7 Top business books like The Heart of A Cheetah: How We Have Been Lied to about African Poverty, and What That Means for Human Flourishing by Magatte Wade

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The Heart of A Cheetah: How We Have Been Lied to about African Poverty, and What That Means for Human Flourishing

By: Magatte Wade

4.33

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

Experience the life story of Magatte Wade - the bold Senegalese entrepreneur and unflinching prospe…

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1. My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

By: Ari Shavit

4.22

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Die große Geschichte IsraelsDer renommierte Journalist Ari Shavit sieht Israel in einer halt- und a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"As the state became everything, the individual became marginalized. As it marched toward the future, Israel erased the past. There was no place for the previous landscape, no place for previous ident…"

-Ari Shavit, My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

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2. Salt: A World History

By: Mark Kurlansky

4.11

Format: None pages,

From the Bestselling Author of Cod and The Basque History of the World In his fifth work of nonfict… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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3. The Grip of It

By: Jac Jemc

3.66

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

A chilling literary horror novel about a young couple who purchase and live in a haunted house. Jac… read more

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4. Economic Policy

By: Ludwig von Mises

3.98

Format: None pages,

Economic Policycontains six lectures Ludwig von Mises delivered in 1959 for the Centro de Estudios … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history

5. Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

By: Theodore Dalrymple

4.06

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Here is a searing account-probably the best yet published-of life in the underclass and why it pers… read more

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  • economics
  • nonfiction
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6. Bureaucracy

By: Ludwig von Mises

3.69

Format: 98 pages,

Professor von Mises addressed himself to a particular issue: what is the essential difference betwe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
  • business
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7. Son of Hamas

By: Mosab Hassan Yousef , Ron Brackin , مصعب حسن يوسف

4.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

8. Based on a True Story

By: Norm Macdonald

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Wild, dangerous, and flat-out unbelievable, here is the incredible memoir of the actor, gambler, ra… read more

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  • nonfiction

9. The Last Leaf

By: O. Henry , None , Walter Pauk , None

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sue and Johnsy are two girlfriends who live together in New York City. When Johnsy becomes sick one… read more

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10. Ninety-Three

By: Victor Hugo , Ayn Rand

4.48

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

Ninety-three, the last of Victor Hugo's novels, is regarded by many including such diverse critics … read more

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11. Atlas Shrugged

By: Ayn Rand , Leonard Peikoff

4.14

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world and did. Was he a des… read more

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12. The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet

By: Nina Teicholz

3.11

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

In The Big Fat Surprise, investigative journalist Nina Teicholz reveals the unthinkable: that every… read more

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13. The United States Constitution

By: Founding Fathers

4.60

Format: 645 pages,

This edition shows the 1787 United States Constitution. It does not include the Bill of Rights nor … read more

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14. Have a Little Faith: a True Story

By: Mitch Albom

4.67

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year j… read more

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15. Johnny Tremain

By: Lynd Ward , Esther Forbes

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Johnny Tremain, a young apprentice silversmith, is caught up in the danger and excitement of 1775 B… read more

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16. While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America

By: Yeonmi Park

3.99

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The North Korean defector, human rights advocate, and bestselling author of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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17. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

By: Abigail Shrier

4.06

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

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18. Feminism Against Progress

By: Mary Harrington

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Modern feminism increasingly benefits only a small class of professional women. There is no reason … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"But the weakness of these proposals isn't that they're unworkable, or even that they're 'traditional,' but that they're not traditional enough. For most of history, men and women worked together, in …"

-Mary Harrington, Feminism Against Progress

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19. The Creative Act: A Way of Being

By: Rick Rubin

4.04

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

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20. Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

By: Gad Saad

3.94

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

The West’s commitment to freedom, reason, and true liberalism has never been more seriously threate… read more

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  • nonfiction
"We envy people whose traits compete with our desirability as a mate."

-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

"Any human endeavor rooted in the pursuit of truth must rely on fact and not feelings."

-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

"To be a truly wise person requires that we recognize those domains best served by our intellect versus those best guided by our emotions."

-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

"There is no "black mind" or "white mind", no "white male of knowing", there is only one truth, and we find it through the scientific method."

-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

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21. Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam

By: Vivek Ramaswamy

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In this New York Times bestseller, a young and successful entrepreneur makes the case that politics… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
  • business
"Diversity"

-Vivek Ramaswamy, Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam

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22. America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything

By: Christopher F. Rufo

4.30

Format: 352 pages, ebook

For decades, left-wing radicals patiently built a revolution in the shadows. Then suddenly, after t… read more

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  • history
"The revolution, which seeks to connect ideology to bureaucratic power and to manipulate behavior through the guise of expertise, is ultimately not democratic."

-Christopher F. Rufo, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything

"The critical race theorists and their allies have turned resentment into a governing principle. But this also a trap: resentment is a tool for obtaining power, not of wielding it successfully."

-Christopher F. Rufo, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything

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23. Reframe Your Brain: The User Interface for Happiness and Success (The Scott Adams Success Series)

By: Scott Adams

4.41

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

In Reframe Your Brain, Scott Adams, the contrarian genius behind Dilbert and author of the most inf… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

By: Joseph Henrich

4.12

Format: 706 pages, Kindle Edition

A New York Times Notable Book of 2020A Bloomberg Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020A Behavioral Scientis… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
"The assembly of the innovation engine that propelled the Industrial Revolution becomes easier to see once we recognize how the psychology of premodern Europeans had been quietly evolving in the backg…"

-Joseph Henrich, The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

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25. How to Think about the Economy: A Primer

By: Per Bylund

4.39

Format: 121 pages, Kindle Edition

This little book was written to accomplish something economic literacy. It is intentionally kept v… read more

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  • economics
  • business
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26. Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa

By: Paul Kenyon

4.42

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica i… read more

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  • africa
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. 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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  • economics
  • history
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28. Discrimination and Disparities

By: Thomas Sowell

4.47

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A searching re-examination of the assumptions, and the evidence for and against, current approaches… read more

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  • economics
  • history
  • business
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29. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Mental Toughness (with bonus interview "Post-Traumatic Growth and Building Resilience" with Martin Seligman) (HBR's 10 Must Reads)

By: Harvard Business Review

3.94

Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition

Come back from every setback a stronger and better leader. If you read nothing else on mental toug… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
"When an individual responds actively and constructively (as opposed to passively and destructively) to someone who is sharing a positive experience, love and friendship increase."

-Harvard Business Review, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Mental Toughness (with bonus interview "Post-Traumatic Growth and Building Resilience" with Martin Seligman) (HBR's 10 Must Reads)

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30. The Heart of A Cheetah: How We Have Been Lied to about African Poverty, and What That Means for Human Flourishing

By: Magatte Wade

4.33

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

Experience the life story of Magatte Wade - the bold Senegalese entrepreneur and unflinching prospe… read more

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  • africa
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
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31. From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir

By: Lisa Marie Presley

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole s… read more

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14 Top history books like The Heart of A Cheetah: How We Have Been Lied to about African Poverty, and What That Means for Human Flourishing by Magatte Wade

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My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

Ari Shavit

4.22

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Salt: A World History

Mark Kurlansky

4.11

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Economic Policy

Ludwig von Mises

3.98

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Bureaucracy

Ludwig von Mises

3.69

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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa

Jason K. Stearns

4.18

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The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence

Martin Meredith

3.91

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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

4.37

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The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

Tim Marshall

4.20

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