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On Democracy Summary
On Democracy
by Robert A. Dahl 1998 224 pages
3.68
1k+ ratings
Politics
Political Science
Philosophy
Over honderd jaar Summary
Over honderd jaar
De toekomst als politiek idee
by Jonathan White 2024 280 pages
3.76
80 ratings
Politics
Philosophy
The Logic of Collective Action Summary
The Logic of Collective Action
Public Goods and the Theory of Groups
by Mancur Olson 1965 186 pages
3.98
1k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Political Science
Colonialism Summary
Colonialism
A Moral Reckoning
by Nigel Biggar 2023 480 pages
3.97
500+ ratings
History
Politics
Economics
Man Is Not Alone Summary
Man Is Not Alone
A Philosophy of Religion
by Abraham Joshua Heschel 1951 320 pages
4.41
500+ ratings
Religion
Philosophy
Judaism
Albert Camus Summary
Albert Camus
A Life
by Olivier Todd 1996 448 pages
4.03
500+ ratings
Biography
Philosophy
France
Demian / Siddhartha Summary
Demian / Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse 1998
4.20
12k+ ratings
Classics
Philosophy
Literature
My Ishmael Summary
My Ishmael
by Daniel Quinn 1997 293 pages
4.11
10k+ ratings
Philosophy
Spirituality
Environment
Aping Mankind Summary
Aping Mankind
Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity
by Raymond Tallis 2011 400 pages
4.04
213 ratings
Philosophy
Science
Psychology
Moral Letters to Lucilius Volume 3 Summary
Moral Letters to Lucilius Volume 3
by Seneca 242 pages
4.50
135 ratings
Philosophy
Classics
History
Suicidal Empathy Summary
Suicidal Empathy
Dying to Be Kind
by Gad Saad 2026
3.88
56 ratings
Politics
Psychology
Philosophy
Phi Summary
Phi
A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul
by Giulio Tononi 2012 386 pages
3.89
500+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Psychology
Rights Talk Summary
Rights Talk
The Impoverishment of Political Discourse
by Mary Ann Glendon 1991 236 pages
4.06
124 ratings
Politics
Law
Philosophy
The Silent Pulse Summary
The Silent Pulse
A Search for the Perfect Rhythm That Exists in Each of Us
by George Leonard 1977 200 pages
4.15
78 ratings
Spirituality
Self Help
Music
The Way of Excellence Summary
The Way of Excellence
A Guide to True Greatness and Deep Satisfaction in a Chaotic World
by Brad Stulberg 2026 288 pages
4.25
1k+ ratings
Self Help
Philosophy
Productivity
The Extended Mind Summary
The Extended Mind
by Richard Menary 2008 382 pages
3.76
41 ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
Latter-Day Pamphlets Summary
Latter-Day Pamphlets
by Thomas Carlyle 1850 308 pages
3.89
99 ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Essays
The Authoritarian Personality Summary
The Authoritarian Personality
by Theodor W. Adorno 1950 976 pages
3.80
387 ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Politics
The Decline of the West Summary
The Decline of the West
by Oswald Spengler 1918 486 pages
4.06
2k+ ratings
History
Philosophy
Politics
The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity Summary
The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity
Twelve Lectures
by Jürgen Habermas 1985 450 pages
3.90
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Sociology
Theory
A Paradise Built in Hell Summary
A Paradise Built in Hell
The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
by Rebecca Solnit 2009 353 pages
3.95
3k+ ratings
History
Politics
Sociology
Democracy Summary
Democracy
by Charles Tilly 2007 248 pages
3.64
173 ratings
Politics
Political Science
Sociology
Open Democracy Summary
Open Democracy
Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century
by Hélène Landemore 2020 272 pages
4.09
109 ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Political Science
American Citizenship Summary
American Citizenship
The Quest for Inclusion
by Judith Nisse Shklar 1991 134 pages
3.60
67 ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
The Rosicrucian Enlightenment Summary
The Rosicrucian Enlightenment
by Frances A. Yates 1972 352 pages
4.22
500+ ratings
History
Occult
Philosophy
A Book Forged in Hell Summary
A Book Forged in Hell
Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
by Steven Nadler 2011 304 pages
3.99
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Religion
Spiritual Growth Summary
Spiritual Growth
