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📊 Essay Cover of Papyrus
Papyrus
Irene Vallejo
Essay · 2019 · 452 pp.
The history of books from papyrus to today, told as a thrilling adventure. The Spanish essay that conquered the world.
📊 Essay Cover of 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
Essay · 2018 · 432 pp.
Harari lands in the present: fake news, work, terrorism and AI. A compass for today's world.
📊 Essay Cover of Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Stephen Hawking
Essay · 2018 · 256 pp.
Is there a God? Will we survive? Hawking's final reflections on the universe and the future, in plain language.
📊 Essay Cover of Homo Deus
Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
Essay · 2015 · 496 pp.
After Sapiens, Harari looks to the future: technology, data and the quest for immortality. Unsettling and brilliant.
📊 Essay Cover of The Body Keeps the Score
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk
Essay · 2014 · 512 pp.
A psychiatrist explains how trauma is written into the body and rewires the brain, and the paths toward healing. The book that changed the conversation about PTSD.
📊 Essay Cover of Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Essay · 2011 · 672 pp.
The two systems we think with and why they deceive us. The Economics Nobel that changed how we understand the mind.
📊 Essay Cover of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
Essay · 2011 · 496 pp.
How an unremarkable ape species ended up dominating the planet by telling stories. The popular-science essay of the decade.
📊 Essay Cover of The Burnout Society
The Burnout Society
Byung-Chul Han
Essay · 2010 · 80 pp.
Han diagnoses an age that exploits itself in the name of performance: no one oppresses us, we do it ourselves. A short, devastating essay on contemporary exhaustion.
📊 Essay Cover of A Brief History of Time
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
Essay · 1988 · 256 pp.
The Big Bang, black holes and time explained without a single formula. The book that brought cosmology to millions.
📊 Essay Cover of The Art of Loving
The Art of Loving
Erich Fromm
Essay · 1956 · 160 pp.
Fromm argues that loving is not a feeling that arrives but an art to be learned and practiced. A classic that keeps dismantling the myths of romantic love.
📊 Essay Cover of Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
Essay · 1946 · 168 pp.
A psychiatrist who survived the Nazi camps explains how to find a why to live. A lesson on human dignity.
📊 Essay Cover of The Prince
The Prince
Nicolás Maquiavelo
Essay · 1532 · 160 pp.
How to seize and keep power without scruples. The political manual that gave us the word "Machiavellian".
📊 Essay Cover of The Art of War
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
Essay · 128 pp.
Chinese military strategy from 2,500 years ago, today applied to business and life. Concise, ancient and eternally quoted.
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