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ایران بین دو انقلاب Summary
ایران بین دو انقلاب
by Ervand Abrahamian 1982 720 pages
4.16
1.5K ratings
History
Iran
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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train Summary
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
A Personal History of Our Times
by Howard Zinn 1994 214 pages
4.35
3.6K ratings
History
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Memoir
The Island of Knowledge Summary
The Island of Knowledge
The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
by Marcelo Gleiser 2014 359 pages
3.93
894 ratings
Science
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Extremely Hardcore Summary
Extremely Hardcore
Inside Elon Musk's Twitter
by Zoë Schiffer 2024 352 pages
3.99
1.1K ratings
Business
Technology
History
The Power Broker Summary
The Power Broker
Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by Robert A. Caro 1974 1246 pages
4.51
26.3K ratings
History
Biography
Politics
Republic, Lost Summary
Republic, Lost
How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It
by Lawrence Lessig 2011 400 pages
4.18
2.8K ratings
Politics
Economics
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Brave Genius Summary
Brave Genius
A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
by Sean B. Carroll 2013 592 pages
4.27
699 ratings
History
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Mathematics Summary
Mathematics
A Very Short Introduction
by Timothy Gowers 2002 143 pages
3.86
1.9K ratings
Mathematics
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Power Systems Summary
Power Systems
Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire
by Noam Chomsky 2012 224 pages
4.12
2.6K ratings
Politics
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India’s Railway Man Summary
India’s Railway Man
A Biography of E. Sreedharan
by Rajendra B. Aklekar 2017 273 pages
3.85
248 ratings
Biography
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Engineering
Drift Summary
Drift
by Rachel Maddow 2012 288 pages
4.07
20.8K ratings
Politics
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War
The Envoy Summary
The Envoy
From Kabul to the White House, My Journey Through a Turbulent World
by Zalmay Khalilzad 2016 336 pages
3.68
160 ratings
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History
The Fire Next Time Summary
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin 1963 106 pages
4.55
112.7K ratings
Classics
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Race
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends Summary
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends
The Cyberweapons Arms Race
by Nicole Perlroth 2021 528 pages
4.32
10.4K ratings
Technology
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Science
The New Rules of War Summary
The New Rules of War
Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder
by Sean McFate 2019 336 pages
3.96
1.5K ratings
Military Fiction
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War
The Liberal Tradition in America Summary
The Liberal Tradition in America
by Louis Hartz 1955 348 pages
3.59
153 ratings
Politics
History
American History
Saving Freud Summary
Saving Freud
The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom
by Andrew Nagorski 2022 345 pages
4.02
318 ratings
History
Biography
Psychology
Sapiens Summary
Sapiens
A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind
by David Vandermeulen 2020 248 pages
4.36
16.8K ratings
Graphic Novels
History
Science
Killing the Host Summary
Killing the Host
How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy
by Michael Hudson 2013 400 pages
4.35
354 ratings
Economics
Politics
History
How Tyrants Fall Summary
How Tyrants Fall
And How Nations Survive
by Marcel Dirsus 2024 274 pages
4.04
288 ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
Broken Circle Summary
Broken Circle
The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools
by Theodore Fontaine 2010 190 pages
3.99
698 ratings
Indigenous
Memoir
History
The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise Summary
The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise
Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain
by Darío Fernández-Morera 2014 376 pages
3.79
671 ratings
History
Islam
Spain
The Looting Machine Summary
The Looting Machine
Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
by Tom Burgis 2015 352 pages
4.04
2.7K ratings
Africa
History
Politics
Stones Into Schools Summary
Stones Into Schools
Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
