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What Money Can't Buy Summary
What Money Can't Buy
The Moral Limits of Markets
by Michael J. Sandel 2012 256 pages
3.93
12k+ ratings
Philosophy
Economics
Politics
The New Geography Of Jobs Summary
The New Geography Of Jobs
by Enrico Moretti 2013 304 pages
4.04
2k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
Trust Me, I'm Lying Summary
Trust Me, I'm Lying
Confessions of a Media Manipulator
by Ryan Holiday 2012 259 pages
3.86
11k+ ratings
Business
Psychology
Politics
Keeping the Republic Summary
Keeping the Republic
Saving America by Trusting Americans
by Mitch Daniels 2012 272 pages
4
100+ ratings
Politics
Biography
Government
Bad Samaritans Summary
Bad Samaritans
The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
by Ha-Joon Chang 2009 288 pages
4.2
5k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
History
The Arab Uprising Summary
The Arab Uprising
The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East
by Marc Lynch 2012 288 pages
3.66
100+ ratings
Politics
History
Unfinished
Occupy (Occupied Media Pamphlet Series, 1) Summary
Occupy (Occupied Media Pamphlet Series, 1)
by Noam Chomsky 2012 128 pages
3.59
2k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
Liars and Outliers Summary
Liars and Outliers
Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive
by Bruce Schneier 2012 382 pages
3.78
1k+ ratings
Sociology
Psychology
Science
The Great Escape Summary
The Great Escape
Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
by Angus Deaton 2013 376 pages
3.82
2k+ ratings
Economics
History
Politics
A Conflict of Visions Summary
A Conflict of Visions
Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
by Thomas Sowell 2007 352 pages
4.32
4k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Economics
Moral Tribes Summary
Moral Tribes
Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
by Joshua Greene 2013 432 pages
4.03
3k+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Science
Smuggler Nation Summary
Smuggler Nation
How Illicit Trade Made America
by Peter Andreas 2013 472 pages
3.98
100+ ratings
History
American History
Crime
Liquid Surveillance Summary
Liquid Surveillance
A Conversation
by Zygmunt Bauman 2013 200 pages
3.8
100+ ratings
Sociology
Philosophy
Politics
The Map and the Territory Summary
The Map and the Territory
Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting
by Alan Greenspan 2013 400 pages
3.27
100+ ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
The Rejected Stone Summary
The Rejected Stone
Al Sharpton and the Path to American Leadership
by Al Sharpton 2013 272 pages
4.14
100+ ratings
Politics
Memoir
African American
Average Is Over Summary
Average Is Over
Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
by Tyler Cowen 2013 304 pages
3.64
2k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
How to Be Black Summary
How to Be Black
by Baratunde Thurston 2012 254 pages
3.9
8k+ ratings
Humor
Memoir
Race
Master Switch Summary
Master Switch
The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
by Tim Wu 2010 368 pages
3.89
7k+ ratings
Technology
History
Business
Why Civil Resistance Works Summary
Why Civil Resistance Works
The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare)
by Erica Chenoweth 2012 320 pages
4.04
500+ ratings
Politics
History
Activism
Without Their Permission Summary
Without Their Permission
How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed
by Alexis Ohanian 2013 272 pages
3.7
2k+ ratings
Business
Technology
Entrepreneurship
Made in the USA Summary
Made in the USA
The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing (MIT Press)
by Vaclav Smil 2013 256 pages
3.75
100+ ratings
Economics
Business
History
How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes Summary
How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes
by Schiff 2010 256 pages
4.16
5k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
The Better Angels of Our Nature Summary
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker 2012 832 pages
4.16
28k+ ratings
History
Psychology
Science
The Great Debate Summary
The Great Debate
Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
by Yuval Levin 2013 296 pages
3.87
1k+ ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
Lords of Finance Summary
Lords of Finance
The Bankers Who Broke the World
by Liaquat Ahamed 2009 576 pages
4.02
15k+ ratings
History
Economics
Finance
