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Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate Summary
Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
The Essential Guide for Progressives
by George Lakoff 2004 144 pages
3.96
6k+ ratings
Politics
Psychology
Philosophy
Dit kan niet waar zijn. Onder bankiers Summary
Dit kan niet waar zijn. Onder bankiers
by Joris Luyendijk 2015 208 pages
3.84
7k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
50 Rules Kids Won't Learn in School Summary
50 Rules Kids Won't Learn in School
Real-world Antidotes to Feel-good Education
by Charles J. Sykes 2007 192 pages
3.70
100+ ratings
Education
Parenting
Self Help
On Language Summary
On Language
by Noam Chomsky 1998 481 pages
3.82
1k+ ratings
Linguistics
Philosophy
Language
Modern Misogyny Summary
Modern Misogyny
Anti-Feminism in a Post-Feminist Era
by Kristin J. Anderson 2014 208 pages
4.11
50+ ratings
Feminism
Philosophy
Politics
Chronicles Summary
Chronicles
On Our Troubled Times
by Thomas Piketty 2016 320 pages
3.62
500+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Essays
Suspicious Minds Summary
Suspicious Minds
Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories
by Rob Brotherton 2015 304 pages
3.88
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
History
Rethinking Capitalism Summary
Rethinking Capitalism
Economics and Policy for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth
by Michael Jacobs 2016 224 pages
4.03
100+ ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
Against Democracy Summary
Against Democracy
by Jason Brennan 2016 304 pages
3.66
1k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Political Science
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything Summary
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything
Tales from the Pentagon
by Rosa Brooks 2016 448 pages
3.93
1k+ ratings
Politics
History
Military Fiction
You Talkin' To Me? Summary
You Talkin' To Me?
Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama
by Sam Leith 2011 256 pages
3.76
1k+ ratings
Writing
Philosophy
Language
Utopia for Realists Summary
Utopia for Realists
How We Can Build the Ideal World
by Rutger Bregman 2014 262 pages
4.22
40k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
Ethics in the Real World Summary
Ethics in the Real World
86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter
by Peter Singer 2016 336 pages
3.93
4k+ ratings
Philosophy
Essays
Politics
What You Should Know About Politics...But Don't Summary
What You Should Know About Politics...But Don't
A Nonpartisan Guide to the Issues
by Jessamyn Conrad 2008 336 pages
3.95
1k+ ratings
Politics
History
Political Science
Progress - Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future Summary
Progress - Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
by Johan Norberg 2016 304 pages
4.05
1k+ ratings
Economics
History
Politics
The Great Transition Summary
The Great Transition
Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy
by Lester R. Brown 2014 194 pages
3.69
100+ ratings
Science
Climate Change
Environment
Strangers in Their Own Land Summary
Strangers in Their Own Land
Anger and Mourning on the American Right
by Arlie Russell Hochschild 2016 242 pages
4.12
17k+ ratings
Politics
Sociology
History
Thank You for Being Late Summary
Thank You for Being Late
An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
by Thomas L. Friedman 2016 486 pages
3.88
11k+ ratings
Business
Politics
Economics
Armchair Economist Summary
Armchair Economist
Economics & Everyday Life
by Steven E. Landsburg 1993 256 pages
3.74
3k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man Summary
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins 2016 384 pages
3.93
7k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
History
Nation of Rebels Summary
Nation of Rebels
Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture
by Joseph Heath 2004 368 pages
3.84
1k+ ratings
Politics
Sociology
Philosophy
The Price of Admission Summary
The Price of Admission
How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges โ€” and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
by Daniel Golden 2006 336 pages
3.66
500+ ratings
Education
Politics
Sociology
Living a Feminist Life Summary
Living a Feminist Life
by Sara Ahmed 2017 312 pages
4.32
3k+ ratings
Feminism
Philosophy
Politics
I'm Right and You're an Idiot Summary
I'm Right and You're an Idiot
The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean it Up
by James Hoggan 2016 272 pages
3.73
100+ ratings
Politics
Canada
Sociology
Glass House Summary
Glass House
