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The Cry for Myth Summary
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4.05
421 ratings
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The Lost City of Z Summary
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3.90
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Money Summary
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4.23
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The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell Summary
The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell
by Oren Harari 2002 288 pages
4.05
628 ratings
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Cynical Theories Summary
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4.11
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Economic Facts and Fallacies Summary
Economic Facts and Fallacies
by Thomas Sowell 2007 262 pages
4.23
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Going Infinite Summary
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3.82
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On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo Summary
On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
by Friedrich Nietzsche 1887 367 pages
4.17
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Disney War Summary
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by James B. Stewart 2005 592 pages
4.11
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Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament Summary
Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament
Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible
by John H. Walton 2006 368 pages
4.24
753 ratings
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Miracle in the Andes Summary
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by Nando Parrado 2006 304 pages
4.36
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The Hacker and the State Summary
The Hacker and the State
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by Ben Buchanan 2020 384 pages
4.22
771 ratings
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The Battle for God Summary
The Battle for God
by Karen Armstrong 2000 480 pages
3.95
6.6K ratings
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A Line in the Sand Summary
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by James Barr 2011 352 pages
4.06
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Sacred Economics Summary
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by Charles Eisenstein 2011 469 pages
4.22
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The People vs. Democracy Summary
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by Yascha Mounk 2018 400 pages
4.05
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The Vital Question Summary
The Vital Question
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by Nick Lane 2015 368 pages
4.18
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Stamped Summary
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Racism, Antiracism, and You
by Jason Reynolds 2020 294 pages
4.47
53.2K ratings
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The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy Summary
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
by Christopher Lasch 1995 276 pages
3.98
1.4K ratings
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Divided Summary
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by Tim Marshall 2018 272 pages
4.01
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The Foundations of Leninism Summary
The Foundations of Leninism
by Joseph Stalin 1924 123 pages
4.05
1.6K ratings
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Metaphysics of War Summary
Metaphysics of War
by Julius Evola 1996 154 pages
4.04
824 ratings
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The Art of War Summary
The Art of War
by Niccolò Machiavelli 1521 247 pages
4.05
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Walt Disney Summary
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by Neal Gabler 2006 851 pages
4.06
11.1K ratings
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Phenomenology of Spirit Summary
Phenomenology of Spirit
by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1807 640 pages
3.96
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Applied Economics Summary
Applied Economics
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by Thomas Sowell 2003 256 pages
4.18
2.5K ratings
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توتالیتاریسم Summary
توتالیتاریسم
by Hannah Arendt 1968 365 pages
4.16
758 ratings
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Rosa Parks Summary
Rosa Parks
My Story
by Rosa Parks 1948 188 pages
4.18
2.6K ratings
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Shakespeare Summary
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The Invention of the Human
by Harold Bloom 1998 745 pages
4.03
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The Origin of Species Summary
The Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin 1859 703 pages
4.01
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Churchill Summary
Churchill
Walking with Destiny
by Andrew Roberts 2018 1105 pages
4.37
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John Adams Summary
John Adams
by David McCullough 2001 751 pages
4.08
371.2K ratings
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The Crisis of the Modern World Summary
The Crisis of the Modern World
by René Guénon 1927 136 pages
4.11
2.1K ratings
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The Outsider Summary
The Outsider
by Colin Wilson 1956 320 pages
4.03
4.4K ratings
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Citizens Summary
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Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
by Jon Alexander 2022 320 pages
4.08
256 ratings
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Brand Failures Summary
Brand Failures
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by Matt Haig 2003 310 pages
3.58
582 ratings
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Our Declaration Summary
Our Declaration
A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
by Danielle S. Allen 2014 320 pages
3.84
825 ratings
History
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Democracy in America Summary
Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville 1835 983 pages
4.05
26.4K ratings
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What Is Populism? Summary
What Is Populism?
by Jan-Werner Müller 2014 136 pages
3.82
2.8K ratings
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The Dragons of Eden Summary
The Dragons of Eden
Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
by Carl Sagan 1977 271 pages
4.19
21.0K ratings
Science
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Evolution
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 Summary
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
by Paul Krugman 2008 224 pages
3.83
8.8K ratings
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Cities of God Summary
Cities of God
The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome
by Rodney Stark 2006 288 pages
3.74
450 ratings
History
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Church History
The Room Where It Happened Summary
The Room Where It Happened
A White House Memoir
by John Bolton 2020 588 pages
3.16
14.5K ratings
Politics
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The Avoidable War Summary
The Avoidable War
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by Kevin Rudd 2022 432 pages
4.25
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China
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My Life Summary
My Life
by Bill Clinton 2004 1056 pages
3.74
49.6K ratings
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Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism Summary
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism
And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
by Kristen R. Ghodsee 2018 240 pages
4.00
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The Fish That Ate the Whale Summary
The Fish That Ate the Whale
The Life and Times of America's Banana King
by Rich Cohen 2012 288 pages
4.11
7.8K ratings
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Forgiveness Summary
Forgiveness
by Mark Sakamoto 2014 272 pages
4.00
4.4K ratings
Memoir
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Stranger in the Shogun's City Summary
Stranger in the Shogun's City
A Japanese Woman and Her World
by Amy Stanley 2020 352 pages
3.77
2.3K ratings
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Summary
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
by Ilan Pappé 2006 320 pages
4.54
9.3K ratings
History
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