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Prisoners of Geography

#1 of 5 in Politics of Place

Prisoners of Geography

ByTim Marshall

2015 • 226 Readers • 256 pages • 3.9

The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

ByRay Kurzweil

2005 • 75 Readers • 652 pages • 3.2

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

ByDaron Acemoğlu,James A. Robinson

2012 • 211 Readers • 529 pages • 3.7

Northern Ireland After the Good Friday Agreement: Victims, Grievance and Blame

Northern Ireland After the Good Friday Agreement: Victims, Grievance and Blame

ByMike Morrissey

2002 • 1 Reader • 264 pages

Big Capital

ByAnna Minton

2017 • 1 Reader • 161 pages

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Thinking, Fast and Slow

ByDaniel Kahneman

2011 • 1,225 Readers • 499 pages • 4.1

The Halo Effect: How Managers let Themselves be Deceived

The Halo Effect: How Managers let Themselves be Deceived

ByPhilip M. Rosenzweig

2007 • 1 Reader • 380 pages

Superforecasting

Superforecasting

ByPhilip E. Tetlock,Dan Gardner

2015 • 108 Readers • 354 pages • 3.8

Disrupting Class

Disrupting Class

ByClayton M. Christensen

2008 • 3 Readers • 238 pages • 2

Spent

ByGeoffrey Miller

11 Readers • 3.7

Letters from a Stoic

Letters from a Stoic

BySeneca

64 • 285 Readers • 254 pages • 4.3

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

ByJocko Willink

2017 • 224 Readers • 351 pages • 4

The Black Jacobins

The Black Jacobins

ByNick Broten

2017 • 1 Reader

The Barbarians: An Essay On the Mutation of Culture

The Barbarians: An Essay On the Mutation of Culture

ByAlessandro Baricco

2006 • 1 Reader • 170 pages

The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

#1 of 2 in Political Order

The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

ByFrancis Fukuyama

2011 • 69 Readers • 585 pages • 3.7

Guns, Germs and Steel

#1 of 3 in Civilizations Rise and Fall

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

ByJared M. Diamond

1998 • 688 Readers • 480 pages • 3.8

Mythbreaker: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and the Story of Indian Biotech

Mythbreaker: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and the Story of Indian Biotech

BySeema Singh

2016 • 1 Reader • 336 pages

From Third World to First

From Third World to First

ByLee Kuan Yew

2000 • 34 Readers • 752 pages • 4.4

A Short History of Nearly Everything

A Short History of Nearly Everything

ByBill Bryson

2003 • 953 Readers • 4.2

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The Globalization of Inequality

The Globalization of Inequality

ByFrançois Bourguignon

2012 • 1 Reader

Positioning

ByAl Ries,Jack Trout

2001 • 47 Readers • 224 pages • 3.6

Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers

Crossing the Chasm

ByGeoffrey A. Moore

2006 • 87 Readers • 273 pages • 3.9

How NASA Builds Teams: Mission Critical Soft Skills for Scientists, Engineers, and Project Teams

How NASA Builds Teams: Mission Critical Soft Skills for Scientists, Engineers, and Project Teams

ByCharles J. Pellerin

2009 • 1 Reader • 261 pages • 3

Lives, Volume IV: Alcibiades and Coriolanus. Lysander and Sulla

#0 in Lives

ByPlutarch,Bernadotte Perrin(Translator)

100 • 55 Readers • 467 pages • 3.7

The Fourth Industrial Revolution

The Fourth Industrial Revolution

ByKlaus Schwab

2017 • 7 Readers • 184 pages • 3.2

The Lessons of History

#3 of 9 in قصة الحضارة

The Lessons of History

ByWill Durant,Ariel Durant

1968 • 121 Readers • 119 pages • 3.6

Making Peace: The Inside Story of the Making of the Good Friday Agreement

Making Peace: The Inside Story of the Making of the Good Friday Agreement

ByGeorge Mitchell

1999 • 1 Reader • 191 pages

A History of Economic Thought: The LSE Lectures

A History of Economic Thought: The LSE Lectures

ByLionel Robbins,Steven G. Medema,+2 more

1998 • 1 Reader • 393 pages

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

ByCathy O'Neil

2016 • 264 Readers • 274 pages • 3.7

Manufacturing Consent

Manufacturing Consent

ByEdward S. Herman,Noam Chomsky

2002 • 208 Readers • 482 pages • 4

Toxic Inequality: How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future

Toxic Inequality: How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future

ByThomas M. Shapiro

2017 • 1 Reader • 268 pages

Thank You for Being Late

Thank You for Being Late

ByThomas L. Friedman

2016 • 16 Readers • 486 pages • 3.4

Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness

Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness

ByItzhak Bentov

1977 • 7 Readers • 193 pages • 5

Orientalism

ByEdward W. Said

1978 • 150 Readers • 396 pages • 4.2

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What To Do When Machines Do Everything

