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Conflicts Summary
Conflicts
A Better Way to Resolve Them
by Edward de Bono 1985 224 pages
3.52
64 ratings
Self Help
Psychology
Science
How to Talk to a Science Denier Summary
How to Talk to a Science Denier
Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
by Lee McIntyre 2021 264 pages
3.87
1k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Politics
The Problem of Twelve Summary
The Problem of Twelve
When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything
by John Coates 2023 190 pages
3.52
177 ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
Worse Than Slavery Summary
Worse Than Slavery
Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice
by David M. Oshinsky 1996 320 pages
4.31
1k+ ratings
History
Race
African American
Science Under Siege Summary
Science Under Siege
How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World
by Michael E. Mann 2025 368 pages
4.06
316 ratings
Science
Politics
Climate Change
The Great Leveler Summary
The Great Leveler
Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
by Walter Scheidel 2017 528 pages
3.81
1k+ ratings
History
Economics
Politics
The New Age of Sexism Summary
The New Age of Sexism
How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny
by Laura Bates 2025 352 pages
4.26
10k+ ratings
Feminism
Politics
Technology
After the Fall Summary
After the Fall
Being American in the World We've Made
by Ben Rhodes 2021 339 pages
4.19
4k+ ratings
Politics
History
Memoir
Order Out of Chaos Summary
Order Out of Chaos
A Kidnap Negotiator's Guide to Influence and Persuasion
by Scott Walker 2023 274 pages
3.58
190 ratings
Self Help
Business
Psychology
Edmund Burke Summary
Edmund Burke
A Genius Reconsidered
by Russell Kirk 2014 300 pages
4.03
306 ratings
Biography
History
Politics
The Necessity of Exile Summary
The Necessity of Exile
Essays from a Distance
by Shaul Magid 2023 318 pages
4.20
246 ratings
Judaism
Jewish
Religion
Authoritarian Nightmare Summary
Authoritarian Nightmare
Trump and His Followers
by John W. Dean 2020 368 pages
4.15
500+ ratings
Politics
Psychology
History
Rebellion Summary
Rebellion
How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart – Again
by Robert Kagan 2024 258 pages
4.39
500+ ratings
Politics
History
American History
Spin Dictators Summary
Spin Dictators
The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
by Sergei Guriev 2022 360 pages
3.94
1k+ ratings
Politics
History
Political Science
The Great Contradiction Summary
The Great Contradiction
The Tragic Side of the American Founding
by Joseph J. Ellis 2025 240 pages
4.20
500+ ratings
History
American History
Politics
Unforgiving Places Summary
Unforgiving Places
The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence
by Jens Ludwig 2025 352 pages
4.21
220 ratings
History
Sociology
Politics
The Sleepwalkers Summary
The Sleepwalkers
How Europe Went to War in 1914
by Christopher Clark 2012 706 pages
4.24
14k+ ratings
History
World War I
War
How the World Thinks Summary
How the World Thinks
A Global History of Philosophy
by Julian Baggini 2018 398 pages
3.67
3k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Religion
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal Summary
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
by Mohammed El-Kurd 2025 256 pages
4.77
5k+ ratings
Politics
History
Essays
The Flight Of The Eagle Summary
The Flight Of The Eagle
by J. Krishnamurti 1971 174 pages
4.24
451 ratings
Philosophy
Spirituality
Psychology
1916 Summary
1916
A Novel of the Irish Rebellion
by Morgan Llywelyn 1998 576 pages
4.08
4k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Ireland
Irish Literature
Legacy of Ashes Summary
Legacy of Ashes
The History of the CIA
by Tim Weiner 2007 514 pages
3.96
15k+ ratings
History
Politics
American History
The Coming of the Third Reich Summary
The Coming of the Third Reich
by Richard J. Evans 2003 622 pages
4.32
12k+ ratings
History
World War II
Germany
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order Summary
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
America and the World in the Free Market Era
by Gary Gerstle 2022 432 pages
4.22
1k+ ratings
Politics
History
Economics
How to Test Negative for Stupid Summary
How to Test Negative for Stupid
And Why Washington Never Will
by John Kennedy 2025 220 pages
4.63
9k+ ratings
Politics
Memoir
Biography
Arguably Summary
Arguably
Selected Essays
by Christopher Hitchens 2011 816 pages
4.20
9k+ ratings
Essays
Politics
Philosophy
A Vitória da Razão Summary
A Vitória da Razão
Como o Cristianismo Levou à Liberdade, ao Capitalismo e ao Sucesso do Ocidente
by Rodney Stark 2005 380 pages
3.99
500+ ratings
History
Religion
Christianity
How the South Won the Civil War Summary
How the South Won the Civil War
Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
by Heather Cox Richardson 2020 272 pages
4.31
5k+ ratings
History
Politics
American History
How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps Summary
How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps
by Ben Shapiro 2020 288 pages
4.06
5k+ ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
Fed Up Summary
Fed Up
Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward
by Gemma Hartley 2018 272 pages
3.72
3k+ ratings
Feminism
Self Help
Womens
The South Was Right! Summary
The South Was Right!
