History
The past comes alive through the pivotal moments, groundbreaking ideas, and remarkable individuals that have shaped our world. Here you'll find compelling accounts of everything from ancient philosophy to modern economics, from social movements to technological transformation, all carefully examined through the lens of time.
History Book Summaries
Power Play
Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century
Business
Biography
Technology
She Said
Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
Feminism
True Crime
Politics
A More Beautiful and Terrible History
The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
History
Race
Politics
Virtual Society
The Metaverse and the New Frontiers of Human Experience
Technology
History
Sociology
Off With Her Head
Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power
History
Feminism
Politics
The Eye of the Master
A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
History
Artificial Intelligence
Technology
Brilliant Blunders
From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe
Science
History
Physics
The Philosophy of History
Philosophy
History
Classics
Devil Take the Hindmost
A History of Financial Speculation
Finance
History
Economics
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Economics
Politics
History
The Constitution of Knowledge
A Defense of Truth
Politics
Philosophy
History
Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret
Biography
Christian
Christianity
Gamers at Work
Stories Behind the Games People Play
Video Games
Games
Game Design
The Physics of Wall Street
A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable
Economics
Finance
Science
The Foundations of Leninism
Politics
Theory
Philosophy
Political Ideologies
An Introduction
Politics
Philosophy
Political Science
10 Judgements That Changed India
India
Law
History
Message to the Blackman in America
Religion
Race
Islam
The New Paradigm for Financial Markets
The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means
Economics
Finance
Business
Extremely Hardcore
Inside Elon Musk's Twitter
Business
Technology
History
Cynical Theories
How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Politics
Philosophy
Sociology
Age of Revolutions
Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
History
Politics
Economics
Chokepoint Capitalism
How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back
Politics
Economics
Business
How the Hippies Saved Physics
Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
Science
Physics
History
Politics On the Edge
A Memoir From Within
Politics
Biography
Memoir
Buffett
The Making of an American Capitalist
Biography
Business
Finance
How the Scots Invented the Modern World
The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created our World & Everything in It
History
Scotland
Philosophy
Between the World and Me
Memoir
Race
History
The End of Alchemy
Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy
Economics
Finance
Business
UFOs
Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record
Science
Paranormal
Aliens
The Rise of Christianity
History
Religion
Christianity
Women, Race & Class
Feminism
Politics
Race
Business adventures
Business
Finance
Economics
Nonzero
The Logic of Human Destiny
History
Science
Philosophy
How Music Got Free
The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
Music
History
Business
All Too Human
Politics
Memoir
Biography
Plato at the Googleplex
Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
Philosophy
History
Science
Coffee Life in Japan
Japan
Food
Urban Studies
India Unbound
The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age
India
History
Economics
The Song Machine
Inside the Hit Factory
Music
Business
History
Worshipping False Gods
Ambedkar and the Facts Which Have Been Erased
History
India
Politics
Heaven Is a Place on Earth
Memoir
History
Essays
The Language Game
How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World
Linguistics
Language
Science
Censored
Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall
China
Politics
History
The Next Africa
An Emerging Continent Becomes a Global Powerhouse
Africa
Economics
Business
The Firm
The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business
Business
History
Management
The House of Rothschild, Vol 1
Money's Prophets, 1798-1848
History
Biography
Economics
Utopia for Realists
How We Can Build the Ideal World
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
Autobiography of Mark Twain
Volume 1, Reader's Edition
Biography
Autobiography
History
Killing Hitler
The Plots, the Assassins, and the Dictator Who Cheated Death
History
World War II
Germany
