Economist


A Shot to Save the World: The Remarkable Race and Ground-Breaking Science Behind the Covid-19 Vaccines
Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
The Volunteer
The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club
Cuba: An American History
Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
Enock Maregesi
Mtu anayesema pesa haijampa furaha hana nia ya kusaidia watu.
Enock Maregesi

Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It manifests the willingness to live in a collaborative way. This means that a future can be created without having to force or sell it or barter for it. When we believe that barter or subtle coercion is necessary, we are operating out of a context of scarcity and self-interest, the core currencies of the economist.
Peter Block, Community: The Structure of Belonging

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Books of the Year - 2016 (as selected by The Economist) This reading group starts on December 30, 2016. It is an attempt to wrestle with a selection of…more
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