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The Logic of Scientific Discovery Summary
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
by Karl Popper 1934 544 pages
4.03
5k+ ratings
Philosophy
Science
Classics
Join the Club Summary
Join the Club
How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World
by Tina Rosenberg 2011 432 pages
3.49
100+ ratings
Sociology
Psychology
Politics
Breaking the Spell Summary
Breaking the Spell
Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
by Daniel C. Dennett 2006 464 pages
3.89
12k+ ratings
Philosophy
Science
Atheism
Minima Moralia Summary
Minima Moralia
Reflections on a Damaged Life
by Theodor W. Adorno 1951 256 pages
4.24
4k+ ratings
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
Deluxe Summary
Deluxe
How Luxury Lost Its Luster
by Dana Thomas 2007 384 pages
3.89
3k+ ratings
Fashion
Business
History
Liquid Modernity Summary
Liquid Modernity
by Zygmunt Bauman 1999 240 pages
4.11
4k+ ratings
Philosophy
Sociology
Politics
Life at the Bottom Summary
Life at the Bottom
The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
by Theodore Dalrymple 2001 284 pages
4.23
3k+ ratings
Politics
Psychology
Sociology
Groupthink Summary
Groupthink
Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes
by Irving L. Janis 1982 349 pages
4.15
100+ ratings
Psychology
Politics
History
Suicide Summary
Suicide
A Study in Sociology
by Émile Durkheim 1897 405 pages
3.85
4k+ ratings
Sociology
Psychology
Philosophy
What's Our Problem? Summary
What's Our Problem?
A Self-Help Book for Societies
by Tim Urban 2023 746 pages
4.27
4k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Society
The Identity Trap Summary
The Identity Trap
A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
by Yascha Mounk 2023 414 pages
4.06
1k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Sociology
Thanks a Thousand Summary
Thanks a Thousand
A Gratitude Journey
by A.J. Jacobs 2018 160 pages
3.73
3k+ ratings
Memoir
Self Help
Humor
A Return to Modesty Summary
A Return to Modesty
Discovering the Lost Virtue
by Wendy Shalit 1998 304 pages
3.79
1k+ ratings
Feminism
Philosophy
Sociology
The Sociological Imagination Summary
The Sociological Imagination
by C. Wright Mills 1959 256 pages
4.16
3k+ ratings
Sociology
Philosophy
Social Science
الذرة الاجتماعية Summary
الذرة الاجتماعية
لماذا يزداد الأثرياء ثراءً والفقراء فقرًا؟
by Mark Buchanan 2007 333 pages
3.69
500+ ratings
Sociology
Psychology
Politics
A History of Modern Iran Summary
A History of Modern Iran
by Ervand Abrahamian 2008 228 pages
3.88
1k+ ratings
History
Iran
Politics
تئوری انتخاب Summary
تئوری انتخاب
در آمدی بر روان شناسی امید
by William Glasser 592 pages
4.05
500+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Philosophy
بیشعوری Summary
بیشعوری
راهنمای تشخیص و درمان خطرناکترین بیماری تاریخ بشریت
by Xavier Crement 1990 232 pages
2.74
5k+ ratings
Psychology
Sociology
Self Help
The Cinderella Complex Summary
The Cinderella Complex
Women's Hidden Fear of Independence
by Colette Dowling 1981 291 pages
3.80
1k+ ratings
Feminism
Psychology
Sociology
Public Relations Summary
Public Relations
by Edward L. Bernays 1952 374 pages
3.97
100+ ratings
Psychology
Politics
Philosophy
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy Summary
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
by Joseph A. Schumpeter 1942 460 pages
4.00
2k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
توتالیتاریسم Summary
توتالیتاریسم
by Hannah Arendt 1968 365 pages
4.17
500+ ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
Change Summary
Change
How to Make Big Things Happen
by Damon Centola 2021 352 pages
4.05
500+ ratings
Psychology
Business
Sociology
Capital City Summary
Capital City
Gentrification and the Real Estate State
by Samuel Stein 2019 202 pages
3.93
1k+ ratings
Politics
Urban Planning
Economics
The Philosophy of Money Summary
The Philosophy of Money
by Georg Simmel 1900 616 pages
4.07
100+ ratings
Philosophy
Sociology
Economics
The Closing of the American Mind Summary
The Closing of the American Mind
by Allan Bloom 1987 392 pages
3.76
5k+ ratings
Philosophy
Education
Politics
Triumphs of Experience Summary
Triumphs of Experience
The Men of the Harvard Grant Study