What To Do When Machines Do Everything: How to Get Ahead in a World of AI, Algorithms, Bots, and Big Data

ByMalcolm Frank,Paul Roehrig,+1 more

2017 • 2 Readers

The Arabs: A History

The Arabs: A History

ByEugene Rogan

2009 • 9 Readers • 513 pages • 4

When Breath Becomes Air

When Breath Becomes Air

ByPaul Kalanithi

2016 • 811 Readers • 256 pages • 4.4

The Origins of Totalitarianism

The Origins of Totalitarianism

ByHannah Arendt

1948 • 126 Readers • 580 pages • 4.3

The Republic

#3 of 3 in Диалози

ByPlato

-400 • 460 Readers • 306 pages • 3.8

The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

ByRobert Wright

1994 • 51 Readers • 467 pages • 3.9

Social intelligence

Social intelligence

ByDaniel Goleman

2006 • 25 Readers • 403 pages • 3.2

The power of habit why we do what we do and how to change it

The power of habit why we do what we do and how to change it

ByCharles Duhigg

2012 • 750 Readers • 402 pages • 4

This Brave New World: India, China and the United States

This Brave New World: India, China and the United States

ByAnja Manuel

1 Reader

Good Strategy Bad Strategy

Good Strategy Bad Strategy

ByRichard Rumelt

2011 • 110 Readers • 336 pages • 4

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

The Emperor of All Maladies

BySiddhartha Mukherjee

2010 • 329 Readers • 571 pages • 4.2

The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy

The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy

ByDaniel Yergin,Joseph Stanislaw

1998 • 2 Readers • 512 pages

Only the Paranoid Survive. Lessons from the CEO of INTEL Corporation

Only the Paranoid Survive. Lessons from the CEO of INTEL Corporation

ByAndrew S. Grove

1988 • 51 Readers • 224 pages • 4.3

Strategy: A History

#10 of 2 in Riigikaitse raamatukogu

Strategy: A History

ByLawrence Freedman

2013 • 16 Readers • 768 pages • 3

Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You

Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You

ByDaniel Priestley

2015 • 16 Readers • 5

Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvement

Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvement

ByGraham Greene

1984 • 2 Readers • 223 pages

The State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence

The State of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence

ByMartin Meredith

2005 • 8 Readers • 784 pages • 4

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

ByNiall Ferguson

2007 • 85 Readers • 464 pages • 4.1

Influence

ByRobert B. Cialdini

1988 • 375 Readers • 303 pages • 4.2

Mr. China

ByTim Clissold

2004 • 288 pages

A Really Short History of Nearly Everything

A Really Short History of Nearly Everything

ByBill Bryson

2003 • 18 Readers • 176 pages • 3

Supernormal

ByMeg Jay

2019 • 7 Readers • 400 pages

Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires

Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires

ByShomari Wills

2018 • 10 Readers • 320 pages

Models. Behaving. Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life

Models. Behaving. Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life

ByEmanuel Derman

2011 • 1 Reader

THE ARTMASMASTRA

THE ARTMASMASTRA

ByChanakya

-300 • 5 Readers • 878 pages • 5

The Inevitable

ByKevin Kelly

2016 • 86 Readers • 336 pages • 3.8

Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison

Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison

ByShaka Senghor

2013 • 1 Reader • 268 pages

The Scapegoat

ByRené Girard,Yvonne Freccero(Translator)

1982 • 4 Readers • 216 pages

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

ByYuval Noah Harari

2011 • 1,840 Readers • 443 pages • 4.2

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The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe

