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Emergent Strategy Summary
Emergent Strategy
Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, 0)
by adrienne maree brown 2017 280 pages
4.29
8k+ ratings
Social Justice
Politics
Activism
How to Win an Argument Summary
How to Win an Argument
An Ancient Guide to the Art of Persuasion (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
by Marcus Tullius Cicero 2016 288 pages
3.68
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Politics
Between Barack and a Hard Place Summary
Between Barack and a Hard Place
Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama
by Tim Wise 2009 159 pages
4.15
500+ ratings
Race
Politics
Anti Racist
All Too Human Summary
All Too Human
A Political Education
by George Stephanopoulos 2008 544 pages
3.83
3k+ ratings
Politics
Biography
Memoir
Post-Truth Summary
Post-Truth
The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back
by Matthew d'Ancona 2017 164 pages
3.77
500+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Society
21 Lessons for the 21st Century Summary
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
by Yuval Noah Harari 2018 400 pages
4.17
100k+ ratings
History
Philosophy
Science
Asking for It Summary
Asking for It
The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture — and What We Can Do about It
by Kate Harding 2015 274 pages
4.38
4k+ ratings
Feminism
Politics
Gender Studies
The Undercover Economist, Revised and Updated Edition Summary
The Undercover Economist, Revised and Updated Edition
Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor - and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!
by Tim Harford 2012 304 pages
3.81
28k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Summary
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff 2020 704 pages
4.06
11k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
Technology
A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women Summary
A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women
by Mary Wollstonecraft 2014 224 pages
3.91
24k+ ratings
Feminism
Classics
Philosophy
Keynes Hayek Summary
Keynes Hayek
The Clash that Defined Modern Economics
by Nicholas Wapshott 2011 400 pages
3.91
2k+ ratings
Economics
History
Biography
Oxford Research Encyclopedias Summary
Oxford Research Encyclopedias
by William R. Thompson 2019
4.06
2k+ ratings
Politics
Psychology
Cults
In mistrust we trust Summary
In mistrust we trust
Can democracy survive when we don't trust our leaders?
by Ivan Krastev
3.94
50+ ratings
Politics
Economics
China's Economy Summary
China's Economy
What Everyone Needs to Know®
by Arthur R. Kroeber 2016 336 pages
4.27
1k+ ratings
China
Economics
Politics
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 Summary
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
by Paul Krugman 2009 205 pages
3.83
8k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
Fight for Liberty Summary
Fight for Liberty
Defending Democracy in the Age of Trump
by K. S. Merbeth 2018 320 pages
3.9
50+ ratings
Politics
History
When They Call You a Terrorist Summary
When They Call You a Terrorist
A Black Lives Matter Memoir
by Patrisse Khan-Cullors 2018 273 pages
4.50
24k+ ratings
Memoir
Race
Social Justice
AI Superpowers Summary
AI Superpowers
China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
by Kai-Fu Lee 2018 275 pages
4.1
15k+ ratings
Business
Technology
Artificial Intelligence
The Big Short Summary
The Big Short
Inside the Doomsday Machine
by Michael Lewis 2010 287 pages
4.3
100k+ ratings
Business
Economics
Finance
Lies My Teacher Told Me Summary
Lies My Teacher Told Me
by James Loewen 2008 416 pages
3.97
70k+ ratings
History
Education
Politics
Can't Even Summary
Can't Even
How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
by Anne Helen Petersen 2020 304 pages
3.93
8k+ ratings
Psychology
Sociology
Self Help
Poverty Safari Summary
Poverty Safari
Understanding the Anger of Britain's Underclass
by Darren McGarvey 2020 466 pages
4.03
5k+ ratings
Politics
Memoir
Sociology
Machiavelli Summary
Machiavelli
A Very Short Introduction
by SKINNER 2001 120 pages
3.82
500+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Politics
The Almost Nearly Perfect People Summary
The Almost Nearly Perfect People
Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
by Michael Booth 2015 400 pages
3.86
11k+ ratings
Travel
History
Politics
Our Kids Summary
Our Kids
The American Dream in Crisis
by Robert D. Putnam 2016 400 pages
4.03
4k+ ratings
