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Understand how the world works
History, science and big ideas. 10 books, 171 bytes, about 1 hr 54 min of reading in total.
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The books
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Sapiens
22 key learnings on how one ordinary species came to rule the world, through stories, farming, money and science.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
16 key learnings on why some societies came to dominate others.
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Why Nations Fail
16 key learnings on how political and economic institutions explain prosperity and poverty.
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Factfulness
16 key learnings on ten reasons we're wrong about the world, and why things are better than we think.
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Homo Deus
16 key learnings on humanity's possible future: immortality, happiness and godlike powers.
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
21 key learnings from Yuval Noah Harari's 21 lessons on today's biggest challenges.
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Prisoners of Geography
16 key learnings on how maps explain global politics.
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
16 key learnings on how we know what we know about the universe and life.
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The Selfish Gene
16 key learnings on evolution from the gene's point of view.
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A Brief History of Time
16 key learnings on the universe, black holes and the nature of time.
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