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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
Broken Code Summary
Broken Code
Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets
by Jeff Horwitz 2023 528 pages
3.88
500+ ratings
Technology
Business
Politics
Culture Jam Summary
Culture Jam
How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge--Any Why We Must
by Kalle Lasn 1999 272 pages
3.63
1k+ ratings
Politics
Sociology
Economics
You Are What You Watch Summary
You Are What You Watch
by Walter Hickey 2023 240 pages
3.65
500+ ratings
Psychology
Film
Science
Smarter Than You Think Summary
Smarter Than You Think
How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better
by Clive Thompson 2013 343 pages
3.94
2k+ ratings
Technology
Science
Psychology
Face Value Summary
Face Value
The Irresistible Influence of First Impressions
by Alexander Todorov 2017 323 pages
4.01
114 ratings
Psychology
Science
Politics
The Perennials Summary
The Perennials
The Megatrends Creating a Postgenerational Society
by Mauro F. Guillén 2023 263 pages
3.55
214 ratings
Sociology
Business
Society
Meme Wars Summary
Meme Wars
The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America
by Joan Donovan 2022 432 pages
3.98
483 ratings
Politics
Technology
History
The Misinformation Age Summary
The Misinformation Age
How False Beliefs Spread
by Cailin O'Connor 2018 280 pages
3.77
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Psychology
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work Summary
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
by Alain de Botton 2008 326 pages
3.62
6k+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Sociology
Our Kids Summary
Our Kids
The American Dream in Crisis
by Robert D. Putnam 2015 400 pages
4.04
4k+ ratings
Sociology
Education
Politics
Resilience Summary
Resilience
Why Things Bounce Back
by Andrew Zolli 2012 336 pages
3.62
500+ ratings
Psychology
Business
Science
X Saves the World Summary
X Saves the World
How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking
by Jeff Gordinier 2008 224 pages
3.45
500+ ratings
History
Sociology
Pop Culture
Suspicious Minds Summary
Suspicious Minds
Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories
by Rob Brotherton 2015 304 pages
3.87
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Politics
Moral Combat Summary
Moral Combat
Why the War on Violent Video Games Is Wrong
by Patrick M. Markey 2017 256 pages
4.18
173 ratings
Psychology
Video Games
Sociology
Age of Propaganda Summary
Age of Propaganda
The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion
by Anthony R. Pratkanis 1991 432 pages
4.02
500+ ratings
Psychology
Politics
Business
The Turning Point Summary
The Turning Point
Science, Society, and the Rising Culture
by Fritjof Capra 1982 464 pages
4.11
1k+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Sociology
Clothing Poverty Summary
Clothing Poverty
The Hidden World of Fast Fashion and Second-Hand Clothes
by Andrew Brooks 2015 296 pages
3.75
173 ratings
Fashion
Economics
Sustainability
So You Want to Talk About Race Summary
So You Want to Talk About Race
by Ijeoma Oluo 2018 248 pages
4.48
100k+ ratings
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
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
Acting with Power Summary
Acting with Power
Why We Are More Powerful Than We Believe
by Deborah Gruenfeld 2020 272 pages
3.83
473 ratings
Business
Psychology
Self Help
Why We Can't Afford the Rich Summary
Why We Can't Afford the Rich
by Andrew Sayer 2014
4.02
149 ratings
Economics
Politics
Society
Capitalism, Alone Summary
Capitalism, Alone
The Future of the System That Rules the World
by Branko Milanović 2019 304 pages
4.11
1k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
History
Swearing Is Good for You Summary
Swearing Is Good for You
The Amazing Science of Bad Language
by Emma Byrne 2017 240 pages
3.48
2k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Language
Can't Even Summary
Can't Even
How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
by Anne Helen Petersen 2020 304 pages
3.91
9k+ ratings
Psychology
Sociology
Self Help
Drunk Summary
Drunk
How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
by Edward Slingerland 2021 369 pages
3.81
3k+ ratings
History
Science
Anthropology
New Passages Summary
New Passages
Mapping Your Life Across Time
by Gail Sheehy 1996 528 pages
3.71
356 ratings
Self Help
Psychology
Sociology
The Utopia of Rules Summary
The Utopia of Rules
On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
by David Graeber 2013 261 pages
4.02
6k+ ratings
Politics
Anthropology
History
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World Summary
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
by Fareed Zakaria 2020 319 pages
3.96
5k+ ratings
Politics
History
Economics
Sociobiology Summary
Sociobiology
The New Synthesis
by Edward O. Wilson 1975 720 pages
4.23
1k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Sociology
Work Won't Love You Back Summary
Work Won't Love You Back
How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
by Sarah Jaffe 2021 432 pages
3.94
5k+ ratings
Politics
Business
Labor
Testosterone Rex Summary
Testosterone Rex
Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
by Cordelia Fine 2017 272 pages
3.79
3k+ ratings
Science
Feminism
Psychology
Corruptible Summary
Corruptible
Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us
by Brian Klaas 2021 319 pages
4.18
3k+ ratings
Politics
Psychology
Sociology
The People’s Republic of Walmart Summary
The People’s Republic of Walmart
How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
by Leigh Phillips 2019 256 pages
3.88
2k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
History
The Nones Summary
The Nones
Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where They Are Going
by Ryan P. Burge 2021 157 pages
3.82
381 ratings
Religion
Sociology
Politics
Fist Stick Knife Gun Summary
Fist Stick Knife Gun
A Personal History of Violence
by Geoffrey Canada 1995 179 pages
4.03
3k+ ratings
Memoir
Graphic Novels
Education
A Force More Powerful Summary
A Force More Powerful
A Century of Nonviolent Conflict
by Peter Ackerman 2000 416 pages
4.11
300 ratings
History
Politics
Sociology
Cringeworthy Summary
Cringeworthy
A Theory of Awkwardness
by Melissa Dahl 2018 300 pages
3.67
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Sociology
What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America Summary
What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
by Thomas Frank 2004 332 pages
3.85
12k+ ratings
Politics
History
Political Science
How Ideas Spread Summary
How Ideas Spread
by Jonah Berger 2014 6 pages
3.70
378 ratings
Business
Psychology
Science
Discrimination and Disparities Summary
Discrimination and Disparities
by Thomas Sowell 2018 192 pages
4.46
5k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
History
Bright-Sided Summary
Bright-Sided
How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
by Barbara Ehrenreich 2009 206 pages
3.74
10k+ ratings
Psychology
Sociology
Politics
#republic Summary
#republic
Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media
by Cass R. Sunstein 2017 328 pages
3.35
332 ratings
Politics
Political Science
Society
Heavens on Earth Summary
Heavens on Earth
The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
by Michael Shermer 2018 303 pages
3.88
500+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Religion
The Unprotected Class Summary
The Unprotected Class
How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart
by Jeremy Carl 2024 400 pages
4.33
193 ratings
Politics
History
Cultural
Unmasked Summary
Unmasked
Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy
by Andy Ngo 2021 239 pages
4.17
2k+ ratings
Politics
History
Sociology
Cognitive Surplus Summary
Cognitive Surplus
Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
by Clay Shirky 2010 258 pages
3.83
5k+ ratings
Technology
Business
Psychology
Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone Summary
Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone
by Astra Taylor 2019 368 pages
4.20
500+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
Insane Summary
Insane
America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
by Alisa Roth 2018 338 pages
4.07
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Mental Health
Politics
Flesh and Stone Summary
Flesh and Stone
The Body and the City in Western Civilization
by Richard Sennett 1996 432 pages
4.28
500+ ratings
History
Architecture
Sociology
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