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The Elements: A Very Short Introduction

The Elements: A Very Short Introduction

ByPhilip Ball

2004 • 1 Reader • 193 pages

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The Music Instinct

The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It

ByPhilip Ball

3 Readers

The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination

The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination

ByPhilip Ball

2021 • 1 Reader • 5

Future Artifacts: Stories

Future Artifacts

ByKameron Hurley

2022 • 5 Readers • 288 pages • 4

Matter of Everything Twelve Experiments That Changed Our World

Matter of Everything Twelve Experiments That Changed Our World

BySuzie Sheehy

2022 • 3 Readers • 296 pages

Forest School for Grown-Ups

Forest School for Grown-Ups

ByRichard Irvine

2022 • 160 pages

City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa

City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa

ByAdam LeBor

2006 • 1 Reader • 481 pages

How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

ByVaclav Smil

2022 • 99 Readers • 448 pages • 3.6

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Quantum Steampunk

Quantum Steampunk

ByNicole Yunger Halpern

2022 • 3 Readers • 312 pages

The Mountain in the Sea

The Mountain in the Sea

ByRay Nayler

2022 • 378 Readers • 312 pages • 4.1

The Flowers of Evil

Les Fleurs du Mal

ByCharles Baudelaire,James McGowan(Translator)

1857 • 161 Readers • 464 pages • 4.1

The Book of St. John

The Book of St. John

ByFergus Henderson,Trevor Gulliver

2019 • 1 Reader • 320 pages

Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices

Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices

ByGeorge Leonard Herter

1969 • 2 Readers • 384 pages • 5

Nourishing traditions

Nourishing traditions

BySally Fallon Morell,Mary G. Enig

1995 • 19 Readers • 692 pages • 4.1

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization

ByPeter Zeihan

2022 • 74 Readers • 336 pages • 3.7

Parable of the Sower

#1 of 2 in Earthseed

Parable of the Sower

ByOctavia E. Butler

1993 • 1,140 Readers • 350 pages • 4.2

Space Is the Place

Space is the Place

ByJohn Szwed

1997 • 2 Readers • 476 pages • 4

Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power

Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power

ByJoseph S. Nye Jr.

1990 • 1 Reader • 338 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 • 72 Readers • 585 pages • 3.7

Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To

Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To

ByDavid A. Sinclair

2019 • 141 Readers • 432 pages • 4.3

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Filles de la pluie

Filles de la pluie

ByAndre Savignon

1 Reader

Around the World in Eighty Days

5 Peter Pan

Around the World in Eighty Days

ByJules Verne

1872 • 444 Readers • 260 pages • 3.7

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

#1 of 3 in Capitaine Nemo

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

ByJules Verne,Anthony Bonner(Translator),+1 more

1866 • 587 Readers • 394 pages • 3.6

The Measure of Time

The Measure of Time

ByHenri Poincaré,Theo B. Wilson

2016 • 1 Reader • 86 pages

The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare

The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare

ByHenri Poincaré

1905 • 1 Reader

The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science, Science and Method

The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science, Science and Method

ByHenri Poincaré

1946 • 3 Readers • 278 pages • 5

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

ByKen Liu

2001 • 433 Readers • 450 pages • 4.3

Deception Was My Job: The Testimony of Yuri Bezmenov, Propagandist for the KGB

Deception Was My Job: The Testimony of Yuri Bezmenov, Propagandist for the KGB

ByYuri Bezmenov

2 Readers

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

AATSEEL

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

ByAleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1962 • 197 Readers • 104 pages • 3.9

Kolymskie rasskazy

#1 of 4 in Contos de Kolimá

ByVarlam Shalamov

1966 • 18 Readers • 895 pages • 5

Natural Selection and Social Theory

Natural Selection and Social Theory

ByRobert Trivers

2002 • 345 pages

The Last of the Just

The Last of the Just

ByAndré Schwarz-Bart

1959 • 6 Readers • 374 pages

A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow

A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow

ByJoshua S. Goldstein,Staffan A. Qvist

1 Reader

The theory of money and credit

The theory of money and credit

ByLudwig von Mises,Harold E. Batson(Translator)

