In Defense of Capitalism: Debunking the Myths
By: Rainer Zitelmann
4.08
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Rainer Zitelmann examines the ten most common objections to capitalism: capitalism leads to hunger …
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1. The Skull Throne (Demon Cycle, #4)
By: Peter V. Brett
4.13
Format: 681 pages, Hardcover
The Skull Throne of Krasia stands empty. Built from the skulls of fallen generals and demon pri… read more
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"Arther, what is first on the agenda?" ... "The same as ever, Highness. Elections, land, and entitlements." Arther had learned to mask much of his distaste at that last word, but his lips still pucker…"-Peter V. Brett, The Skull Throne (Demon Cycle, #4)
2. Dead Souls
By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire
3.98
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more
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"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
3. Brave New World Revisited
By: Aldous Huxley
4.67
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
When the novel Brave New Worldfirst appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictato… read more
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4. Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
By: Henry Hazlitt
3.69
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A million copy seller, Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lessonis a classic economic primer. But it … read more
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5. How to Become a Straight-A Student
By: Cal Newport
3.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Looking to jumpstart your GPA? Most college students believe that straight A's can be achieved only… read more
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6. Los enemigos íntimos de la democracia
By: Tzvetan Todorov
3.76
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Los enemigos intimos de la democracia denuncia que los peligros que acechan a las democracias occid… read more
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7. The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions
By: Jason Hickel
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
For decades we have been told a story about the divide between rich countries and poor countries. … read more
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8. The Worldly Philosophers
By: Robert L. Heilbroner
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Worldly Philosophersnot only enables us to see more deeply into our history but helps us better… read more
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9. The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
By: Charles Murray , Richard J. Herrnstein
3.59
Format: 912 pages, Paperback
The controversial book linking intelligence to class and race in modern society, and what public po… read more
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"Many academic intellectuals hold middle-class values in contempt"-Charles Murray, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
"The moral ascendancy of equality has made it difficult to use concepts such as virtue, excellence, beauty and – above all – truth."-Charles Murray, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
"How large is the black-white difference? The usual answer to this question is one standard deviation. In discussing IQ tests, for example, the black mean is commonly given as 85, the white mean as 10…"-Charles Murray, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
"Richard Lynn was able to assemble eleven studies in his 1991 review of the literature. He estimated the median black African IQ to be 75, approximately 1.7 standard deviations below the U.S. overall …"-Charles Murray, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
10. The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism
By: Friedrich A. Hayek , W.W. Bartley III
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Hayek gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors o… read more
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11. The Anti-capitalistic Mentality
By: Ludwig von Mises , Bettina Bien Greaves
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
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12. Capitalism and Freedom
By: Milton Friedman
3.97
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Selected by the Times Literary Supplementas one of the "hundred most influential books since the wa… read more
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13. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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14. The Richest Man in Babylon
By: George S. Clason
4.25
Format: 162 pages, Hardcover
The Richest Man in Babylon is an early twentieth century classic about financial investment and mon… read more
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"ليس بالشيء الطيب أن يجلس الرجل بلا عمل"-George S. Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon
"إن روح المماطلة موجودة في داخل كل إنسان"-George S. Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon
"As for time, all men have it in abundance."-George S. Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon
"Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts."-George S. Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon
15. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
By: Daniel Kahneman
3.66
Format: 454 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the co-author of Nudge, a groundbreaking… read more
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16. The White Pill: A Tale of Good and Evil
By: Michael Malice
4.49
Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition
The Russian Revolution was as red as blood. The Bolsheviks promised that they were building a new s… read more
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17. Rationality
By: Steven Pinker
3.85
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 In Rationality, Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are … read more
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"Everyone wants someone to help but prefers that it not be them."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"If contemporary humans seem irrational, don't blame the hunter-gatherers."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"The press is an availability machine. It serves up anecdotes which feed our impression of what's common in a way that is guaranteed to mislead."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"Disagreement is necessary in deliberations among mortals. As the saying goes, the more we disagree, the more chance there is that at least one of us is right."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
18. Trancas à Porta: Desfazendo mitos sobre a crise da habitação
By: Carlos Guimarães Pinto
4.48
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
O que têm em comum as situações de jovens licenciados que não saem de casa dos pais antes dos 30 an… read more
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19. In Defense of Capitalism: Debunking the Myths
By: Rainer Zitelmann
4.08
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Rainer Zitelmann examines the ten most common objections to capitalism: capitalism leads to hunger … read more
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20. The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran
By: Masih Alinejad
4.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A photo on Masih's Facebook page: a woman standing proudly, face bare, hair blowing in the wind. He… read more
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21. A era do nós
By: João Ferro Rodrigues
4.29
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Nas últimas décadas, apesar do ritmo intenso da globalização e do advento das redes sociais, que li… read more
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