The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It
By: John Micklethwait
3.67
Format: 176 pages, ebook
"[An] executive summary of modern political history studded with sweeping assertions and telling an…
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1. Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge
By: Mark Batterson
4.46
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
The 40-day prayer plan that will change your life plan Do you pray as often and as boldly as you… read more
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"It's not my name that's at stake."-Mark Batterson, Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge
"Our biggest problem is our small view of God."-Mark Batterson, Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge
"The Aramaic word for prayer (slotha) means 'to set a trap.' Opportunities are like wild animals."-Mark Batterson, Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge
"Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes."-Mark Batterson, Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge
2. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to… read more
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3. Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People
By: Thomas Frank
3.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of What's the Matter With Kansas, a scathing look at the standard-beare… read more
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4. Dick Sands the Boy Captain (The Extraordinary Voyages #17)
By: Jules Verne , Janez Gradišnik
4.25
Format: 127 pages, Hardcover
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5. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 2: Generation Why
By: G. Willow Wilson , Adrian Alphona , Jacob Wyatt
3.00
Format: 1118 pages, Paperback
Who is the Inventor, and what does he want with the all-new Ms. Marvel and all her friends? Maybe W… read more
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6. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
By: Ha-Joon Chang
3.00
Format: 136 pages,
In "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism", one of today's most iconoclastic thinkers dest… read more
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7. The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution
By: Greg Lukianoff
3.93
Format: 432 pages, ebook
A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-ne… read more
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"Mistakes abound when groupthink goes unchallenged."-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution
"There is nothing about standing up for an underdog (or simply claiming to be) that means you're right."-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution
8. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.45
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more
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9. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
10. Social Justice Fallacies
By: Thomas Sowell
4.45
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this instant New York Times bestseller, renowned economist Thomas Sowell demolishes the myths th… read more
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11. Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
By: Daron Acemoğlu
3.90
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a… read more
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12. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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13. 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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"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
14. The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace (The Shortest History Series)
By: Michael Scott-Baumann
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An accessible, balanced chronicle of how the Israel-Palestine conflict originated and developed ove… read more
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15. The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough
By: Thomas Curran
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A BLOOMBERG BEST BOOK OF 2023 “Offers a hopeful beacon and a steady path for anyone struggling t… read more
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16. What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
By: Tim Urban
4.28
Format: 746 pages, Kindle Edition
From the creator of the wildly popular blog Wait But Why, a fun and fascinating deep dive into what… read more
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"The Scientist’s clear mind sees a foggy world, full of complexity and nuance and messiness, the Zealot’s foggy mind shows them a clear, simple world, full of crisp lines and black-and-white distincti…"-Tim Urban, What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
17. Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk
By: Billy Walters
3.84
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “An insightful read…Walters is a larger-than-life character.” — Sports … read more
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18. The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
By: Gary Gerstle
4.19
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half… read more
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19. Taxes Have Consequences: An Income Tax History of the United States
By: Arthur B. Laffer
4.43
Format: 440 pages, Hardcover
As seen on Kudlow on the FOX Business Network! The definitive history of the effect of the income … read more
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20. You Will Own Nothing
By: Carol Roth
3.74
Format: 352 pages, ebook
The New York Times bestselling author and entrepreneur investigates what would happen if a new fina… read more
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21. The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power
By: Robert D. Kaplan
3.82
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tr… read more
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22. Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
By: Anne Case
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the f… read more
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"As Bertrand Russell once noted, among the strongest advocates that the poor should work more are the idle rich, who have never done any."-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
"At a time when the American military was bombing the opium supply in Helmand province in Afghanistan, Johnson & Johnson was legally growing the raw material for the nation’s opioid supply in Tasma…"-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
"It would be a tragedy if the profits of the drug trade were allowed to corrupt America and were later seen, as was the case in China a century and a half ago, as the beginning of a hundred years …"-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
"As is often noted, and only partially in jest, economists seek to explain why people choose to commit suicide, while sociologists explain why they have no such choice. On suicide, the sociologists ha…"-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
23. The New Cold War: How the Contest Between the US and China Will Shape Our Century
By: Robin Niblett
4.14
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
An urgent and essential assessment of the global contest between the US and China, and how looking … read more
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24. A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution
By: Marianne Williamson
3.93
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Bring positive change to your life with #1 New York Times bestselling author Marianne Williamson – … read more
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25. The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It
By: John Micklethwait
3.67
Format: 176 pages, ebook
"[An] executive summary of modern political history studded with sweeping assertions and telling an… read more
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26. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
27. 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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28. Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—And How It Will Reshape Our World
By: Lawrence D. Burns
4.13
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
An automotive and tech world insider investigates the quest to develop and perfect the driverless c… read more
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"Soon, many of us will no longer need to own or drive a car. Instead, we will rely on services that safely and conveniently use autonomous vehicles to take us where we want to go."-Lawrence D. Burns, Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—And How It Will Reshape Our World
"While Detroit was fighting for its life, the seeds of the mobility revolution were being planted by companies from outside the auto industry, by players with a bone-deep understanding of digital tech…"-Lawrence D. Burns, Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—And How It Will Reshape Our World
"For their optimism, these few spent years being disparaged as futurists, as impractical dreamers, as kids playing in a sandbox—until suddenly, in the fall of 2015 and the spring of 2016, the industry…"-Lawrence D. Burns, Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—And How It Will Reshape Our World
29. Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success
By: Russ Buettner
4.56
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of then-P… read more
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30. The Explanation of Behaviour
By: Charles Margrave Taylor
4.14
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
AS NEW softcover, free tracking number, clean NEW text, solid binding, NO remainders NOT ex-library… read more
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