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar Summary
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar
What Everyone Needs to Know®
by P.W. Singer 2014 320 pages
3.83
1k+ ratings
Technology
Politics
Science
The Undercover Economist Strikes Back Summary
The Undercover Economist Strikes Back
How to Run - or Ruin - an Economy
by Tim Harford 2014 272 pages
3.92
3k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
The Obamas Summary
The Obamas
by Jodi Kantor 2012 334 pages
3.69
2k+ ratings
Politics
Biography
History
The Tyranny of Good Intentions Summary
The Tyranny of Good Intentions
How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice
by Paul Craig Roberts 2008 236 pages
4.06
100+ ratings
Politics
Law
History
The News Summary
The News
A User's Manual
by Alain De Botton 2014 272 pages
3.59
3k+ ratings
Philosophy
Journalism
Politics
Plato at the Googleplex Summary
Plato at the Googleplex
Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
by Rebecca Goldstein 2014 480 pages
3.86
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Science
The Locust Effect Summary
The Locust Effect
Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
by Gary A. Haugen 2014 368 pages
4.31
1k+ ratings
Politics
Social Justice
Sociology
The Next America Summary
The Next America
Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown
by Paul Taylor 2014 288 pages
3.68
500+ ratings
Politics
Sociology
Economics
Asia's Cauldron Summary
Asia's Cauldron
The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific
by Robert D. Kaplan 2014 256 pages
3.95
2k+ ratings
History
Politics
China
On Rumors Summary
On Rumors
How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, and What Can Be Done
by Cass R. Sunstein 2014 128 pages
3.29
100+ ratings
Sociology
Psychology
Politics
The Image Summary
The Image
A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
by Daniel J. Boorstin 1992 336 pages
4.08
1k+ ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
Simpler Summary
Simpler
The Future of Government
by Cass R. Sunstein 2013 272 pages
3.57
500+ ratings
Politics
Economics
Law
Crisis and Command Summary
Crisis and Command
A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush
by John Yoo
3.61
100+ ratings
History
Politics
Presidents
The Diversity Delusion Summary
The Diversity Delusion
How Immigration Broke Britain & How to Solve It
by Ed West 2013 288 pages
4.04
100+ ratings
Politics
Sociology
History
The First Family Detail Summary
The First Family Detail
Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents
by Ronald Kessler 2014 272 pages
3.34
3k+ ratings
History
Politics
Presidents
Environmental Economics Summary
Environmental Economics
A Very Short Introduction
by Stephen Smith 2011 136 pages
3.62
100+ ratings
Economics
Environment
Science
World Order Summary
World Order
by Henry Kissinger 2014 432 pages
4.05
12k+ ratings
Politics
History
International Relations
Leadership (Harper Perennial Political Classics) Summary
Leadership (Harper Perennial Political Classics)
by James M. Burns 2010 544 pages
3.86
100+ ratings
Leadership
History
Business
Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas Summary
Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas
by Cass R. Sunstein 2014 288 pages
3.13
100+ ratings
Politics
Psychology
Conspiracy Theories
Our Culture, What's Left of It Summary
Our Culture, What's Left of It
The Mandarins and the Masses
by Theodore Dalrymple 2007 356 pages
4.15
1k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Essays
Spoilt Rotten Summary
Spoilt Rotten
The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality
by Theodore Dalrymple 2011 256 pages
3.96
1k+ ratings
Sociology
Politics
Essays
The Empathic Civilization Summary
The Empathic Civilization
The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis
by Jeremy Rifkin 2009 688 pages
4.03
500+ ratings
History
Psychology
Philosophy
Diplomacy Summary
Diplomacy
A Very Short Introduction
by Joseph M. Siracusa 2010 160 pages
3.15
100+ ratings
Politics
History
International Relations
The Great Agnostic Summary
The Great Agnostic
Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
by Susan Jacoby 2014 256 pages
4.03
500+ ratings
Biography
History
Religion
Bowling Alone Summary
Bowling Alone
The Collapse and Revival of American Community
by Robert D. Putnam 2001 544 pages
3.84
7k+ ratings
Sociology
Politics
History
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