by George E. Vaillant 2012 457 pages
4.15
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Sociology
Simulacra and Simulation Summary
Simulacra and Simulation
by Jean Baudrillard 1981 164 pages
4.00
15k+ ratings
Philosophy
Theory
Sociology
NurtureShock Summary
NurtureShock
New Thinking About Children
by Po Bronson 2008 336 pages
4.03
26k+ ratings
Parenting
Psychology
Education
Social Psychology Summary
Social Psychology
by Elliot Aronson 1973 633 pages
4.02
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Textbooks
Sociology
Social Psychology Summary
Social Psychology
by David G. Myers 1983 593 pages
4.01
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Textbooks
Sociology
The Death of Expertise Summary
The Death of Expertise
The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
by Thomas M. Nichols 2017 272 pages
3.83
9k+ ratings
Politics
Science
Sociology
Generations Summary
Generations
The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future
by Jean M. Twenge 2023 560 pages
4.04
4k+ ratings
Sociology
History
Psychology
Cringeworthy Summary
Cringeworthy
A Theory of Awkwardness
by Melissa Dahl 2018 300 pages
3.68
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Sociology
The Other Significant Others Summary
The Other Significant Others
Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
by Rhaina Cohen 2024 320 pages
3.94
3k+ ratings
Relationships
Self Help
Psychology
Obedience to Authority Summary
Obedience to Authority
by Stanley Milgram 1974 256 pages
4.20
4k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Sociology
Social Identity Summary
Social Identity
by Richard Jenkins 1996 232 pages
3.67
100+ ratings
Sociology
Philosophy
Psychology
Lectures on the Will to Know Summary
Lectures on the Will to Know
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1970-1971, & Oedipal Knowledge
by Michel Foucault 2014 293 pages
4.26
100+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
The Conversation Summary
The Conversation
How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations
by Robert Livingston 2021 368 pages
4.36
500+ ratings
Race
Business
Social Justice
The Hite Report Summary
The Hite Report
A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality
by Shere Hite 1976 638 pages
3.86
500+ ratings
Feminism
Sexuality
Psychology
We Have Never Been Woke Summary
We Have Never Been Woke
The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
by Musa al-Gharbi 2024 432 pages
4.31
100+ ratings
Politics
Sociology
Cultural
The Human Zoo Summary
The Human Zoo
A Zoologist's Study of the Urban Animal
by Desmond Morris 1969 320 pages
4.00
2k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Anthropology
The Race between Education and Technology Summary
The Race between Education and Technology
by Claudia Goldin 2008 496 pages
3.84
100+ ratings
Economics
Education
History
Network Propaganda Summary
Network Propaganda
Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics
by Yochai Benkler 2018 472 pages
4.15
100+ ratings
Politics
Technology
Sociology
Psychopolitics Summary
Psychopolitics
Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
by Byung-Chul Han 2014 96 pages
4.09
5k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Psychology
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper Summary
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
by John Allen Paulos 1997 224 pages
3.59
500+ ratings
Mathematics
Science
Education
Obsesja piękna. Jak kultura popularna krzywdzi dziewczynki i kobiety Summary
Obsesja piękna. Jak kultura popularna krzywdzi dziewczynki i kobiety
by Renee Engeln 2017 416 pages
4.14
5k+ ratings
Feminism
Psychology
Self Help
When Prophecy Fails Summary
When Prophecy Fails
A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World
by Leon Festinger 1956 264 pages
3.82
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Religion
Sociology
National Identity Summary
National Identity
by Anthony D. Smith 1991 240 pages
3.70
100+ ratings
History
Politics
Sociology
The Big Change Summary
The Big Change
America Transforms Itself, 1900-50
by Frederick Lewis Allen 1952 324 pages
3.91
100+ ratings
History
American History
Economics
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