The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
By: Yasheng Huang
4.22
Format: 411 pages, Kindle Edition
The long history of China’s relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its …
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1. Christopher and His Kind
By: Christopher Isherwood
4.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
An indispensable memoir by one of the most prominent writers of his generation Originally published… read more
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2. The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently... and Why
By: Richard E. Nisbett
3.43
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
A "landmark book" (Robert J. Sternberg, president of the American Psychological Association) by one… read more
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3. Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, A History
By: James Carroll
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
"A rare book that combines searing passion with a subject that has affected all of our lives."---Ch… read more
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4. The Invisibility Cloak (New York Review Books Classics)
By: Ge Fei , None
3.24
Format: 324 pages,
An NYRB Classics Original The hero of The Invisibility Cloak lives in contemporary Beijing--where e… read more
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5. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
By: Max Solomon Bennett
4.46
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts Sapiens , Behave, and Superintelligence , but wholly original in scope, A Brief History… read more
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6. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
By: Yascha Mounk
4.08
Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition
One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more
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7. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
8. 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
9. Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
By: Matthew C. Klein
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A provocative look at how today’s trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests… read more
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10. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
By: Kim Ghattas
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Black Wave is a paradigm-shifting recasting of the modern history of the Middle East, telling the l… read more
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"Beyond the headlines about war and death, the region is alive with music, art, books, theater, social entrepreneurship, advocacy, libraries, cafes, bookshops, poetry, and so much more, as old and you…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"If Beirut was the supermarket of the left in the 1970s, where Marxists, communists, Egyptians, Iraqis, and all the Palestinian factions debated and theorized, published and drank in bars arguing over…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Every king had tried to put his imprint on the city and the mosque; some were worse than others. King Faisal had been a parsimonious man and the expansion works reflected as much—measured and reasona…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Although our countries have been changed by the hegemonizing influences of both Iran and Saudi Arabia, the headlines in the Western media have always reduced matters of extraordinary depth and comple…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
11. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
By: Zeke Faux
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more
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12. 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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- politics
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13. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
By: Mustafa Suleyman
3.86
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more
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14. The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict
By: Elbridge A. Colby
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Why and how America’s defense strategy must change in light of China’s power and ambition—A Wall St… read more
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"Physical force, especially the ability to kill, is the ultimate form of coercive leverage. While there are other sources of influence, such as wealth, persuasiveness, and charisma, they are all domin…"-Elbridge A. Colby, The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict
"If extensive and global economic engagement and growing wealth have not already persuaded China to change its behavior, it is unclear why it would be more likely to do so as it grows stronger and thu…"-Elbridge A. Colby, The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict
"This is because, if China could establish hegemony over Asia, it could then set up a commercial and trading bloc anchored in the world's largest market that would privilege its own and subordinates' …"-Elbridge A. Colby, The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict
15. Taxtopia: How I Discovered the Injustices, Scams and Guilty Secrets of the Tax Evasion Game
By: The Rebel Accountant
4.37
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
In TAXTOPIA a rogue accountant breaks ranks to share his journey from clueless naïf to skilled tax … read more
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16. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
By: Bent Flyvbjerg
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more
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- economics
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17. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
By: Ethan Mollick
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more
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18. The Piano Tuner
By: Chiang-Sheng Kuo
3.14
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
A widower grieving for his young wife. A piano tuner concealing a lifetime of secrets. An out-of-tu… read more
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19. Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future
By: Ian Johnson
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Using history to challenge Communist Party rule. China's Underground Historians and their Battl… read more
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20. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
4.05
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more
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21. 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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22. Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
By: Oren Kessler
4.33
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Winner, 2024 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature One of the Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Books … read more
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23. How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
By: Deb Chachra
3.67
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdo… read more
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"We’re accustomed to thinking about making the transition away from fossil fuels to renewable sources as one that we are doing under duress, making a sacrifice to stave off disaster. But that’s not wh…"-Deb Chachra, How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
24. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
By: David E. Sanger
4.37
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adv… read more
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25. The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism
By: Keyu Jin
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A myth-dispelling, comprehensive guide to the Chinese economy and its path to ascendancy China's… read more
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26. How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy
By: John J. Mearsheimer
3.88
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking examination of a central question in international Do states act rationally? To… read more
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27. Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans
By: Peter Schweizer
4.41
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It’s often said that China is in a cold war with America. … read more
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28. The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics
By: Richard Hanania
3.87
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
Richard Hanania has come out of nowhere to become one of the best-known writers in the nation in th… read more
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29. The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
By: Yasheng Huang
4.22
Format: 411 pages, Kindle Edition
The long history of China’s relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its … read more
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30. The Venture Mindset: How to Make Smarter Bets and Achieve Extraordinary Growth
By: Ilya Strebulaev
4.24
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by venture capitalists’ unique mindset, this is a transformative playbook for delivering e… read more
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