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Stolen Pride Summary
Stolen Pride
Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
by Arlie Russell Hochschild 2024 400 pages
4.03
1k+ ratings
Politics
Sociology
History
The Power of Bad Summary
The Power of Bad
How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It
by John Tierney 2019 335 pages
3.86
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Personal Development
Six Degrees Summary
Six Degrees
The Science of a Connected Age
by Duncan J. Watts 2003 384 pages
3.90
1k+ ratings
Science
Sociology
Mathematics
Seduction Summary
Seduction
Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy
by Rachel O'Neill 2018 256 pages
4.59
41 ratings
Feminism
Sociology
Relationships
Public Relations Summary
Public Relations
by Edward L. Bernays 1952 374 pages
3.98
175 ratings
Psychology
Politics
Business
Trouble in Paradise Summary
Trouble in Paradise
From the End of History to the End of Capitalism
by Slavoj Žižek 2014 272 pages
3.73
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
The Geopolitics of Emotion Summary
The Geopolitics of Emotion
How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope are Reshaping the World
by Dominique Moïsi 2008 176 pages
3.65
500+ ratings
Politics
Psychology
Political Science
Criminal (In)Justice Summary
Criminal (In)Justice
What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most
by Rafael A. Mangual 2022 256 pages
4.13
222 ratings
Politics
Sociology
Law
Coming of Age in Samoa Summary
Coming of Age in Samoa
A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation
by Margaret Mead 1928 223 pages
3.55
3k+ ratings
Anthropology
Psychology
Sociology
Political Tribes Summary
Political Tribes
Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
by Amy Chua 2018 293 pages
4.20
4k+ ratings
Politics
History
Psychology
The Art of Community Summary
The Art of Community
Seven Principles for Belonging
by Charles H. Vogl 2016 216 pages
3.68
1k+ ratings
Business
Self Help
Leadership
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism Summary
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
by Anne Case 2020 288 pages
3.81
2k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Sociology
Before You Know It Summary
Before You Know It
The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do
by John A. Bargh 2017 354 pages
4.02
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Self Help
Upheaval Summary
Upheaval
Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
by Jared Diamond 2019 575 pages
3.90
11k+ ratings
History
Politics
Science
Chavs Summary
Chavs
The Demonization of the Working Class
by Owen Jones 2011 256 pages
4.08
10k+ ratings
Politics
Sociology
History
Sex by Numbers Summary
Sex by Numbers
What Statistics Can Tell Us About Sexual Behaviour
by David Spiegelhalter 2015 369 pages
3.84
213 ratings
Science
Psychology
Sexuality
Superclass Summary
Superclass
The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making
by David Rothkopf 2008 400 pages
3.57
487 ratings
Politics
Economics
Business
The Disappearance of Rituals Summary
The Disappearance of Rituals
A Topology of the Present
by Byung-Chul Han 2019 186 pages
3.98
3k+ ratings
Philosophy
Sociology
Psychology
The World Until Yesterday Summary
The World Until Yesterday
What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
by Jared Diamond 2012 512 pages
3.78
11k+ ratings
History
Anthropology
Science
How Pleasure Works Summary
How Pleasure Works
The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
by Paul Bloom 2010 302 pages
3.71
3k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West Summary
An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West
by Konstantin Kisin 2022 208 pages
4.24
1k+ ratings
Politics
History
Biography
Weaponized Lies Summary
Weaponized Lies
How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era
by Daniel J. Levitin 2016 320 pages
3.76
4k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Self Help
Conquests and Cultures Summary
Conquests and Cultures
An International History
by Thomas Sowell 1998 512 pages
4.44
500+ ratings
History
Economics
Politics
Sociology Summary
Sociology
A Very Short Introduction
by Steve Bruce 1999 128 pages
3.38
500+ ratings
Sociology
Science
Social Science
Because Internet Summary
Because Internet
Understanding the New Rules of Language
by Gretchen McCulloch 2019 273 pages
4.04
12k+ ratings
Linguistics
Language
Science
The Ten Types of Human Summary
