As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West
By: Guido Alfani
3.97
Format: 440 pages, Hardcover
How the rich and the super-rich throughout Western history accumulated their wealth, behaved (or mi…
Want to Read $ 19.25"[The rich] are like the pearl in the oyster: shiny indeed, and produced by the living body of the oyster, but at the same time somewhat extraneous to the organism."-Guido Alfani, As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West
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1. A Country Doctor's Notebook
By: Mikhail Bulgakov , None
3.71
Format: 435 pages, Paperback
Brilliant stories that show the growth of a novelist's mind, and the raw material that fed the wild… read more
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2. God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
By: Meghan O'Gieblyn
4.27
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
A meditation on what it might mean to be human in an age of ever-accelerating technology. read more
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- audiobook
"As black-box technologies become more widespread, there have been no shortage of demands for increased transparency. In 2016 the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation included in its st…"-Meghan O'Gieblyn, God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
3. Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America
By: Brendan Ballou
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The authoritative exposé of private what it is, how it kills businesses and jobs, how the governme… read more
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4. Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History
By: Nellie Bowles
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people i… read more
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5. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning
By: Scott Galloway
3.79
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An unconventional book of wisdom and life advice from renowned business school professor and New Yo… read more
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7. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
By: Natalie Haynes
4.05
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more
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"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
8. Mania
By: Lionel Shriver
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
'Seldom is a book as funny, important and timely … I was laughing out loud at the same time as my b… read more
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9. The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion
By: Eliot Brown
4.27
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The definitive inside story of WeWork, its audacious founder, and what the company's epic unravelin… read more
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10. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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11. Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
By: David Bellos
3.76
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating and original history of an idea that now controls and monetizes almost everything we … read more
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12. A Brief History of Equality
By: Thomas Piketty
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimist… read more
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"The idea that each country–or worse yet–each person in each country is individually responsible for its production and its wealth, makes little sense from a historical point of view. All wealth is co…"-Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Equality
"The growth of wealth in the Western world, like that in Japan or China, has long been based on the international division of labor and the feverish exploitation of natural and human resources worldwi…"-Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Equality
13. Pioneers of Capitalism: The Netherlands 1000–1800 (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
By: Maarten Prak
4.29
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
How medieval Dutch society laid the foundations for modern capitalismThe Netherlands was one of the… read more
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- european history
14. A Refiner’s Fire (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, #33)
By: Donna Leon
4.05
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
In the thirty-third installment of Donna Leon’s magnificent series, Commissario Guido Brunetti conf… read more
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15. As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West
By: Guido Alfani
3.97
Format: 440 pages, Hardcover
How the rich and the super-rich throughout Western history accumulated their wealth, behaved (or mi… read more
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- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- european history
- society
- economics
- sociology
- audiobook
"[The rich] are like the pearl in the oyster: shiny indeed, and produced by the living body of the oyster, but at the same time somewhat extraneous to the organism."-Guido Alfani, As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West
16. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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17. Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War
By: Branko Milanović
4.09
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and original history of how economists across two centuries have thought about inequalit… read more
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18. Desiguales. Una Historia de la Desigualdad en México
By: Diego Castañeda Garza
4.55
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
La desigualdad en todas sus expresiones se ha vuelto uno de los problemas más importantes en el sig… read more
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19. The Rich: From Slaves to Super Yachts: A 2000-Year History
By: John Kampfner
3.81
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
From the Orwell Prize shortlisted author of Freedom for Sale, The Rich is the fascinating history o… read more
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