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1.
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
by:
Jonathan Haidt
4.20 avg rating β 63,329 ratings
2.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by:
Yuval Noah Harari
4.34 avg rating β 1,201,910 ratings
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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
by:
Eric Hoffer
4.20 avg rating β 11,543 ratings
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The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society & Its Future
by:
Theodore John Kaczynski
3.85 avg rating β 11,962 ratings
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Sex and Power in History
by:
Amaury De Riencourt
4.27 avg rating β 22 ratings
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Secular Cycles
by:
Peter Turchin
4.12 avg rating β 200 ratings
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Ages of Discord
by:
Peter Turchin
4.11 avg rating β 407 ratings
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1984
by:
George Orwell
4.20 avg rating β 5,227,039 ratings
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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)
by:
David Hackett Fischer
4.37 avg rating β 3,470 ratings
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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
by:
David Graeber
4.03 avg rating β 32,021 ratings
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Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
by:
Jordan B. Peterson
4.03 avg rating β 6,409 ratings
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Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve (The University Center for Human Values Series)
by:
Ian Morris
3.69 avg rating β 324 ratings
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
by:
Robert M. Sapolsky
4.39 avg rating β 29,600 ratings
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The Story of the Americas
by:
Leland Dewitt Baldwin
4.75 avg rating β 4 ratings
15.
The Evolution of Civilizations
by:
Carroll Quigley
4.39 avg rating β 311 ratings
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The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities
by:
Matthew White
4.15 avg rating β 1,160 ratings
17.
Inside Africa
by:
John Gunther
3.89 avg rating β 56 ratings
17.
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series)
by:
Peter H. Diamandis
4.05 avg rating β 11,577 ratings
17.
Fitzpatrick's War
by:
Theodore Judson
3.96 avg rating β 630 ratings
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The eye of Shiva: Eastern mysticism and science
by:
Amaury De Riencourt
4.15 avg rating β 59 ratings
17.
Intellectuals and Society
by:
Thomas Sowell
4.29 avg rating β 3,929 ratings
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The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View
by:
Richard Tarnas
4.24 avg rating β 2,039 ratings
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World β and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by:
Hans Rosling
4.36 avg rating β 197,300 ratings
23.
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
by:
Thomas Sowell
4.40 avg rating β 3,313 ratings
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ON POWER: The Natural History of Its Growth
by:
Bertrand de Jouvenel
4.41 avg rating β 283 ratings
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Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
by:
James C. Scott
4.13 avg rating β 4,579 ratings
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The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
by:
David Hackett Fischer
4.09 avg rating β 421 ratings
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The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
by:
Kevin Kelly
3.89 avg rating β 11,884 ratings
26.
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
by:
Thomas Sowell
4.32 avg rating β 4,546 ratings
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Sovereignty: An Inquiry into the Political Good
by:
Bertrand de Jouvenel
4.36 avg rating β 42 ratings
31.
The Art of War
by:
Sun Tzu
3.95 avg rating β 550,652 ratings
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Bertrand De Jouvenel: The Conservative Liberal and the Illusions of Modernity
by:
Daniel J. Mahoney
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 10 ratings
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Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
by:
Tom Holland
4.27 avg rating β 10,413 ratings
34.
The Renaissance (The Story of Civilization, #5)
by:
Will Durant
4.26 avg rating β 1,317 ratings
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Strategy: A History
by:
Lawrence Freedman
3.97 avg rating β 2,906 ratings
36.
Pacific Worlds: A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures
by:
Matt K. Matsuda
3.87 avg rating β 94 ratings
36.
Leviathan and Its Enemies: Mass Organization and Managerial Power in Twentieth-Century America
by:
Samuel T. Francis
4.38 avg rating β 112 ratings
38.
War in Human Civilization
by:
Azar Gat
4.37 avg rating β 325 ratings
39.
The Pursuit of Power
by:
William H. McNeill
4.07 avg rating β 603 ratings
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The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
by:
Christopher Lasch
3.98 avg rating β 1,412 ratings
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The Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies
by:
Auron MacIntyre
4.50 avg rating β 279 ratings
42.
The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements
by:
Kevin B. MacDonald
4.22 avg rating β 670 ratings
43.
Caesar and Christ (Story of Civilization, #3)
by:
Will Durant
4.40 avg rating β 2,041 ratings
44.
Plagues and Peoples
by:
William H. McNeill
3.87 avg rating β 4,936 ratings
44.
Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age
by:
Seraphim Rose
4.28 avg rating β 977 ratings
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The Life of Greece (The Story of Civilization, #2)
by:
Will Durant
4.37 avg rating β 2,337 ratings
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Spiteful Mutants: Evolution, Sexuality, Religion, and Politics in the 21st Century
by:
Edward Dutton
3.84 avg rating β 25 ratings
48.
