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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,303,722 ratings — published 2011
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,379,004 ratings — published 2018
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 906,519 ratings — published 2005
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 431,053 ratings — published 2003
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 606,287 ratings — published 2011
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 481,936 ratings — published 2012
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 234,532 ratings — published 2017
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 882,094 ratings — published 2008
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 1,459,807 ratings — published 2016
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 177,612 ratings — published 2019
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 299,544 ratings — published 2014
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 627,975 ratings — published 2005
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 488,310 ratings — published 1988
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 324,410 ratings — published 2000
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 348,811 ratings — published 2020
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 820,366 ratings — published 2010
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,177,705 ratings — published 1936
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 213,269 ratings — published 2017
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 199,204 ratings — published 2014
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 916,579 ratings — published 1946
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money—That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 748,973 ratings — published 1997
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 863,439 ratings — published 2000
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 267,206 ratings — published 2025
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 467,277 ratings — published 1997
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 588,168 ratings — published -500
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 341,912 ratings — published 2019
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 836,033 ratings — published 1989
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 572,095 ratings — published 2012
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 245,682 ratings — published 2003
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 119,445 ratings — published 2010
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 205,051 ratings — published 2018
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 237,811 ratings — published 1999
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 124,227 ratings — published 2021
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 293,057 ratings — published 2015
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 208,226 ratings — published 2024
Educated (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,931,825 ratings — published 2018
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 205,518 ratings — published 1848
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,279,453 ratings — published 1947
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 183,711 ratings — published 2013
The Truth Behind the Lies: One Man s Journey Through Wwiii (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 301 ratings — published
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
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avg rating 4.19 — 122,061 ratings — published 2015
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 195,678 ratings — published 2016
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 461,994 ratings — published 2017
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 397,550 ratings — published 2010
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 223,693 ratings — published 2014
The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.27 — 488,746 ratings — published 1990
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 165,954 ratings — published 2020
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 286,382 ratings — published 2018
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 337,878 ratings — published 2012
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 193,656 ratings — published 2013
“With God All Things Are Possible!”
― Plotting A Fantasy Novel: Learn Elements of Plot and Structure, Outlining Scenes, Outlining Chapters, and Create a Compelling Book
― Plotting A Fantasy Novel: Learn Elements of Plot and Structure, Outlining Scenes, Outlining Chapters, and Create a Compelling Book
“Just like the myth of the people’s or popular capitalism, which was propagated since the mid1950s in the countries to the west of Berlin Wall, to the east and the north of it, since the same time it was introduced the myth of the people’s or popular socialism. But the suggestion is always the same. Under any “people’s” power—from people’s capitalism to people’s socialism—the greatest illusion suggested to the oppressed classes is that the people are sovereign, i.e., that all the people dominate over themselves. In this respect, even John Kenneth Galbraith makes Marxist conclusions, which even in the Internet epoch have the same power: “Young people are suggested that in a democracy the entire power belongs to the people!” (“The Anatomy of Power”)
Yet, old people know that this is not true!”
― Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face
Yet, old people know that this is not true!”
― Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face











