27 must-read nonfiction books like The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People—and the Fight for Our Future by Alec J. Ross

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The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People—and the Fight for Our Future

By: Alec J. Ross

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The world needs a book that explains the car crash at the intersection of business, government, and…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People—and the Fight for Our Future by Alec J. Ross , here is a list of 27 books like this:

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1. The Skin

By: Curzio Malaparte , David Moore

4.06

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Una terribile peste dilaga a Napoli dal giorno in cui, nell’ottobre del 1943, gli eserciti alleati … read more

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"It falls to the lot of even the most glorious flags to be thrown in the mud. Glory, what men call glory, is often thick with mud."

-Curzio Malaparte, The Skin

"La pelle " risposi a voce bassa " la nostra pelle, questa maledetta pelle. Voi non immaginate neppure di che cosa sia capace un uomo, di quali eroismi e di quali infamie sia capace, per salvar la pel…"

-Curzio Malaparte, The Skin

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2. Decision Points

By: George W. Bush

3.81

Format: 497 pages, Hardcover

In this candid and gripping account, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • leadership
"When my time is up,"

-George W. Bush, Decision Points

"If you lead, we'll be behind you," one House leader said, "but we'll be way behind you."

-George W. Bush, Decision Points

"But the truth is that I never had to search for a role model. I was the son of George Bush."

-George W. Bush, Decision Points

"When you know you have unconditional love, there is no point in rebellion and no need to fear failure."

-George W. Bush, Decision Points

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3. The 100-Year Life: Living and working in an age of longevity

By: Andrew Scott , Lynda Gratton

3.16

Format: 288 pages,

What will your100-year life look like? Does the thought of working for 60 or 70 years fill you with… read more

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  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • business

4. Business Model Generation

By: Alexander Osterwalder , Yves Pigneur

3.88

Format: None pages,

Business Model Generation is a practical, inspiring handbook for anyone striving to improve a busin… read more

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5. Quantum Supremacy

By: Michio Kaku

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement—quantum computing—which may… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • business
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6. Dalla stessa parte mi troverai

By: Valentina Mira

4.01

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

Questa storia comincia una sera d’inverno, il 7 gennaio 1978. Davanti a una sede del Movimento soci… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

By: Edmund Conway

4.52

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

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8. Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A startling new look at quantum theory, from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"But structures are processes are not there so that organisms can survive and reproduce. It is the other way round: organisms survive and reproduce because these structures have happened to gradually …"

-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

"Credo che uno dei grandi errori che fanno gli esseri umani quando tentano di capire qualcosa sia volere certezze. La ricerca della conoscenza non si nutre di certezze: si nutre di una radicale assenz…"

-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

"In qualunque angolo dell'universo troviamo vertiginosi pozzi di strati di realtà. In questi strati siamo riusciti a riconoscere regolarità, sulle quali abbiamo raccolto informazione rilevante per noi…"

-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

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9. 2054

By: Elliot Ackerman

3.46

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller 2034 comes another explosive wo… read more

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  • politics
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10. Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

By: Shane Parrish

4.21

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFew things will change your trajectory in life or business as m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"Our desire to feel right overpowers our desire to be right."

-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

"The social rewards for going with the crowd are felt long before the benefits of going against it are gained."

-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

"Most people go through life assuming that we’re right about everything all the time and that people who don’t see things our way are wrong. We mistake how we want the world to be with how it actually…"

-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

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11. The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power

By: Dana Mattioli

4.10

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From veteran Amazon reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in in… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
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12. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

By: Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • business
  • sociology
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13. How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

By: Vaclav Smil

3.97

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
"Найліпше нашу пасивність і надзвичайну складність проблеми глобального потепління можна проілюструвати таким фактом: тридцять років масштабних міжнародних кліматичних конференцій ніяк не вплинули на …"

