Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us
By: Brian Klaas
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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1. Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict
By: Ara Norenzayan
3.32
Format: 344 pages, ebook
How did human societies scale up from tight-knit groups of hunter-gatherers to the large, anonymous… read more
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2. Andy Warhol was a Hoarder: Inside the Minds of History's Great Personalities
By: Claudia Kalb
4.37
Format: 383 pages,
Was Andy Warhol a hoarder? Did Einstein have autism? Was Frank Lloyd Wright a narcissist? In this s… read more
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3. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
4. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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5. Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us
By: Brian Klaas
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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6. Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything
By: Oliver Bullough
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In his punchy follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough's Butler to the World unravels the dark secre… read more
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7. Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
By: Grace Blakeley
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto from an acclaimed journa… read more
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"The work of a revolutionary is more like that of a gardener than a builder. The new world will not be brought about overnight - its seeds have to be planted, nurtured, and protected."-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
"The US government wanted to send a message to poor and downtrodden people around the world: they could not hope to resist the power of American capitalism. Such a show of force was necessary because …"-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
"Ultimately, the US state took it upon itself to ensure that no part of the world could close its doors to international investment. This desire to keep the world 'open' to capital, rather than overac…"-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
"The greatest barrier to the emergence and spread of these movements is not the overwhelming power of capital. It is the conviction, held by millions of people, that change is impossible. The moment w…"-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
8. Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
By: Tali Sharot
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Thinking Fast and Slow and The Power of Habit , a groundbreaking new study of how disru… read more
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9. The Abuse of Power: Confronting Injustice in Public Life
By: Theresa May
3.47
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
As Prime Minister for three years and Home Secretary for six years, Theresa May confronted a series… read more
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10. These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America
By: Gretchen Morgenson
3.70
Format: 400 pages, ebook
WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times bestselling financial jour… read more
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11. The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future
By: Geoffrey Cain
4.21
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A riveting investigation into how a restive region of China became the site of a nightmare Orwellia… read more
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12. The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives
By: Ernest Scheyder
4.04
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed Reuters reporter Ernest Scheyder reveals the trillion-dollar battle for the resources to … read more
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13. Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age
By: Norman Ohler
3.90
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
The author of the New York Times bestseller Blitzed returns with a provocative new history of drugs… read more
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14. The Last Negroes At Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever
By: Kent Garrett
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of the Harvard class of ’63, whose Black students fought to create their own ident… read more
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15. Puhelin soi öisin – Mitä opin globaalina yritysjohtajana
By: Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
3.44
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
Nokian johtajan inspiroiva muistelmateos kertoo elämästä yritysmaailman huipulla. Olli-Pekka Kal… read more
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16. On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
By: DeRay Mckesson
4.16
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
"On the Other Side of Freedom reveals the mind and motivations of a young man who has risen to the … read more
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"Friendship and love cannot thrive when trapped in trauma."-DeRay Mckesson, On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
"I have grown tired of the notion of an ally. I prefer the language of an “accomplice."-DeRay Mckesson, On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
"The theory of policing is quite far from the reality of policing. For us, at least, that is."-DeRay Mckesson, On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
"We need to remind the peers of the bully that they benefit from bullying even if they are not themselves the transgressors. Indeed, they benefit from it, but they are tarnished by it. To chip away at…"-DeRay Mckesson, On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
17. How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain
By: Peter S. Goodman
4.25
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Part Michael Lewis, part The Way Things Work: From the New York Times’s Global Economics Correspond… read more
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18. 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.
19. THE GLASS CLIFF
By: unknown author
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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20. Markt onder vuur
By: Hans Diels
3.60
Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition
Wat hebben Limburgse appelboeren, BNP-Paribas-bankiers, de chipmachinebouwers van ASML en Barbie ge… read more
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21. How to Rig an Election
By: Nic Cheeseman
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing analysis of the pseudo-democratic methods employed by despots around the world to ret… read more
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