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Global Affairs & Politics Global Affairs & Politics - The Next Decade– George FriedmanSummary(9/10) - Dominion– Tom HollandSummary(9/10) - The New Map – YerginSummary(8.5/10) - Guns,Germs,and Steel– Jared DiamondSummary(8.

Global Affairs & Politics

Global Affairs & Politics

  • The Next Decade– George FriedmanSummary(9/10)
  • Dominion– Tom HollandSummary(9/10)
  • The New Map – YerginSummary(8.5/10)
  • Guns,Germs,and Steel– Jared DiamondSummary(8.4/10)
  • Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media – ChomskySummary(8/10)
  • Propaganda and the Public Mind – ChomskySummary(8/10)
  • The End of the World is Just the Beginning – Peter ZeihanSummary(8/10)
  • From Beirut to Jerusalem – Thomas FriedmanSummary(8/10)
  • Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich – Norman OhlerSummary(8/10)
  • China’s Great Wall of Debt – Dinny McmahonSummary(8/10)
  • The Grand Chessboard – BrzezinskiSummary(8/10)
  • The Clash of Civilizations– Samuel P. HuntingtonSummary(7.5/10)
  • An Introduction to Middle East Politics– Benjamin MacQueenSummary(7.3/10)
  • Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security– Sarah ChayesSummary(7.2/10)
  • Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians – ChomskySummary(7/10)
  • How the World Works – ChomskySummary(7/10)
  • On Palestine – ChomskySummary(7/10)
  • Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order – ChomskySummary(7/10)
  • Who Rules the World? – ChomskySummary(7/10)
  • Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky – ChomskySummary(7/10)

History, Society & Culture

History, Society & Culture

  • Chaos: The Making of a New Science – James GleickSummary(9/10)
  • Girard’s Mimetic Theory– Wolfgang PalaverSummary(8.7/10)
  • The Triumph of the Therapeutic– Philip RieffSummary(8.3/10)
  • The Better Angels of our Nature– Steven PinkerSummary(8/10)
  • The Blank Slate– Steven PinkerSummary(8/10)
  • The Rational Optimist– Matt RiddleySummary(8/10)
  • Perspectives on our Age – EllulSummary(8/10)
  • Technics and Civilization– Lewis MumfordSummary(8/10)
  • Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up– Tom PhillipsSummary(8/10)
  • Life After Life– Raymond MoodySummary(8/10)
  • The Red Queen– Matt RiddleySummary(8/10)
  • The Religion of Technology– David NobleSummary(8/10)
  • The True Believer – Eric HofferSummary(8/10)
  • The Open Society and Its Enemies – Karl PopperSummary(8/10)
  • The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration – Bruce M. MetzgerSummary(8/10)
  • Exorcism and Enlightenment – Erik MidelfortSummary(8/10)
  • Tragedy and Hope – Carol QuigleySummary(8/10)
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah HarariSummary(8/10)
  • The Meaning of the Word and Other Essays – EllulSummary(8/10)
  • Debt: The First 5000 Years – David GraeberSummary(8/10)
  • The 33 Strategies of War– Robert GreeneSummary(7/10)
  • The Crowd: A Study of the Popular MindSummary(7/10)
  • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow – Yuval HarariSummary(7/10)
  • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century– Yuval HarariSummary(7/10)
  • Confessions of an Economic Hitman– John PerkinsSummary(7/10)
  • Sex at Dawn– Christopher Ryan & Cathilda JethaSummary(7/10)
  • Living in the End Times– Slavoj ZizekSummary(7/10)
  • The Great Pyramid HoaxSummary(7/10)
  • The Great Reset – Alex JonesSummary(7/10)
  • On Being Rich and Poor – EllulSummary(7/10)
  • Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation – EllulSummary(7/10)
  • Anarchy and Christianity – EllulSummary(7/10)
  • The Civilizing Process – Norbert EliasSummary(7/10)
  • Science, Politics, and Gnosticism – Eric VoegelinSummary(7/10)
  • Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret – Jacques ValleeSummary(7/10)

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