Licence to be Bad: How Economics Corrupted Us
By: Jonathan Aldred
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
'It is going to change the way in which we understand many modern debates about economics, politics…
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1. The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
By: Robert Hughes
4.08
Format: 688 pages, Paperback
The history of the birth of Australia which came out of the suffering and brutality of England's in… read more
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"He had been always escaping, always rebelling, always fighting against authority, and always being flogged. There had been a whole lifetime of torment such as this; forty-two years of it; and there h…"-Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
2. Economics: The User's Guide
By: Ha-Joon Chang
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In his bestselling 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chan… read more
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- economics
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"95% of economics is common sense"-Ha-Joon Chang, Economics: The User's Guide
"... the human tendency to be seduced by a theory that supposedly explains everything."-Ha-Joon Chang, Economics: The User's Guide
"95 per cent of economics is common sense – made to look difficult, with the use of jargons and mathematics."-Ha-Joon Chang, Economics: The User's Guide
"Once we learn that different economic theories say different things partly because they are based on different ethical and political values, we will have the confidence to discuss economics for what …"-Ha-Joon Chang, Economics: The User's Guide
3. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
By: Mary Beard
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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4. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
By: Elliot Aronson , Carol Tavris
4.29
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the parade of public figures unable … read more
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- philosophy
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- sociology
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5. On Anarchism
By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more
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- history
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- economics
6. A Short History of Nearly Everything
By: Bill Bryson
3.42
Format: None pages,
In Bryson's biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand--and, if possible, ans… read more
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7. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson
4.08
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more
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"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
8. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more
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"Every medicine is vain."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"A curse burns bright on crime."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"There is no avoidance in delay."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"In war, the first casualty is truth."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
9. Capital in the Twenty-First Century
By: Thomas Piketty , Arthur Goldhammer
4.61
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions abou… read more
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10. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
By: None
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I see [Raworth] as the John Maynard Keynes of the 21st Century: by ref… read more
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11. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
3.67
Format: 363 pages, Paperback
Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an in… read more
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12. A Little History of Philosophy
By: Nigel Warburton
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the… read more
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13. False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World
By: Alan Beattie
4.21
Format: 539 pages,
Throughout history, individual decisions have shaped the economic destinies of nations. No country'… read more
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14. Inseparable
By: Simone de Beauvoir
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A never-before-published novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood fr… read more
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"How old do you have to be to think: this is forever?"-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable
"She was often late, not because she didn't care, but because she had too many contradictory cares."-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable
"I didn't understand: you don't believe what you believe on purpose. Could you be punished because certain ideas come into your mind?"-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable
"to fight against time, against forgetting, against death, to do justice to this absolute presence of the instant, to this eternity of the instant, which will have been forever"-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable
15. 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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- audiobook
- history
- politics
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- economics
- science
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
16. Clarity & Connection
By: Yung Pueblo
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From the celebrated author of Inward comes a new collection of poetry and short prose focused on un… read more
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- nonfiction
"taking a moment to figure out how you really feel instead of letting old patterns decide for you is one of the most authentic things you can do"-Yung Pueblo, Clarity & Connection
"the goal is not to heal and then begin your life the goal is to embrace healing as a life long journey and allow genuine connections to emerge organically along the way."-Yung Pueblo, Clarity & Connection
17. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
18. Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
By: Anna Lembke
3.91
Format: 304 pages, ebook
This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most important, it's about how to find the delic… read more
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"The reason we’re all so miserable may be because we’re working so hard to avoid being miserable."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"The paradox is that hedonism, the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake, leads to anhedonia, which is the inability to enjoy pleasure of any kind."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"With prolonged and repeated exposure to pleasurable stimuli, our capacity to tolerate pain decreases, and our threshold for experiencing pleasure increases."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"Beyond extreme examples of running from pain, we’ve lost the ability to tolerate even minor forms of discomfort. We’re constantly seeking to distract ourselves from the present moment, to be entertai…"-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
19. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
20. The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It
By: Mary Ann Sieghart
4.36
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An incisive, intersectional look at the mother of all gender biases: a resistance to women’s author… read more
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- society
- sociology
21. Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
By: Rutger Bregman
4.22
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of… read more
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"You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you have no boots."-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
"Whether it’s the growth of the economy, audience shares, publications – slowly but surely, quality is being replaced by quantity. ... And driving it all is a force sometimes called “liberalism,"-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
"Frankly, there's almost no country on Earth where the American Dream is less likely to come true than in the U.S. of A. Anybody eager to work their way up from rags to riches is better off trying the…"-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
"True progress begins with something no knowledge economy can produce: wisdom about what it means to live well. We have to do what great thinkers like John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Mayn…"-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
22. The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds ar… read more
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- sociology
- audiobook
"A wealthy CEO could justify his or her advantages to a lower paid worker on a factory floor as: "I am not worthier then you nor morally deserving of the privileged position I hold. My generous compen…"-Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
23. What We Owe the Future
By: William MacAskill
3.84
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
An Oxford philosopher makes the case for "longtermism"—that positively influencing the long-term fu… read more
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- economics
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24. The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
By: Naomi Oreskes
4.42
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling authors of Merchants of Doubt offer a profound, startling history of one of America… read more
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- economics
- audiobook
25. Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
By: Jason Hickel
4.51
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we mu… read more
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"Individuality is an illusion. Life on this planet is an interwoven mesh of relational becoming."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"We will find ourselves plunging into ecological collapse well before we run into the limits to growth."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"It is politically easier to rev up GDP and hope some of it trickles down to the poor than it is to distribute existing income more fairly."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"Atmospheric carbon concentration should not breach 350ppm if the climate is to remain stable (we crossed that boundary in 1990, and hit 415ppm in 2020)."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
26. Being Human: How Our Biology Shaped World History
By: Lewis Dartnell
4.02
Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition
Being Human is history made flesh. Our biology will change how you see the world. 'Illuminating'… read more
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27. AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own
By: Verity Harding
3.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A humanist manifesto for the age of AI Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative te… read more
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- audiobook
28. The Other Side of the Frontier: Aboriginal Resistance to the European Invasion of Australia
By: Henry Reynolds
4.16
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The publication of this book in 1981 profoundly changed the way in which we understand the history … read more
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- history
29. 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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30. Licence to be Bad: How Economics Corrupted Us
By: Jonathan Aldred
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
'It is going to change the way in which we understand many modern debates about economics, politics… read more
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31. What's Next Is Now: How to Live Future Ready
By: Frederik Pferdt
3.85
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The renowned global thought leader and Google’s first Chief Innovation Evangelist introduces a forw… read more
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