Best Books to Help You Understand How The World Really Works

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Being and Time
Being and Time 4.05 avg rating — 27,067 ratings
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Salt: A World History
Salt: A World History 3.75 avg rating — 75,170 ratings
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Simulacra and Simulation
Simulacra and Simulation really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15,969 ratings
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The Society of the Spectacle
The Society of the Spectacle 4.03 avg rating — 22,635 ratings
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Crony Capitalism in America: 2008-2012
Crony Capitalism in America: 2008-2012 4.23 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating — 194,440 ratings
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man 3.87 avg rating — 38,981 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism 4.29 avg rating — 51,931 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything 4.22 avg rating — 412,828 ratings
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Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life 3.88 avg rating — 6,971 ratings
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Candide
Candide
by: Voltaire
3.76 avg rating — 294,517 ratings
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Free Prices Now!
Free Prices Now! 4.20 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy 3.99 avg rating — 2,893 ratings
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The Decline of the West
The Decline of the West 4.06 avg rating — 2,170 ratings
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable 3.96 avg rating — 119,249 ratings
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How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease 4.42 avg rating — 48,700 ratings
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 4.12 avg rating — 9,480 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate 4.16 avg rating — 27,260 ratings
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The Gray Rhino: How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore
The Gray Rhino: How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore 3.56 avg rating — 367 ratings
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference 4.01 avg rating — 844,238 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 4.34 avg rating — 1,201,675 ratings
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World 3.90 avg rating — 30,145 ratings
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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves 3.97 avg rating — 13,178 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
Outliers: The Story of Success 4.19 avg rating — 845,764 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 4.04 avg rating — 445,031 ratings
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The Road to Serfdom
The Road to Serfdom 4.15 avg rating — 25,378 ratings
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American Wop - Beaver Buffalo Buttons Brass Boxing and Beer: That's why you're here!
American Wop - Beaver Buffalo Buttons Brass Boxing and Beer: That's why you're here!
by: Jack Tar
4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Capitalism for Democrats: Why The Country Needs It Now
Capitalism for Democrats: Why The Country Needs It Now 4.58 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Manifesto of the Free People's Union
Manifesto of the Free People's Union 4.52 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism
Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism 3.73 avg rating — 811 ratings
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The Liberal Record: How Liberals Changed the World
The Liberal Record: How Liberals Changed the World 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 746 ratings
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The Gated City
The Gated City 3.76 avg rating — 309 ratings
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century 3.69 avg rating — 102,339 ratings
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Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History
Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History 4.63 avg rating — 1,765 ratings
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A Distant Mirror
A Distant Mirror 4.05 avg rating — 43,235 ratings
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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow 4.19 avg rating — 278,872 ratings
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion 4.20 avg rating — 63,327 ratings
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The Human Condition
The Human Condition 4.20 avg rating — 9,181 ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk 4.31 avg rating — 44,283 ratings
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The Great Crash 1929
The Great Crash 1929 3.92 avg rating — 6,103 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 3.93 avg rating — 73,872 ratings
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Phenomenology of Spirit
Phenomenology of Spirit 3.96 avg rating — 19,985 ratings
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On Aggression
On Aggression 4.04 avg rating — 1,663 ratings
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Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy
Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy
by: Jim Marrs
4.14 avg rating — 1,614 ratings
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Babylon's Banksters: The Alchemy of Deep Physics, High Finance and Ancient Religion
Babylon's Banksters: The Alchemy of Deep Physics, High Finance and Ancient Religion really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 234 ratings
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Worlds in Collision
Worlds in Collision 3.99 avg rating — 1,051 ratings
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Waiting for the Dalai Lama: Stories from All Sides of the Tibetan Debate
Waiting for the Dalai Lama: Stories from All Sides of the Tibetan Debate 3.79 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction
The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction 3.97 avg rating — 574 ratings
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The Last Myth: What the Rise of Apocalyptic Thinking Tells Us about America
The Last Myth: What the Rise of Apocalyptic Thinking Tells Us about America 3.78 avg rating — 102 ratings
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree
The Lexus and the Olive Tree 3.61 avg rating — 8,520 ratings
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Conundrum (Nine Inch Bride, #1)
Conundrum (Nine Inch Bride, #1)
by: _Anonym
3.22 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning 4.37 avg rating — 832,412 ratings
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The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order
The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order 3.86 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Venture: A Collection of True Microfinance Stories
Venture: A Collection of True Microfinance Stories 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Dying in Indian Country: A Family Journey from Self-destruction to Opposing Tribal Sovereignty
Dying in Indian Country: A Family Journey from Self-destruction to Opposing Tribal Sovereignty
by: Beth Ward
3.79 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Belstarr The Lost Toymaker
Belstarr The Lost Toymaker 4.68 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Life After God
Life After God 3.84 avg rating — 12,203 ratings
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The Age of Declining Turbulence: Are Alan Greenspan's Projections Wrong?
