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John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
4
13 min
James Gleick
Chaos
4
33 min
Thomas Paine
Common Sense
4
11 min
Mary Beard
Women and Power
4
13 min
Jessica Livingston
Founders at Work
4
20 min
Michael Moss
Salt Sugar Fat
4
15 min
Michael Moss
Hooked
4
12 min
Isabel Allende
The Soul of a Woman
4
14 min
David Wallace-Wells
The Uninhabitable Earth
4
25 min
Thomas S. Kuhn
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
4
10 min
Liza Mundy
Code Girls
4
19 min
Kamala Harris
The Truths We Hold
4
18 min
David Byrne
How Music Works
4
13 min
Guy Debord
The Society of the Spectacle
4
22 min
Suetonius
The Twelve Caesars
4
29 min
Simon Kuper
Soccernomics
4
15 min
Michio Kaku
Physics of the Future
4
30 min
Patrick Radden Keefe
Rogues
4
17 min
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Hagakure
4
9 min
Steven Johnson
Where Good Ideas Come From
4
12 min
Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Romanovs
4
22 min
Gregory Zuckerman
The Man Who Solved the Market
4
21 min
William James
The Varieties of Religious Experience
4
12 min
Ryan Holiday
Courage is Calling
4
13 min
Ha-Joon Chang
23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism
4
19 min
Ron Chernow
The House of Morgan
4
15 min
Vaclav Smil
How the World Really Works
4
12 min
Charles Seife
Zero
4
19 min
Adam Rutherford
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
4
18 min
Sarah Bakewell
How to Live
4
15 min