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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,265,817 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.22 — 423,448 ratings — published 2003
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.36 — 202,162 ratings — published 2018
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.04 — 458,586 ratings — published 1997
The Book of General Ignorance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.75 — 11,145 ratings — published 2006
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.21 — 480,276 ratings — published 1988
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.19 — 868,482 ratings — published 2008
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.14 — 196,158 ratings — published 2014
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.01 — 898,593 ratings — published 2005
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.17 — 590,523 ratings — published 2011
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 23 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.18 — 288,060 ratings — published 2015
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.01 — 856,398 ratings — published 2000
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.19 — 117,426 ratings — published 2015
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.96 — 622,943 ratings — published 2005
An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned But Probably Didn't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,431 ratings — published 1987
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.37 — 227,317 ratings — published 2017
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.15 — 177,895 ratings — published 2018
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.09 — 226,991 ratings — published 1999
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.00 — 337,498 ratings — published 2019
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.09 — 63,244 ratings — published 2012
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.14 — 12,349 ratings — published 2015
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.94 — 573,097 ratings — published -500
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.26 — 87,774 ratings — published 2018
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.40 — 159,243 ratings — published 1980
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.10 — 57,780 ratings — published 2012
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,306,687 ratings — published 2018
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,632 ratings — published 2010
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.08 — 475,862 ratings — published 2012
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.01 — 122,216 ratings — published 1859
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.96 — 122,017 ratings — published 2007
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.08 — 207,626 ratings — published 2017
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.37 — 881,444 ratings — published 1946
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.16 — 193,130 ratings — published 1976
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.97 — 191,953 ratings — published 2013
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by (shelved 11 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.08 — 71,501 ratings — published 2001
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.28 — 323,736 ratings — published 2020
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.31 — 99,777 ratings — published 2019
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.98 — 66,987 ratings — published 2014
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.84 — 383,686 ratings — published 1532
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,554 ratings — published 2005
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.24 — 24,599 ratings — published 1988
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.20 — 32,408 ratings — published 2018
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.95 — 57,927 ratings — published 2016
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.90 — 33,064 ratings — published 2010
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.15 — 400,530 ratings — published 2014
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.88 — 94,249 ratings — published 2011
This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,842 ratings — published 2013
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.12 — 39,849 ratings — published 2011
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.06 — 240,775 ratings — published 2003
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as general-knowledge)
avg rating 4.00 — 134,428 ratings — published 2009
“No general knowledge is expressible except in abstract terms. There is nothing particularly difficult about abstractions. We use them every day of our lives and in every sort of conversation. However, the words "abstract" and "concrete" seem to trouble many persons. [How to Read a Book (1972), P. 283]”
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“Lord Krishna taught Arjuna, the bhagavad gita; What might have been the teaching of Saguni to Duryodhana? Will it be the same?”
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