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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,326,274 ratings — published 2011
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,417,087 ratings — published 2018
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 910,869 ratings — published 2005
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 615,458 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 435,191 ratings — published 2003
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 485,161 ratings — published 2012
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 238,063 ratings — published 2017
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 889,543 ratings — published 2008
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 308,426 ratings — published 2014
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 1,485,132 ratings — published 2016
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 181,623 ratings — published 2019
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 630,642 ratings — published 2005
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 362,542 ratings — published 2020
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 493,062 ratings — published 1988
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 327,448 ratings — published 2000
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 295,029 ratings — published 2025
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 827,545 ratings — published 2010
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 216,398 ratings — published 2017
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,192,134 ratings — published 1936
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 200,937 ratings — published 2014
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 867,321 ratings — published 2000
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 472,229 ratings — published 1997
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money—That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 760,202 ratings — published 1997
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 935,798 ratings — published 1946
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 344,197 ratings — published 2019
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 596,648 ratings — published -500
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 842,824 ratings — published 1989
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 576,436 ratings — published 2012
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 120,372 ratings — published 2010
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 248,398 ratings — published 2003
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 206,605 ratings — published 2018
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 219,732 ratings — published 2024
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 126,963 ratings — published 2021
Educated (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,968,962 ratings — published 2018
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 295,590 ratings — published 2015
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 243,848 ratings — published 1999
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 189,031 ratings — published 2013
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 209,262 ratings — published 1848
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,325,302 ratings — published 1947
The Truth Behind the Lies: One Man s Journey Through Wwiii (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 300 ratings — published
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
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avg rating 4.18 — 124,655 ratings — published 2015
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 469,777 ratings — published 2017
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 198,479 ratings — published 2016
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 399,767 ratings — published 2010
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 273,724 ratings — published 1980
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 167,791 ratings — published 2020
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 104,672 ratings — published 2019
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 288,840 ratings — published 2018
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 226,520 ratings — published 2014
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 194,399 ratings — published 2013
“Just like the myth of the people’s or popular capitalism, which was propagated since the mid1950s in the countries to the west of Berlin Wall, to the east and the north of it, since the same time it was introduced the myth of the people’s or popular socialism. But the suggestion is always the same. Under any “people’s” power—from people’s capitalism to people’s socialism—the greatest illusion suggested to the oppressed classes is that the people are sovereign, i.e., that all the people dominate over themselves. In this respect, even John Kenneth Galbraith makes Marxist conclusions, which even in the Internet epoch have the same power: “Young people are suggested that in a democracy the entire power belongs to the people!” (“The Anatomy of Power”)
Yet, old people know that this is not true!”
― Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face
Yet, old people know that this is not true!”
― Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face
“We are surrounded by forces that technology cannot yet measure.”
― Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing
― Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing
