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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 893,902 ratings — published 2005
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 453,929 ratings — published 1997
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,243,848 ratings — published 2011
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 21,888 ratings — published 2008
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 419,696 ratings — published 2003
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 200,611 ratings — published 2018
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 53,308 ratings — published 2007
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 34,399 ratings — published 2013
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 851,668 ratings — published 2000
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.41 — 39,897 ratings — published 2022
How the World Works (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 5,243 ratings — published 2011
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 859,958 ratings — published 2008
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 13,775 ratings — published 2022
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 16,799 ratings — published 2021
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 121,171 ratings — published 2007
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 24,162 ratings — published 1988
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 30,581 ratings — published 2007
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 26,591 ratings — published 2011
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
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avg rating 4.19 — 115,137 ratings — published 2015
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 581,546 ratings — published 2011
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 10,345 ratings — published 2011
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 170,158 ratings — published 2010
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.51 — 7,923 ratings — published 2023
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 34,804 ratings — published 1776
The Psychology of Money (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 310,010 ratings — published 2020
Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 10,318 ratings — published 2020
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.13 — 20,771 ratings — published 2013
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.42 — 8,268 ratings — published 1971
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 194,537 ratings — published 2014
No Logo (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 32,685 ratings — published 2000
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 6,760 ratings — published 1998
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 65,322 ratings — published 2012
World Order (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 13,878 ratings — published 2014
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 565,196 ratings — published -500
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 620,020 ratings — published 2005
Economics in One Lesson (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 21,457 ratings — published 1946
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 558,441 ratings — published 2012
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 472,388 ratings — published 2012
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 8,323 ratings — published
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 8,915 ratings — published 2020
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 33,727 ratings — published 2018
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.62 — 3,855 ratings — published 2017
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 39,439 ratings — published
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 27,618 ratings — published 2014
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 11,117 ratings — published 2011
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 50,746 ratings — published 2021
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 9,788 ratings — published 2020
World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 1,646 ratings — published 2004
A Companion to Marx's Capital, Volume 1 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 1,925 ratings — published 2010
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 195,568 ratings — published 1848
“Your Life is always a result of your thoughts.
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Events, occurrences, happenings, conditions, circumstances - all are created out of consciousness.
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"Fate" can be an acronym for "From All Thoughts Everywhere." In other words, the consciousness of the planet. The "collective consciousness".”
― Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1
[...]
Events, occurrences, happenings, conditions, circumstances - all are created out of consciousness.
[...]
"Fate" can be an acronym for "From All Thoughts Everywhere." In other words, the consciousness of the planet. The "collective consciousness".”
― Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1
“If I don't have aerial weapons I'll sell naval ones. If i didn't have battleships I'd sell tanks, I'd sell firearms, I'd sell long sword, I'd sell hatchets. You could rid the world of iron and I'd sell wooden clubs there is always a bigger stick.”
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