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Emergence Summary
Emergence
The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
by Steven Johnson 2001 288 pages
3.95
3.5K ratings
Science
Technology
Psychology
The War for Kindness Summary
The War for Kindness
Building Empathy in a Fractured World
by Jamil Zaki 2019 263 pages
3.93
2.3K ratings
Psychology
Science
Sociology
Palaces for the People Summary
Palaces for the People
How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
by Eric Klinenberg 2018 288 pages
3.96
5.1K ratings
Sociology
Politics
Urban Planning
In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays Summary
In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
by Bertrand Russell 1935 192 pages
4.04
7.2K ratings
Philosophy
Essays
Politics
Social Physics Summary
Social Physics
How Good Ideas Spread— The Lessons from a New Science
by Alex Pentland 2014 320 pages
3.53
1.4K ratings
Science
Psychology
Sociology
The Privileged Poor Summary
The Privileged Poor
How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
by Anthony Abraham Jack 2019 288 pages
4.25
2.2K ratings
Education
Sociology
Social Justice
Seeing Like a State Summary
Seeing Like a State
How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
by James C. Scott 1998 461 pages
4.21
6.3K ratings
Politics
History
Economics
Luxury Fever Summary
Luxury Fever
by Robert H. Frank 1999 326 pages
3.78
180 ratings
Economics
Sociology
Psychology
Status and Culture Summary
Status and Culture
How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
by W. David Marx 2022 368 pages
3.88
1.2K ratings
Sociology
Psychology
Fashion
Google Archipelago Summary
Google Archipelago
The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom
by Michael Rectenwald 2019 216 pages
3.84
119 ratings
Politics
Technology
Cultural
The Choice Factory Summary
The Choice Factory
25 behavioural biases that influence what we buy
by Richard Shotton 2018 202 pages
4.12
1.5K ratings
Business
Psychology
Economics
Social Identity Summary
Social Identity
by Richard Jenkins 1996 232 pages
3.68
127 ratings
Sociology
Philosophy
Psychology
Tricks of the Trade Summary
Tricks of the Trade
How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It
by Howard S. Becker 1998 239 pages
4.06
398 ratings
Sociology
Research
Writing
The Irrational Bundle Summary
The Irrational Bundle
Predictably Irrational, The Upside of Irrationality, and The Honest Truth About Dishonesty
by Dan Ariely 2013 797 pages
4.32
450 ratings
Psychology
Economics
Science
The Spirit Level Summary
The Spirit Level
Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
by Richard G. Wilkinson 2009 352 pages
4.13
7.0K ratings
Politics
Economics
Sociology
بیشعوری Summary
بیشعوری
راهنمای تشخیص و درمان خطرناکترین بیماری تاریخ بشریت
by Xavier Crement 1990 232 pages
2.74
5.2K ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Sociology
Snoop Summary
Snoop
What Your Stuff Says About You
by Sam Gosling 2001 263 pages
3.36
5.0K ratings
Psychology
Science
Sociology
Worshipping False Gods Summary
Worshipping False Gods
Ambedkar and the Facts Which Have Been Erased
by Arun Shourie 1997 680 pages
3.81
352 ratings
History
India
Politics
The Political Brain Summary
The Political Brain
The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation
by Drew Westen 2007 457 pages
4.05
1.6K ratings
Politics
Psychology
Science
Superbloom Summary
Superbloom
How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
by Nicholas Carr 2025 272 pages
4.06
587 ratings
Technology
Sociology
Psychology
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters Summary
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters
From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire — Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What We Do
by Alan S. Miller 2006 252 pages
3.56
1.9K ratings
Psychology
Science
Sociology
Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids Summary
Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids
Why Being a Great Parent Is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think
by Bryan Caplan 2011 240 pages
3.55
1.6K ratings
Parenting
Economics
Psychology
Capitalism Summary
Capitalism
A Very Short Introduction
by James Fulcher 2001 160 pages
3.56
1.3K ratings
Economics
Politics
History
Duped Summary
Duped
Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Lying and Deception
by Timothy R. Levine 2019 384 pages
3.52
190 ratings
Psychology
Science
Social
The Age of Empathy Summary
The Age of Empathy
Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
by Frans de Waal 2009 304 pages
4.00
2.6K ratings
Science
Psychology
Animals
Team Human Summary
Team Human
by Douglas Rushkoff 2019 256 pages
3.83
1.2K ratings
Technology
Politics
Philosophy
What's Our Problem? Summary
What's Our Problem?
A Self-Help Book for Societies
by Tim Urban 2023 746 pages
4.26
5.0K ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Society
Education and the Social Order Summary
Education and the Social Order
by Bertrand Russell 1932 160 pages
4.00
204 ratings
Philosophy
Education
Politics
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
History
Anthropology
Politics
The Order of Things Summary
The Order of Things
An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
by Michel Foucault 1966 416 pages
4.12
9.4K ratings
Philosophy
History
Theory
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Summary
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn 1962 226 pages
4.03
28.8K ratings
Science
Philosophy
History
The Good-Enough Life Summary
The Good-Enough Life
by Avram Alpert 2022 336 pages
3.38
348 ratings
Philosophy
Self Help
Psychology
The Knowledge Illusion Summary
The Knowledge Illusion
Why We Never Think Alone
by Steven Sloman 2017 304 pages
3.84
2.5K ratings
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance Summary
A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
by Leon Festinger 1957 239 pages
4.04
181 ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Science
Men Who Hate Women Summary
Men Who Hate Women
by Laura Bates 2020 366 pages
4.34
22.8K ratings
Feminism
Politics
Sociology
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
History
Anthropology
Science
Groupthink Summary
Groupthink
Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes
by Irving L. Janis 1982 349 pages
4.13
203 ratings
Psychology
Politics
History
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
Politics
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 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
Politics
Social Justice
Sociology
Aspiration Summary
Aspiration
The Agency of Becoming
by Agnes Callard 2018 304 pages
3.76
189 ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Self Help
Dialectic of Enlightenment Summary
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Philosophical Fragments
by Max Horkheimer 1947 304 pages
4.11
7.9K ratings
Philosophy
Theory
Sociology
Ibn Khaldun Summary
Ibn Khaldun
An Intellectual Biography
by Robert Irwin 2018 256 pages
3.63
327 ratings
History
Biography
Philosophy
The Uses of Disorder Summary
The Uses of Disorder
Personal Identity and City Life
by Richard Sennett 1970 220 pages
3.87
234 ratings
Sociology
Urbanism
Philosophy
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
Politics
Psychology
Moral Mazes Summary
Moral Mazes
The World of Corporate Managers
by Robert Jackall 1988 272 pages
3.96
448 ratings
Business
Sociology
Psychology
The Wisest One in the Room Summary
The Wisest One in the Room
How You Can Benefit from Social Psychology's Most Powerful Insights
by Thomas Gilovich 2015 320 pages
3.79
1.2K ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Science
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 World Beyond Your Head Summary
The World Beyond Your Head
On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
by Matthew B. Crawford 2015 257 pages
3.79
2.5K ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Self Help
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches Summary
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches
The Riddles of Culture
by Marvin Harris 1974 288 pages
3.92
4.8K ratings
Anthropology
History
Sociology
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