How to be well read in non fiction: 100 short non fiction books

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Theory of People: Master Behaviors, Business, Economics, Emotions and Mind in One Simple Way (Understanding the World Book 1)
Theory of People: Master Behaviors, Business, Economics, Emotions and Mind in One Simple Way (Understanding the World Book 1) 4.22 avg rating — 215 ratings
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The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey 3.80 avg rating — 44,097 ratings
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Beyond Good and Evil
Beyond Good and Evil 4.03 avg rating — 109,316 ratings
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Hiroshima
Hiroshima 4.04 avg rating — 86,440 ratings
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The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences
The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences 3.80 avg rating — 164 ratings
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Asia Minor, Syria and Armenia
Asia Minor, Syria and Armenia 3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Prince
The Prince 3.84 avg rating — 371,402 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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The Medium is the Massage
The Medium is the Massage 3.98 avg rating — 17,305 ratings
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The Elements of Style
The Elements of Style 4.18 avg rating — 86,242 ratings
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A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own 4.22 avg rating — 246,452 ratings
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Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning 4.37 avg rating — 832,442 ratings
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Black Skin, White Masks
Black Skin, White Masks 4.26 avg rating — 18,207 ratings
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Ways of Seeing
Ways of Seeing 3.93 avg rating — 418,823 ratings
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On Violence
On Violence 3.75 avg rating — 5,059 ratings
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Representations of the Intellectual
Representations of the Intellectual 3.99 avg rating — 2,837 ratings
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The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History
The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History 4.03 avg rating — 2,294 ratings
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The Myth of Sisyphus
The Myth of Sisyphus 4.18 avg rating — 83,916 ratings
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The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto
by: Karl Marx
3.67 avg rating — 189,251 ratings
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 3.94 avg rating — 21,937 ratings
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Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948
Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948 3.97 avg rating — 136 ratings
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What Is History?
What Is History? 3.94 avg rating — 4,453 ratings
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Experience and Education
Experience and Education 3.88 avg rating — 3,521 ratings
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The Greek Philosophers: from Thales to Aristotle
The Greek Philosophers: from Thales to Aristotle 3.96 avg rating — 456 ratings
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Civilization and Its Discontents
Civilization and Its Discontents 3.79 avg rating — 43,512 ratings
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Why I Write
Why I Write 4.01 avg rating — 14,210 ratings
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Islam: A Short History
Islam: A Short History 4.04 avg rating — 10,828 ratings
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Common Sense
Common Sense really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 38,566 ratings
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The Problems of Philosophy
The Problems of Philosophy 3.90 avg rating — 18,141 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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Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda 4.02 avg rating — 8,497 ratings
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Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution 3.92 avg rating — 2,039 ratings
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Days of Reading
Days of Reading 3.64 avg rating — 3,705 ratings
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Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality 3.79 avg rating — 18,359 ratings
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The Conquest of Bread
The Conquest of Bread 4.06 avg rating — 9,422 ratings
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The Character of Physical Law
The Character of Physical Law 4.30 avg rating — 7,712 ratings
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Letters to a Young Novelist
Letters to a Young Novelist 3.87 avg rating — 3,928 ratings
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The Sovereignty of Good
The Sovereignty of Good 4.04 avg rating — 1,222 ratings
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Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics
Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics 3.46 avg rating — 838 ratings
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Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine 3.67 avg rating — 1,447 ratings
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Why Europe? The Rise of the West in World History 1500-1850
Why Europe? The Rise of the West in World History 1500-1850 3.63 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Design as Art
Design as Art 3.98 avg rating — 4,746 ratings
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The Golem: What You Should Know about Science
The Golem: What You Should Know about Science 3.78 avg rating — 330 ratings
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Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed 4.27 avg rating — 873 ratings
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The Music of Life: Biology Beyond Genes
The Music of Life: Biology Beyond Genes 3.85 avg rating — 369 ratings
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The Double Helix
The Double Helix 3.84 avg rating — 19,752 ratings
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Empire and Superempire: Britain, America and the World
Empire and Superempire: Britain, America and the World 2.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters (Boston Review Books)
Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters (Boston Review Books)
by: Hans Blix
3.36 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Medieval Women
Medieval Women 3.95 avg rating — 510 ratings
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The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness 4.11 avg rating — 6,311 ratings
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Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
by: John Gray
3.93 avg rating — 4,888 ratings
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An Introduction to Mathematics (Galaxy Books)
An Introduction to Mathematics (Galaxy Books) 3.90 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Looting Africa: The Economics of Exploitation
Looting Africa: The Economics of Exploitation 3.48 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Existentialism is a Humanism