1912 • 5 Readers • 544 pages

Human Action

ByLudwig von Mises

1940 • 30 Readers • 690 pages • 4.3

Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941

#1 of 2 in Berlin Diary

Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941

ByWilliam L. Shirer

1941 • 21 Readers • 662 pages • 4.2

Funes, the Memorious

Funes, the Memorious

ByJorge Luis Borges

1942 • 1 Reader • 9 pages

The Age of AI and Our Human Future

The Age of AI and Our Human Future

ByHenry Kissinger,Eric Schmidt,+1 more

2021 • 19 Readers • 272 pages • 3.2

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We Know It When We See It

We Know It When We See It

ByRichard Masland

2020 • 1 Reader • 5

Machiavelli

#31 of 261 in Very Short Introductions

ByQuentin Skinner

1981 • 1 Reader • 102 pages

Radical candor : be a kick-ass boss without losing your humanity

Radical candor : be a kick-ass boss without losing your humanity

ByKim Malone Scott

288 Readers • 3.9

The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Volume 1: The Renaissance

The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Volume 1: The Renaissance

ByQuentin Skinner

2 Readers

On Duties

ByMarcus Tullius Cicero

-44 • 11 Readers • 158 pages • 4

Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go

ByKazuo Ishiguro

2000 • 1,666 Readers • 282 pages • 3.8

Alternative Paradigms

Alternative Paradigms

ByAhmet Davutoğlu

1993 • 1 Reader • 261 pages

October

ByChina Miéville

2017 • 50 Readers • 369 pages • 3.8

The Fight

ByNorman Mailer

1975 • 14 Readers • 234 pages • 4

The Prince

ByNiccolò Machiavelli,Rufus Goodwin(Translator)

Mortality

ByChristopher Hitchens

2001 • 86 Readers • 4.2

Love, poverty, and war

Love, Poverty, and War

ByChristopher Hitchens

3 Readers

The white guard

The White Guard

ByMikhail Bulgakov,Michael Gleeny(Translator)

1924 • 36 Readers • 319 pages • 4.4

I Was A Kamikaze

I Was A Kamikaze

ByRyuji Nagatsuka

1972 • 1 Reader • 212 pages

Riding the Iron Rooster

Riding the Iron Rooster

ByPaul Theroux

1985 • 13 Readers • 464 pages • 3.8

The Power of Geography

#4 of 5 in Politics of Place

The Power of Geography

ByTim Marshall

Der Klang der Familie

Der Klang der Familie

ByFelix Denk,Sven von Thülen

2014 • 4 Readers • 310 pages

The Berlin Reader: A Compendium on Urban Change and Activism

The Berlin Reader: A Compendium on Urban Change and Activism

ByMatthias Bernt(editor)

2013 • 1 Reader • 277 pages

Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

ByTim Mohr

2017 • 8 Readers • 384 pages • 5

Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, The Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin

Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, The Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin

ByPaul Hockenos

2017 • 2 Readers • 328 pages • 4.5

Beyond no future : cultures of German punk

Beyond no future : cultures of German punk

ByMirko M. Hall(Editor),Seth Howes(Editor)

2016 • 1 Reader • 194 pages

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

ByDavid Allen

2001 • 441 Readers • 3.9

Change by Design

Change by Design

ByTim Brown

2009 • 40 Readers • 272 pages • 3.4

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The Discourses on Livy

Discourses on Livy

The Discourses on Livy

ByNiccolò Machiavelli,Ninian Hill Thomson(Translator)

1517 • 1 Reader

The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA

The Double Helix

ByJames D. Watson

1968 • 43 Readers • 208 pages • 3.7

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

ByAnna Lembke

2021 • 238 Readers • 305 pages • 3.4

Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It's So Hard to Stop

Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It's So Hard to Stop

ByAnna Lembke

1 Reader • 3

The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity--and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity--and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

ByMichael E. Long,Daniel Z. Lieberman

2018 • 93 Readers • 240 pages • 3.8

The Wealth of Nations

The Wealth of Nations

ByAdam Smith

1776 • 31 Readers • 1,264 pages • 4.1

Three Minutes to Doomsday: An Agent, a Traitor, and the Worst Espionage Breach in U.S. History

Three Minutes to Doomsday: An Agent, a Traitor, and the Worst Espionage Breach in U.S. History

