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Architects of Intelligence Summary
Architects of Intelligence
The truth about AI from the people building it
by Martin Ford 2018 554 pages
4.09
500+ ratings
Artificial Intelligence
Technology
Science
The Practicing Stoic Summary
The Practicing Stoic
by Ward Farnsworth 2018 292 pages
4.35
4k+ ratings
Philosophy
Self Help
Psychology
The Misinformation Age Summary
The Misinformation Age
How False Beliefs Spread
by Cailin O'Connor 2018 280 pages
3.76
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Psychology
Buffett Summary
Buffett
The Making of an American Capitalist
by Roger Lowenstein 1995 475 pages
4.19
15k+ ratings
Biography
Business
Finance
The Future Is Asian Summary
The Future Is Asian
by Parag Khanna 2019 448 pages
3.71
1k+ ratings
Politics
China
Economics
Bulls, Bears and Other Beasts Summary
Bulls, Bears and Other Beasts
by Santosh Nair 2016 395 pages
4.33
1k+ ratings
Finance
Business
India
Twilight of American Sanity Summary
Twilight of American Sanity
A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump
by Allen Frances 2016 336 pages
3.61
100+ ratings
Politics
Psychology
History
Sugar Summary
Sugar
The World Corrupted: From Slavery to Obesity
by James Walvin 2017 352 pages
3.43
500+ ratings
History
Food
Science
The Power of the Powerless Summary
The Power of the Powerless
by Václav Havel 1978 228 pages
4.21
3k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
Ten Drugs Summary
Ten Drugs
How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
by Thomas Hager 2019 304 pages
4.18
4k+ ratings
Science
History
Medicine
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 257 pages
3.90
1k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
History
Outwitting History Summary
Outwitting History
The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
by Aaron Lansky 2004 328 pages
4.25
2k+ ratings
History
Jewish
Memoir
The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto Summary
The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto
by Slavoj Žižek 2018 70 pages
3.57
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
Truth in Our Times Summary
Truth in Our Times
Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts
by David E. McCraw 2019 304 pages
4.14
500+ ratings
Politics
Journalism
Memoir
The Shock Doctrine Summary
The Shock Doctrine
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by Naomi Klein 2007 558 pages
4.28
50k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
History
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History Summary
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 2007 320 pages
3.82
1k+ ratings
History
Feminism
Womens
Forgiveness Summary
Forgiveness
by Mark Sakamoto 2014 272 pages
4.00
4k+ ratings
Memoir
Canada
Biography
Greek to Me Summary
Greek to Me
Adventures of the Comma Queen
by Mary Norris 2019 240 pages
3.62
2k+ ratings
Travel
Memoir
Greece
Homo Ludens Summary
Homo Ludens
A Study of the Play Element in Culture
by Johan Huizinga 1938 220 pages
3.99
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Game Design
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome Summary
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
by Joy DeGruy Leary 2005 235 pages
4.49
2k+ ratings
History
Race
Social Justice
The Human Swarm Summary
The Human Swarm
How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
by Mark W. Moffett 2019 468 pages
3.65
100+ ratings
Science
History
Biology
Republic of Lies Summary
Republic of Lies
American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
by Anna Merlan 2019 288 pages
3.89
1k+ ratings
Politics
History
Sociology
Mosquito Summary
Mosquito
A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe
by Andrew Spielman 2001 256 pages
3.89
100+ ratings
Science
History
Biology
People, Power, and Profits Summary
People, Power, and Profits
Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
by Joseph E. Stiglitz 2019 366 pages
3.88
1k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor Summary
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor
The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
by Donald J. Robertson 2019 304 pages
4.35
13k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Psychology
A Force More Powerful Summary
A Force More Powerful
A Century of Non-Violent Conflict
by Peter Ackerman 2000 560 pages
4.14
100+ ratings
History
Politics
Sociology
The Theft of a Decade Summary
The Theft of a Decade
How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials' Economic Future
by Joseph C. Sternberg 2019 255 pages
3.40
100+ ratings
Economics
Politics
History
Tide of War Summary
Tide of War
The Impact of Weather on Warfare
by David R Petriello 2018 236 pages
3.53
10+ ratings
History
Viking Age Iceland Summary
Viking Age Iceland
by Jesse L. Byock 2001 448 pages
4.09
500+ ratings
History
Medieval
Historical
The Technology Trap Summary
The Technology Trap
Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
by Carl Benedikt Frey 2019 480 pages
4.13
500+ ratings
Economics
History
Technology
The Entrepreneurial State Summary
The Entrepreneurial State
Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
by Mariana Mazzucato 2011 266 pages
3.95
3k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
You Belong to the Universe Summary
You Belong to the Universe
Buckminster Fuller and the Future
by Jonathan Keats 2016 216 pages
3.64
100+ ratings
Biography
Architecture
Science
The Art of War/The Art of Warfare Summary
The Art of War/The Art of Warfare
by Sun Tzu 2002 143 pages
4.14
4k+ ratings
Classics
Philosophy
History
How to Be an Antiracist Summary
How to Be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi 2019 305 pages
4.37
100k+ ratings
Race
Social Justice
Politics
Rosa Parks Summary
Rosa Parks
My Story
by Rosa Parks 1948 188 pages
4.18
2k+ ratings
Biography
History
Memoir
Meditations Summary
Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius 254 pages
4.28
200k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Self Help
National Security Cinema Summary
National Security Cinema
The Shocking New Evidence of Government Control in Hollywood
by Matthew Alford 2017 265 pages
3.92
100+ ratings
Politics
Film
History
Firefighting Summary
Firefighting
The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons
by Ben S. Bernanke 2019 240 pages
3.84
500+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
Proof of Conspiracy Summary
Proof of Conspiracy
How Trump's International Collusion Is Threatening American Democracy
by Seth Abramson 2019 592 pages
4.28
100+ ratings
Politics
History
True Crime
The Pianist from Syria Summary
The Pianist from Syria
A Memoir
by Aeham Ahmad 2017 240 pages
4.27
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Music
The Book of Humans Summary
The Book of Humans
A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War and the Evolution of Us
by Adam Rutherford 2016 273 pages
3.83
2k+ ratings
Science
History
Biology
The Greatest Summary
The Greatest
My Own Story
by Richard Durham 1975 415 pages
4.26
1k+ ratings
Biography
Sports
Autobiography
Learning from the Germans Summary
Learning from the Germans
Race and the Memory of Evil
by Susan Neiman 2019 434 pages
4.22
1k+ ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
Beyond Band of Brothers Summary
Beyond Band of Brothers
The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
by Dick Winters 2006 304 pages
4.32
19k+ ratings
History
Biography
World War II
Confidence Game Summary
Confidence Game
How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's Bluff
by Christine S. Richard 2010 352 pages
4.13
500+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
Republic, Lost Summary
Republic, Lost
How Money Corrupts Congress — and a Plan to Stop It
by Lawrence Lessig
4.17
2k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
History
Manufacturing Consent Summary
Manufacturing Consent
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by Edward S. Herman 1988 412 pages
4.24
22k+ ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
The English Summary
The English
A Portrait of a People
by Jeremy Paxman 1998 309 pages
3.56
2k+ ratings
History
British Literature
Politics
The Boys in the Boat Summary
The Boys in the Boat
Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
by Daniel James Brown 2013 404 pages
4.39
300k+ ratings
History
Sports
Biography
Sapiens Summary
Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari 2011 512 pages
4.35
1.1M+ ratings
History
Science
Philosophy
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