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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Summary
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
by Edwin Lefèvre 1923 308 pages
4.18
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Metaphysics Summary
Metaphysics
by Aristotle 365 pages
4.07
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Why Civil Resistance Works Summary
Why Civil Resistance Works
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4.02
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Wealth, Poverty and Politics Summary
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by Thomas Sowell 2015 328 pages
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Genome Summary
Genome
The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
by Matt Ridley 1999 344 pages
4.06
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The Panama Papers Summary
The Panama Papers
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by Frederik Obermaier 2016 400 pages
4.08
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The Man Who Broke Capitalism Summary
The Man Who Broke Capitalism
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by David Gelles 2022 272 pages
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The Feminine Mystique Summary
The Feminine Mystique
by Betty Friedan 1963 562 pages
3.87
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The Nature of Technology Summary
The Nature of Technology
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by W. Brian Arthur 2009 256 pages
3.96
814 ratings
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The Meritocracy Trap Summary
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by Daniel Markovits 2019 448 pages
3.83
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Patriot Summary
Patriot
A Memoir
by Alexei Navalny 2024 496 pages
4.57
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How to Kill a City Summary
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by Peter Moskowitz 2017 272 pages
4.09
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The Girls of Atomic City Summary
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by Denise Kiernan 2013 373 pages
3.72
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The Practicing Stoic Summary
The Practicing Stoic
by Ward Farnsworth 2018 292 pages
4.35
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The Singapore Story Summary
The Singapore Story
Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew
by Lee Kuan Yew 1998 680 pages
4.28
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Beyond Band of Brothers Summary
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The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
by Dick Winters 2006 304 pages
4.32
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Soccernomics Summary
Soccernomics
Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey--and Even Iraq--Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport
by Simon Kuper 2009 336 pages
3.95
19.3K ratings
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Empire Summary
Empire
How Britain Made the Modern World
by Niall Ferguson 2003 422 pages
3.93
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The Narrow Corridor Summary
The Narrow Corridor
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by Daron Acemoğlu 2019 560 pages
4.22
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The Grand Chessboard Summary
The Grand Chessboard
American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives
by Zbigniew Brzeziński 1997 240 pages
3.97
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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy Summary
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
by John J. Mearsheimer 2006 484 pages
4.09
3.8K ratings
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The Code Breaker Summary
The Code Breaker
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by Walter Isaacson 2021 536 pages
4.28
39.1K ratings
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The Crowd & The Psychology of Revolution Summary
The Crowd & The Psychology of Revolution
by Gustave Le Bon 2015 286 pages
4.18
242 ratings
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Selections from the Prison Notebooks Summary
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
by Antonio Gramsci 1947 483 pages
4.20
5.2K ratings
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Iran Awakening Summary
Iran Awakening
A Memoir of Revolution and Hope
by Shirin Ebadi 2006 232 pages
4.17
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The Anthropocene Reviewed Summary
The Anthropocene Reviewed
Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
by John Green 2021 304 pages
4.36
154.6K ratings
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Tried by War Summary
Tried by War
Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
by James M. McPherson 2008 329 pages
4.09
5.9K ratings
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On the Good Life Summary
On the Good Life
by Marcus Tullius Cicero 384 pages
4.00
2.0K ratings
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The First Three Minutes Summary
The First Three Minutes
A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
by Steven Weinberg 1977 224 pages
4.10
13.0K ratings
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The Innovators Summary
The Innovators
How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
by Walter Isaacson 2011 542 pages
4.12
38.9K ratings
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The Japanese Mind Summary
The Japanese Mind
Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture
by Roger J. Davies 2002 280 pages
3.73
1.7K ratings
Japan
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A Promised Land Summary
A Promised Land
by Barack Obama 2020 768 pages
4.32
258.5K ratings
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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
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On the Genealogy of Morals Summary
On the Genealogy of Morals
by Friedrich Nietzsche 1887 208 pages
4.13
33.2K ratings
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Psychology
The Warrior Ethos Summary
The Warrior Ethos
by Steven Pressfield 2011 112 pages
4.07
4.9K ratings
Military Fiction
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Awakenings Summary
Awakenings
by Oliver Sacks 1973 464 pages
4.09
13.7K ratings
Science
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Medicine
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
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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
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Riddles in Hinduism Summary
Riddles in Hinduism
The Annotated Critical Selection
by B.R. Ambedkar 1954 296 pages
4.19
554 ratings
History
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Money Men Summary
Money Men
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by Dan McCrum 2022 352 pages
4.05
2.7K ratings
Business
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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
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مقدمة ابن خلدون Summary
مقدمة ابن خلدون
by Ibn Khaldun 1377 3864 pages
4.30
4.7K ratings
History
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Message From The Middle Of Nowhere Summary
Message From The Middle Of Nowhere
Icelandic Viking philosophy for conquering the challenges of business and life
by Gunnar Andri Thorisson 2017 238 pages
3.90
174 ratings
Philosophy
Self Help
Business
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning Summary
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning
Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
by Peter Zeihan 2022 512 pages
4.17
12.2K ratings
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Life Ascending Summary
Life Ascending
The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
by Nick Lane 2009 352 pages
4.12
5.3K ratings
Science
Biology
Evolution
The Demon-Haunted World Summary
The Demon-Haunted World
Science as a Candle in the Dark
by Carl Sagan 1995 459 pages
4.29
77.5K ratings
Science
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The Boy on the Wooden Box Summary
The Boy on the Wooden Box
by Leon Leyson 2013 240 pages
4.38
28.7K ratings
Holocaust
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Memoir
Hackers Summary
Hackers
Heroes of the Computer Revolution
by Steven Levy 1984 464 pages
4.16
8.4K ratings
History
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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 2003 274 pages
4.15
5.5K ratings
Holocaust
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Memoir
Mahagatha - 100 Tales from the Puranas Summary
Mahagatha - 100 Tales from the Puranas
by Satyarth Nayak 2022 436 pages
4.41
1.2K ratings
Mythology
India
Religion
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