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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 16,206 ratings — published 2021
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 189,923 ratings — published 1976
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 64,008 ratings — published 2012
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,216,507 ratings — published 2011
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 470,073 ratings — published 1988
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 415,067 ratings — published 2003
Principles: Life and Work (Audio CD)
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avg rating 4.10 — 65,391 ratings — published 2017
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 447,972 ratings — published 1997
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 119,915 ratings — published 2007
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 846,819 ratings — published 2000
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
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avg rating 4.08 — 70,123 ratings — published 2001
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 174,195 ratings — published 2018
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 198,430 ratings — published 2018
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 850,787 ratings — published 2008
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 37,489 ratings — published 2024
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.51 — 7,155 ratings — published 2023
Orientalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 28,797 ratings — published 1978
Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 9,753 ratings — published 2020
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 9,381 ratings — published 2011
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 261,248 ratings — published 1980
The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3,263 ratings — published 2019
When Money Dies: The Nightmare of the Weimar Hyper-inflation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 1,977 ratings — published 1975
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 41,296 ratings — published 1986
What We Owe the Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 6,250 ratings — published 2022
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 33,276 ratings — published 2022
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems (ebook)
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avg rating 4.22 — 14,439 ratings — published 2019
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 13,368 ratings — published 2022
How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 3,457 ratings — published 2022
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 7,993 ratings — published 2022
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 21,786 ratings — published 2015
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 23,413 ratings — published 2021
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 — 112,036 ratings — published 2015
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
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avg rating 4.04 — 28,791 ratings — published 2007
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 888,731 ratings — published 2005
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 842,710 ratings — published 1946
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 23,475 ratings — published 1988
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 60,144 ratings — published 2012
The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 5,549 ratings — published 2014
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.33 — 28,416 ratings — published 2014
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 93,450 ratings — published 2021
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 15,228 ratings — published 2017
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.51 — 8,517 ratings — published 2020
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 30,290 ratings — published 1994
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.23 — 54,048 ratings — published 2018
The Lessons of History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 19,698 ratings — published
Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 1,213 ratings — published 2019
Humankind: A Hopeful History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 76,476 ratings — published 2019
Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 30,879 ratings — published 2018
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 56,401 ratings — published 2012
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 4,787 ratings — published 2003
