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The Future of Violence Summary
The Future of Violence
Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones-Confronting A New Age of Threat
by Benjamin Wittes 2015 336 pages
3.39
100+ ratings
Politics
Military Fiction
Technology
The Singapore Story Summary
The Singapore Story
Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew, Vol. 1
by Kuan Yew Lee 1998 680 pages
4.27
2k+ ratings
Biography
History
Politics
Irrational Exuberance 3rd edition Summary
Irrational Exuberance 3rd edition
by Robert J. Shiller 2015 392 pages
3.98
8k+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
A Life Worth Living Summary
A Life Worth Living
Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning
by Robert Zaretsky 2013 240 pages
4.01
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Biography
History
Everyone Is African Summary
Everyone Is African
How Science Explodes the Myth of Race
by Daniel J. Fairbanks 2015 191 pages
4.11
100+ ratings
Science
Race
History
In Defense of a Liberal Education Summary
In Defense of a Liberal Education
by Fareed Zakaria 2015 208 pages
3.83
2k+ ratings
Education
Philosophy
Politics
Cooked Summary
Cooked
by Michael Pollan 2013 480 pages
4.08
25k+ ratings
Food
Cooking
Science
50 People Every Christian Should Know Summary
50 People Every Christian Should Know
Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith
by Warren W. Wiersbe 2009 398 pages
4.07
1k+ ratings
Biography
Christian
History
The Accidental President of Brazil Summary
The Accidental President of Brazil
by Fernando Henrique Cardoso 2007 496 pages
4.14
100+ ratings
History
Brazil
Biography
I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree Summary
I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree
A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor
by Laura Hillman 2010 262 pages
4.15
5k+ ratings
Holocaust
History
Memoir
Girls Who Rocked the World Summary
Girls Who Rocked the World
Heroines from Joan of Arc to Mother Teresa
by Michelle Roehm McCann 2012 257 pages
4.05
500+ ratings
History
Biography
Feminism
Losing the Signal Summary
Losing the Signal
The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry (Hardcover) — by Jacquie McNish [2015 Edition] ISBN: 9781250060174
by Jacquie McNish 1672 288 pages
3.98
4k+ ratings
Business
Technology
History
The Great Divide Summary
The Great Divide
Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them
by Joseph E. Stiglitz 2015 448 pages
3.82
1k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Sociology
How Music Got Free Summary
How Music Got Free
The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
by Stephen Witt 2015 304 pages
4.24
6k+ ratings
Music
History
Business
Just Mercy Summary
Just Mercy
A Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson 2014 352 pages
4.63
200k+ ratings
Memoir
Social Justice
Race
The Girls of Atomic City Summary
The Girls of Atomic City
The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
by Denise Kiernan 2013 400 pages
3.72
30k+ ratings
History
World War II
Science
NeuroTribes Summary
NeuroTribes
The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
by Steve Silberman 2015 542 pages
4.29
15k+ ratings
Psychology
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Science
Samurai Wisdom Summary
Samurai Wisdom
Lessons from Japan's Warrior Culture
by Thomas Cleary 2009 256 pages
4.03
50+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Martial Arts
How Propaganda Works Summary
How Propaganda Works
by Jason Stanley 2015 376 pages
3.55
500+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Psychology
Markets Never Forget (But People Do) Summary
Markets Never Forget (But People Do)
How Your Memory Is Costing You Money—and Why This Time Isn’t Different
by Ken Fisher 2011 240 pages
3.88
100+ ratings
Finance
Psychology
Economics
The Art of War -- Spirituality for Conflict Summary
The Art of War -- Spirituality for Conflict
Annotated & Explained
by Sun Tzu 2008 256 pages
3.99
100+ ratings
Philosophy
Spirituality
Self Help
Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It Summary
Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It
Wisdom of the Great Philosophers on How to Live
by Daniel Klein 2015 224 pages
3.96
3k+ ratings
Philosophy
Self Help
Psychology
The Evolution of Everything Summary
The Evolution of Everything
How New Ideas Emerge
by Matt Ridley 2015 368 pages
3.92
3k+ ratings
Science
History
Philosophy
It IS About Islam Summary
It IS About Islam
Exposing the Truth About ISIS, Al Qaeda, Iran, and the Caliphate (3) (The Control Series)
by Glenn Beck 2015 272 pages
4.08
2k+ ratings
Politics
History
Religion
Economics Rules Summary
Economics Rules
The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science
