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Hegemony How-To Summary
Hegemony How-To
A Roadmap for Radicals
by Jonathan Smucker 2017 290 pages
4.24
442 ratings
Politics
Activism
Social Justice
The Project Summary
The Project
How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America
by David A. Graham 2025 138 pages
4.02
1k+ ratings
Politics
History
Sociology
Whole Numbers and Half Truths Summary
Whole Numbers and Half Truths
What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us About Modern India
by Rukmini S. 2021 324 pages
4.21
1k+ ratings
India
Economics
Politics
René Girard's Mimetic Theory Summary
René Girard's Mimetic Theory
by Wolfgang Palaver 2008 419 pages
4.21
168 ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Anthropology
Black Rednecks and White Liberals Summary
Black Rednecks and White Liberals
by Thomas Sowell 2005 372 pages
4.37
9k+ ratings
Politics
History
Economics
A Field Guide to Earthlings Summary
A Field Guide to Earthlings
An Autistic/Asperger View of Neurotypical Behavior
by Ian Ford 2010 220 pages
3.80
354 ratings
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Psychology
Self Help
Why Trust Matters Summary
Why Trust Matters
An Economist's Guide to the Ties That Bind Us
by Benjamin Ho 2021 336 pages
3.70
56 ratings
Economics
Business
History
States and Social Revolutions Summary
States and Social Revolutions
A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China
by Theda Skocpol 1979 426 pages
3.85
500+ ratings
History
Politics
Sociology
Entitled Summary
Entitled
How Male Privilege Hurts Women
by Kate Manne 2020 269 pages
4.19
6k+ ratings
Feminism
Philosophy
Politics
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
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
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
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 Extinction of Experience Summary
The Extinction of Experience
Being Human in a Disembodied World
by Christine Rosen 2024 272 pages
3.65
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Technology
Psychology
Evil Summary
Evil
The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side
by Julia Shaw 2019 320 pages
3.57
3k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
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 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
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
Trust Summary
Trust
The Social Virtue and the Creation of Prosperity
by Francis Fukuyama 1995 480 pages
3.96
500+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Sociology
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
Estudios sobre el desarrollo del capitalismo Summary
Estudios sobre el desarrollo del capitalismo
by Maurice Dobb 1946 496 pages
3.85
62 ratings
Economics
History
Sociology
What Is Property? Summary
What Is Property?
by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1840 310 pages
3.78
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Economics
The Souls of Black Folks Summary
The Souls of Black Folks
by W.E.B. Du Bois 1903
4.31
45k+ ratings
History
Classics
Race
The Quantified Self Summary
The Quantified Self
by Deborah Lupton 2016 240 pages
3.81
86 ratings
Technology
Sociology
Academic
No Straight Road Takes You There Summary
No Straight Road Takes You There
Essays for Uneven Terrain
by Rebecca Solnit 2025 176 pages
4.16
1k+ ratings
Essays
Feminism
Politics
The Wages of Whiteness Summary
The Wages of Whiteness
Race and the Making of the American Working Class
by David R. Roediger 1991 197 pages
3.99
2k+ ratings
History
Race
Politics
Revolt Against the Modern World Summary
Revolt Against the Modern World
by Julius Evola 1934 375 pages
3.98
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
The New Leviathans Summary
The New Leviathans
Thoughts After Liberalism
by John Gray 2023 178 pages
3.42
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
Sidewalk Summary
Sidewalk
by Mitchell Duneier 1999 400 pages
4.15
1k+ ratings
Sociology
Ethnography
Anthropology
Uncivil Agreement Summary
Uncivil Agreement
How Politics Became Our Identity
by Lilliana Mason 2018 192 pages
3.84
500+ ratings
Politics
Political Science
Psychology
Limits to Medicine Summary
Limits to Medicine
Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health
by Ivan Illich 1974 320 pages
4.04
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Medicine
Health
All the Single Ladies Summary
All the Single Ladies
by Rebecca Traister 2016 339 pages
4.00
17k+ ratings
Feminism
History
Politics
The Sociology of Georg Simmel Summary
The Sociology of Georg Simmel
by George Simmel 1964 445 pages
3.90
73 ratings
Sociology
Philosophy
Anthropology
The Lost and the Found Summary
The Lost and the Found
A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances
by Kevin Fagan 2025 288 pages
4.28
500+ ratings
Memoir
Sociology
Social Justice
The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival Summary
The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival
by John Bagot Glubb 1978 52 pages
4.21
500+ ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
A Genocide Foretold Summary
A Genocide Foretold
Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine
by Chris Hedges 2025 208 pages
4.58
500+ ratings
History
Politics
Middle East
Affluence and Influence Summary
Affluence and Influence
Economic Inequality and Political Power in America
by Martin Gilens 2010 352 pages
3.79
145 ratings
Politics
Economics
Political Science
The Sources of Social Power Summary
The Sources of Social Power
Volume 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760
by Michael Mann 1986 560 pages
4.32
158 ratings
History
Sociology
Politics
Why the West Rules—for Now Summary
Why the West Rules—for Now
The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
by Ian Morris 2010 1162 pages
4.11
5k+ ratings
History
Politics
Economics
Cults Summary
Cults
Faith, Healing and Coercion
by Marc Galanter 1989 304 pages
3.77
111 ratings
Cults
Psychology
Religion
All That Is Solid Summary
All That Is Solid
The Great Housing Disaster
by Danny Dorling 2014
3.55
144 ratings
Politics
Geography
Cities
Worth Dying For Summary
Worth Dying For
The Power and Politics of Flags
by Tim Marshall 2016 266 pages
3.65
6k+ ratings
Politics
History
Geography
A Lot of People Are Saying Summary
A Lot of People Are Saying
The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy
by Russell Muirhead 2019 232 pages
3.60
500+ ratings
Politics
Sociology
Philosophy
Anointed Summary
Anointed
The Extraordinary Effects of Social Status in a Winner-Take-Most World
by Toby Stuart 2025 288 pages
3.48
141 ratings
Psychology
Sociology
Science
Oligarchy Summary
Oligarchy
by Jeffrey A. Winters 2011 344 pages
4.30
166 ratings
Politics
History
Economics
Distinction Summary
Distinction
by Pierre Bourdieu 1979 640 pages
4.16
3k+ ratings
Sociology
Philosophy
Theory
San Fransicko Summary
San Fransicko
Why Progressives Ruin Cities
by Michael Shellenberger 2021 416 pages
4.01
4k+ ratings
Politics
History
Sociology
Making Democracy Work Summary
Making Democracy Work
Civic Traditions in Modern Italy
by Robert D. Putnam 1992 258 pages
3.87
500+ ratings
Politics
Political Science
History
The Social Paradox Summary
The Social Paradox
Autonomy, Connection, and Why We Need Both to Find Happiness – An Evolutionary Psychology Guide to Overcoming Loneliness
by William Von Hippel 2025 304 pages
3.79
179 ratings
Psychology
Science
Self Help
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