Being Your Higher Self
by Sanaya Roman 1989 225 pages
4.19
2k+ ratings
Spirituality
Self Help
Metaphysics
How to Change the World Summary
How to Change the World
Tales of Marx and Marxism
by Eric J. Hobsbawm 2011 470 pages
3.88
500+ ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
On Settler Colonialism Summary
On Settler Colonialism
Ideology, Violence, and Justice
by Adam Kirsch 2024 160 pages
3.99
500+ ratings
Politics
History
Israel
The Forgotten Language Summary
The Forgotten Language
An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths
by Erich Fromm 1976 263 pages
3.80
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Mythology
Together Summary
Together
The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation
by Richard Sennett 2011 336 pages
3.81
469 ratings
Sociology
Philosophy
Politics
Captains Of Consciousness Summary
Captains Of Consciousness
Advertising And The Social Roots Of The Consumer Culture
by Stuart Ewen 1977 272 pages
4.10
229 ratings
History
Sociology
Politics
Answer to Job Summary
Answer to Job
by C.G. Jung 1952 121 pages
4.15
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Religion
Theological Retrieval for Evangelicals Summary
Theological Retrieval for Evangelicals
Why We Need Our Past to Have a Future
by Gavin Ortlund 2019 224 pages
4.26
406 ratings
Theology
Christian
History
Democracy for Realists Summary
Democracy for Realists
Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government
by Christopher H. Achen 2016 408 pages
3.98
1k+ ratings
Politics
Political Science
History
Your Move Summary
Your Move
What Board Games Teach Us about Life
by Jonathan Kay 2019 166 pages
3.57
324 ratings
Games
Philosophy
Adult
Loving to Know Summary
Loving to Know
Covenant Epistemology
by Esther Lightcap Meek 2011 536 pages
4.29
121 ratings
Philosophy
Theology
Christian
The Rise Summary
The Rise
Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery
by Sarah Lewis 2014 272 pages
3.66
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Personal Development
Capital and Ideology Summary
Capital and Ideology
by Thomas Piketty 2019 1104 pages
4.28
3k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
History
Vivre le stoïcisme aujourd'hui Summary
Vivre le stoïcisme aujourd'hui
by Patrick Ussher 2014 269 pages
3.79
319 ratings
Philosophy
Self Help
Psychology
A Third Testament Summary
A Third Testament
A Modern Pilgrim Explores the Spiritual Wanderings of Augustine, Blake, Pascal, Tolstoy, Bonhoeffer, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky
by Malcolm Muggeridge 1976 208 pages
3.94
268 ratings
Religion
Theology
Philosophy
The kingdom of infinite space Summary
The kingdom of infinite space
a fantastical journey around your head
by Raymond Tallis 2008 324 pages
3.38
151 ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
The Stories We Live By Summary
The Stories We Live By
Personal Myths and the Making of the Self
by Dan P. McAdams 1993 336 pages
3.97
288 ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Self Help
The Age of Abundance Summary
The Age of Abundance
How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture
by Brink Lindsey 2007 400 pages
3.51
134 ratings
Economics
History
Politics
Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens Summary
Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens
Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People
by Josiah Ober 1989 408 pages
3.71
48 ratings
History
Politics
Classics
Unshakable Freedom Summary
Unshakable Freedom
Ancient Stoic Secrets Applied to Modern Life
by Chuck Chakrapani 2016 163 pages
4.30
208 ratings
Philosophy
Spirituality
Self Help
The Death of Socrates and the Life of Philosophy Summary
The Death of Socrates and the Life of Philosophy
An Interpretation of Plato's Phaedo
by Peter J. Ahrensdorf 1995 248 pages
3.63
16 ratings
Philosophy
Right-Wing Women Summary
Right-Wing Women
by Andrea Dworkin 1983 255 pages
4.31
2k+ ratings
Feminism
Politics
Philosophy
In Search of Being Summary
In Search of Being
The Fourth Way to Consciousness
by G.I. Gurdjieff 2013 288 pages
4.25
268 ratings
Spirituality
Philosophy
Self Help
Huis clos Summary
Huis clos
by Jean-Paul Sartre 1944 91 pages
4.11
47k+ ratings
Plays
Philosophy
Classics
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