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The Aristocracy of Talent Summary
The Aristocracy of Talent
How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
by Adrian Wooldridge 2021 481 pages
3.88
482 ratings
History
Politics
Economics
Tao Te Ching Summary
Tao Te Ching
The Taoism of Lao Tzu Explained
by Stefan Stenudd 2011 321 pages
4.33
157 ratings
Philosophy
Taoism
Spirituality
Making Friends with Death Summary
Making Friends with Death
A Buddhist Guide to Encountering Mortality
by Judith L. Lief 2001 187 pages
4.25
120 ratings
Buddhism
Spirituality
Death
Politics As a Vocation Summary
Politics As a Vocation
by Max Weber 2013 52 pages
3.79
597 ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Sociology
The Tao of Inner Peace Summary
The Tao of Inner Peace
by Diane Dreher 1990 336 pages
4.11
1.1K ratings
Philosophy
Spirituality
Religion
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Summary
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
by Mary Wollstonecraft 1792 269 pages
3.92
26.0K ratings
Feminism
Classics
Philosophy
Everything Is Here to Help You Summary
Everything Is Here to Help You
A Loving Guide to Your Soul's Evolution
by Matt Kahn 2018 224 pages
4.08
472 ratings
Spirituality
Self Help
Psychology
Meetings With Remarkable Men Summary
Meetings With Remarkable Men
by G.I. Gurdjieff 1960 303 pages
4.12
2.6K ratings
Philosophy
Spirituality
Biography
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays Summary
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
by David Foster Wallace 2005 343 pages
4.18
52.5K ratings
Essays
Philosophy
Humor
A Quaker Book of Wisdom Summary
A Quaker Book of Wisdom
Life Lessons In Simplicity, Service, And Common Sense
by Robert Lawrence Smith 1998 208 pages
4.08
804 ratings
Religion
Spirituality
Philosophy
Friendship in an Age of Economics Summary
Friendship in an Age of Economics
Resisting the Forces of Neoliberalism
by Todd May 2012 164 pages
3.72
29 ratings
Philosophy
Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha/2008 Fourth Revised Edition Summary
Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha/2008 Fourth Revised Edition
by Satyananda Saraswati 1969 544 pages
4.53
1.5K ratings
Spirituality
Health
Reference
Behold the Spirit Summary
Behold the Spirit
A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion
by Alan W. Watts 1971 257 pages
4.30
433 ratings
Spirituality
Philosophy
Religion
Buddha in Blue Jeans Summary
Buddha in Blue Jeans
An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha
by Tai Sheridan 2011 31 pages
3.93
7.8K ratings
Buddhism
Self Help
Philosophy
Possible Minds Summary
Possible Minds
25 Ways of Looking at AI
by John Brockman 2019 320 pages
3.77
809 ratings
Science
Artificial Intelligence
Technology
The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology Summary
The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology
by David M. Buss 2005 1028 pages
4.23
107 ratings
Psychology
Science
Evolution
Good Work Summary
Good Work
When Excellence and Ethics Meet
by Howard Gardner 2001 304 pages
3.75
268 ratings
Psychology
Business
Philosophy
Living Your Yoga Summary
Living Your Yoga
Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life
by Judith Hanson Lasater 1999 192 pages
4.24
3.0K ratings
Spirituality
Health
Self Help
The Matrix Summary
The Matrix
by Joshua Clover 2004 96 pages
4.13
1.5K ratings
Film
Media Tie In
Science Fiction
Political Philosophy Summary
Political Philosophy
A Beginners' Guide for Students and Politicians
by Adam Swift 2001 208 pages
3.92
406 ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Academic
Green Philosophy Summary
Green Philosophy
How to Think Seriously About the Planet
by Roger Scruton 2011 464 pages
3.89
428 ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Environment
Cognitive Gadgets Summary
Cognitive Gadgets
The Cultural Evolution of Thinking
by Cecilia Heyes 2018 304 pages
3.77
178 ratings
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Les Nourritures terrestres Summary
Les Nourritures terrestres
suivi de Les nouvelles nourritures
by AndrΓ© Gide 1897 248 pages
3.68
3.7K ratings
Poetry
Classics
France
The Philosophy of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Summary
The Philosophy of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Stoic Philosophy as Rational and Cognitive Psychotherapy
by Donald J. Robertson 2010 316 pages
4.19
311 ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Self Help
