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Capital Returns Summary
Capital Returns
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by Edward Chancellor 2015 225 pages
4.40
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Hard Times Create Strong Men Summary
Hard Times Create Strong Men
by Stefan Aarnio 2019 624 pages
4.09
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A History of Modern Iran Summary
A History of Modern Iran
by Ervand Abrahamian 2008 228 pages
3.89
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The Small and the Mighty Summary
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4.44
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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Summary
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
by Edwin Lefèvre 1923 308 pages
4.18
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Manias, Panics, and Crashes Summary
Manias, Panics, and Crashes
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by Charles P. Kindleberger 1978 304 pages
3.94
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The Machine That Changed the World Summary
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by James P. Womack 1990 323 pages
4.04
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Mutual Aid Summary
Mutual Aid
A Factor of Evolution
by Pyotr Kropotkin 1891 234 pages
4.23
3.7K ratings
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Silencing the Past Summary
Silencing the Past
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by Michel-Rolph Trouillot 1995 216 pages
4.35
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The Poisoner's Handbook Summary
The Poisoner's Handbook
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by Deborah Blum 2010 319 pages
4.01
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers Summary
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
by Paul Kennedy 1987 677 pages
4.14
6.1K ratings
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Man, the State, and War Summary
Man, the State, and War
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by Kenneth N. Waltz 1954 263 pages
3.97
2.0K ratings
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The Making of Asian America Summary
The Making of Asian America
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4.33
2.6K ratings
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Einstein Summary
Einstein
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by Walter Isaacson 2007 675 pages
4.17
195.4K ratings
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Why Civil Resistance Works Summary
Why Civil Resistance Works
The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
by Erica Chenoweth 2011 320 pages
4.02
574 ratings
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A Brief History of Time Summary
A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking 1988 226 pages
4.21
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End Times Summary
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by Peter Turchin 2023 368 pages
4.06
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Meditations Summary
Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius 254 pages
4.28
310.3K ratings
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The Anatomy of Motive Summary
The Anatomy of Motive
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by John E. Douglas 1999 432 pages
4.18
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Homo Ludens Summary
Homo Ludens
A Study of the Play Element in Culture
by Johan Huizinga 1938 220 pages
3.99
2.8K ratings
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Capital Summary
Capital
A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
by Karl Marx 1992 1152 pages
4.3
13.8K ratings
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Man’s Search for Meaning Summary
Man’s Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl 1946 165 pages
4.37
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By Way of Deception Summary
By Way of Deception
The Making of a Mossad Officer
by Victor Ostrovsky 1990 372 pages
3.91
2.0K ratings
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The Grand Chessboard Summary
The Grand Chessboard
American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives
by Zbigniew Brzeziński 1997 240 pages
3.97
3.2K ratings
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Night Summary
Night
by Elie Wiesel 1956 120 pages
4.38
1.3M ratings
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Memoir
Humankind Summary
Humankind
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by Rutger Bregman 2019 462 pages
4.32
73.1K ratings
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The Soundscape Summary
The Soundscape
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by R. Murray Schafer 1977 320 pages
4.11
760 ratings
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On Tyranny Summary
On Tyranny
Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
by Timothy Snyder 2017 127 pages
4.26
83.8K ratings
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Essays
A Book of Five Rings Summary
A Book of Five Rings
The Classic Guide to Strategy
by Miyamoto Musashi 1645 192 pages
3.96
58.3K ratings
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Discipline and Punish Summary
Discipline and Punish
The Birth of the Prison
by Michel Foucault 1975 333 pages
4.23
35.3K ratings
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Kybalion Summary
Kybalion
A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
by Three Initiates 1912 223 pages
4.24
15.8K ratings
Philosophy
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Leadership Summary
Leadership
by James MacGregor Burns 1978 546 pages
3.87
487 ratings
Leadership
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A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence Summary
A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence
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by Michael Wooldridge 2021 272 pages
3.88
467 ratings
Artificial Intelligence
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Bushido Summary
Bushido
The Soul of Japan
by Inazo Nitobe 1899 160 pages
3.85
9.7K ratings
Philosophy
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The Revenge Of Geography Summary
The Revenge Of Geography
What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
by Robert D. Kaplan 2012 432 pages
3.78
5.9K ratings
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Currency Wars Summary
Currency Wars
The Making of the Next Global Crisis
by James Rickards 2011 304 pages
3.96
5.0K ratings
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The New Jim Crow Summary
The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander 2010 290 pages
4.52
114.0K ratings
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Meditations Summary
Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius 254 pages
4.28
310.3K ratings
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Classics
History
Man's Search for Meaning Summary
Man's Search for Meaning
A Young Adult Edition
by Viktor E. Frankl 2017 192 pages
4.41
2.8K ratings
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The Complete TurtleTrader Summary
The Complete TurtleTrader
The Legend, the Lessons, the Results
by Michael W. Covel 2007 272 pages
3.88
2.3K ratings
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The History of Sexuality, Volume 1 Summary
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1
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by Michel Foucault 1976 176 pages
4.02
24.7K ratings
Philosophy
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Transforming Mission Summary
Transforming Mission
Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission
by David J. Bosch 1991 587 pages
4.22
662 ratings
Theology
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Adaptive Markets Summary
Adaptive Markets
Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
by Andrew W. Lo 2017 483 pages
4.07
1.5K ratings
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The End of History and the Last Man Summary
The End of History and the Last Man
by Francis Fukuyama 1992 464 pages
3.60
7.5K ratings
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The Deficit Myth Summary
The Deficit Myth
Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
by Stephanie Kelton 2020 327 pages
4.03
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A Conflict of Visions Summary
A Conflict of Visions
Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
by Thomas Sowell 1986 304 pages
4.32
4.5K ratings
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Globalization and its Discontents Summary
Globalization and its Discontents
by Joseph E. Stiglitz 2002 304 pages
3.87
8.1K ratings
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The Silk Roads Summary
The Silk Roads
A New History of the World
by Peter Frankopan 2015 636 pages
4.17
45.1K ratings
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World History
Caste Summary
Caste
The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson 2020 544 pages
4.53
153.7K ratings
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Basic Economics Summary
Basic Economics
A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
by Thomas Sowell 2000 448 pages
4.37
13.6K ratings
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