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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Summary
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn 1962 226 pages
4.04
28k+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
History
Normal Accidents Summary
Normal Accidents
Living with High-Risk Technologies
by Charles Perrow 1984 464 pages
4.04
500+ ratings
Science
Engineering
Technology
The Nazi Conspiracy Summary
The Nazi Conspiracy
The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
by Brad Meltzer 2023 400 pages
4.15
8k+ ratings
History
World War II
Politics
Sapiens and Homo Deus Summary
Sapiens and Homo Deus
The E-book Collection: A Brief History of Humankind and A Brief History of Tomorrow
by Yuval Noah Harari 2017 816 pages
4.42
1k+ ratings
History
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Philosophy
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration Summary
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects
by Weston A. Price 1939 524 pages
4.38
2k+ ratings
Health
Nutrition
Food
A Fever in the Heartland Summary
A Fever in the Heartland
The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
by Timothy Egan 2023 432 pages
4.37
37k+ ratings
History
True Crime
Politics
Against Intellectual Monopoly Summary
Against Intellectual Monopoly
by Michele Boldrin 2008 312 pages
4.03
100+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Law
Weapons of Mass Instruction Summary
Weapons of Mass Instruction
A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
by John Taylor Gatto 2008 192 pages
4.23
3k+ ratings
Education
Parenting
Politics
The Trial and Death of Socrates Summary
The Trial and Death of Socrates
by Plato 58 pages
4.12
43k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
History
Lone Survivor Summary
Lone Survivor
The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
by Marcus Luttrell 2006 390 pages
4.34
97k+ ratings
Military Fiction
History
War
A Little Bit of Everything For Dummies Summary
A Little Bit of Everything For Dummies
by John Wiley & Sons 2011 362 pages
3.31
3k+ ratings
Reference
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Education
A History of God Summary
A History of God
The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
by Karen Armstrong 1993 496 pages
3.89
50k+ ratings
Religion
History
Philosophy
How to Die Summary
How to Die
An Ancient Guide to the End of Life
by Seneca 2017 230 pages
4.04
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Death
Consilience Summary
Consilience
The Unity of Knowledge
by Edward O. Wilson 1998 368 pages
3.99
4k+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Biology
The Complete Financial History of Berkshire Hathaway Summary
The Complete Financial History of Berkshire Hathaway
A Chronological Analysis of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger's Conglomerate Masterpiece
by Adam J. Mead 2021 782 pages
4.52
100+ ratings
Business
Finance
Economics
Bird Watching Summary
Bird Watching
On Playing and Coaching the Game I Love
by Larry Bird 1999 352 pages
3.94
100+ ratings
Sports
Basketball
Memoir
The Conscience of a Liberal Summary
The Conscience of a Liberal
by Paul Krugman 2007 296 pages
3.97
6k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
History
Making It in America Summary
Making It in America
The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A.
