Society & Culture Book Summaries

Factfulness

Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Future proof yourself against the 21st Century

A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century

Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

The Social Animal

The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement

The Death of Expertise

The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters

Blockchain Chicken Farm

And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside

Simply Complexity

Neil F. Johnson

Simply Complexity

A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory

Rogues

Patrick Radden Keefe

Rogues

True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

Divergent Mind

Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

Scattered Minds

The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

At Home

A Short History of Private Life

Purity and Danger

Investigations on the Human Obsession With Dirt and Cleanliness

The Refusal of Work

The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work

Minor Feelings

A Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition

The Myth of American Inequality

Phil Gramm, Robert Ekelund & John Early

The Myth of American Inequality

How Government Biases Policy Debate

The Sum of Us

What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

The Architecture of Happiness

Explore the hidden links between buildings and our well being

Social Empathy

Elizabeth Segal

Social Empathy

The Art of Understanding Others

The Common Good

Spread the word of the good deed before it’s too late

We Should All Be Feminists

Why Feminism is the key to a better world

Faith, Hope and Carnage

A Meditation on Faith, Art, Music, Freedom, Grief, and Love

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

A masterpiece of feminist philosophy

Humankind

A Hopeful History

Status Anxiety

How social isolation and meritocracy cause fear of underachievement and how to solve this

Losing Eden

Why Our Minds Need the Wild

The War For Kindness

Building Empathy in a Fractured World

White Fragility

Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Myanmar's Enemy Within

Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim “Other”