Giants: The Global Power Elite
By: Peter Phillips
3.83
Format: None pages, ebook
A look at the top 300 most powerful players in world capitalism, who are at the controls of our eco…
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1. What Has Government Done to Our Money? and The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar
By: Murray N. Rothbard
4.28
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
The Mises Institute is pleased to present this very beautiful hardbound edition of Rothbard's most … read more
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- politics
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- political science
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"...большинство стран под воздействием Британии вернулись к золотому стандарту, установив искусственно завышенный курс национальной валюты. В результате была построена типичная финансовая пирамида, в …"-Murray N. Rothbard, What Has Government Done to Our Money? and The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar
2. iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us
By: Jean M. Twenge
4.03
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A highly readable and entertaining first look at how today's members of iGen--the children, teens, … read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
3. Things that Can and Cannot Be Said: Essays and Conversations
By: Arundhati Roy , John Cusack
3.79
Format: 32 pages,
In late 2014, Arundhati Roy, John Cusack, and Daniel Ellsberg travelled to Moscow to meet with NSA … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
4. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
By: Michael Parenti
4.41
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, rev… read more
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- history
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- political science
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"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
5. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
By: Bethany McLean , Peter Elkind
4.01
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
There were dozens of books about Watergate, but only All the President's Mengave readers the full s… read more
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6. The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk
By: Al Ries , Jack Trout
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
There are laws of nature, so why shouldn't there be laws of marketing? As Al Ries and Jack Trout--t… read more
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7. This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
By: John Brockman
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
Edge.org presents brilliant, accessible, cutting-edge ideas to improve our decision-making skills a… read more
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8. Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World
By: Michael Harris
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
"I came away from this book a better human being. Michael Harris' take on existence is calm, unique… read more
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9. Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
By: David Wong
3.63
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
Nightmarish villains with superhuman enhancements. An all-seeing social network that tracks your ev… read more
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10. Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction
By: Robert C. Allen
3.95
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, global income differences were small, but dis… read more
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11. How to Become CEO: The Rules for Rising to the Top of Any Organization
By: Jeffrey J. Fox
4.16
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
Now Updated and with New Success Tips for Everyone, at Any Level!Vision, persistence, integrity, an… read more
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12. Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction
By: Stephen Eric Bronner
3.00
Format: 18 pages,
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13. The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain
By: James Fallon
4.50
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
"The last scan in the pile was strikingly odd. In fact it looked exactly like the most abnormal of … read more
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14. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
15. While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America
By: Yeonmi Park
3.99
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER The North Korean defector, human rights advocate, and bestselling author of … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
16. Social Justice Fallacies
By: Thomas Sowell
4.45
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this instant New York Times bestseller, renowned economist Thomas Sowell demolishes the myths th… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- political science
- economics
- society
- sociology
17. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
18. Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave
By: Ryan Holiday
4.04
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
The instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller! Ryan Holiday's best… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Start small...on something big."-Ryan Holiday, Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave
"You can also commit injustice by doing nothing."-Ryan Holiday, Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave
"History is written with blood, sweat, and tears, and it is etched into eternity by the quiet endurance of courageous people."-Ryan Holiday, Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave
19. Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
By: Celeste Headlee
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Despite our constant search for new ways to 'hack' our bodies and minds for peak performance, human… read more
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"In many ways I think we've lost the sight of the purpose of free time. We seem to immediately equate idleness with laziness but those two things are very different. "Leisure" is not a synonym for "in…"-Celeste Headlee, Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
20. Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam
By: Vivek Ramaswamy
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In this New York Times bestseller, a young and successful entrepreneur makes the case that politics… read more
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"Diversity"-Vivek Ramaswamy, Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam
21. The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
By: Carlo M. Cipolla
3.86
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
"A masterly book" --Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan"A classic" --Simon Kuper, Finan… read more
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"A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person."-Carlo M. Cipolla, The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
"احتمالية أن يكون شخص ما غبيا، مستقلة عن أي سمة أخرى يتصف بها هذا الشخص"-Carlo M. Cipolla, The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
"The Second law of human stupidity: The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person"-Carlo M. Cipolla, The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
"If you lose we will be equals and stay friends forever, and if you win you'll take my precious blue flower as a prize and we stay friends forever. How lucky you are!"-Carlo M. Cipolla, The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
22. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
By: Sebastian Junger
3.92
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more
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"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
23. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
By: Andy Greenberg
4.50
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrenc… read more
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- economics
- history
- finance
24. The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories
By: Ilan Pappé
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Following his critically acclaimed investigation of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in the 1940s,… read more
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25. Life After the Third Reich: The Struggle to Rise from the Nazi Ruins
By: Paul Roland
4.04
Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Third Reich collapsed and the Red Army swamp… read more
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26. High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way
By: Brendon Burchard
4.13
Format: 393 pages, Hardcover
THESE HABITS WILL MAKE YOU EXTRAORDINARY. Twenty years ago, author Brendon Burchard became obsesse… read more
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"release tension, set intention"-Brendon Burchard, High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way
27. Libres d’obéir : Le management, du nazisme à aujourd'hui
By: Johann Chapoutot
3.85
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Reinhard Höhn (1904-2000) est l’archétype de l’intellectuel technocrate au service du IIIe Reich. J… read more
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28. Raphael, Painter in Rome
By: Stephanie Storey
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Another fabulous art history thriller by the bestselling author of Oil and Marble, featuring the ma… read more
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29. Giants: The Global Power Elite
By: Peter Phillips
3.83
Format: None pages, ebook
A look at the top 300 most powerful players in world capitalism, who are at the controls of our eco… read more
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30. Decoding Jung's Metaphysics: The Archetypal Semantics of an Experiential Universe
By: Bernardo Kastrup
4.53
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
More than an insightful psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung was the twentieth century's greatest articul… read more
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31. War on Ivermectin: The Medicine that Saved Millions and Could Have Ended the Pandemic
By: Pierre Kory
4.71
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Big Pharma and health agencies cry, “Don’t take ivermectin!” A media storm follows. Why then, does … read more
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