The Return of Great Powers Summary
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Freefall Summary
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by Joseph E. Stiglitz 2010 361 pages
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We Have Never Been Woke Summary
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Valley of Genius Summary
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The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto Summary
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3.57
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Learning from the Germans Summary
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The Ayatollah Begs to Differ Summary
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The Warmth of Other Suns Summary
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The Immortality Key Summary
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Sandworm Summary
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4.35
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The March Of Folly Summary
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by Barbara W. Tuchman 1984 447 pages
4.02
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Cinema Speculation Summary
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Start-up Nation Summary
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Malcolm X Summary
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by Manning Marable 2011 608 pages
4.18
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G.I. Gurdjieff Summary
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by Colin Wilson 1980 136 pages
3.85
239 ratings
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Power Play Summary
Power Play
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The Shortest History of China Summary
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3.98
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Dead Wake Summary
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The New Map Summary
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4.19
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The Persian Expedition Summary
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4.11
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The World Without Us Summary
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3.81
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Perversion of Justice Summary
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Kleptopia Summary
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3.80
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The Old Regime and the French Revolution Summary
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4.05
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Nonzero Summary
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3.98
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Hitchcock/Truffaut Summary
Hitchcock/Truffaut
by François Truffaut 1966 368 pages
4.48
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Cult of the Dead Cow Summary
Cult of the Dead Cow
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by Joseph Menn 2019 256 pages
3.74
2.3K ratings
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Ghetto Summary
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by Mitchell Duneier 2015 304 pages
3.74
571 ratings
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The Race of My Life Summary
The Race of My Life
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by Milkha Singh 2013 160 pages
4.21
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The Big Three in Economics Summary
The Big Three in Economics
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by Mark Skousen 2007 264 pages
3.59
831 ratings
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Viking Age Iceland Summary
Viking Age Iceland
by Jesse L. Byock 2001 448 pages
4.09
656 ratings
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Beyond The Story Summary
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4.63
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How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life Summary
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by Russell "Russ" Roberts 2014 261 pages
3.93
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What We Owe the Future Summary
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by William MacAskill 2022 335 pages
3.83
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In Search of Sisterhood Summary
In Search of Sisterhood
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by Paula J. Giddings 1988 336 pages
4.54
411 ratings
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The Color of Law Summary
The Color of Law
A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
by Richard Rothstein 2017 368 pages
4.44
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Matrix of Power Summary
Matrix of Power
Secrets of World Control
by Jordan Maxwell 2000 108 pages
4.09
211 ratings
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Adam Smith's The "Wealth of Nations" Summary
Adam Smith's The "Wealth of Nations"
A Modern-day Interpretation of an Economic Classic
by Karen McCreadie 2009 128 pages
3.35
133 ratings
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Bachelor Girl Summary
Bachelor Girl
The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century
by Betsy Israel 2002 304 pages
3.71
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A Little History of Science Summary
A Little History of Science
by William Bynum 2012 263 pages
3.81
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History Of Science
القرآن الكريم Summary
القرآن الكريم
by Anonymous 604 pages
4.38
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The Travels of A T-Shirt in the Global Economy Summary
The Travels of A T-Shirt in the Global Economy
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by Pietra Rivoli 2005 258 pages
3.69
2.9K ratings
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