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Say Nothing Summary
Say Nothing
A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
by Patrick Radden Keefe 2018 441 pages
4.47
141.7K ratings
History
True Crime
Ireland
The Jakarta Method Summary
The Jakarta Method
Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
by Vincent Bevins 2020 320 pages
4.61
13.8K ratings
History
Politics
Asia
Postwar Summary
Postwar
A History of Europe Since 1945
by Tony Judt 2005 933 pages
4.38
13.2K ratings
History
Politics
European History
Imminent Summary
Imminent
Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs
by Luis Elizondo 2024 275 pages
4.02
6.4K ratings
History
Science
Politics
Ten Myths About Israel Summary
Ten Myths About Israel
by Ilan Pappé 2017 192 pages
4.40
5.0K ratings
History
Politics
Israel
Pleasure Activism Summary
Pleasure Activism
The Politics of Feeling Good
by Adrienne Maree Brown 2019 441 pages
4.24
9.0K ratings
Feminism
Politics
Social Justice
Network Propaganda Summary
Network Propaganda
Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics
by Yochai Benkler 2018 472 pages
4.14
370 ratings
Politics
Technology
Sociology
Machiavelli Summary
Machiavelli
A Very Short Introduction
by Quentin Skinner 1981 110 pages
3.84
882 ratings
Philosophy
History
Politics
Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare Summary
Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare
by Michael A. Hoffman II 1992 215 pages
4.11
339 ratings
Conspiracy Theories
History
Politics
The Bottom Billion Summary
The Bottom Billion
Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
by Paul Collier 2007 205 pages
3.85
7.9K ratings
Economics
Politics
International Development
The Crowd & The Psychology of Revolution Summary
The Crowd & The Psychology of Revolution
by Gustave Le Bon 2015 286 pages
4.18
242 ratings
Psychology
Politics
Sociology
Fast Food Nation Summary
Fast Food Nation
The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser 2001 383 pages
3.75
206.1K ratings
Food
Sociology
Politics
Enlightenment Now Summary
Enlightenment Now
The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by Steven Pinker 2018 576 pages
4.20
31.5K ratings
Science
Philosophy
History
The World Is Flat Summary
The World Is Flat
A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
by Thomas L. Friedman 2005 593 pages
3.69
102.3K ratings
History
Business
Economics
Amusing Ourselves to Death Summary
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
by Neil Postman 1985 184 pages
4.16
35.3K ratings
Philosophy
Sociology
Politics
Moral Tribes Summary
Moral Tribes
Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
by Joshua D. Greene 2013 432 pages
4.02
3.2K ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Science
Propaganda Summary
Propaganda
The Formation of Men's Attitudes
by Jacques Ellul 1962 352 pages
4.27
1.3K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Psychology
On Language Summary
On Language
by Noam Chomsky 1998 481 pages
3.82
1.0K ratings
Linguistics
Philosophy
Language
The New Geography of Jobs Summary
The New Geography of Jobs
by Enrico Moretti 2012 294 pages
4.03
2.7K ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
The Road to Unfreedom Summary
The Road to Unfreedom
Russia, Europe, America
by Timothy Snyder 2018 359 pages
4.37
10.0K ratings
History
Politics
Russia
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar Summary
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar
What Everyone Needs to Know
by P.W. Singer 2013 320 pages
3.83
1.4K ratings
Technology
Science
Politics
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act Summary
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
by Bob Joseph 2018 160 pages
4.57
9.4K ratings
Indigenous
History
Canada
A Promised Land Summary
A Promised Land
by Barack Obama 2020 768 pages
4.32
258.5K ratings
Biography
Memoir
Politics
Requiem for the American Dream Summary
Requiem for the American Dream
The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power
by Noam Chomsky 2017 192 pages
4.21
3.7K ratings
Politics
Economics
History
The Rise and Fall of Nations Summary
The Rise and Fall of Nations
Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World
by Ruchir Sharma 2016 480 pages
4.14
2.7K ratings
Economics
Politics
History
Animal Farm / 1984 Summary
Animal Farm / 1984
by George Orwell 1949 400 pages
4.30
209.3K ratings
Classics
Dystopia
Literature
The Vision of the Anointed Summary
The Vision of the Anointed
Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
by Thomas Sowell 1995 320 pages
4.40
3.3K ratings
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
Oil! Summary
Oil!