ByJoe Navarro

2017 • 3 Readers • 368 pages • 4

Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness

ByJoseph Conrad

1899 • 944 Readers • 132 pages • 3.3

Tomorrow, the World

Tomorrow, the World

ByStephen Wertheim

2020 • 6 Readers • 273 pages • 4

How to Survive: Lessons for Everyday Life from the Extreme World

How to Survive: Lessons for Everyday Life from the Extreme World

ByJohn Hudson

2019 • 2 Readers • 304 pages

How to Survive: Self-Reliance in Extreme Circumstances

How to Survive: Self-Reliance in Extreme Circumstances

ByJohn Hudson

2021 • 2 Readers • 304 pages

Stalin

#2 of 2 in Joseph Stalin

BySimon Sebag Montefiore

2003 • 28 Readers • 848 pages • 4.3

Economics

ByHa-Joon Chang

2014 • 26 Readers • 384 pages • 4

Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

ByCharles T. Munger

2005 • 110 Readers • 480 pages • 4.1

Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military

Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military

ByNeil deGrasse Tyson,Avis Lang

2018 • 14 Readers • 3.2

The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

The Order of Things

ByMichel Foucault

1966 • 38 Readers • 387 pages • 4.6

Genesis: Memory of Fire, Volume 1

#1 of 1 in Genesis: Memory of Fire

ByEduardo Galeano

1982 • 15 Readers • 336 pages • 4.7

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

ByMichel Foucault,Richard Howard(Translator)

1961 • 90 Readers • 310 pages • 3.6

The Peregrine

#3 of 1 in De Vogelserie

ByJ.A. Baker

1967 • 37 Readers • 191 pages • 4

The Hungry Soul

The Hungry Soul

ByLeon Kass

The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

ByDaniel Bell

3 Readers

Media Control

ByNoam Chomsky

1995 • 37 Readers • 103 pages • 3.6

Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life

#2 of 2 in Rules for Life

Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life

ByJordan B. Peterson

2021 • 103 Readers • 432 pages • 3.7

The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability

The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability

ByPeter Kornbluh

2003 • 1 Reader

M. F. K. Fisher's Translation of The Physiology of Taste

M. F. K. Fisher's Translation of The Physiology of Taste

ByBrillat-Savarin,Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher

1971 • 1 Reader • 443 pages

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Europe on Trial

Europe on Trial: The Story of Collaboration, Resistance, and Retribution during World War II

ByIstván Deák

2014 • 1 Reader

Stalin's Genocides

Stalin's Genocides

ByNorman M. Naimark

2010 • 1 Reader • 176 pages

All the Light We Cannot See

All the Light We Cannot See

ByAnthony Doerr

2014 • 1,580 Readers • 544 pages • 4.2

Love and math : the heart of hidden reality

Love and math : the heart of hidden reality

ByEdward Frenkel

2013 • 12 Readers • 292 pages • 3.5

L'âge de l'empathie

The Age of Empathy

ByFrans de Waal

8 Readers • 400 pages • 3

The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis

The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis

ByJeremy Rifkin

2009 • 5 Readers • 688 pages

Field Notes for Food Adventure

Field Notes for Food Adventure

ByBrad Leone

2021 • 352 pages

The Pragmatic Programmer

The Pragmatic Programmer

ByAndy Hunt,Dave Thomas

1994 • 294 Readers • 9h 55m • 4.2

Albion's Seed

ByDavid Hackett Fischer

1989 • 17 Readers • 984 pages • 3.5

Bubbles: Spheres I

Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents

Bubbles: Spheres I

ByPeter Sloterdijk,Wieland Hoban(Translator)

1998 • 5 Readers • 664 pages

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Atlas of Palestine, 1948

Atlas of Palestine, 1948

BySalman Abu Sitta

1 Reader

Foams: Spheres Volume III: Plural Spherology

Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents

Foams: Spheres Volume III: Plural Spherology

ByPeter Sloterdijk,Wieland Hoban(Translator)

2004 • 2 Readers

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

ByWassily Kandinsky

1912 • 15 Readers • 80 pages • 4

Globes: Spheres Volume II: Macrospherology

#2 of 1 in Sphären

Globes: Spheres Volume II: Macrospherology

ByPeter Sloterdijk,Wieland Hoban(Translator)

1999 • 1 Reader • 1,024 pages