The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
by Brian Alexander 2017 336 pages
3.91
1k+ ratings
Politics
History
Economics
Men and Marriage Summary
Men and Marriage
by George Gilder 1986 240 pages
4.22
100+ ratings
Marriage
Cultural
Politics
Knowledge and Power Summary
Knowledge and Power
The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World
by George Gilder 2013 400 pages
3.92
100+ ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
Redefining Health Care Summary
Redefining Health Care
Creating Value-Based Competition on Results
by Michael E. Porter 2006 528 pages
3.91
100+ ratings
Health Care
Business
Economics
A Colony in a Nation Summary
A Colony in a Nation
by Chris Hayes 2017 256 pages
4.18
6k+ ratings
Politics
History
Race
The Trouble With Billionaires Summary
The Trouble With Billionaires
Why Too Much Money At The Top Is Bad For Everyone
by Linda McQuaig 2010 272 pages
4.00
100+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Canada
The New Urban Crisis Summary
The New Urban Crisis
How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Classโ€”and What We Can Do About It
by Richard Florida 2017 336 pages
3.50
1k+ ratings
Urban Planning
Urbanism
Politics
Men Explain Things to Me Summary
Men Explain Things to Me
by Rebecca Solnit 2014 130 pages
3.83
82k+ ratings
Feminism
Essays
Politics
A Field Guide to Lies Summary
A Field Guide to Lies
Critical Thinking in the Information Age
by Daniel J. Levitin 2016 292 pages
3.76
4k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Self Help
Mismeasuring Our Lives Summary
Mismeasuring Our Lives
Why GDP Doesn't Add Up
by Joseph E. Stiglitz 2009 136 pages
3.74
100+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Social Science
Requiem for the American Dream Summary
Requiem for the American Dream
The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power
by Noam Chomsky 2017 192 pages
4.20
3k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
History
Rome's Last Citizen Summary
Rome's Last Citizen
The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar
by Rob Goodman 2012 384 pages
4.17
1k+ ratings
History
Biography
Philosophy
The Rise of the Outsiders Summary
The Rise of the Outsiders
How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way
by Steve Richards 2017 320 pages
3.65
100+ ratings
Politics
21st Century
History
The Retreat of Western Liberalism Summary
The Retreat of Western Liberalism
by Edward Luce 2017 234 pages
4.01
2k+ ratings
Politics
History
Economics
The Broken Ladder Summary
The Broken Ladder
How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
by Keith Payne 2018 256 pages
4.21
3k+ ratings
Politics
Psychology
Economics
The Fourth Industrial Revolution Summary
The Fourth Industrial Revolution
by Klaus Schwab 2016 198 pages
3.58
4k+ ratings
Business
Economics
Technology
Son of Hamas Summary
Son of Hamas
A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices
by Mosab Hassan Yousef 2011 265 pages
4.23
16k+ ratings
Biography
History
Memoir
Private Government Summary
Private Government
How Employers Rule Our Lives
by Elizabeth S. Anderson 2017 196 pages
3.98
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Economics
Radical Technologies Summary
Radical Technologies
The Design of Everyday Life
by Adam Greenfield 2017 368 pages
4.03
1k+ ratings
Technology
Design
Politics
Churchill Summary
Churchill
The Power of Words: His Remarkable Life Recounted Through His Writings and Speeches
by Winston S. Churchill 2012 536 pages
4.25
500+ ratings
History
Biography
Politics
How the Other Half Banks Summary
How the Other Half Banks
Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
by Mehrsa Baradaran 2015 336 pages
4.11
500+ ratings
Economics
History
Politics
How to Run a Government Summary
How to Run a Government
So That Citizens Benefit and Taxpayers Don't Go Crazy
by Michael Barber 2015 368 pages
3.90
100+ ratings
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
Not for Sale Summary
Not for Sale
The Return of the Global Slave Tradeโ€”and How We Can Fight It
by David Batstone 2007 320 pages
4.25
1k+ ratings
Social Justice
Politics
History
Free Market Revolution Summary
Free Market Revolution
How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government
by Yaron Brook 2012 272 pages
4.22
500+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
Chanakya Neeti Summary
Chanakya Neeti
by B.K. Chaturvedi 2009 235 pages
3.76
500+ ratings
Self Help
Philosophy
Business
Until We Are Free Summary
Until We Are Free
My Fight for Human Rights in Iran
by Shirin Ebadi 2016 304 pages
4.27
1k+ ratings
Iran
Memoir
Politics
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