by Upton Sinclair 1926 528 pages
3.74
7.1K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
The Irrational Ape Summary
The Irrational Ape
Why Flawed Logic Puts us all at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World
by David Robert Grimes 2019 482 pages
4.27
1.0K ratings
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
The Origins of Political Order Summary
The Origins of Political Order
From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
by Francis Fukuyama 2011 585 pages
4.18
10.1K ratings
History
Politics
Political Science
A Theology of Liberation Summary
A Theology of Liberation
by Gustavo Gutiérrez 1971 334 pages
4.16
2.4K ratings
Theology
Religion
Christianity
From Plassey to Partition Summary
From Plassey to Partition
A History of Modern India
by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay 2004 523 pages
4.20
1.1K ratings
History
India
Academics
Black Wave Summary
Black Wave
Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
by Kim Ghattas 2020 400 pages
4.40
5.2K ratings
History
Politics
Iran
Moral Politics Summary
Moral Politics
How Liberals and Conservatives Think
by George Lakoff 1996 471 pages
4.03
1.7K ratings
Politics
Psychology
Philosophy
How the World Really Works Summary
How the World Really Works
A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
by Vaclav Smil 2022 326 pages
3.96
12.8K ratings
Science
History
Economics
Living a Feminist Life Summary
Living a Feminist Life
by Sara Ahmed 2017 312 pages
4.31
3.1K ratings
Feminism
Philosophy
Politics
Wealth, Poverty and Politics Summary
Wealth, Poverty and Politics
An International Perspective
by Thomas Sowell 2015 328 pages
4.36
2.0K ratings
Economics
Politics
History
From Dictatorship to Democracy Summary
From Dictatorship to Democracy
by Gene Sharp 1993 93 pages
3.82
2.0K ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
How the World Ran Out of Everything Summary
How the World Ran Out of Everything
Inside the Global Supply Chain
by Peter S. Goodman 2024 416 pages
4.11
950 ratings
Economics
Business
History
Pornland Summary
Pornland
How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality
by Gail Dines 2010 204 pages
3.95
1.9K ratings
Feminism
Sexuality
Sociology
The Divide Summary
The Divide
A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions
by Jason Hickel 2017 368 pages
4.62
3.5K ratings
Economics
Politics
History
Political Ideologies Summary
Political Ideologies
An Introduction
by Andrew Heywood 1992 382 pages
4.10
1.2K ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Political Science
A World Without Work Summary
A World Without Work
Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
by Daniel Susskind 2020 307 pages
3.84
1.8K ratings
Economics
Business
Technology
The Power Paradox Summary
The Power Paradox
How We Gain and Lose Influence
by Dacher Keltner 2016 208 pages
3.68
1.4K ratings
Psychology
Business
Leadership
The Demon of Unrest Summary
The Demon of Unrest
A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
by Erik Larson 2024 565 pages
4.19
46.6K ratings
History
Civil War
Politics
How to Be an Antiracist Summary
How to Be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi 2019 305 pages
4.37
117.8K ratings
Race
Social Justice
Politics
Geopolitics Summary
Geopolitics
A Very Short Introduction
by Klaus Dodds 2007 184 pages
3.34
532 ratings
Politics
History
Geography
The Conquest of Bread Summary
The Conquest of Bread
by Pyotr Kropotkin 1892 224 pages
4.07
9.2K ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Economics
Secrets to Winning at Office Politics Summary
Secrets to Winning at Office Politics
by Marie G. McIntyre 2005 288 pages
4.03
751 ratings
Business
Psychology
Management
Rebel Cities Summary
Rebel Cities
From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
by David Harvey 2012 206 pages
3.92
2.0K ratings
Politics
Urbanism
Urban Studies
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