How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place
By: Bjørn Lomborg
3.65
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
the world faces myriad challenges - yet we are constrained by scarce resources. In the 21st Century…
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1. The Art of War
By: Sun Tzu , Thomas Cleary
3.95
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
Twenty-Five Hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chines… read more
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"Never venture, never win!"-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
"Danger has a bracing effect."-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
"The wise warrior avoids the battle."-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
"If his forces are united, separate them."-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
2. The Intelligent Investor
By: Benjamin Graham , Jason Zweig , Warren Buffett
4.25
Format: 623 pages, Paperback
More than one million hardcovers soldNow available for the first time in paperback! The Classic … read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
- business
3. Orthodoxy
By: G.K. Chesterton
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Chesterton (The Man Who Knew Too Much) capped his brilliant literary career with this exploration o… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
By: Christopher R. Browning
4.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"The behavior of any human being is, of course, a very complex phenomenon, and the historian who attempts to "explain" it is indulging in a certain arrogance."-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve policemen faced choices, and most of them committed terrible deeds. But those who killed cannot be absolved by the notion that anyo…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"What, then, is one to conclude? Most of all, one comes away from the story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 with great unease. This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve polic…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"At the same time, however, the collective behavior of Reserve Police Battalion 101 has deeply disturbing implications. There are many societies afflicted by traditions of racism and caught in the sie…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
5. The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
By: Matt Ridley
3.76
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Life is getting better--and at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are u… read more
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6. İnsan Ne İle Yaşar?
By: Leo Tolstoy , Lev Tolstoy
1.00
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
"Insan Ne Ile Yasar" unlu dusunur ve yazar Tolstoy'un okuyucunun manevi dunyasina hitap eden hikaye… read more
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7. The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
By: None , Edward E. Ericson Jr. , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4.32
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prison… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"To taste the sea, all one needs is one gulp."-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
"One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny."-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
"Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand."-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
"Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty."-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
8. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
By: Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage
4.31
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for histori… read more
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"Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Whatever Latin America sells—raw materials or manufactures—its chief export product is really cheap labor."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Cuando el Estado se hace dueño de la principal riqueza de un país, corresponde preguntarse quién es el dueño del Estado."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Cuanto más codiciado por el mercado mundial, mayor es la desgracia que un producto trae consigo al pueblo latinoamericano que, con su sacrificio, lo crea."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
9. Meditations
By: Marcus Aurelius , Martin Hammond , Diskin Clay
3.75
Format: 148 pages,
Written in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a ph… read more
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- history
10. The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe
By: Stephen Hawking
3.57
Format: None pages,
Based on a series of lectures given at Cambridge University, Professor Hawking's work introduced "t… read more
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11. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
By: Mortimer J. Adler , Charles van Doren
3.98
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. I… read more
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"In short, we can only learn from our "betters"."-Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
"A good rule always describes the ideal performance."-Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
"The mind can atrophy, like the muscles, if it is not used."-Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."-Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
12. Lying
By: Sam Harris
3.78
Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition
As it was in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life. Most forms of private vic… read more
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13. Notes from Underground
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None
4.17
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more
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"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
14. Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
By: Jordan B. Peterson
4.05
Format: 564 pages, Paperback
Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structur… read more
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"Un acontecimiento significativo existe en la frontera entre el orden y el caos."-Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
"...todo momento de amenaza es también, simultáneamente, un momento de oportunidad."-Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
"Nuestras insignificantes debilidades se acumulan y multiplican, y se convierten en grandes males de Estado."-Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
"La actitud tiránica mantiene a la sociedad en una predictibilidad homogénea y rígida, pero la condena a un derrumbamiento final."-Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
15. Man's Search for Meaning
By: Viktor E. Frankl
3.93
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of lif… read more
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16. The Road to Wigan Pier
By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more
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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
17. 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
18. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
By: Jordan B. Peterson
3.92
Format: 409 pages, Hardcover
What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's ans… read more
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"Treat yourself like you would someone you're responsible for helping."-Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
"Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living - and the Ideal shames us all."-Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
"So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of …"-Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
"Sometimes, when people have a low opinion of their own worth—or, perhaps, when they refuse responsibility for their lives—they choose a new acquaintance, of precisely the type who proved troublesome …"-Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
19. Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
By: Claire Hughes Johnson
4.29
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
From a Stripe and Google executive, a practical guide to company building and scaling the most impo… read more
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20. Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
By: Michael Shellenberger
4.18
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world’… read more
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- climate change
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21. How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place
By: Bjørn Lomborg
3.65
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
the world faces myriad challenges - yet we are constrained by scarce resources. In the 21st Century… read more
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