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Dying for a Paycheck Summary
Dying for a Paycheck
How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performanceβ€”and What We Can Do About It
by Jeffrey Pfeffer 2018 266 pages
3.73
577 ratings
Business
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Small Is Beautiful Summary
Small Is Beautiful
Economics as if People Mattered
by Ernst F. Schumacher 1973 352 pages
4.09
6.8K ratings
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Against Intellectual Monopoly Summary
Against Intellectual Monopoly
by Michele Boldrin 2008 312 pages
4.03
364 ratings
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A Hacker's Mind Summary
A Hacker's Mind
How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back
by Bruce Schneier 2023 304 pages
3.70
1.1K ratings
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Business
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Summary
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Martin Luther King Jr. 1986 400 pages
4.34
23.6K ratings
Biography
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Autobiography
Team Human Summary
Team Human
by Douglas Rushkoff 2019 256 pages
3.83
1.2K ratings
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Against the Grain Summary
Against the Grain
A Deep History of the Earliest States
by James C. Scott 2017 312 pages
4.13
4.5K ratings
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The Robber Barons Summary
The Robber Barons
by Matthew Josephson 1934 496 pages
3.73
402 ratings
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Education and the Social Order Summary
Education and the Social Order
by Bertrand Russell 1932 160 pages
4.00
204 ratings
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What's Our Problem? Summary
What's Our Problem?
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4.26
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Making Your Case Summary
Making Your Case
The Art of Persuading Judges
by Bryan A. Garner 2007 269 pages
4.10
1.5K ratings
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1929 Summary
1929
Inside the Greatest Crash in History--and How It Shattered a Nation
by Andrew Ross Sorkin 2025 577 pages
4.49
271 ratings
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On Democracies and Death Cults Summary
On Democracies and Death Cults
Israel and the Future of Civilization
by Douglas Murray 2025 240 pages
4.47
1.4K ratings
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The Art of Power Summary
The Art of Power
My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
by Nancy Pelosi 2024 352 pages
3.98
5.1K ratings
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Men Who Hate Women Summary
Men Who Hate Women
by Laura Bates 2020 366 pages
4.34
22.8K ratings
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On Leadership Summary
On Leadership
Lessons for the 21st Century
by Tony Blair 2024 368 pages
3.90
485 ratings
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The Good-Enough Life Summary
The Good-Enough Life
by Avram Alpert 2022 336 pages
3.38
348 ratings
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Existentialism Summary
Existentialism
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by Thomas R. Flynn 2006 160 pages
3.48
1.8K ratings
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Reference
The Dawn of Everything Summary
The Dawn of Everything
A New History of Humanity
by David Graeber 2021 692 pages
4.19
23.5K ratings
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Anthropology
Science
Bangladesh Summary
Bangladesh
A Legacy of Blood
by Anthony Mascarenhas 1986 192 pages
4.11
905 ratings
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The Uninhabitable Earth Summary
The Uninhabitable Earth
Life After Warming
by David Wallace-Wells 2019 310 pages
4.00
29.1K ratings
Science
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Love Your Enemies Summary
Love Your Enemies
How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt
by Arthur C. Brooks 2019 256 pages
4.29
3.4K ratings
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Self Help
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Free Summary
Free
A Child and a Country at the End of History
by Lea Ypi 2021 288 pages
4.30
18.9K ratings
Memoir
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Biography
Our Dollar, Your Problem Summary
Our Dollar, Your Problem
An Insider's View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead
by Kenneth Rogoff 2025 360 pages
4.20
290 ratings
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Finance
History
Why Vegan? Summary
Why Vegan?
