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Ben Shapiro
The Right Side of History
3.9
11 min
Paul Collier
The Bottom Billion
3.9
16 min
Guy Deutscher
Through the Language Glass
3.9
19 min
Marc Levinson
The Box
3.9
15 min
William Strauss
The Fourth Turning
3.9
9 min
Aristotle
The Art of Rhetoric
3.9
13 min
Francis Fukuyama
Identity
3.9
19 min
Bill Schutt
Cannibalism
3.9
7 min
Steven Pinker
Rationality
3.9
16 min
Luke Dittrich
Patient H.M.
3.9
19 min
Jeff Pearlman
The Last Folk Hero
4.2
25 min
John Maynard Keynes
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
3.9
13 min
Jennifer Palmieri
Dear Madam President
3.9
12 min
Stephanie Coontz
Marriage, a History
4
8 min
Kenny Moore
Bowerman and the Men of Oregon
4.2
20 min
Thor Hanson
The Triumph of Seeds
4.1
9 min
John Boehner
On the House
3.9
15 min
James Hamblin
Clean
3.9
13 min
Johny Pitts
Afropean
4.3
24 min
Gretchen Bakke
The Grid
3.9
17 min
Ian Stewart
In Pursuit of the Unknown
4
11 min
Nick Lane
Oxygen
4.1
11 min
Ron Powers
No One Cares About Crazy People
3.9
11 min
Chris Anderson
Makers
3.9
10 min
Charles King
Gods of the Upper Air
4.3
15 min
Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince
3.8
18 min
Eric Schlosser
Fast Food Nation
3.8
20 min
Barack Obama
The Audacity of Hope
3.8
20 min
Mark Kurlansky
Salt
3.8
16 min
Victoria Finlay
Color
3.8
17 min