The Age of Declining Turbulence: Are Alan Greenspan's Projections Wrong? really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Next American Revolutionary War
The Next American Revolutionary War liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Next Boom: What You Absolutely, Positively Have to Know About the World Between Now and 2025
The Next Boom: What You Absolutely, Positively Have to Know About the World Between Now and 2025 3.62 avg rating — 16 ratings
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In Bed With Wall Street: The Conspiracy Crippling Our Global Economy
In Bed With Wall Street: The Conspiracy Crippling Our Global Economy 3.82 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Last American Martyr
The Last American Martyr 3.76 avg rating — 236 ratings
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Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China
Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China 3.98 avg rating — 631 ratings
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Politixworks
Politixworks 4.62 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Birdbrain
Birdbrain 4.21 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Historia de la Economia
Historia de la Economia 4.02 avg rating — 661 ratings
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Gods of Money: Wall Street and the Death of the American Century
Gods of Money: Wall Street and the Death of the American Century 4.17 avg rating — 421 ratings
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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, 4 Vols
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, 4 Vols 4.21 avg rating — 1,666 ratings
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You Are Not So Smart
You Are Not So Smart 3.86 avg rating — 35,860 ratings
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When I Wear My Alligator Boots: Narco-Culture in the US-Mexico Borderlands
When I Wear My Alligator Boots: Narco-Culture in the US-Mexico Borderlands 4.25 avg rating — 226 ratings
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Steve Jobs: The Unauthorized Autobiography
Steve Jobs: The Unauthorized Autobiography 3.74 avg rating — 1,032 ratings
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Dark Ages: 2020 (Dark Ages #1)
Dark Ages: 2020 (Dark Ages #1) 3.83 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Proofs of a Conspiracy
Proofs of a Conspiracy 3.88 avg rating — 197 ratings
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No One Can Escape the 4 Laws: Negotiate or Die
No One Can Escape the 4 Laws: Negotiate or Die 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America 3.96 avg rating — 225 ratings
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It Is Not What It Is: THE REAL (s)PAIN OF EUROPE
It Is Not What It Is: THE REAL (s)PAIN OF EUROPE 3.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
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No Ordinary Joe: The Life and Career of Joe Biden
No Ordinary Joe: The Life and Career of Joe Biden 3.77 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Questions Answered: An Introduction to QAnon and the Great Awakening
Questions Answered: An Introduction to QAnon and the Great Awakening 4.03 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Vaccines on Trial: Truths and Consequences of Mandatory Shots
Vaccines on Trial: Truths and Consequences of Mandatory Shots 4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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DO WE NEED TO BE SCARED OF VACCINES?
DO WE NEED TO BE SCARED OF VACCINES? 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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An Introduction to Celebrity Protection and Touring: A Guide to Mastering the Business of Vip Security
An Introduction to Celebrity Protection and Touring: A Guide to Mastering the Business of Vip Security 4.75 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Young, Broke, and Educated: A Discussion of Millennials, Finance, Economics and Poverty
Young, Broke, and Educated: A Discussion of Millennials, Finance, Economics and Poverty 4.52 avg rating — 46 ratings
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American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History
American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History 4.13 avg rating — 683 ratings
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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States 4.46 avg rating — 19,119 ratings
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Wind of Change: An American Journey in Post-Soviet Russia
Wind of Change: An American Journey in Post-Soviet Russia really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine 4.54 avg rating — 9,709 ratings
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The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 3.83 avg rating — 8,843 ratings
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Iris Investigates: Beastly Goings On In Pelican Wharf
Iris Investigates: Beastly Goings On In Pelican Wharf 4.97 avg rating — 32 ratings
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A Short History Of Progress: 2004 Massey Lecture
A Short History Of Progress: 2004 Massey Lecture 4.10 avg rating — 5,391 ratings
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Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance 3.97 avg rating — 13,937 ratings
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Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
Free to Choose: A Personal Statement 4.22 avg rating — 9,340 ratings
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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets 4.36 avg rating — 19,839 ratings
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Genes, Giants, Monsters, and Men: The Surviving Elites of the Cosmic War and Their Hidden Agenda
Genes, Giants, Monsters, and Men: The Surviving Elites of the Cosmic War and Their Hidden Agenda 3.77 avg rating — 308 ratings
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century 4.27 avg rating — 89,901 ratings
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Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes 4.40 avg rating — 11,838 ratings
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Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: what China's Crackdown Reveals about Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere
Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: what China's Crackdown Reveals about Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere 4.25 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Ten Myths About Israel
Ten Myths About Israel 4.40 avg rating — 5,292 ratings
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty 4.12 avg rating — 10,336 ratings
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The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power 3.77 avg rating — 3,630 ratings
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