A Short History of Progress

A Short History of Progress

By
Ronald Wright
Ronald Wright
2004 • 224 pages

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84 books

Non Fiction

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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Blink
Outliers: The Story of Success
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Band of Brothers
Sway
Mobile First

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22 books

Politics

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Propaganda
Designing for People
The Breakdown of Nations
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The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

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32 books

Sociology

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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Blink
Outliers: The Story of Success
Propaganda
The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture

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27 books

Technology

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The Best Interface is No Interface
Design as Art
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Design for the real world
The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture
Future Shock

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18 books

Economy

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The Breakdown of Nations
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Design for the real world
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Planet of Slums

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11 books

Human Scale

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Design as Art
Design for the real world
The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
A Short History of Progress
The Image of the City

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Ecology

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A Short History of Progress
The Image of the City
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Fourth Industrial Revolution
Against the smart city

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551 books

High Prio

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Vrăjitoare. Puterea de temut a femeii rebele
Epitaph of a Small Winner
The Communist Manifesto
Marxismul și asuprirea femeilor
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Homoistorii: ieșirea din invizibilitate

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582 books

Hit

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Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction
Elements of Electromagnetics
Cook's Illustrated Baking Book: Baking Demystified with 450 Foolproof Recipes from America's Most Trusted Food Magazine
The Decipherment of Linear B
The Mathematical Theory of Communication

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172 books

Science

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The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
The Science of Discworld
The Globe
Darwin's Watch
The Hidden Reality
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are
The canon

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225 books

Kindle

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Peace Talks
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100 Best-Loved Poems
About Writing
The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew

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34 books

History

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King Arthur
Pagan Celtic Britain
The Ancient Celts
The Book of Merlin: Insights from the Merlin Conference
Camelot and the Vision of Albion

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The Silicon Boys: And Their Valley of Dreams
Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit

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Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam
Life and Society in the Hittite World
The History of Jazz
Iron Kingdom
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

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103 books

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Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
A Brief History of Time
Hubble Focus: Our Amazing Solar System
Collapse of Complex Societies
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
Educated: A Memoir
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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Subject History

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A Brief History of Time
Utopia for Realists
Collapse of Complex Societies
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Shooting an Elephant
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

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29 books

Subject Sociology

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Utopia for Realists
Collapse of Complex Societies
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
The Shallows
Does the 21st Century Belong to China?: The Munk Debate on China
The Second Sex

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Challenge Clear Your Tbr

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The Fire Next Time
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Breasts and Eggs
Lolita
The Second Sex
The Economy: Economics for a changing world
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

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22 books

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Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
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Rich AF: The Winning Money Mindset That Will Change Your Life
Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

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Subject Anthropology

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Collapse of Complex Societies
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
A Short History of Progress

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11 books

Challenge Underrated Obscure Books

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Environmentalism of the Rich
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The Book of Paradise: A Yiddish Comic Novel
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The Last Days of the Incas
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492-1715
Carnage and Culture
Ecological Imperialism
Why the West Rules-for Now: The Patterns of History & What They Reveal About the Future
The Great Divergence

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Non Fiction

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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
The Way We Eat
The Rest Is Noise

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Non Fiction

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Fear
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Hunger
The Solace of Open Spaces
At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays

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Environmental

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The Golden Spruce
The Ingenuity Gap
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The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization
Limits to Growth
The Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
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