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How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History

How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History

ByJosephine Quinn

2024 • 1 Reader • 609 pages

Belonging without Othering: How We Save Ourselves and the World

Belonging without Othering: How We Save Ourselves and the World

ByJohn A. Powell

2024 • 1 Reader

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The Shortest History of Economics

The Shortest History of Economics

ByAndrew Leigh

5 Readers

Exercised

ByDaniel E. Lieberman

2021 • 53 Readers • 464 pages • 3.8

The Pluri Society

The Pluri Society

BySherry Ning

1 Reader

Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World

Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World

ByBrett Christophers

2023 • 9 Readers • 321 pages

Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

ByRoger Fisher,William Ury,+1 more

1981 • 135 Readers • 224 pages • 3.7

Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela

Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela

ByWilliam Neuman

2022 • 1 Reader

Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism

Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism

ByGeorge Monbiot,Peter Hutchison

8 Readers • 5

The Wizard and the Prophet

The Wizard and the Prophet

ByCharles C. Mann

60 Readers • 4

Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto

Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto

ByBrian Bergstrom(Translator),Kohei Saito

2020 • 30 Readers • 288 pages • 4

Just Friends: On the Joy, Power and Influence of Friendship

Just Friends: On the Joy, Power and Influence of Friendship

ByGyan Yankovich

2024 • 3 Readers • 320 pages • 4

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

ByNaomi Klein

2014 • 172 Readers • 576 pages • 4.1

Radical Adaptation: Transforming Cities for a Climate Changed World

Radical Adaptation: Transforming Cities for a Climate Changed World

ByBrian Stone Jr.

2023 • 1 Reader • 165 pages

Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

ByRutger Bregman

2014 • 218 Readers • 262 pages • 4

Being Wrong

ByKathryn Schulz

2010 • 23 Readers • 339 pages • 3

The Laws of Connection

The Laws of Connection

ByDavid Robson

2024 • 7 Readers • 1

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

ByZoë Schlanger

2024 • 39 Readers • 290 pages • 4.4

Lean Out

ByDawn Foster

2016 • 2 Readers • 87 pages

The Circular Economy: A User's Guide

The Circular Economy: A User's Guide

ByWalter R. Stahel

2019 • 118 pages

Frostbite

ByNicola Twilley

2024 • 6 Readers • 401 pages

Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered

Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered

ByErnst F. Schumacher

1973 • 46 Readers • 350 pages • 3.8

Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

ByHannah Ritchie

2024 • 72 Readers • 340 pages • 4.3

Environmentalism from Below: How Global People's Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet

Environmentalism from Below: How Global People's Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet

ByAshley Dawson

2 Readers

The Extended Mind

The Extended Mind

ByAnnie Murphy Paul

2021 • 63 Readers • 357 pages • 3.8

On the Shortness of Life

On the Shortness of Life

BySeneca,Charles Desmond Nuttall Costa(Translator)

168 Readers • 4.2

The Mind Illuminated

The Mind Illuminated

ByMatthew Immergut,Jeremy Graves,+1 more

2015 • 63 Readers • 504 pages • 4.9

Good to Great

ByJames C. Collins

2001 • 293 Readers • 300 pages • 3.9

Growing a Business

Growing a Business

ByPaul Hawken

1988 • 3 Readers • 262 pages

Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

ByEd Conway,Edmund Conway

2023 • 34 Readers • 513 pages • 4.5

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

ByJane Jacobs

1961 • 154 Readers • 458 pages • 4

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

#1 of 4 in Freakonomics

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

BySteven D. Levitt,Stephen J. Dubner

2005 • 904 Readers • 320 pages • 3.8

Designing Tomorrow: Strategic Design Tactics to Change Your Practice, Organisation, and Planetary Impact

Designing Tomorrow: Strategic Design Tactics to Change Your Practice, Organisation, and Planetary Impact

