7 min read ⌚ Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Racism is a thing of the past, right? Well, add a little adjective such as “Overt” before that sentence, and Michelle Alexander may just agree. But that only makes it worse. Read “The New Jim Crow” to find out how. Who Should Read “The New […]
21 min read ⌚ The converging point of the old school with the new school of building successful businesses. The Landmark Bestseller updated and revised for the 21st century. If Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich is one of your first personal development books that you ever read, I bet you’ll ask almost louder: STRATEGIC MINDSET/ THINK AND […]
8 min read ⌚ You scoff at the person claiming that you have been destined to be a housewife as you are booking your next flight to an all-girls holiday in the Bahamas? Well, in case you didn’t know, you have Betty Friedan to thank. And her 1963 seminal book, “The Feminine Mystique”! Who Should Read […]
7 min read ⌚ With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects Another feminist classic. Hey, did we say another? We actually meant to say the original feminist classic, Mary Wollstonecraft’s 1792 magnum opus “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.” As in: if this book didn’t exist, neither Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own” nor Beauvoir’s […]
5 min read ⌚ Being thrown in dark and corrupt surroundings does not mean one must become bad himself. Read our summary of “Oliver Twist” and find out a few things about the destiny of one of the best-known orphans of the fictional world. Who Should Read “Oliver Twist”? And Why? Oliver Twist tells the story […]
5 min read ⌚ Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics Nine boys. One boat. A series of trials and fails. And only one chance at victory. Who Should Read “The Boys in the Boat”? And Why? “The Boys in the Boat” is a story about a group of college […]
4 min read ⌚ Anna Karenina. We all know her as the woman who did something unacceptable in her time and threw her life on the railroad tracks. But what made her give up? What did she think? What went wrong? Who Should Read “Anna Karenina”? And Why? From the master of realism, we get yet […]
5 min read ⌚ We all have challenges that we must face. Same as everyone else, one family in Columbia decided to start over and rebuild its future. In this summary, you’ll be introduced to a fraction of the story about the Buendía Family. Who Should Read “One Hundred Years of Solitude”? And Why? Indeed, no […]
8 min read ⌚ The Birth of the Prison Have you ever wondered why public tortures and executions evolved into prisons and penitentiaries? Steven Pinker would say because of the better angels of our nature. Michel Foucault, in “Discipline and Punish” claims that, unfortunately, it’s because of the worse – If not the devils. Who Should […]
8 min read ⌚ Critique of Political Economy They don’t even bother translating the title to make it sound scarier, ha? “Das Kapital” – you have to agree – sounds way more frightening than “Capital,” and “Karl Marx” is a more intimidating author than “Marx and Engels” (the latter sounds as if a corporation, doesn’t it?) […]
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