by Peter Singer 2020 87 pages
4.04
806 ratings
Philosophy
Vegan
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On Tyranny Summary
On Tyranny
Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century - Graphic Edition
by Timothy Snyder 2017 128 pages
4.46
4.4K ratings
History
Graphic Novels
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Groupthink Summary
Groupthink
Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes
by Irving L. Janis 1982 349 pages
4.13
203 ratings
Psychology
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History
The Locust Effect Summary
The Locust Effect
Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
by Gary A. Haugen 2013 368 pages
4.32
1.5K ratings
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Social Justice
Sociology
The Death of Expertise Summary
The Death of Expertise
The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
by Thomas M. Nichols 2017 272 pages
3.82
9.5K ratings
Politics
Sociology
Science
The Shia Revival Summary
The Shia Revival
How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future
by Vali Nasr 2006 310 pages
3.88
2.4K ratings
History
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The Oil Kings Summary
The Oil Kings
How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East
by Andrew Scott Cooper 2011 546 pages
4.11
797 ratings
History
Politics
Iran
Dialectic of Enlightenment Summary
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Philosophical Fragments
by Max Horkheimer 1947 304 pages
4.11
7.9K ratings
Philosophy
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Sociology
Nomad Century Summary
Nomad Century
How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
by Gaia Vince 2022 288 pages
3.85
1.4K ratings
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Environment
Climate Change
The World As It Is Summary
The World As It Is
Inside the Obama White House
by Ben Rhodes 2018 480 pages
4.30
12.3K ratings
Politics
Memoir
History
America's Original Sin Summary
America's Original Sin
Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
by Jim Wallis 2016 238 pages
4.08
1.7K ratings
Race
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Anti Racist
Dreams from My Father Summary
Dreams from My Father
A Story of Race and Inheritance
by Barack Obama 1995 453 pages
3.94
228.9K ratings
Biography
Memoir
Politics
The Culture of Fear Summary
The Culture of Fear
Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
by Barry Glassner 1999 210 pages
3.70
3.7K ratings
Sociology
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Psychology
Excellent Sheep Summary
Excellent Sheep
The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
by William Deresiewicz 2014 245 pages
3.88
6.9K ratings
Education
Sociology
Politics
The Future We Choose Summary
The Future We Choose
Surviving the Climate Crisis
by Christiana Figueres 2020 210 pages
4.05
6.6K ratings
Science
Environment
Climate Change
The Return of Great Powers Summary
The Return of Great Powers
Russia, China, and the Next World War
by Jim Sciutto 2024 368 pages
3.91
1.0K ratings
Politics
History
China
We Have Never Been Woke Summary
We Have Never Been Woke
The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
by Musa al-Gharbi 2024 432 pages
4.29
489 ratings
Politics
Sociology
Cultural
50 Philosophy Classics Summary
50 Philosophy Classics
Thinking, Being, Acting, Seeing, Profound Insights and Powerful Thinking from Fifty Key Books
by Tom Butler-Bowdon 2013 325 pages
4.09
1.0K ratings
Philosophy
Reference
Politics
Freefall Summary
Freefall
America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy
by Joseph E. Stiglitz 2010 361 pages
3.88
4.0K ratings
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Finance
1984 and Philosophy Summary
1984 and Philosophy
Is Resistance Futile?
by Ezio Di Nucci 2018 256 pages
4.26
39 ratings
Politics
Philosophy
The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto Summary
The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto
by Slavoj Ε½iΕΎek 2018 70 pages
3.57
745 ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
Learning from the Germans Summary
Learning from the Germans
Race and the Memory of Evil
by Susan Neiman 2019 434 pages
4.21
1.1K ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ Summary
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ
The Paradox of Modern Iran
by Hooman Majd 2008 272 pages
3.77
2.2K ratings
Iran
History
Politics
Sandworm Summary
Sandworm
A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
by Andy Greenberg 2019 368 pages
4.35
9.3K ratings
Technology
Politics
History
The March Of Folly Summary
The March Of Folly
From Troy To Vietnam
by Barbara W. Tuchman 1984 447 pages
4.02
7.1K ratings
History
Politics
War
Start-up Nation Summary
Start-up Nation
The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
by Dan Senor 2009 304 pages
4.11
12.4K ratings
Business
Economics
Israel
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