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The Secret of Our Success Summary
The Secret of Our Success
How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
by Joseph Henrich 2015 456 pages
4.39
2k+ ratings
Science
History
Psychology
Letters from a Stoic Summary
Letters from a Stoic
by Seneca 254 pages
4.32
58k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
History
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
40k+ ratings
History
Biography
Business
The Power of Myth Summary
The Power of Myth
by Joseph Campbell 1988 293 pages
4.26
54k+ ratings
Mythology
Philosophy
History
As We Have Always Done Summary
As We Have Always Done
Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance
by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 2017 216 pages
4.57
1k+ ratings
Indigenous
Politics
History
The Socratic Method Summary
The Socratic Method
A Practitioner's Handbook
by Ward Farnsworth 2021 243 pages
4.26
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Education
Napoleon Summary
Napoleon
A Life
by Andrew Roberts 2014 976 pages
4.25
29k+ ratings
History
Biography
France
Appetite for America Summary
Appetite for America
Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West--One Meal at a Time
by Stephen Fried 2010 751 pages
4.21
1k+ ratings
History
Biography
American History
On War Summary
On War
by Carl von Clausewitz 1832 732 pages
3.96
14k+ ratings
History
Philosophy
War
Death by China Summary
Death by China
Confronting the Dragon - A Global Call to Action
by Peter Navarro 2011 303 pages
3.50
500+ ratings
China
Politics
Economics
Too Much and Never Enough Summary
Too Much and Never Enough
How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
by Mary L. Trump 2020 225 pages
3.82
98k+ ratings
Biography
Politics
Memoir
Dominion Summary
Dominion
How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
by Tom Holland 2019 624 pages
4.26
12k+ ratings
History
Religion
Christianity
The Muqaddimah Summary
The Muqaddimah
An Introduction to History
by Ibn Khaldun 1377 480 pages
4.30
4k+ ratings
History
Philosophy
Sociology
Chaos Summary
Chaos
Making a New Science
by James Gleick 1987 384 pages
4.03
41k+ ratings
Science
Physics
Mathematics
Mindhunter Summary
Mindhunter
Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
by John E. Douglas 1995 384 pages
4.09
83k+ ratings
True Crime
Crime
Psychology
The Happiest Man on Earth Summary
The Happiest Man on Earth
by Eddie Jaku 2020 200 pages
4.62
100k+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
History
Debt Summary
Debt
by David Graeber 2011 576 pages
4.21
27k+ ratings
History
Economics
Anthropology
How Fascism Works Summary
How Fascism Works
The Politics of Us and Them
by Jason F. Stanley 2018 218 pages
4.25
17k+ ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
پاسخ به تاریخ Summary
پاسخ به تاریخ
by Mohammed Reza Pahlavi 1979 345 pages
3.91
500+ ratings
History
Politics
Biography
Steve Jobs Summary
Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson 2011 630 pages
4.16
1.3M+ ratings
Biography
Business
Technology
The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939 Summary
The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939
An Introduction to the Study of International Relations
by Edward Hallett Carr 1939 244 pages
4.09
1k+ ratings
History
International Relations
Politics
The Order of Time Summary
The Order of Time
by Carlo Rovelli 2017 224 pages
4.13
39k+ ratings
Science
Physics
Philosophy
Too Big to Fail Summary
Too Big to Fail
The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves
by Andrew Ross Sorkin 2009 813 pages
4.16
43k+ ratings
Business
Finance
Economics
The Innocent Man Summary
The Innocent Man
by John Grisham 2006 435 pages
3.87
85k+ ratings
True Crime
Crime
Mystery
Chaos Summary
Chaos
Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
by Tom O'Neill 2019 504 pages
4.04
38k+ ratings
History
True Crime
Crime
The Baburnama Summary
The Baburnama
Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor
by Zahir ud-Din Muhammad Babur 1531 608 pages
3.95
500+ ratings
History
Biography
India
The Four Summary
The Four
The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
by Scott Galloway 2017 320 pages
3.83
19k+ ratings
Business
Technology
Economics
Capital in the Twenty First Century Summary
Capital in the Twenty First Century
by Thomas Piketty 2013 685 pages
4.06
34k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
History
Economics in One Lesson Summary
Economics in One Lesson
by Henry Hazlitt 1946 218 pages
4.16
21k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
The Human Condition Summary
The Human Condition
by Hannah Arendt 1958 349 pages
4.20
9k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
The World for Sale Summary
The World for Sale
Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
by Javier Blas 2021 410 pages
4.32
13k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
The Crisis of Narration Summary
The Crisis of Narration
by Byung-Chul Han 2023 77 pages
3.91
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
Essays
Sociology
Basic Economics Summary
Basic Economics
A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
by Thomas Sowell 2000 448 pages
4.37
14k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
A Brief History of Modern India (2019-2020 Edition) by Spectrum Books Summary
A Brief History of Modern India (2019-2020 Edition) by Spectrum Books
by Spectrum Books Pvt.Ltd. 2019 848 pages
4.45
245 ratings
History
India
The Analects Summary
The Analects
by Confucius 249 pages
3.80
24k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
China
Democracy Summary
Democracy
The God That Failed
by Hans-Hermann Hoppe 2001 304 pages
4.13
2k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Economics
Bloodlands Summary
Bloodlands
Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
by Timothy Snyder 2010 524 pages
4.39
20k+ ratings
History
War
World War II
The New New Thing Summary
The New New Thing
A Silicon Valley Story
by Michael Lewis 1999 349 pages
3.76
10k+ ratings
Business
Technology
Biography
The Essential Jung Summary
The Essential Jung
Selected and introduced by Anthony Storr
by C.G. Jung 1983 448 pages
4.32
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
A Secular Age Summary
A Secular Age
by Charles Margrave Taylor 2007 874 pages
4.27
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Religion
History
Selections from the Prison Notebooks Summary
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
by Antonio Gramsci 1947 579 pages
4.21
5k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
Big Gods Summary
Big Gods
How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict
by Ara Norenzayan 2013 257 pages
4.01
398 ratings
Religion
History
Psychology
Humans are not from Earth Summary
Humans are not from Earth
a scientific evaluation of the evidence
by Ellis Silver 2013 57 pages
3.72
500+ ratings
Science
Evolution
History
Sophie's World Summary
Sophie's World
A Graphic Novel About the History of Philosophy Vol I: From Socrates to Galileo
by Jostein Gaarder 2022 264 pages
4.09
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Graphic Novels
Comics
India After Gandhi Summary
India After Gandhi
The History of the World's Largest Democracy
by Ramachandra Guha 2007 912 pages
4.39
18k+ ratings
History
India
Politics
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Summary
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
With New Commentary and Insights on the Life and Times of Jesse Livermore
by Edwin Lefèvre 2009 448 pages
4.43
326 ratings
Finance
Business
History
A Brief History of Neoliberalism Summary
A Brief History of Neoliberalism
by David Harvey 2005 247 pages
4.13
7k+ ratings
Politics
History
Economics
Free to Choose Summary
Free to Choose
A Personal Statement
by Milton Friedman 1979 356 pages
4.22
9k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
Woke, Inc. Summary
Woke, Inc.
Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam
by Vivek Ramaswamy 2021 368 pages
4.00
4k+ ratings
Politics
Business
Economics
The Machiavellians Summary
The Machiavellians
Defenders of Freedom
by James Burnham 1943 305 pages
4.27
2k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
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