The Ten Types of Human
A New Understanding of Who We Are, and Who We Can Be
by Dexter Dias 2018
4.16
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Science
Faster Summary
Faster
The Acceleration of Just About Everything
by James Gleick 1999 330 pages
3.52
1k+ ratings
Science
Technology
Psychology
Here Comes Everybody Summary
Here Comes Everybody
The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
by Clay Shirky 2008 348 pages
3.78
7k+ ratings
Business
Technology
Sociology
The Happiness Effect Summary
The Happiness Effect
How Social Media is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost
by Donna Freitas 2017 368 pages
3.31
265 ratings
Sociology
Psychology
Social Media
Spent Summary
Spent
Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
by Geoffrey Miller 2009 384 pages
3.85
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Business
Orientalism Summary
Orientalism
by Edward W. Said 1978 424 pages
4.14
30k+ ratings
History
Philosophy
Politics
Theories, Predictions, and Diagnoses Summary
Theories, Predictions, and Diagnoses
Part Two from What the Dog Saw
by Malcolm Gladwell 2009 120 pages
3.99
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Business
Self Help
After Capitalism Summary
After Capitalism
by David Schweickart 2002 224 pages
3.98
250 ratings
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
Framers Summary
Framers
Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil
by Kenneth Cukier 2021 304 pages
3.53
500+ ratings
Psychology
Business
Technology
The End of Burnout Summary
The End of Burnout
Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives
by Jonathan Malesic 2022 288 pages
3.73
500+ ratings
Psychology
Business
Sociology
Popular Summary
Popular
The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World
by Mitch Prinstein 2017 288 pages
3.67
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Sociology
Caste Summary
Caste
The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson 2020 456 pages
4.52
100k+ ratings
History
Politics
Race
American Girls Summary
American Girls
Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
by Nancy Jo Sales 2016 418 pages
3.60
2k+ ratings
Parenting
Sociology
Feminism
Breaking the Spell Summary
Breaking the Spell
Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
by Daniel C. Dennett 2006 464 pages
3.89
12k+ ratings
Religion
Philosophy
Science
The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy Summary
The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
by Karl Marx 1846 584 pages
4.13
5k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
Private Government Summary
Private Government
How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)
by Elizabeth S. Anderson 2017 216 pages
3.94
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Economics
Self-Renewal Summary
Self-Renewal
The Individual and the Innovative Society
by John W. Gardner 1964 163 pages
4.00
238 ratings
Psychology
Leadership
Personal Development
The Heart of Man Summary
The Heart of Man
Its Genius for Good and Evil
by Erich Fromm 1964 144 pages
4.05
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
The End of the World As We Know It Summary
The End of the World As We Know It
Social Science for the Twenty-First Century
by Immanuel Wallerstein 1999 288 pages
4.01
137 ratings
Sociology
Philosophy
History
Men and Marriage Summary
Men and Marriage
by George Gilder 1986
4.22
500+ ratings
Marriage
Cultural
Family
The Gift of Not Belonging Summary
The Gift of Not Belonging
How Outsiders Thrive in a World of Joiners
by Rami Kaminski 2025 240 pages
3.63
500+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Science
Nice Racism Summary
Nice Racism
How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
by Robin DiAngelo 2021 220 pages
3.96
3k+ ratings
Race
Social Justice
Politics
Race Marxism Summary
Race Marxism
The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis
by James Lindsay 2022 357 pages
4.23
364 ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Sociology
The Trouble with Diversity Summary
The Trouble with Diversity
How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality
by Walter Benn Michaels 2006 256 pages
3.59
500+ ratings
Politics
Sociology
Race
How to Argue With a Racist Summary
How to Argue With a Racist
History, Science, Race and Reality
by Adam Rutherford 2020 224 pages
3.89
6k+ ratings
Science
Race
Politics
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