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Carlo Rovelli
The Order of Time
4.1
11 min
Thomas Piketty
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
4.1
8 min
Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morals
4.1
5 min
Anne Glenconner
Lady in Waiting
4.1
16 min
Jared Diamond
The Third Chimpanzee
4.1
10 min
Matt Ridley
Genome
4.1
14 min
Edward W. Said
Orientalism
4.1
7 min
Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America
4.1
15 min
Sam Walton
Sam Walton: Made in America
4.1
13 min
Michael Pollan
Cooked
4.1
16 min
Steven Pinker
The Blank Slate
4.1
22 min
Katharine Graham
Personal History
4.1
21 min
James Gleick
Genius
4.1
18 min
Walter Benjamin
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
4.1
4 min
Karl Marx
Capital
4.1
16 min
Christopher R. Browning
Ordinary Men
4.1
11 min
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Reliance
4.1
7 min
Jill Leovy
Ghettoside
4.1
13 min
Yanis Varoufakis
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
4.1
16 min
Matt Ridley
The Red Queen
4.1
14 min
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Strangers in Their Own Land
4.1
16 min
Brent Schlender
Becoming Steve Jobs
4.1
16 min
Anand Giridharadas
Winners Take All
4.1
18 min
Scott Anderson
Lawrence in Arabia
4.1
19 min
Kai-Fu Lee
AI Superpowers
4.1
10 min
Alex Ross
The Rest Is Noise
4.1
30 min
Benedict Anderson
Imagined Communities
4.1
13 min
Steven Johnson
How We Got to Now
4.1
9 min
Michel Foucault
Madness and Civilization
4.1
9 min
Henry Kissinger
World Order
4.1
18 min