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Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching
4.3
16 min
Michael Lewis
Moneyball
4.3
7 min
Stephen Fry
Mythos
4.3
13 min
Erik Larson
The Splendid and the Vile
4.3
25 min
Bill Bryson
The Body
4.3
28 min
Michael Pollan
How to Change Your Mind
4.3
18 min
Stephen Hawking
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
4.3
20 min
Carl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World
4.3
14 min
Rutger Bregman
Humankind
4.3
16 min
Masaji Ishikawa
A River in Darkness
4.3
12 min
Edward Snowden
Permanent Record
4.3
22 min
Loung Ung
First They Killed My Father
4.3
13 min
Naomi Klein
The Shock Doctrine
4.3
8 min
Kai Bird
American Prometheus
4.3
18 min
Seneca
Letters from a Stoic
4.3
26 min
Matthew Desmond
Poverty, by America
4.3
11 min
W.E.B. Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk
4.3
14 min
Bryan Burrough
Barbarians at the Gate
4.3
14 min
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
4.3
17 min
Frantz Fanon
The Wretched of the Earth
4.3
13 min
Simon Singh
The Code Book
4.3
11 min
Andrea Wulf
The Invention of Nature
4.3
20 min
Beverly Daniel Tatum
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
4.3
17 min
Jane Mayer
Dark Money
4.3
10 min
Martin Luther King
The Autobiography Of Martin Luther King, Jr.
4.3
26 min
Madeleine Albright
Fascism
4.3
12 min
Ryan Holiday
Discipline Is Destiny
4.3
12 min
Joby Warrick
Black Flags
4.3
10 min
Jon Meacham
The Soul of America
4.3
14 min
Erich Fromm
Escape from Freedom
4.3
6 min