by Rachel Slade 2024 352 pages
3.65
100+ ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Summary
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
by Mallanaga Vātsyāyana 240 pages
3.45
6k+ ratings
Classics
Philosophy
Sexuality
Broken Code Summary
Broken Code
Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets
by Jeff Horwitz 2023 528 pages
3.89
500+ ratings
Technology
Business
Politics
50 Politics Classics Summary
50 Politics Classics
Freedom Equality Power: Mind-Changing, World-Changing Ideas from Fifty Landmark Books
by Tom Butler-Bowdon 2015 336 pages
4.00
100+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
The Small and the Mighty Summary
The Small and the Mighty
Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
by Sharon McMahon 2024 320 pages
4.48
20k+ ratings
History
Biography
Historical
Yuval Noah Harari Collection 3 Books Set Summary
Yuval Noah Harari Collection 3 Books Set
by Yuval Noah Harari 2019
4.53
500+ ratings
History
Science
The Crowd & The Psychology of Revolution Summary
The Crowd & The Psychology of Revolution
by Gustave Le Bon 2015 286 pages
4.18
100+ ratings
Psychology
Politics
Sociology
The Ancestor's Tale Summary
The Ancestor's Tale
A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
by Richard Dawkins 2004 688 pages
4.14
28k+ ratings
Science
Biology
History
The Meaning of Things Summary
The Meaning of Things
Applying Philosophy to Life
by A.C. Grayling 2001 208 pages
3.86
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Self Help
Sapiens Summary
Sapiens
A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind
by David Vandermeulen 2020 248 pages
4.37
15k+ ratings
Graphic Novels
History
Science
Selections from the Prison Notebooks Summary
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
by Antonio Gramsci 1947 483 pages
4.20
5k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
Dominion Summary
Dominion
How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
by Tom Holland 2019 624 pages
4.27
9k+ ratings
History
Christianity
Philosophy
The Secret of Our Success Summary
The Secret of Our Success
How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
by Joseph Henrich 2015 456 pages
4.38
1k+ ratings
Science
History
Psychology
Revenge of the Tipping Point Summary
Revenge of the Tipping Point
Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
by Malcolm Gladwell 2024 368 pages
4.06
25k+ ratings
Psychology
Sociology
History
Saved Summary
Saved
A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home
by Benjamin Hall 2023 281 pages
4.57
3k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
War
Napoleon Summary
Napoleon
A Life
by Andrew Roberts 2014 976 pages
4.24
25k+ ratings
History
Biography
France
Mother American Night Summary
Mother American Night
My Life and Crazy Times
by John Perry Barlow 2018 288 pages
4.17
500+ ratings
Biography
Music
Memoir
Karate-Do Summary
Karate-Do
My Way of Life
by Gichin Funakoshi 1975 144 pages
4.24
2k+ ratings
Martial Arts
Biography
Philosophy
Nuclear War Summary
Nuclear War
A Scenario
by Annie Jacobsen 2024 400 pages
4.41
29k+ ratings
History
Politics
Science
Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales Summary
Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales
by Marie-Louise von Franz 1974 352 pages
4.31
500+ ratings
Psychology
Mythology
Philosophy
The Road to Freedom Summary
The Road to Freedom
Economics and the Good Society
by Joseph E. Stiglitz 2024 384 pages
4.04
100+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
The Space Barons Summary
The Space Barons
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
by Christian Davenport 2018 320 pages
4.10
4k+ ratings
Science
Space
Business
Amazon Unbound Summary
Amazon Unbound
Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
by Brad Stone 2021 496 pages
4.08
6k+ ratings
Business
Biography
Technology
The Key Man Summary
The Key Man
The True Story of How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale
by Simon Clark 2021 352 pages
4.19
2k+ ratings
Business
Finance
Economics
Pakistan Summary
Pakistan
A Hard Country
by Anatol Lieven 2011 592 pages
4.12
2k+ ratings
Pakistan
History
Politics
Code of the Samurai Summary
Code of the Samurai
A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke
by Daidōji Yūzan 1943 128 pages
4.03
3k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Martial Arts
Silencing the Past Summary
Silencing the Past
Power and the Production of History
by Michel-Rolph Trouillot 1995 216 pages
4.35
3k+ ratings
History
Philosophy
Politics
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Summary
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
by Max Weber 1904 320 pages
3.91
14k+ ratings
Sociology
Philosophy
History
Dark Alliance Summary
Dark Alliance
The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
by Gary Webb 1998 601 pages
4.29
1k+ ratings
History
Politics
True Crime
Atatürk Summary
Atatürk
The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey
by Andrew Mango 1999 666 pages
4.16
1k+ ratings
History
Biography
Politics
Eichmann in Jerusalem Summary
Eichmann in Jerusalem
A Report on the Banality of Evil
by Hannah Arendt 1963 312 pages
4.20
29k+ ratings
History
Philosophy
Politics
Dialectic of Enlightenment Summary
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Philosophical Fragments
by Max Horkheimer 1947 304 pages
4.11
7k+ ratings
Philosophy
Theory
Sociology
The Man Who Knew Summary
The Man Who Knew
The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
by Sebastian Mallaby 2016 800 pages
4.32
1k+ ratings
Biography
Economics
Finance
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