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Off With Her Head Summary
Off With Her Head
Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power
by Eleanor Herman 2022 384 pages
3.86
1k+ ratings
History
Feminism
Politics
Like, Comment, Subscribe Summary
Like, Comment, Subscribe
How YouTube Drives Google's Dominance and Controls Our Culture
by Mark Bergen 2022 464 pages
3.73
1k+ ratings
Business
Technology
History
Lady Sapiens. Enquête sur la femme au temps de la Préhistoire Summary
Lady Sapiens. Enquête sur la femme au temps de la Préhistoire
by Jennifer Kerner 2011 247 pages
3.66
500+ ratings
History
Feminism
Science
The Clash of the Cultures Summary
The Clash of the Cultures
Investment vs. Speculation
by John C. Bogle 2012 384 pages
3.88
500+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
What We Owe the Future Summary
What We Owe the Future
by William MacAskill 2022 335 pages
3.83
5k+ ratings
Philosophy
Science
History
The Human Story Summary
The Human Story
by Robin I.M. Dunbar 2004 224 pages
3.86
100+ ratings
Science
Evolution
Anthropology
Saving Freud Summary
Saving Freud
The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom
by Andrew Nagorski 2022 345 pages
4.02
100+ ratings
History
Biography
Psychoanalysis
Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge Summary
Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge
George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition
by Erica Armstrong Dunbar 2019 272 pages
3.98
1k+ ratings
Biography
History
Middle Grade
Manifesting Justice Summary
Manifesting Justice
Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights
by Valena E. Beety 2022 320 pages
4.33
100+ ratings
Politics
History
True Crime
Let Me Tell You a Story Summary
Let Me Tell You a Story
A Lifetime in the Game
by Arnold Jacob Red Auerbach 2004 346 pages
4.12
1k+ ratings
Sports
Basketball
Biography
Hitler's Cross Summary
Hitler's Cross
The Revealing Story of How the Cross of Christ was Used as a symbol of the Nazi Agenda
by Erwin W.. Lutzer 1995 224 pages
4.20
500+ ratings
History
Christian
World War II
Charles Dickens in Love Summary
Charles Dickens in Love
by Robert Garnett 2012 440 pages
3.92
50+ ratings
Biography
British Literature
Literature
The Faithful Preacher Summary
The Faithful Preacher
Recapturing the Vision of Three Pioneering African-American Pastors
by Thabiti M. Anyabwile 2007 192 pages
4.18
100+ ratings
Biography
Theology
History
Strange New World Summary
Strange New World
How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution
by Carl R. Trueman 2022 204 pages
4.49
4k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Christian
Elizabeth I CEO Summary
Elizabeth I CEO
Strategic Lessons from the Leader Who Built an Empire
by Alan Axelrod 2000 288 pages
3.66
100+ ratings
History
Business
Biography
Decolonial Daughter Summary
Decolonial Daughter
Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son
by Lesley-Ann Brown 2018 231 pages
4.12
50+ ratings
Memoir
Race
Essays
Mile Marker Zero Summary
Mile Marker Zero
The Moveable Feast of Key West
by William McKeen 2011 320 pages
3.93
500+ ratings
Travel
History
Iran Awakening Summary
Iran Awakening
A Memoir of Revolution and Hope
by Shirin Ebadi 2006 232 pages
4.17
5k+ ratings
Iran
Memoir
History
Adam Smith's The "Wealth of Nations" Summary
Adam Smith's The "Wealth of Nations"
A Modern-day Interpretation of an Economic Classic
by Karen McCreadie 2009 128 pages
3.35
100+ ratings
Economics
Finance
History
The Quest for Character Summary
The Quest for Character
What the Story of Socrates and Alcibiades Teaches Us about Our Search for Good Leaders
by Massimo Pigliucci 2022
3.97
100+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Psychology
Africa Is Not a Country Summary
Africa Is Not a Country
Notes on a Bright Continent
by Dipo Faloyin 2022 385 pages
4.42
7k+ ratings
History
Africa
Politics
The Good Bee Summary
The Good Bee
A Celebration of Bees – And How to Save Them
by Alison Benjamin 2019 193 pages
4.18
100+ ratings
Science
Nature
Natural History
Old Rage Summary
Old Rage
by Sheila Hancock 2022 272 pages
4.09
500+ ratings
Memoir
Autobiography
Biography
American Marxism Summary
American Marxism
by Mark R. Levin 2021 317 pages
4.17
4k+ ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret Summary
Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret
by F. Howard Taylor 1932 256 pages
4.28
8k+ ratings
Biography
