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A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin by Simon Jenkins

A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin

Simon Jenkins

400 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0gisbornius's review
nonfiction history informative slow-paced
How To Be Right… in a World Gone Wrong by James O'Brien

How To Be Right… in a World Gone Wrong

James O'Brien

240 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0gisbornius's review
nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane

Underland: A Deep Time Journey

Robert Macfarlane

488 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0gisbornius's review
nonfiction nature science adventurous informative reflective slow-paced
Circe by Madeline Miller

Circe

Madeline Miller

393 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0gisbornius's review
fiction fantasy historical literary adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced
Why We Get the Wrong Politicians by Isabel Hardman

Why We Get the Wrong Politicians

Isabel Hardman

351 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0gisbornius's review
nonfiction politics sociology challenging informative slow-paced
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality by Peter Pomerantsev

This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

Peter Pomerantsev

270 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0gisbornius's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Why Digital Transformations Fail: The Surprising Disciplines of How to Take Off and Stay Ahead by Tony Saldanha

Why Digital Transformations Fail: The Surprising Disciplines of How to Take Off and Stay Ahead

Tony Saldanha

240 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0gisbornius's review
nonfiction business technology informative reflective medium-paced
Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, Cheaper Than Yours by Salim Ismail

Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, Cheaper Than Yours

Salim Ismail

250 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0gisbornius's review
nonfiction business informative medium-paced
Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfař

Spaceman of Bohemia

Jaroslav Kalfař

277 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0gisbornius's review
fiction science fiction adventurous mysterious reflective slow-paced
What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture by Ben Horowitz

What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture

Ben Horowitz

288 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0gisbornius's review
nonfiction business informative medium-paced