Psychology of the Future Summary
Psychology of the Future
Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research
by Stanislav Grof 2000 361 pages
4.27
290 ratings
Psychology
Science
Spirituality
Secret of the Veda Summary
Secret of the Veda
by Sri Aurobindo 1971 651 pages
4.45
167 ratings
Philosophy
Spirituality
Religion
Walk Like a Buddha Summary
Walk Like a Buddha
Even if Your Boss Sucks, Your Ex Is Torturing You, and You're Hungover Again
by Lodro Rinzler 2013 224 pages
3.87
1.0K ratings
Buddhism
Spirituality
Self Help
Fully Engaged Summary
Fully Engaged
Using the Practicing Mind in Daily Life
by Thomas M. Sterner 2016 120 pages
4.21
227 ratings
Self Help
Personal Development
Philosophy
Flatland Summary
Flatland
A Romance of Many Dimensions
by Edwin A. Abbott 1884 96 pages
3.81
74.9K ratings
Science Fiction
Classics
Mathematics
This Idea Is Brilliant Summary
This Idea Is Brilliant
Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know
by John Brockman 2018 515 pages
3.83
640 ratings
Science
Philosophy
Essays
Walking With Plato Summary
Walking With Plato
A Philosophical Hike Through the British Isles
by Gary Hayden 2016 224 pages
3.64
303 ratings
Travel
Philosophy
Walking
Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed Summary
Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed
Educating for the Virtues in the Age of Truthiness and Twitter
by Howard Gardner 2010 256 pages
3.48
215 ratings
Education
Philosophy
Psychology
On Life after Death Summary
On Life after Death
by Elisabeth KΓΌbler-Ross 1984 82 pages
4.18
2.3K ratings
Psychology
Spirituality
Death
Paris Talks Summary
Paris Talks
Addresses Given by 'Abdu'l-Baha in 1911
by Abdu'l-BahΓ‘ 1969 210 pages
4.83
296 ratings
Religion
Baha I
Philosophy
StΓ₯steder Summary
StΓ₯steder
by Svend Brinkmann 2018 200 pages
3.77
743 ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Danish
How to Win a Cosmic War Summary
How to Win a Cosmic War
God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror
by Reza Aslan 2009 228 pages
3.99
1.7K ratings
Religion
Politics
History
This Thing Called You Summary
This Thing Called You
by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes 1956 160 pages
4.46
607 ratings
Spirituality
Philosophy
Self Help
Confessions Summary
Confessions
by Augustine of Hippo 341 pages
3.98
70.0K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Religion
The Relaxed Mind Summary
The Relaxed Mind
A Seven-Step Method for Deepening Meditation Practice
by Dza Kilung Rinpoche 2015 176 pages
4.11
132 ratings
Buddhism
Spirituality
Self Help
The Mind is Flat Summary
The Mind is Flat
by Nick Chater 2018 272 pages
3.75
778 ratings
Psychology
Science
Neuroscience
Interventions 2020 Summary
Interventions 2020
by Michel Houellebecq 2020 371 pages
3.58
515 ratings
Essays
Politics
France
Parenting Beyond Belief Summary
Parenting Beyond Belief
On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion
by Dale McGowan 2007 304 pages
4.07
1.8K ratings
Parenting
Religion
Atheism
Action! Summary
Action!
Nothing Happens Until Something Moves
by Robert J. Ringer 2004 240 pages
4.11
127 ratings
Business
Self Help
Philosophy
Taming the Tiger Within Summary
Taming the Tiger Within
Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions
by Thich Nhat Hanh 2004 293 pages
4.08
5.3K ratings
Buddhism
Spirituality
Self Help
The Science of Mindfulness Summary
The Science of Mindfulness
A Research-Based Path to Well-Being
by Ronald D. Siegel 2014 6 pages
4.24
977 ratings
Psychology
Science
Self Help
Mindfulness Summary
Mindfulness
by Gill Hasson 2013 196 pages
3.66
810 ratings
Self Help
Psychology
Personal Development
The Harvard Psychedelic Club Summary
The Harvard Psychedelic Club
How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America
by Don Lattin 2010 256 pages
3.92
2.0K ratings
History
Psychology
Biography
The Fourth Dimension Summary
The Fourth Dimension
A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes
by Rudy Rucker 1984 228 pages
4.15
786 ratings
Science
Physics
Mathematics
The Origins and History of Consciousness Summary
The Origins and History of Consciousness
by Erich Neumann 1949 493 pages
4.32
1.6K ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
History
An Extraordinary Absence Summary
An Extraordinary Absence
Liberation in the Midst of a Very Ordinary Life
by Jeff Foster 2009 216 pages
4.23
161 ratings
Spirituality
Philosophy
Self Help
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