Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault Book Summary
Discipline and Punish traces the historical redistribution of the power to punish from the physical body of the offender to the offender's habits, routines, ...
Thirst by Scott Harrison: how a nightclub promoter built charity: water
Thirst documents Scott Harrison's move from New York City nightlife promoter to founder of charity: water, a nonprofit that funds clean water projects in dev...
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AI Superpowers by Kai-Fu Lee: China, Silicon Valley, and the new world order explained
AI Superpowers argues that the global artificial intelligence contest has shifted from an "Age of Discovery" driven by elite research to an "Age of Implement...
Rest: why you get more done when you work less, book summary and key ideas
Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang defines deliberate rest, meaning structured, skill-based recovery rather than passive...
Finish: give yourself the gift of done by jon acuff book summary
Jon Acuff's 2017 book "Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done" puts perfectionism at the center of every unfinished goal. Laziness and a shortage of grit usu...
On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis: aligning aspiration with capability
On Grand Strategy is a 2018 book by the Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis that defines grand strategy as the alignment of potentially unlimited aspirations wi...
The gulag archipelago by aleksandr solzhenitsyn: book summary and review
The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's documentary reconstruction of the Soviet forced-labor camp system. He built it from the testimony of more t...