The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe

The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe: Volume 1, 1700–1870

ByStephen Broadberry,Kevin H. O'Rourke

2010 • 1 Reader • 329 pages

Factfulness

ByHans Rosling

29 • 583 Readers • 352 pages • 4.4

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

BySteven Pinker

2010 • 171 Readers • 832 pages • 4

Political Order and Political Decay

#2 of 2 in Political Order

Political Order and Political Decay

ByFrancis Fukuyama

2014 • 18 Readers • 672 pages • 5

Small Great Things

#1 of 1 in Ruth Jefferson

Small Great Things

ByJodi Picoult

2016 • 160 Readers • 528 pages • 4.1

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

ByDaniel Goleman

1995 • 170 Readers • 384 pages • 3.8

The machinery of life

The machinery of life

ByDavid S. Goodsell

1992 • 9 Readers • 167 pages • 5

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

BySteven Pinker

2018 • 154 Readers • 576 pages • 4

Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe

Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe

ByRobert Lanza,Bob Berman

2009 • 4 Readers • 223 pages

The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

ByJared Diamond

2012 • 42 Readers • 512 pages • 3.3

Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

BySendhil Mullainathan,Eldar Shafir

2013 • 57 Readers • 303 pages • 3.6

The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else

The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else

ByHernando de Soto

2000 • 11 Readers • 288 pages • 3.7

Focus

ByAl Ries

1996 • 2 Readers • 320 pages • 3

My Years with General Motors

My Years with General Motors

ByAlfred P. Sloan Jr.

1964 • 6 Readers • 496 pages • 2

Fault Lines

ByRaghuram G. Rajan

2011 • 7 Readers • 280 pages • 4.3

Black Skin, White Masks

Black Skin, White Masks

ByFrantz Fanon

1952 • 96 Readers • 4.1

The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business

The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business

ByClayton M. Christensen

1997 • 148 Readers • 324 pages • 3.9

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

#1 of 2 in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume III

ByEdward Gibbon

1776 • 90 Readers • 1,312 pages • 3.7

Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought

Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought

ByAndrew W. Lo

2017 • 4 Readers • 496 pages • 4

The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, And the Radical Remaking of Economics

The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, And the Radical Remaking of Economics

ByEric D. Beinhocker

2006 • 16 Readers • 527 pages • 5

A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

ByJames Joyce

198 • 409 Readers • 490 pages • 3.6

The Ingenious Hidalgo de la Mancha

The Ingenious Hidalgo de la Mancha

ByMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra

2001 • 26 Readers • 40 pages • 4.2

Lessons From a Third Grade Dropout

Lessons From a Third Grade Dropout

ByRick Rigsby

2006 • 1 Reader • 136 pages

The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth

ByEdith Wharton

1905 • 162 Readers • 435 pages • 3.9

Life on the Mississippi

Life on the Mississippi

ByMark Twain

1883 • 27 Readers • 418 pages • 3.9

The Valley of Fear

#7 of 9 in Sherlock Holmes

The Valley of Fear

ByArthur Conan Doyle

1914 • 147 Readers • 224 pages • 3.9

Wayward: Wayward Pines: 2

#2 of 3 in Wayward Pines

Wayward: Wayward Pines: 2

ByBlake Crouch

2013 • 226 Readers • 296 pages • 4

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Two Years Before the Mast

Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea

ByRichard Henry Dana Jr.

1840 • 1 Reader • 366 pages • 3

Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition

ByJames Joyce

1920 • 604 Readers • 656 pages • 3.9

The Divine Comedy

#1-3 of 3 in La Divina Commedia

The Divine Comedy

ByDante Alighieri,Allen Mandelbaum(Translator)

1320 • 62 Readers • 798 pages • 4

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy

ByFrances Hodgson Burnett

2008 • 32 Readers • 296 pages • 4.2

An Antarctic Mystery

An Antarctic Mystery

ByJules Verne

1897 • 8 Readers • 200 pages

The Monk: A Romance

ByMatthew Gregory Lewis

1794 • 122 Readers • 431 pages • 3.6

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The Dragon's Egg

#1 of 3 in Dragonfall

The Dragon's Egg

ByDavid A. Wells

2015 • 5 Readers

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

ByL. Frank Baum

42 Readers • 3

The Warlord of Mars

#3 of 10 in Barsoom

The Warlord of Mars

ByEdgar Rice Burroughs

1916 • 35 Readers • 158 pages • 3.5

Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

ByAndrew Carnegie

1920 • 1 Reader • 337 pages