ByMartin Tomitsch,Steve Baty

2023

After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time

After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time

ByHelen Hester,Nick Srnicek

2023 • 1 Reader

Deep Water: The World in the Ocean

Deep Water: The World in the Ocean

ByJames Bradley

2024 • 4 Readers • 466 pages

Dare to Lead

ByBrené Brown

2018 • 198 Readers • 320 pages • 4

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

Never Split the Difference

ByChris Voss,Tahl Raz

2016 • 547 Readers • 288 pages • 4.3

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Supercommunicators

ByCharles Duhigg

2024 • 188 Readers • 321 pages • 3.6

Cult Classic

BySloane Crosley

2022 • 146 Readers • 305 pages • 3.4

How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler

How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler

ByPeter Pomerantsev

2024 • 14 Readers • 277 pages • 4

Firefighter Zen: A Field Guide to Thriving in Tough Times

Firefighter Zen: A Field Guide to Thriving in Tough Times

ByHersch Wilson

1920 • 1 Reader • 266 pages

Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity

Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity

ByPeter Attia

2023 • 291 Readers • 17h 7m • 4.3

How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything in Between

How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything in Between

ByBent Flyvbjerg,Dan Gardner

2023 • 71 Readers • 304 pages • 4.2

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 • 80 Readers • 336 pages • 3.7

I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That

I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That

ByBen Goldacre

2014 • 18 Readers • 400 pages • 4.4

Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks

Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks

ByBen Goldacre

2008 • 9 Readers • 304 pages • 3.3

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World

ByMike Davis

2000 • 21 Readers • 464 pages

The New Economics: A Manifesto

The New Economics: A Manifesto

BySteve Keen

2022 • 1 Reader

A People’s Green New Deal

A People’s Green New Deal

ByMax Ajl

2021 • 5 Readers • 220 pages

Loonshots

BySafi Bahcall

2019 • 53 Readers • 368 pages • 3.7

The Laws of Human Nature

The Laws of Human Nature

ByRobert Greene

101 • 162 Readers • 4.3

Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

ByYanis Varoufakis

2023 • 59 Readers • 281 pages • 4.1

Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production

#1 of 1 in Capital

Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1

ByKarl Marx,Edward Aveling(translator),+1 more

1867 • 142 Readers • 1,166 pages • 3.8

Thinking in systems : a primer

Thinking in systems : a primer

ByDonella H. Meadows

2008 • 273 Readers • 218 pages • 4.2

The Affluent Society

The Affluent Society

ByJohn Kenneth Galbraith

1958 • 22 Readers • 291 pages • 4.3

Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise

Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise

ByChristopher Marquis,Kunyuan Qiao

1 Reader

Better Business: How the B Corp Movement Is Remaking Capitalism

Better Business: How the B Corp Movement Is Remaking Capitalism

ByChristopher Marquis

2020 • 1 Reader • 312 pages

The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative

The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative

ByFlorence Williams

2017 • 80 Readers • 304 pages • 4.1

One More Ride on the Merry-Go-Round

One More Ride on the Merry-Go-Round

ByTiziano Terzani

2004 • 1 Reader • 608 pages

The Wealth of (Some) Nations

The Wealth of (Some) Nations

ByZak Cope

2 Readers • 240 pages

The Ministry for the Future

The Ministry for the Future

ByKim Stanley Robinson

2020 • 404 Readers • 563 pages • 3.8

The Devil's Chessboard

The Devil's Chessboard

ByDavid Talbot

2015 • 34 Readers • 704 pages • 4.4

The Man Who Planted Trees

The Man Who Planted Trees

ByJean Giono

1953 • 19 Readers • 72 pages • 4.8

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

ByCaroline Criado Perez

2019 • 729 Readers • 432 pages • 4.3

Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism

Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism

ByIntan Suwandi

3 Readers

Imperialism and the development myth: How rich countries dominate in the twenty-first century

Imperialism and the development myth: How rich countries dominate in the twenty-first century

