4 min read ⌚ Who Should Read “Common Sense”? And Why? Common Sense was first published in 1776, anonymously. It sold in more than 100 000 copies within three months, and eventually, a half million copies were read in America. To understand the meaning of these numbers, you need to know that at that time, America […]
5 min read ⌚ The Macedonian who conquered the world Another legend echoes through time. Alexander the Great achieved everything and will be remembered as the greatest conqueror ever to set foot on Earth. We summarize Alexander’s rise to power and the events that shaped his personal life. Who Should Read “Alexander the Great”? And Why? […]
15 min read ⌚ MicroSummary: Sapiens presents a work on the evolution of humanity. In it, the author Yuval Noah Harari rewrites the history of the human being through time. Turning to striking facts such as the development of communication, the cognitive revolution, the agricultural revolution and the scientific revolution, the book addresses the central points […]
4 min read ⌚ 1883 – 1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman Who was John Maynard Keynes and what is his place in our world’s history? Our summary of “John Maynard Keynes” presents you the biography of one of the 20th century’s most important financial figures. Who Should Read “John Maynard Keynes”? and Why? This book is an […]
6 min read ⌚ A Search for the World’s Most Creative Places From Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley Are you ready to travel around the world in… well, 400 pages and few days? No? What about in thousand words and merely ten minutes? Sounds better, we know. So, without a further ado, the summary of […]
6 min read ⌚ How New Ideas Emerge, aka How Small Things Transform the World By now, you already know that evolution is how all life came to be on this planet. What you don’t know is that evolution may be responsible for everything else, whether it’s language or government. Don’t believe us? Why don’t […]
12 min read ⌚ There are so many biographies, memoirs, and diaries out there, and so many essential and influential people who have actively shaped our world that, really, choosing the books for this list took us a lot more time than actually writing it. In the end, we longlisted so many books that we decided […]
5 min read ⌚ An Introduction to History In general, we as humans have started losing our physical endurance from the day we began thinking. The evolvement process for us and other species never ended. To compensate for our physical vulnerability, we begun functioning in groups. Who Should Read “The Muqaddimah”? And Why? If you are […]
2 min read ⌚ Many are unaware that the digital revolution started well before the first computer was created. The journey began in 1843 with the collaboration of Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace. With each new decade, different innovations emerged and were developing until culminating in the creation of the computer and the internet. In Innovators, […]
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