The Lessons of History
By
Will Durant
Will Durant,
Ariel Durant
Ariel Durant
1968 • 119 pages

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49 books

To Read 2019

skryl
Alex
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street
Conspiracy
Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600 - 1900
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
What Smart Students Know
Private Truths, Public Lies

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143 books

Tr General History

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Luiz Gonzaga
The Marshall Plan
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
The Secret War
Heart of Europe
The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History
Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
Collapse of Complex Societies

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104 books

Read In 2020

Mindothrax
Mindothrax
Lord Byron: Poems Selected by Paul Muldoon
Lumen
One Square Mile of Hell
Quatre vingt-Treize
The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal & the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic

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196 books

In English

Mindothrax
Mindothrax
Misery
Cari Mora
The Sellout
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000

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28 books

History

MohammedAlRahbi
Mohammed
السلطان عبد الحميد والرقص مع الذئاب
The Crowd
آراء ودراسات حول كتاب عمان... الديمقراطية الاسلامية
Makran, Oman, and Zanzibar
Undaunted: My Fight Against America’s Enemies, at Home and Abroad

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4 books

Philosophy

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Mohammed
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
The Wealth of Nations
Public Opinion
The Lessons of History

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1 book

Classics

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Mohammed
The Lessons of History

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11 books

For Recs 2

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Alex
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
Band of Brothers
Istanbul
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

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3 books

History

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gordy
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Lessons of History
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

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29 books

To Read Thought

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Adam
The Problems of Philosophy
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Reasons to Stay Alive
Metaphors We Live By
Animal Liberation
Society Of Mind

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48 books

To Read In The Future

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Juan David
The Classic of the Way and Virtue
Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality
Siddhartha
The Lessons of History
How to Win Friends & Influence People
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
A Guide to the Good Life

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My Books

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Sagar
Nudge
Laughable Loves
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Brief History of Time
Foundation's edge

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417 books

High Priority

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Volenord
Deep Learning
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Programming the Universe
Energy and Civilization: A History
The beginning of infinity explanations that transform the world
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
The Selfish Gene

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9 books

History

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Alex
A People's History of the United States
Night
Apollo
The Lessons of History
If This Is A Man / The Truce
The Right Stuff
The Mother Tongue

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442 books

Non Fiction

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ASZ
Do the Work
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living
The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life
How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

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8 books

2021

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Ed
The Catcher in the Rye
The Crying of Lot 49
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Principles: Life and Work
The Lessons of History
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years

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370 books

History

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Becca
Islamic Empires
A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
Viking Britain
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Last Kingdom

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40 books

History

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The art of memory
The Life and Death of Classical Music
Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World
Meditations
The Columbia History of Chinese Literature
Historia y Crítica de la Literatura Española. Edad Media
The Portable Hannah Arendt

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103 books

Nonfiction

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orlando calva
The Norton Introduction to Philosophy
The art of memory
The Life and Death of Classical Music
Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World
The Complete Guide to Fasting
Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream

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30 books

Philosophy

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orlando calva
The Norton Introduction to Philosophy
The art of memory
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
Meditations
The Portable Hannah Arendt
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
La cultura: Todo lo que hay que saber

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19 books

Essays

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orlando calva
The Portable Hannah Arendt
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading
At the New Yorker
Ex Libris

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17 books

Politics

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orlando calva
Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream
The Portable Hannah Arendt
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
The Free World
Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data
Dirty Work

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2 books

World History

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orlando calva
Penguin History of The World
The Lessons of History

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31 books

Abandoned

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shivam
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
The Last Days of Socrates
क्या भूलूँ क्या याद करूँ
The Myth of Sisyphus
The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
The Code of the Extraordinary Mind

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142 books

My Audible Books

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Kalina
The Midnight Bargain
Children of Time
Gideon the Ninth
The City We Became
Black Sun
The Overstory
How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
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