BySam King

2021 • 1 Reader • 277 pages

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

The Jakarta Method

ByVincent Bevins

2020 • 142 Readers • 9h 58m • 4.7

Divided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism

Divided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism

ByZak Cope

2012 • 2 Readers • 387 pages

All We Can Save

All We Can Save

ByAyana Elizabeth Johnson,Katharine K. Wilkinson

2020 • 64 Readers • 448 pages • 4.4

The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire

The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire

BySam Gindin,Leo Panitch

2012 • 3 Readers • 464 pages

The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View

The Origin of Capitalism

ByEllen Meiksins Wood

33 Readers • 4.7

What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures

What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures

ByAyana Elizabeth Johnson

2023 • 9 Readers • 513 pages • 5

Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

ByVladimir Lenin

1917 • 68 Readers • 128 pages • 4.4

The Mom Test

ByRob Fitzpatrick

2013 • 116 Readers • 134 pages • 4.4

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

ByWalter Rodney

1971 • 136 Readers • 433 pages • 3.9

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

ByRyan Holiday,Stephen Hanselman

2016 • 282 Readers • 416 pages • 4.4

Becoming animal

Becoming animal

ByDavid Abram

2010 • 5 Readers • 336 pages

Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World

Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World

ByGeorgina Voss

8 Readers • 4

Confessions of a Recovering Engineer

Confessions of a Recovering Engineer

ByCharles L. Marohn, Jr.

23 Readers • 3.9

A World Class Transportation System: Transportation Finance for a New Economy

A World Class Transportation System: Transportation Finance for a New Economy

ByCharles L. Marohn Jr.

2014 • 1 Reader

Strong Towns

ByCharles L. Marohn Jr.,Matthew Boston

47 Readers • 7h 26m • 4

Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis

Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis

ByCharles L. Marohn Jr.

2023 • 4 Readers • 247 pages

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Thoughts on Building Strong Towns, Volume II

Thoughts on Building Strong Towns, Volume II

ByCharles L. Marohn Jr.,Daniel Herriges,+6 more

2016

Humanise: A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World

Humanise: A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World

ByThomas Heatherwick

2023 • 3 Readers • 495 pages

Dignity

ByChris Arnade

2019 • 8 Readers • 304 pages • 3

How to Kill a City

How to Kill a City

ByPeter Moskowitz,P.E. Moskowitz

2017 • 26 Readers • 272 pages • 3.7

Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

ByYanis Varoufakis,Jacob Moe(Translator)

2013 • 69 Readers • 224 pages • 4.4

Capital and Imperialism: Theory, History, and the Present

Capital and Imperialism: Theory, History, and the Present

ByUtsa Patnaik,Prabhat Patnaik

1 Reader

The Earthshot Prize: A Handbook for Dreamers and Thinkers: Solutions to Repair our Planet

The Earthshot Prize: A Handbook for Dreamers and Thinkers: Solutions to Repair our Planet

ByColin Butfield,Jonnie Hughes

2023 • 1 Reader

The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center

The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center

ByRhaina Cohen

36 Readers • 4.2

The Island of Sea Women

The Island of Sea Women

ByLisa See

2019 • 188 Readers • 639 pages • 4.2

The sacred balance

The Sacred Balance

ByDavid Suzuki,Amanda McConnell,+1 more

1997 • 4 Readers • 162 pages

Progress and Poverty

Progress and Poverty

ByHenry George

1879 • 17 Readers • 598 pages

Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

ByKyle Chayka

2024 • 83 Readers • 305 pages • 3.8

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Not Too Late

Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

ByRebecca Solnit, Thelma Young Lutunatabua

11 Readers

Behave

ByRobert M. Sapolsky

2017 • 322 Readers • 790 pages • 4.3

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Post-capitalist society / Peter F. Drucker

Post-capitalist society / Peter F. Drucker

ByPeter F. Drucker

1993 • 1 Reader

The Fiat Standard: The Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization

The Fiat Standard: The Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization

BySaifedean Ammous

2021 • 7 Readers • 3.5

Stone Age Economics

Stone Age Economics

ByMarshall Sahlins

1974 • 4 Readers • 348 pages

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

ByAmanda Montell

2024 • 193 Readers • 272 pages • 3.3