Sociology
Education
Politics
The Meritocracy Trap Summary
The Meritocracy Trap
How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
by Daniel Markovits 2019 442 pages
3.84
1k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
Sociology
Why Nations Fail, Prisoners of Geography, The Bottom Billion 3 Books Collection Set Summary
Why Nations Fail, Prisoners of Geography, The Bottom Billion 3 Books Collection Set
by Tim Marshall 2016 319 pages
4.2
96k+ ratings
History
Geography
Science
Marx Summary
Marx
A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by Peter Singer 2018 152 pages
3.71
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
Understanding National Accounts Second Edition Summary
Understanding National Accounts Second Edition
by Lequiller François 2014 520 pages
4.08
3k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
Dark Money Summary
Dark Money
The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
by Jane Mayer 2016 464 pages
4.3
25k+ ratings
Politics
History
Economics
Character Is Destiny Summary
Character Is Destiny
Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember
by John McCain 2005 336 pages
3.93
500+ ratings
History
Biography
Politics
Falter Summary
Falter
Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
by Bill McKibben 2019 304 pages
4.01
2k+ ratings
Science
Environment
Climate Change
Angela Merkel Summary
Angela Merkel
Europe's Most Influential Leader
by Matthew Qvortrup 2017 470 pages
3.74
100+ ratings
Biography
Politics
History
How to Kill a City Summary
How to Kill a City
Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
by PE Moskowitz 2017 272 pages
4.1
3k+ ratings
Urban Planning
Politics
Urbanism
Dead Aid Summary
Dead Aid
Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
by Dambisa Moyo 2009 208 pages
3.7
7k+ ratings
Economics
Africa
Politics
The Wise Men Summary
The Wise Men
Six Friends and the World They Made
by Walter Isaacson 2013 864 pages
4.09
3k+ ratings
History
Biography
Politics
Becoming Summary
Becoming
by Michelle Obama 2018 448 pages
4.45
1M+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
The Panama Papers Summary
The Panama Papers
by Bastian Obermayer 1970 384 pages
4.08
3k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
History
Weapons of Math Destruction Summary
Weapons of Math Destruction
How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by Cathy O'Neil 2016 272 pages
3.88
27k+ ratings
Science
Technology
Politics
Free Speech Summary
Free Speech
A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by Nigel Warburton 2009 136 pages
3.64
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
LikeWar Summary
LikeWar
The Weaponization of Social Media
by P. W. Singer 2018 416 pages
4.27
3k+ ratings
Politics
Technology
Sociology
Food Politics Summary
Food Politics
What Everyone Needs to Know
by Robert Paarlberg 2010 240 pages
3.5
100+ ratings
Food
Politics
Agriculture
Dealing with China [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2012] NA Summary
Dealing with China [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2012] NA
by Hank Paulson 2016 448 pages
3.76
1k+ ratings
China
Economics
Politics
The Gervais Principle Summary
The Gervais Principle
The Complete Series, with a Bonus Essay on Office Space (Ribbonfarm Roughs Book 2)
by Venkatesh Rao 2013 144 pages
3.59
14k+ ratings
Philosophy
Essays
Humor
Pakistan on the Brink Summary
Pakistan on the Brink
The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
by Ahmed Rashid 2012 256 pages
3.78
500+ ratings
Politics
Pakistan
History
The Bridge Summary
The Bridge
The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
by David Remnick 2010 673 pages
4.1
4k+ ratings
Biography
Politics
History
Currency Wars Summary
Currency Wars
The Making of the Next Global Crisis
by James Rickards 2011 318 pages
3.96
4k+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
The Crisis Of The Old Order Summary
The Crisis Of The Old Order
1919-1933, The Age of Roosevelt, Volume I (The Age of Roosevelt, 1)
by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. 2003 576 pages
4.17
100+ ratings
History
Biography
American History
Social Acceleration Summary
Social Acceleration
A New Theory of Modernity (New Directions in Critical Theory Book 32)
by Hartmut Rosa 2013 514 pages
4.36
100+ ratings
Philosophy
Sociology
History
In Praise of Idleness Summary
In Praise of Idleness
by Bertrand Russell
4.04
6k+ ratings
Philosophy
Essays
Politics
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