Ages of Discord
By: Peter Turchin
4.11
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
We are on the wrong track Seventy percent of Americans (and counting) think so. The inflation-ad…
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1. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
By: Carl Sagan , Ann Druyan
4.34
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sagan traces our exploration of space and suggests that our very… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze."-Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
"It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little about it."-Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
"Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science."-Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
"I remind myself that madmen really exist. Sometimes they achieve the highest levels of political power in modern industrial nations."-Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
2. The Elementary Particles
By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–pa… read more
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"He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"J'aurais pu adhérer au Front National, mais à quoi bon manger de la choucroute avec des cons?"-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
3. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
By: Donella H. Meadows , Jørgen Randers , Dennis L. Meadows
4.22
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
In 1972 four young scientists at MIT wrote The Limits to Growth, which shocked theworld and became … read more
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"Faith in technology as the ultimate solution to all problems can thus divert our attention from the most fundamental problem-the problem of growth in a finite system and prevent us from taking effect…"-Donella H. Meadows, Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
4. Common Sense
By: Thomas Paine , George Vafiadis
3.75
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more
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5. Charity (Bernard Samson, #9)
By: Len Deighton
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
For Bernard Samson, the end is near.In the concluding volume of Len Deighton's superb trilogy that … read more
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6. Revolutionary Road
By: Richard Yates
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talen… read more
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7. The Tortilla Curtain
By: T. Coraghessan Boyle
3.72
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra … read more
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8. 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
9. The Parasite
By: Michel Serres
3.50
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Influential philosopher Michel Serres's foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations… read more
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10. The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
By: Gregory Cochran , Henry Harpending
3.81
Format: None pages,
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11. Maxims
By: François de la Rochefoucauld , Leonard Tancock
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
The philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire an… read more
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12. The Final Pagan Generation
By: Edward J. Watts
3.93
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Final Pagan Generationrecounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the last Roma… read more
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13. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
14. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath
By: Peter Zeihan
4.18
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting… read more
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15. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
By: Steven Levitsky
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is ou… read more
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- nonfiction
- political science
- sociology
"Authoritarian politicians cast their rivals as criminal, subversive, unpatriotic, or a threat to national security or the existing way of life."-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"The drift into authoritarianism doesn’t always set off alarm bells. Citizens are often slow to realize that their democracy is being dismantled even as it happens before their eyes."-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"Institutions become political weapons, wielded forcefully by those who control them against those who do not. This is how elected autocrats subvert democracy—packing and “weaponizing"-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"But when faced with a would-be authoritarian, establishment politicians must unambiguously reject him or her and do everything possible to defend democratic institutions—even if that means temporaril…"-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
16. The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World
By: James Burnham
3.74
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
Burnham’s claim was that capitalism was dead, but that it was being replaced not by socialism, but … read more
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- political science
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"Within the huge trade unions, a similar managerial officialdom, the “labor bureaucracy"-James Burnham, The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World
"Just as we seldom realize that we are growing old until we are already old, so do the contemporary actors in a major social change seldom realize that society is changing until the change has already…"-James Burnham, The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World
"Managerial activity tends to become inbred and self-justifying. The enterprise comes to be thought of as existing for the sake of its managers – not the managers for the enterprise. A high percentage…"-James Burnham, The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World
"Once the managers consoldiate their position within an institution, their objective interests no longer fully correspond to the interests of the other groups involved – voters, owners, members, teach…"-James Burnham, The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World
17. Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
By: Quinn Slobodian
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Chosen by Pankaj Mishra as one of the Best Books of the Summer Neoliberals hate the state. Or do… read more
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"Scaling national government up to the planet, creating a global government, was no solution. The puzzle of the neoliberal century was to find the right institutions to sustain the often strained bal…"-Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
18. Ages of Discord
By: Peter Turchin
4.11
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
We are on the wrong track Seventy percent of Americans (and counting) think so. The inflation-ad… read more
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- 21st century
- political science
- economics
- sociology
- anthropology
19. Modernity and Cultural Decline: A Biobehavioral Perspective
By: Matthew Alexandar Sarraf
4.35
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
This book argues that despite the many real advantages that industrial modernity has yielded--inclu… read more
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20. The Past is a Future Country: The Coming Conservative Demographic Revolution (Societas)
By: Edward Dutton
3.63
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
Since the 1960s, the West has moved ever-leftwards. 'Equality' and ‘feelings’ are central to the Ne… read more
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21. The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite
By: Michael Lind
3.73
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In both Europe and North America, populist movements have shattered existing party systems and thro… read more
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