The Rise and Fall of Nations
By: Ruchir Sharma
3.99
Format: 380 pages,
Shaped by his twenty-five years traveling the world, and enlivened by encounters with villagers fro…
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1. The Lessons of History
By: Will Durant , Ariel Durant
4.07
Format: 119 pages, Hardcover
In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for th… read more
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"We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"Democracy is the most difficult of all forms of government, since it requires the widest spread of intelligence, and we forgot to make ourselves intelligent when we made ourselves sovereign."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow he…"-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
2. The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better
By: Richard G. Wilkinson , Kate E. Pickett
4.13
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking work on the root cause of our ills, which is changing the way politicians think. W… read more
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"... When infectious diseases lost their hold as the major causes of death, the industrialised world underwent a shift, known as the 'epidemiological transition' and chronic diseases, such as heart di…"-Richard G. Wilkinson, The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better
"So why do people tend to have mental health problems in more unequal places? Psycholigst and journalist Oliver James uses an analogy with infectious disease to explain the link. The 'affluenza' virus…"-Richard G. Wilkinson, The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better
"So why do people tend to have mental health problems in more unequal places? Psychologist and journalist Oliver James uses an analogy with infectious disease to explain the link. The 'affluenza' viru…"-Richard G. Wilkinson, The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better
3. Civilization: The West and the Rest
By: Niall Ferguson
3.86
Format: 402 pages, Hardcover
Western civilization’s rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon … read more
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"We must resist the temptation to romanticize history's losers."-Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest
"Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms."-Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest
"No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible."-Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest
"After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism"-Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest
4. High Output Management
By: Andrew S. Grove
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
The essential skill of creating and maintaining new businesses--the art of the entrepreneur--can be… read more
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- nonfiction
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5. Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
By: Francis Fukuyama
4.13
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state Writing in Th… read more
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6. The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
By: Will Durant
4.50
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers--Plato, Aristotle,… read more
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7. Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
By: Matt Ridley
3.83
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
The human genome, the complete set of genes housed in twenty-three pairs of chromosomes, is nothing… read more
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8. 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
9. The Rise and Fall of Nations
By: Ruchir Sharma
3.99
Format: 380 pages,
Shaped by his twenty-five years traveling the world, and enlivened by encounters with villagers fro… read more
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10. World Order
By: Henry Kissinger
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Henry Kissinger offers in World Ordera deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and gl… read more
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11. The Great Crash of 1929
By: John Kenneth Galbraith
3.14
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Of Galbraith's classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse, the Atlantic Monthly said:"Econo… read more
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12. Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
By: Graham Allison
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE HEADING TOWARD A WAR NEITHER WANTS. The reason is Thucydides's Trap… read more
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13. The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
By: John Perkins
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Shocking Bestseller: The original version of this astonishing tell-all book spent 73 weeks on the N… read more
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14. Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.21
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Area 51 is the most famous military installation in the world--& it doesn't exist. Located 75 miles… read more
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15. The Great Indian Novel
By: Shashi Tharoor
4.75
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
In this widely acclaimed novel, Shashi Tharoor has masterfully recast the two-thousand-year-old epi… read more
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16. How to Lie with Statistics
By: Darrell Huff , Irving Geis
4.36
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sa… read more
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17. Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe
By: George Friedman
3.06
Format: 405 pages,
A major new book by New York Timesbestselling author and geopolitical forecaster George Friedman (T… read more
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18. The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
By: Daron Acemoğlu
4.23
Format: 560 pages, Kindle Edition
'A must-read. Acemoglu and Robinson are intellectual heavyweights of the first rank . . . erudite a… read more
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"The only way of achieving durable liberty is to . . . forge the balance necessary for building a Shackled Leviathan. True liberty can flourish neither without a state nor under the yoke of a Despotic…"-Daron Acemoğlu, The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
19. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
By: Morgan Housel
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more
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20. 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
21. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
By: Steven Pinker
4.20
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer… read more
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"There is no law of complex systems that says that intelligent agents must turn into ruthless conquistadors. Indeed, we know of one highly advanced form of intelligence that evolved without this defec…"-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
"Enlightenment humanism, then, is far from being a crowd-pleaser. The idea that the ultimate good is to use knowledge to enhance human welfare leaves people cold. Deep explanations of the universe, th…"-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
"This heroic story is not just another myth. Myths are fictions, but this one is true-true to the best of our knowledge, which is the only truth we can have. We believe it because we have reasons to b…"-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
"Our understanding of who we are, where we came from, how the world works, and what matters in life depends on partaking of the vast and ever-expanding store of knowledge. Though unlettered hunters, h…"-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
22. These Truths: A History of the United States
By: Jill Lepore
4.40
Format: 960 pages, Paperback
Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review… read more
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"Most of what once existed is gone... Nature takes one toll, malice another... most of what historians study survives because it was purposely kept... (it) is called the historical record, & it is mad…"-Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States
"Washington's Farewell Address consists of a series of warnings about the danger of disunion. The North and the South, the East and the West, ought not to consider their interests separate or competin…"-Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States
23. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath
By: Peter Zeihan
4.18
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting… read more
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24. Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
By: Colin Bryar
4.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Working Backwards is an insider's breakdown of Amazon's approach to culture, leadership, and best p… read more
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"I can say confidently that the extra time we spent slowing down to uncover the necessary truths was ultimately a faster path to a large and successful business."-Colin Bryar, Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
25. 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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26. Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls
By: Tim Marshall
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography We feel more divided… read more
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27. AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
By: Kai-Fu Lee
4.10
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee—one of the world’s most respected experts on AI and China—reveals that China has sud… read more
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- politics
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"When I launched my AI career in 1983, I did so by waxing philosophic in my application to the Ph.D. program at Carnegie Mellon. I described AI as “the quantification of the human thinking process, th…"-Kai-Fu Lee, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
28. Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
By: Robert J. Shiller
3.63
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbr… read more
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29. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
By: Fareed Zakaria
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more
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30. Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
By: Jared Diamond
3.90
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our … read more
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"Britain never regained its naval and economic dominance over the world, and it remains notoriously conflicted (“Brexit"-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
"Allende had good ideas, but he executed them poorly. Although he correctly recognized Chile’s problems, he adopted wrong solutions to those problems."-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
"Nations and individuals accept national and individual responsibility to take action to solve the problem, or else deny responsibility by self-pity, blaming others, and assuming the role of victim."-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
"Rigidity or inflexibility can be the result of a previous history of abuse or trauma, or of an upbringing that offered a child no permission to experiment or to deviate from the family norms. Flexibi…"-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
31. Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World
By: Brett Christophers
4.05
Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition
All hail the new masters of How asset managers acquired the world Banks have taken a backseat sinc… read more
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