Christian
Christianity
Sound and Fury Summary
Sound and Fury
Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship
by Dave Kindred 2007 384 pages
3.99
100+ ratings
Sports
Biography
History
The Story of Philosophy Summary
The Story of Philosophy
The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
by Will Durant 1926 704 pages
4.15
17k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Biography
The Gospel According to Coco Chanel Summary
The Gospel According to Coco Chanel
Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman
by Karen Karbo 2009 225 pages
3.52
3k+ ratings
Fashion
Biography
Self Help
Lady Justice Summary
Lady Justice
Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
by Dahlia Lithwick 2022 368 pages
4.40
2k+ ratings
Politics
Feminism
History
When McKinsey Comes to Town Summary
When McKinsey Comes to Town
by Walt Bogdanich 2022 368 pages
3.80
9k+ ratings
Business
Politics
History
Virtual Society Summary
Virtual Society
The Metaverse and the New Frontiers of Human Experience
by Herman Narula 2022 288 pages
3.42
100+ ratings
Technology
History
Sociology
The Other Side of Prospect Summary
The Other Side of Prospect
A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City
by Nicholas Dawidoff 2022 464 pages
4.43
100+ ratings
History
True Crime
Politics
How to Have a Life Summary
How to Have a Life
An Ancient Guide to Using Our Time Wisely
by Seneca 200 pages
3.89
100+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Personal Development
The Secret History of Dreaming Summary
The Secret History of Dreaming
by Robert Moss 2008 352 pages
3.98
100+ ratings
Psychology
History
Reference
The Muslims are Coming! Summary
The Muslims are Coming!
Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror
by Arun Kundnani 2014 327 pages
4.34
500+ ratings
Politics
Islam
Religion
Chokepoint Capitalism Summary
Chokepoint Capitalism
How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back
by Rebecca Giblin 2022 312 pages
4.26
1k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
Business
The Revenge Of Geography Summary
The Revenge Of Geography
What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
by Robert D. Kaplan 2012 432 pages
3.78
5k+ ratings
History
Politics
Geography
The 48 Laws of Power Summary
The 48 Laws of Power
by Robert Greene 1998 452 pages
4.11
100k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Business
Enemy of the People Summary
Enemy of the People
Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy
by Marvin Kalb 2018 200 pages
4.13
100+ ratings
Politics
History
Journalism
Moonshot Summary
Moonshot
What Landing a Man on the Moon Teaches Us About Collaboration, Creativity, and the Mind-set for Success
by Richard Wiseman 2019 272 pages
3.90
100+ ratings
Space
History
Self Help
The Machine That Changed the World Summary
The Machine That Changed the World
The Story of Lean Production
by James P. Womack 1990 323 pages
4.04
2k+ ratings
Business
Management
History
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
3k+ ratings
Politics
Self Help
Psychology
American Made Summary
American Made
What Happens to People When Work Disappears
by Farah Stockman 2021 418 pages
4.30
1k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
Sociology
Brilliant Moon Summary
Brilliant Moon
The Autobiography of Dilgo Khyentse
by Dilgo Khyentse 2008 400 pages
4.46
100+ ratings
Buddhism
Spirituality
Biography
The WEIRDest People in the World Summary
The WEIRDest People in the World
How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
by Joseph Henrich 2020 706 pages
4.12
3k+ ratings
Psychology
History
Science
Edmund Burke Summary
Edmund Burke
A Genius Reconsidered
by Russell Kirk 1997 285 pages
4.02
100+ ratings
Biography
History
Politics
Why Americans Hate Politics Summary
Why Americans Hate Politics
by E.J. Dionne Jr. 1991 432 pages
3.88
100+ ratings
Politics
Political Science
American
Clean Summary
Clean
The New Science of Skin
by James Hamblin 2020 280 pages
3.90
4k+ ratings
Science
Health
Medicine
American Sketches Summary
American Sketches
Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane
by Walter Isaacson 2009 304 pages
3.76
1k+ ratings
Biography
History
Politics
X Saves the World Summary
X Saves the World
How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking
by Jeff Gordinier 2008 224 pages
3.45
500+ ratings
Sociology
History
Pop Culture
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