by James Ronald Kennedy 1991 431 pages
3.93
482 ratings
History
Civil War
American History
A Black Women's History of the United States Summary
A Black Women's History of the United States
by Daina Ramey Berry 2020 273 pages
4.29
3k+ ratings
History
Feminism
Race
Murder in the White House Summary
Murder in the White House
by Margaret Truman 1980 262 pages
3.77
3k+ ratings
Mystery
Crime
Thriller
The Big Sort Summary
The Big Sort
Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart
by Bill Bishop 2008 370 pages
3.84
2k+ ratings
Politics
Sociology
History
Reconstruction Summary
Reconstruction
America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
by Eric Foner 1988 690 pages
4.22
6k+ ratings
History
American History
Civil War
Losing Our Religion Summary
Losing Our Religion
An Altar Call for Evangelical America
by Russell D. Moore 2023 272 pages
4.31
2k+ ratings
Religion
Politics
Christian
Off the Edge Summary
Off the Edge
Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
by Kelly Weill 2022 245 pages
3.78
1k+ ratings
History
Politics
Psychology
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men Summary
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War
by Eric Foner 1971 400 pages
4.12
1k+ ratings
History
American History
Politics
There Will Be Fire Summary
There Will Be Fire
Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
by Rory Carroll 2023 397 pages
4.26
4k+ ratings
History
Ireland
Politics
The Quest for Cosmic Justice Summary
The Quest for Cosmic Justice
by Thomas Sowell 1999 224 pages
4.38
3k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Economics
Smoke and Ashes Summary
Smoke and Ashes
A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories
by Amitav Ghosh 2024 417 pages
4.05
1k+ ratings
History
China
India
Trust Summary
Trust
The Social Virtue and the Creation of Prosperity
by Francis Fukuyama 1995 480 pages
3.96
500+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Sociology
Political Order and Political Decay Summary
Political Order and Political Decay
From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
by Francis Fukuyama 2014 672 pages
4.34
4k+ ratings
Politics
History
Political Science
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I Summary
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
by Edward Gibbon 1776 1114 pages
4.17
3k+ ratings
History
Classics
Ancient History
Strongmen Summary
Strongmen
Mussolini to the Present
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat 2020 384 pages
4.27
5k+ ratings
History
Politics
Biography
A Class of Their Own Summary
A Class of Their Own
Adventures in Tutoring the Super-Rich
by Matthew Hammett Knott 2022
3.61
376 ratings
Biography
Politics
Memoir
Elite Capture Summary
Elite Capture
How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics
by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò 2022 157 pages
3.98
4k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Race
There Was and There Was Not Summary
There Was and There Was Not
A Journey through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond
by Meline Toumani 2014 304 pages
4.08
500+ ratings
History
Memoir
Travel
After the Fall Summary
After the Fall
The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We've Made
by Ben Rhodes 2022 384 pages
4.15
157 ratings
Politics
History
American
A Different Kind of Power Summary
A Different Kind of Power
by Jacinda Ardern 2025 352 pages
4.45
19k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Politics
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