How did we get here? See which ideas shaped the course of history, and how philosophy played a significant role in human evolution.

History & Philosophy

In her first book, cognition researcher Bohannon explores the evolution of women's bodies in a fascinating way. She suggests that mammal milk production likely started around 205 million years ago when pre-mammals used a mucus-like substance to coat their eggs. She also explains how the first versions of human wombs appeared about 65 million years ago in an animal similar to a weasel squirrel. By comparing humans with other species, she suggests that our anatomy might have shaped our behavior. She proposes that early humans might not have been as aggressive because they lacked certain anatomical features in ducks. Bohannon argues that female ancestors may have been the first to walk on two legs because they needed to carry food for their offspring. She combines scientific research with humor, making complex ideas easy to understand. Her book offers a fresh perspective on human evolution, emphasizing the role of females in shaping our history.

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

‘’Killers of the Flower Moon’’ by David Grann is a piece that follows the investigation into the murders of Osage Indians, who at the beginning of the last century, thanks to oil reserves on their land, became one of the richest people in the world, but also the tragic victims of one of the most horrible, horrific, and shameful crimes in the American history.

Killers of the Flower Moon

In ‘’Empire of Pain’’ Patrick Radden Keefe presents a history of the Sackler family, whose name stands behind numerous scientific and cultural institutions in America and also behind pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma, famous for manufacturing and promoting OxyContin, an opioid-based painkiller that brought addiction struggles and deaths to hundreds of thousands of Americans in the last few decades.

Empire of Pain

	Although it seems that anyone can read literature, only those equipped with the proper tools of literary criticism can read it critically. In ‘’How to Read Literature,’’ renowned literary theorist Terry Eagleton teaches us how to delve into the process of critical analysis of characters, plot, literary language, narration, and many more. 

 How to Read Literature

	Addiction is a complex phenomenon that has been obsessing people over centuries - that is why we need a thorough approach in its examination - the one Carl Erik Fisher has in the book ‘’The Urge.’’ In it, you will find how addiction was treated and contemplated through centuries, how Alcoholics Anonymous was created, whether addiction has biological, genetic, or social causes, how Fisher fought his addiction, and many more.

The Urge

	In ‘’How The World Really Works,’’ you will find everything you need to understand energy, food production, globalization, and much more. In other words, this bestseller is a comprehensive guide to understanding how some of the most fundamental ruling realities govern our survival and prosperity and shape our future.

How the World Really Works

Understanding the science behind your decision making and behavior is a great asset in the battle to a more fulfilled life.

Psychology

Written in the form of a Socratic dialogue between a philosopher and a young man, “The Courage to Be Disliked” uses the theories of Alfred Adler – one of the three giants of nineteenth-century psychology alongside Freud and Jung – to guide readers to unlocking the power within themselves to become the people they truly want to be.

The Courage to Be Disliked

Involving all of the great powers and the vast majority of the world’s countries, the Second World War was the deadliest war in human history. It resulted in profound destruction, 60 million displaced, and 70 million fatalities. British military historian Antony Beevor tells the entire story in “The Second World War,” “a magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known.”

The Second World War

GDP, Trade balance, foreign capital. Everything about global trade is here!

Economics

“Skin in the Game” is the fifth book of Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark “Incerto” series. Similarly to the other four books, it deals with topics such as the unreliability of knowledge and (ir)rationality in complex systems. Above all, however, it deals with reciprocity and (a)symmetry in human affairs, arguing that having “skin in the game” is necessary for a fair and just society

Skin in the Game

Perhaps the only thing the words “soldier,” “salary” and “salacious” share is their root: sal, the Latin term for “salt.” Called a “divine substance” by Homer, this basic mineral was such a valuable commodity for millennia that – as journalist Mark Kurlansky demonstrates in this magisterial and unlikely history of “the only rock we eat” – it hasn’t just shaped parts of our language, but civilization itself

Salt: A World History

The best microbooks on Emotional Intelligence to make you overcome obstacles in your personal and professional life.

Emotional Intelligence

It's time to learn about the main pillars of society, world politics, and different cultures. 

Society & Politics

Build a solid career, learn how to run your business and inspire other people to do the same.

Career & Business

Robert Greene’s debut book – “The 48 Laws of Power” – is a practical manual for anyone interested in gaining power or arming themselves against it. Drawing from the philosophies of Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, Baltasar Gracián, and many others, the book doesn’t merely explicate the laws but also illustrates them through real-world historical examples that reveal the consequences of both their observance and violation.

The 48 Laws of Power

Gandhi is well known all around the world as a freedom fighter, reformist, religious pluralist, and a prophet. Ramachandra Guha presents less known facts about “Gandhi Before India” – what his influences were and what he was like before leading nonviolent revolt against the British colonization of India.

Gandhi Before India

Take a sneak-peek into the private lives of people who left a mark in world history.

Biographies & Memoirs

“First They Killed My Father” is the memoir of Loung Ung, who, as a 5-year-old middle-class girl living in Phnom Penh, witnessed the Khmer Rouge takeover. The book follows her traumatic odyssey of survival during the following five years – as well as the plight of her family. In 2017, the story was adapted into the same-titled Netflix tear-jerker by Angelina Jolie.

First They Killed My Father

Jared Diamond reveals how both individuals and nations experience crises in similar ways. To prove this, he investigates the past crises of seven modern nations and how they recovered by adopting selective changes. Diamond believes that through these case studies, we can learn not only how a country can overcome a crisis but also the problems the world is facing nowadays.

Upheaval

Healthy mind, healthy body. Take some moments of tranquility amid the hustle and bustle of everyday life.

Spirituality & Mindfulness

In “Women Who Run With the Wolves,” Jungian psychoanalyst and storyteller Clarissa Pinkola Estés looks at how women can recover their repressed femininity, or Wild Woman. She illustrates how stories and fairy tales can give crucial clues for women on how to truly be themselves.

Women Who Run With the Wolves

Biology, physics and a lot of experimentation!  

Science

When Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species,” he was honest enough to say that there was one disturbing thing his theory couldn’t explain – the absence of a rich fossil record predating the appearance of complex, shelly invertebrates at the beginning of the Cambrian period. In “Darwin’s Doubt,” Stephen Meyer digs deep into this mystery – and discovers God at the bottom.

Darwin's Doubt

“Sapiens” by Yuval Noah Harari traces the evolution of modern humans – from the Cognitive Revolution which occurred 70,000 years ago and allowed us to become the dominant species on Earth through the development of writing, money, religion and structured societies during the Agricultural Revolution, to the discovery of the scientific method which, in partnership with imperialism, gave birth to globalism and the World Empire.

Sapiens

Personal Development

What is the best way people can lead their lives in a social setting? Aristotle’s view, conceptualized in “Nicomachean Ethics,” distinguishes virtues and vices: virtuous deeds lead to a happy life, while vices give only temporary satisfaction. If one follows virtue, the middle way between two extremes, one can aim at a good and respectable existence.

History & Philosophy

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