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The Precipice Summary
The Precipice
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3.97
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The Fourth Turning Is Here Summary
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3.95
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Capitalist Realism Summary
Capitalist Realism
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by Mark Fisher 2009 81 pages
4.21
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order Summary
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Why Nations Succeed and Fail
by Ray Dalio 2021 576 pages
4.28
15.3K ratings
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How Democracies Die Summary
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What History Reveals About Our Future
by Steven Levitsky 2018 320 pages
4.16
29.3K ratings
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Genesis Summary
Genesis
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by Henry A. Kissinger 2024 288 pages
3.59
707 ratings
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The Society of the Spectacle Summary
The Society of the Spectacle
by Guy Debord 1967 154 pages
4.03
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From Third World to First Summary
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The Singapore Story: 1965-2000
by Lee Kuan Yew 2000 752 pages
4.46
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Escape from Freedom Summary
Escape from Freedom
by Erich Fromm 1941 301 pages
4.27
15.3K ratings
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Diplomacy Summary
Diplomacy
by Henry Kissinger 1994 912 pages
4.25
9.0K ratings
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Telling Lies Summary
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by Paul Ekman 1985 390 pages
3.85
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The Creature from Jekyll Island Summary
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A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
by G. Edward Griffin 1994 608 pages
4.29
6.5K ratings
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The Polyester Prince Summary
The Polyester Prince
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by Hamish McDonald 1998 296 pages
3.88
1.5K ratings
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The Fourth Turning Summary
The Fourth Turning
An American Prophecy—What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
by William Strauss 1996 400 pages
3.88
7.0K ratings
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The Will to Power Summary
The Will to Power
by Friedrich Nietzsche 1901 575 pages
4.06
10.9K ratings
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Technofeudalism Summary
Technofeudalism
What Killed Capitalism
by Yanis Varoufakis 2023 224 pages
4.03
5.4K ratings
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Conspirators' Hierarchy Summary
Conspirators' Hierarchy
The Story of the Committee of 300
by John Coleman 2010 302 pages
3.76
636 ratings
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The Anatomy of Fascism Summary
The Anatomy of Fascism
by Robert O. Paxton 2004 336 pages
4.22
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Parasitic Mind Summary
Parasitic Mind
How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
by Gad Saad 2020 264 pages
3.95
8.1K ratings
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed Summary
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
by Paulo Freire 1968 183 pages
4.30
37.3K ratings
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We Should All Be Feminists Summary
We Should All Be Feminists
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2012 52 pages
4.40
316.8K ratings
Feminism
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Social Acceleration Summary
Social Acceleration
A New Theory of Modernity
by Hartmut Rosa 2005 470 pages
4.35
309 ratings
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Liquid Times Summary
Liquid Times
Living in an Age of Uncertainty
by Zygmunt Bauman 2007 128 pages
3.86
1.6K ratings
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The Sublime Object of Ideology Summary
The Sublime Object of Ideology
by Slavoj Žižek 1989 256 pages
4.07
5.9K ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel Summary
Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond 1997 498 pages
4.04
440.0K ratings
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The Tyranny of Merit Summary
The Tyranny of Merit
What's Become of the Common Good?
by Michael J. Sandel 2020 272 pages
4.19
12.7K ratings
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How Civil Wars Start Summary
How Civil Wars Start
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by Barbara F. Walter 2022 320 pages
4.24
5.6K ratings
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Anti-Oedipus Summary
Anti-Oedipus
Capitalism and Schizophrenia
by Gilles Deleuze 1972 400 pages
4.17
8.2K ratings
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The Coddling of the American Mind Summary
The Coddling of the American Mind
How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
by Jonathan Haidt 2018 352 pages
4.23
51.8K ratings
Psychology
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Team of Rivals Summary
Team of Rivals
The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin 2005 916 pages
4.28
194.6K ratings
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The Republic Summary
The Republic
by Plato 416 pages
3.96
217.7K ratings
Philosophy
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To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche Summary
To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
by Erich Fromm 1976 182 pages
4.18
12.8K ratings
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The Big Short Summary
The Big Short
Inside the Doomsday Machine
by Michael Lewis 2010 291 pages
4.30
167.0K ratings
Business
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Black Skin, White Masks Summary
Black Skin, White Masks
by Frantz Fanon 1952 232 pages
4.26
17.8K ratings
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Broken Money Summary
Broken Money
Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better
by Lyn Alden 2023 538 pages
4.64
2.0K ratings
Finance
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The Power of the Powerless Summary
The Power of the Powerless
by Václav Havel 1978 228 pages
4.21
3.7K ratings
Politics
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The Small and the Mighty Summary
The Small and the Mighty
Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
by Sharon McMahon 2024 320 pages
4.44
27.6K ratings
History
Book Club
Biography
A History of Modern Iran Summary
A History of Modern Iran
by Ervand Abrahamian 2008 228 pages
3.89
1.6K ratings
History
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Manias, Panics, and Crashes Summary
Manias, Panics, and Crashes
A History of Financial Crises
by Charles P. Kindleberger 1978 304 pages
3.94
4.2K ratings
Economics
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Silencing the Past Summary
Silencing the Past
Power and the Production of History
by Michel-Rolph Trouillot 1995 216 pages
4.35
3.1K ratings
History
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Mutual Aid Summary
Mutual Aid
A Factor of Evolution
by Pyotr Kropotkin 1891 234 pages
4.23
3.7K ratings
Politics
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Science
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
A Theoretical Analysis
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
A History
by Erika Lee 2015 528 pages
4.33
2.6K ratings
History
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The Way of Men Summary
The Way of Men
by Jack Donovan 2012 170 pages
3.80
7.2K ratings
Philosophy
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Self Help
The Undercover Economist Summary
The Undercover Economist
by Tim Harford 2005 288 pages
3.81
28.9K 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
Politics
History
Activism
End Times Summary
End Times
Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
by Peter Turchin 2023 368 pages
4.06
1.9K ratings
History
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The Rebel Summary
The Rebel
by Albert Camus 1951 320 pages
4.14
17.7K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Essays
On Bullshit Summary
On Bullshit
by Harry G. Frankfurt 2005 67 pages
3.58
15.1K ratings
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