In Sickness and in Power: Illnesses in Heads of Government during the Last 100 Years
By: David Owen
3.56
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The course of modern world history has been critically shaped by the physical and mental illnesses …
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1. 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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2. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations for Clarity, Effectiveness, and Serenity
By: Ryan Holiday , Stephen Hanselman
3.92
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully packaged, gifty daily devotional of Stoic wisdom, from the author of The Obstacle is … read more
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3. 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
4. Humankind: A Hopeful History
By: Rutger Bregman
4.32
Format: 462 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Utopia For Realists, a revolutionary argument that the innate goodness and coope… read more
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"We are trained to see selfishness everywhere."-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History
"Toddlers don't need tests or grades to learn to walk or talk."-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History
"[...] het belangrijkste wat ouders hun kinderen kunnen geven: vertrouwen."-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History
"It's when crisis hits - when the bombs fall or the floodwaters rise - that we humans become our best selves."-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History
5. Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World
By: Giles Milton
4.43
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From a master of popular history, the lively, immersive story of the race to seize Berlin in the af… read more
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6. Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
By: Ray Dalio
4.28
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From legendary investor Ray Dalio, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Principles, who has s… read more
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7. Liberalism and Its Discontents
By: Francis Fukuyama
3.93
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
A short book about the challenges to liberalism from the right and the left by the bestselling auth… read more
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"Нема причин, з яких економічна ефективність має домінувати над усіма іншими соціальними цінностями."-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
"Комуністичні суспільства були схильні цінувати виробництво більше за споживання, що призвело до поганих наслідків: у них були «герої соціалістичної праці», але не було продуктів на полицях магазинів."-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
"Низка людей, які працюють у цій галузі, починаючи з таких постструктуралістів, як Лакан і Дерріда, писали в такий спосіб, який, здавалося, навмисне затуманював їхні думки й захищав від відповідальнос…"-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
"As instituições financeiras comportam-se de modo muito diferente do que as empresas na economia real. Ao contrário de uma companhia de manufatura, um grande banco de investimento é sistemicamente per…"-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
8. 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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9. Capital and Ideology
By: Thomas Piketty
4.28
Format: 1104 pages, Hardcover
The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global… read more
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"Change comes when the short-term logic of events, intersects with the long term evolution of ideas."-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology
"Every human society must justify its inequalities: unless reasons for them are found, the whole political and social edifice stands in danger of collapse."-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology
"Billionaires think that anything goes, are enamored of geoengineering, and detest nothing so much as simple but unpleasant solutions (such as paying taxes and living quietly)."-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology
"We find the same pattern in virtually every region of the world: the identity cleavage deepened and conflicts over boundaries intensified while the wealth cleavage weakened and criticism of wealth be…"-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology
10. Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World
By: Branko Milanović
4.11
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A provocative account of capitalism's rise to global dominance and, as different models of capitali… read more
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"The fact that the entire globe now operates according to the same economic principles—production organized for profit using legally free wage labor and mostly privately owned capital, with decen…"-Branko Milanović, Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World
"because of constant pressure to deliver more to its constituents, political capitalism might hone its ability to manage the economic sphere well and to keep on delivering, year in year out, more go…"-Branko Milanović, Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World
"Fears of robotics and technology arise, I think, from two human frailties. One is cognitive: we simply do not know what future technological change will be and thus cannot tell what new jobs will b…"-Branko Milanović, Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World
11. In Sickness and in Power: Illnesses in Heads of Government during the Last 100 Years
By: David Owen
3.56
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The course of modern world history has been critically shaped by the physical and mental illnesses … read more
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