Flight of the Eagle
by:
Conrad Black
4.10 avg rating β 150 ratings
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The Coming Caesars
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Amaury De Riencourt
4.36 avg rating β 80 ratings
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Wars of Empire
by:
Douglas Porch
3.64 avg rating β 113 ratings
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Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes
by:
Tamim Ansary
4.40 avg rating β 11,844 ratings
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A History of Western Philosophy
by:
Bertrand Russell
4.13 avg rating β 40,910 ratings
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The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
by:
William H. McNeill
4.11 avg rating β 568 ratings
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Assemblywomen
by:
Aristophanes
3.66 avg rating β 1,983 ratings
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The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character
by:
David Riesman
3.80 avg rating β 597 ratings
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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
by:
Stephen R. Platt
4.23 avg rating β 1,989 ratings
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The Past is a Future Country: The Coming Conservative Demographic Revolution
by:
Edward Dutton
3.88 avg rating β 43 ratings
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Our Oriental Heritage (The Story of Civilization, #1)
by:
Will Durant
4.30 avg rating β 3,491 ratings
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Witches, Feminism, and the Fall of the West
by:
Edward Dutton
3.85 avg rating β 95 ratings
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The Age of Faith (The Story of Civilization, #4)
by:
Will Durant
4.38 avg rating β 1,620 ratings
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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
by:
Colin Woodard
4.19 avg rating β 14,289 ratings
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Ways of Thinking of Eastern Peoples: India, China, Tibet, Japan (Revised English Translation)
by:
Hajime Nakamura
4.08 avg rating β 49 ratings
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A Secular Age
by:
Charles Margrave Taylor
4.27 avg rating β 1,804 ratings
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A History of the Jews
by:
Paul Johnson
4.17 avg rating β 2,629 ratings
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The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
by:
Erin Meyer
4.33 avg rating β 27,914 ratings
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by:
Steven Pinker
4.09 avg rating β 25,079 ratings
67.
War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage
by:
Lawrence H. Keeley
4.10 avg rating β 661 ratings
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The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe
by:
Jeremy Lent
4.26 avg rating β 522 ratings
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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
by:
David Reich
4.14 avg rating β 5,853 ratings
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
by:
James C. Scott
4.21 avg rating β 6,470 ratings
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The Nine Nations of North America
by:
Joel Garreau
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 518 ratings
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Coming to Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West
by:
Morris Berman
4.42 avg rating β 150 ratings
73.
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
by:
Yuval Noah Harari
4.19 avg rating β 278,919 ratings
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Why Women Deserve Less
by:
Myron Gaines
3.62 avg rating β 814 ratings
75.
Disunited Nations: Succeeding in a World Where No One Gets Along
by:
Peter Zeihan
4.25 avg rating β 3,162 ratings
75.
The Secret History of the World: As Laid Down by the Secret Societies by Mark Booth (2008-02-15)
by:
Mark Booth
3.51 avg rating β 5,582 ratings
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
by:
Samuel P. Huntington
3.78 avg rating β 13,748 ratings
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Lineages of Modernity: A History of Humanity from the Stone Age to Homo Americanus
by:
Emmanuel Todd
3.88 avg rating β 33 ratings
79.
The Handmaidβs Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
by:
Margaret Atwood
4.15 avg rating β 2,323,453 ratings
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Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identityβand Why This Harms Everybody
by:
Helen Pluckrose
4.11 avg rating β 5,797 ratings
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The First World War
by:
John Keegan
4.04 avg rating β 15,645 ratings
81.
Yuri Bezmenov: The Life and Legacy of the Influential KGB Informant Who Defected to the West
by:
Charles River Editors
3.98 avg rating β 52 ratings
83.
North and South
by:
Elizabeth Gaskell
4.15 avg rating β 179,595 ratings
83.
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
by:
Saul D. Alinsky
3.74 avg rating β 8,464 ratings
85.
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
by:
Peter Frankopan
4.17 avg rating β 46,209 ratings
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The Abolition of Man: ( C. S. Lewis Novel)
by:
C.S. Lewis
4.12 avg rating β 38,840 ratings
87.
The World of Late Antiquity, AD 150-750
by:
Peter Brown
4.10 avg rating β 1,823 ratings
87.
The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
by:
George Friedman
4.06 avg rating β 2,352 ratings
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Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings
by:
Jean Manco
3.95 avg rating β 714 ratings
89.
The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World
by:
James Burnham
3.76 avg rating β 614 ratings
91.
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by:
Charles C. Mann
4.05 avg rating β 93,185 ratings
91.
The Ruling Class
by:
Gaetano Mosca
4.02 avg rating β 119 ratings
93.
Stand on Zanzibar
by:
John Brunner
3.94 avg rating β 17,111 ratings
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The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigley (1979-08-01)
by:
Carroll Quigley
4.39 avg rating β 311 ratings
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The Tree of Culture
by:
Ralph Linton
4.13 avg rating β 39 ratings
96.
The Evolutionary Psychology Behind Politics: How Conservatism and Liberalism Evolved Within Humans, Third Edition
by:
Anonymous Conservative
4.15 avg rating β 138 ratings
97.
The Gulag Archipelago 1918β1956
by:
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4.33 avg rating β 33,408 ratings
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The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
by:
Christopher Lasch
3.97 avg rating β 4,172 ratings
99.
After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State.
by:
Paul Edward Gottfried
4.08 avg rating β 120 ratings
100.
Shadow World: Resurgent Russia, The Global New Left, and Radical Islam
by:
Robert Chandler
4.17 avg rating β 23 ratings
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