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Robert Greene
The Art of Seduction
3.9
12 min
Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations
3.9
12 min
Naomi Klein
No Logo
3.9
16 min
Michael Pollan
This Is Your Mind on Plants
3.9
14 min
Niall Ferguson
The Ascent of Money
3.9
24 min
Sally Bedell Smith
Elizabeth the Queen
3.9
18 min
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
3.9
9 min
Philip Zimbardo
The Lucifer Effect
3.9
13 min
Mark Kurlansky
Cod
3.9
9 min
The Secret Barrister
The Secret Barrister
3.9
19 min
Alain de Botton
Status Anxiety
3.9
18 min
Patrik Svensson
The Book of Eels
3.9
21 min
Bertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy
3.9
16 min
Duncan Clark
Alibaba
3.9
24 min
Milton Friedman
Capitalism and Freedom
3.9
10 min
Max Weber
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
3.9
10 min
Alain de Botton
The Architecture of Happiness
3.9
14 min
Amin Maalouf
In the Name of Identity
3.9
9 min
Eula Biss
On Immunity
3.9
10 min
Thomas L. Friedman
Thank You for Being Late
3.9
8 min
Michael Booth
The Almost Nearly Perfect People
3.9
19 min
Jared Diamond
Upheaval
3.9
29 min
Bee Wilson
Consider the Fork
3.9
14 min
Niall Ferguson
Civilization
3.9
20 min
Niall Ferguson
Empire
3.9
21 min
Nathalia Holt
Rise of the Rocket Girls
3.9
14 min
Paul Newman
The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man
3.9
15 min
James Shapiro
Shakespeare in a Divided America
4.1
24 min
Hédi Fried
Questions I Am Asked About The Holocaust
4.3
15 min
Anne Helen Petersen
Can't Even
3.9
13 min