by Greg Mortenson 2009 420 pages
3.85
17.0K ratings
Education
Memoir
Biography
A Higher Loyalty Summary
A Higher Loyalty
Truth, Lies, and Leadership
by James B. Comey 2018 290 pages
4.10
48.9K ratings
Politics
Memoir
Biography
How Music Got Free Summary
How Music Got Free
The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
by Stephen Richard Witt 2015 296 pages
4.24
6.8K ratings
Music
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Business
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything Summary
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything
Tales from the Pentagon
by Rosa Brooks 2016 448 pages
3.93
1.8K ratings
Politics
History
Military Fiction
Master Slave Husband Wife Summary
Master Slave Husband Wife
An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
by Ilyon Woo 2023 416 pages
3.98
16.9K ratings
History
Biography
Book Club
Testosterone Summary
Testosterone
An Unauthorized Biography
by Rebecca M. Jordan-Young 2019 288 pages
4.05
291 ratings
Science
Gender
Feminism
Freedom Farmers Summary
Freedom Farmers
Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
by Monica M. White 2018 208 pages
4.34
372 ratings
History
Food
Race
Freedom is a Constant Struggle Summary
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
by Angela Y. Davis 2015 158 pages
4.44
33.0K ratings
Politics
Feminism
Race
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation Summary
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 2016 270 pages
4.47
2.3K ratings
Race
Politics
History
We Are Anonymous Summary
We Are Anonymous
Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency
by Parmy Olson 2012 512 pages
3.97
3.3K ratings
Technology
History
Politics
The War That Ended Peace Summary
The War That Ended Peace
The Road to 1914
by Margaret MacMillan 2013 739 pages
4.25
7.2K ratings
History
World War I
War
The Essential Talmud Summary
The Essential Talmud
by Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz 1976 327 pages
4.03
701 ratings
Judaism
Religion
Jewish
Free Speech Summary
Free Speech
A Very Short Introduction
by Nigel Warburton 2009 128 pages
3.63
847 ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
Fake Heroes Summary
Fake Heroes
Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History
by Otto English 2023 495 pages
3.92
626 ratings
History
Biography
Historical
Hard Landing Summary
Hard Landing
The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos
by Thomas Petzinger Jr. 1995 616 pages
4.41
749 ratings
Business
History
Aviation
The Power Worshippers Summary
The Power Worshippers
Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
by Katherine Stewart 2020 352 pages
4.27
2.1K ratings
Politics
Religion
History
Bright-Sided Summary
Bright-Sided
How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
by Barbara Ehrenreich 2009 206 pages
3.73
10.2K ratings
Psychology
Sociology
Politics
The Assault on Truth Summary
The Assault on Truth
Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism
by Peter Oborne 2021 251 pages
3.99
1.1K ratings
Politics
History
Dystopia
Ancient Greece Summary
Ancient Greece
From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times
by Thomas R. Martin 1992 254 pages
3.99
2.4K ratings
History
Ancient History
Greece
The Socialist Manifesto Summary
The Socialist Manifesto
The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
by Bhaskar Sunkara 2019 288 pages
3.62
1.9K ratings
Politics
Economics
History
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
6.8K ratings
Feminism
Politics
History
The Story of the Human Body Summary
The Story of the Human Body
Evolution, Health, and Disease
by Daniel E. Lieberman 2013 480 pages
4.26
8.6K ratings
Science
Health
Biology
Bursts Summary
Bursts
The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do
by Albert-László Barabási 2010 310 pages
3.31
1.1K ratings
Science
Psychology
Sociology
All or Nothing Summary
All or Nothing
How Trump Recaptured America
by Michael Wolff 2025 400 pages
3.76
577 ratings
Politics
History
Journalism
The Greatest Nobodies of History Summary
The Greatest Nobodies of History
Minor Characters from Major Moments
by Adrian Bliss 2024 304 pages
3.63
1.4K ratings
History
Humor
Historical
Exposure Summary
Exposure
Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont
by Robert Bilott 2019 400 pages
4.50
2.1K ratings
Science
History
Environment
The Unsettling of America Summary
The Unsettling of America
Culture and Agriculture
by Wendell Berry 1977 246 pages
4.34
6.4K ratings
Agriculture
Food
Nature
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