-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

"У 2010-х роках саме джипи стали другою найбільшою причиною зростання викидів CO2, лишивши позаду важку промисловість, вантажоперевезення й авіацію. Обігнала їх тільки електроенергетика. Якщо народна …"

-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

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14. Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties

By: David de Jong

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
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15. Ma chi me lo fa fare? Come il lavoro ci ha illuso: la fine dell'incantesimo

By: Maura Gancitano

4.13

Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition

È PROPRIO VERO CHE SE AMIAMO IL NOSTRO LAVORO NON LAVOREREMO MAI UN GIORNO NELLA NOSTRA VITA O SIAM… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America

By: Abraham Riesman

3.75

Format: 464 pages, ebook

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Riveting, essential reading.” —Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganl… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • business
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17. Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets: 5 Questions to Help You Determine Your Next Move

By: Andy Stanley

4.32

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Good questions lead to better decisions. Discover five game-changing questions to ask every time yo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Bent Flyvbjerg

18. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

By: Bent Flyvbjerg

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more

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  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee

19. AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

By: Kai-Fu Lee

4.10

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

Dr. Kai-Fu Lee—one of the world’s most respected experts on AI and China—reveals that China has sud… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
"When I launched my AI career in 1983, I did so by waxing philosophic in my application to the Ph.D. program at Carnegie Mellon. I described AI as “the quantification of the human thinking process, th…"

-Kai-Fu Lee, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

Cover of The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives by Peter H. Diamandis

20. The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

By: Peter H. Diamandis

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for te… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
  • business
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21. Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs

By: Johann Hari

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs u… read more

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  • nonfiction
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22. Chevreuse

By: Patrick Modiano

3.58

Format: 176 pages, Broché

Pour la première fois depuis quinze ans, le nom de cette femme lui occupait l'esprit, et ce nom ent… read more

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23. Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

By: Quinn Slobodian

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • society
  • business
  • sociology
Cover of The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy by Christopher Leonard

24. The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy

By: Christopher Leonard

4.34

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The New York Times bestseller from business journalist Christopher Leonard infiltrates one of Ameri… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
Cover of Dieci cose che ho imparato by Piero Angela

25. Dieci cose che ho imparato

By: Piero Angela

3.95

Format: 156 pages, ebook

“Questo libro raccoglie alcune cose che ho imparato in tanti anni di professione, di incontri, di e… read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music

By: Alex Ross

4.18

Format: 784 pages, Hardcover

Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice

By: David Enrich

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times’s Business Investigations Editor and #1 bestselling author of Dark Towers c… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • business
"On January 6, months of fearmongering and lies about voter fraud and a stolen election exploded into a deadly insurrection. Jones Day wasn't to blame, but it wasn't not to blame either. The firm had …"

-David Enrich, Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice

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28. Israele e i palestinesi in poche parole

By: Marco Travaglio

3.79

Format: 110 pages, Kindle Edition

In principio fu la Diaspora degli ebrei, cacciati dalla loro terra dai romani dopo la distruzione d… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. The Ten Equations That Rule the World: And How You Can Use Them Too

By: David Sumpter

3.67

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

Is there a secret formula for getting rich? For going viral? For deciding how long to stick with yo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • business
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30. The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People—and the Fight for Our Future

By: Alec J. Ross

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The world needs a book that explains the car crash at the intersection of business, government, and… read more

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  • social science
  • history
  • politics
  • sociology
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • society
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America by Kate Washington

31. Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America

By: Kate Washington

3.96

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The story of one woman’s struggle to care for her seriously ill husband—and a revealing look at the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology

17 Best history books like The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People—and the Fight for Our Future by Alec J. Ross

Transform Your Habits

Decision Points

George W. Bush

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Quantum Supremacy

Michio Kaku

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Dalla stessa parte mi troverai

Valentina Mira

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

Edmund Conway

4.52

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Transform Your Habits

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Vincent Bevins

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

Simon Winchester

3.84

Transform Your Habits

3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

James Kaplan

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

Werner Herzog

4.25

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