by Dani Rodrik 2015 272 pages
3.95
1k+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
Bitita's Diary Summary
Bitita's Diary
The Autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus: The Autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus (Latin American Realities (Hardcover))
by Carolina Maria De Jesus 1997 180 pages
4.46
7k+ ratings
Memoir
Brazil
Classics
Saving Capitalism Summary
Saving Capitalism
For the Many, Not the Few
by Robert B. Reich 2015 304 pages
4.19
5k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
Coffee Life in Japan (Volume 36) Summary
Coffee Life in Japan (Volume 36)
by Merry White 2012 240 pages
3.72
100+ ratings
Japan
Food
Urban Studies
Jesus, Interrupted Summary
Jesus, Interrupted
Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them)
by Bart D. Ehrman 2009 304 pages
3.99
10k+ ratings
Religion
History
Christianity
Thomas Jefferson Summary
Thomas Jefferson
The Art of Power
by Jon Meacham 2012 800 pages
4.04
40k+ ratings
History
Biography
Presidents
Wizard Summary
Wizard
The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla
by Marc J. Seifer 2011 580 pages
3.72
6k+ ratings
Biography
Science
History
The Art of the Con Summary
The Art of the Con
The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World
by Anthony M. Amore 2015 272 pages
3.55
1k+ ratings
Art
True Crime
History
The Inner History of Devices Summary
The Inner History of Devices
by Sherry Turkle 2008 224 pages
3.81
50+ ratings
History
Technology
Science
Trouble in Paradise Summary
Trouble in Paradise
From the End of History to the End of Capitalism
by Slavoj Zizek 2015 272 pages
3.74
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
Daughters of the Samurai Summary
Daughters of the Samurai
A Journey from East to West and Back
by Janice P. Nimura 2015 336 pages
3.9
2k+ ratings
History
Japan
Biography
Beyond Fundamentalism Summary
Beyond Fundamentalism
Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization
by Reza Aslan 2010 240 pages
3.99
1k+ ratings
Religion
Politics
History
Killing the Host Summary
Killing the Host
How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy
by Michael Hudson 2015 400 pages
4.33
100+ ratings
Economics
Politics
History
The Only Game in Town Summary
The Only Game in Town
Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse
by Mohamed A. El-Erian 2016 320 pages
3.57
1k+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
Why Minsky Matters Summary
Why Minsky Matters
An Introduction to the Work of a Maverick Economist
by L. Randall Wray 2015 288 pages
4.19
100+ ratings
Economics
Finance
History
The Billionaire and the Mechanic Summary
The Billionaire and the Mechanic
How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the Americas Cup, Twice
by Julian Guthrie 2014 336 pages
4.09
500+ ratings
Sports
Biography
History
Anatomy of Love Summary
Anatomy of Love
A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray
by Helen Fisher 2016 464 pages
3.88
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Relationships
Food of the Gods Summary
Food of the Gods
The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution
by Terence McKenna 1993 311 pages
4.13
11k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Science
India Unbound Summary
India Unbound
by Gurcharan Das 2015 432 pages
4.09
6k+ ratings
India
History
Economics
The Big Picture Summary
The Big Picture
On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
by Sean M. Carroll 2016 475 pages
4.18
9k+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Physics
Chaos Monkeys Summary
Chaos Monkeys
Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
by Antonio Garcia Martinez 2016 528 pages
3.71
13k+ ratings
Business
Technology
Biography
Suspicious Minds Summary
Suspicious Minds
Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories
by Rob Brotherton 2015 304 pages
3.89
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
History
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything Summary
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything
Tales from the Pentagon
by Rosa Brooks 2016 448 pages
3.93
1k+ ratings
Politics
History
Military Fiction
Words Like Loaded Pistols Summary
Words Like Loaded Pistols
by Sam. Leith 2012
3.77
1k+ ratings
Writing
Philosophy
Language
100 Million Years of Food Summary
100 Million Years of Food
What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today
by Stephen Le 2016 320 pages
3.62
500+ ratings
Food
History
Health
Utopia for Realists Summary
Utopia for Realists
The Case for a Universal Basic Income, Open Borders, and a 15-hour Workweek
by Rutger Bregman 1825 252 pages
4.22
38k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
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