Existentialism is a Humanism 3.98 avg rating — 44,085 ratings
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Fear and Trembling
Fear and Trembling really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29,957 ratings
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The Perpetual Race of Achilles & the Tortoise
The Perpetual Race of Achilles & the Tortoise 4.07 avg rating — 337 ratings
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Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity and Meaningful Work and Play
Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity and Meaningful Work and Play 3.97 avg rating — 1,441 ratings
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Liberty Before Liberalism
Liberty Before Liberalism 4.01 avg rating — 300 ratings
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The Art of Always Being Right: The 38 Subtle Ways of Persuation
The Art of Always Being Right: The 38 Subtle Ways of Persuation 3.45 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Ill Fares the Land
Ill Fares the Land
by: Tony Judt
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,245 ratings
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The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct
The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct 4.47 avg rating — 657 ratings
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What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches 4.13 avg rating — 7,501 ratings
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Nations and Nationalism
Nations and Nationalism 3.83 avg rating — 1,710 ratings
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On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State
On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State 3.74 avg rating — 348 ratings
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The Two Cultures
The Two Cultures
by: C.P. Snow
3.66 avg rating — 1,478 ratings
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The Limits of State Action
The Limits of State Action 3.78 avg rating — 160 ratings
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The Second World War: An Illustrated History
The Second World War: An Illustrated History 3.95 avg rating — 82 ratings
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The Four Little Dragons: The Spread of Industrialization in East Asia
The Four Little Dragons: The Spread of Industrialization in East Asia 3.87 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Quantum Physics: Illusion or Reality?
Quantum Physics: Illusion or Reality? 3.76 avg rating — 192 ratings
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace 3.83 avg rating — 1,771 ratings
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On Liberty
On Liberty 3.96 avg rating — 41,826 ratings
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The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction 4.02 avg rating — 24,961 ratings
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We Have Never Been Modern
We Have Never Been Modern 3.91 avg rating — 2,578 ratings
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Re-thinking History
Re-thinking History 3.72 avg rating — 566 ratings
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The Treason of the Intellectuals
The Treason of the Intellectuals 3.80 avg rating — 432 ratings
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The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies 3.91 avg rating — 3,747 ratings
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Historical Capitalism with Capitalist Civilization
Historical Capitalism with Capitalist Civilization 3.91 avg rating — 770 ratings
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The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power 4.07 avg rating — 4,787 ratings
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A Rulebook for Arguments
A Rulebook for Arguments 3.82 avg rating — 3,139 ratings
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Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction
Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction 3.85 avg rating — 900 ratings
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Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist
Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist 3.80 avg rating — 235 ratings
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The Moral Law: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
The Moral Law: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals 3.83 avg rating — 22,111 ratings
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The Demise of Nuclear Energy?: Lessons for Democratic Control of Technology (Yale Fastback Series)
The Demise of Nuclear Energy?: Lessons for Democratic Control of Technology (Yale Fastback Series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays 4.04 avg rating — 7,322 ratings
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America
America 3.90 avg rating — 3,053 ratings
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An Experiment in Criticism
An Experiment in Criticism 4.21 avg rating — 3,222 ratings
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The Art of Being
The Art of Being 4.04 avg rating — 5,646 ratings
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The Athenian Revolution
The Athenian Revolution 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism
The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism 4.03 avg rating — 158 ratings
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What Gandhi Says: About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage
What Gandhi Says: About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage 3.52 avg rating — 320 ratings
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The Rule of Law
The Rule of Law 4.10 avg rating — 3,181 ratings
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The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature (Collected Works 15)
The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature (Collected Works 15)
by: C.G. Jung
4.14 avg rating — 534 ratings
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Jefferson and Civil Liberties: The Darker Side
Jefferson and Civil Liberties: The Darker Side 4.03 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth 3.81 avg rating — 2,283 ratings
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Morality
Morality 3.54 avg rating — 314 ratings
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Gibbon
Gibbon 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Keynes Solution: The Path to Global Economic Prosperity
The Keynes Solution: The Path to Global Economic Prosperity 3.77 avg rating — 71 ratings
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A History of the Cuban Revolution
A History of the Cuban Revolution 4.03 avg rating — 493 ratings
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Top Heavy: The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in America and What Can Be Done About It
Top Heavy: The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in America and What Can Be Done About It 3.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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A History of the Crusades, Volume 1: The First Crusade and the Foundations of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
A History of the Crusades, Volume 1: The First Crusade and the Foundations of the Kingdom of Jerusalem 4.28 avg rating — 1,853 ratings
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