By Anna Funder (2003)
Pages: 288, Final verdict: Great-read
East Germany no longer exists, but its stories are still present everywhere in Berlin if you know where to look. When Anna Funder moved here in the late 1990s, she found that the most revealing parts of the former GDR were...
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By Angela Merkel (2024)
Pages: 720 , Final verdict: Great-read
Angela Merkel is the longest-serving leader of a democratic nation in the 21st century, holding office for 16 years, from 2005 to 2021. In Freedom, her memoir, she reflects on her journey from an unlikely political outsider to one of the...
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By Nuno Palma (2023)
Pages: 405, Final verdict: Must-read
Why do some countries become richer, and others don't? That is the question that economic historians—and not too many other people—obsess about.
Nuno Palma is one of those people. A Professor of Economics at the University of...
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By Steven Levy (2007)
Pages: 286, Final verdict: Great-read
If you’ve ever owned one, you know: the iPod was special.
From 2001 to 2022, Apple sold more than 450 million of them. Along the way, it morphed from a music player into a social phenomenon. If you had one,...
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By J. Bradford DeLong (2022)
Pages: 546, Final verdict: Should-read
To most of us, the twentieth century feels both intimately familiar and immensely complex. Two world wars, the emergence and collapse of the Soviet Union, the rise of the CCP in China and multiple economic recessions. It doesn't...
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