Knowledge = Power
Episodes
Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa - translator - One Hundred Years of Solitude
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa - translator - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Lolita Novel by Vladimir Nabokov
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lolita Novel by Vladimir Nabokov
Audible - George Orwell's 1984
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Audible - George Orwell's 1984
BBC - Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
BBC - Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
To Kill a Mockingbird
20 Jan 2025
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To Kill a Mockingbird
No More Mr Nice Guy
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
No More Mr Nice Guy
This Is Berlin Radio Broadcasts from Nazi Germany
04 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This Is Berlin Radio Broadcasts from Nazi Germany
Third Reich - A History of Nazi Germany - Thomas Childers
04 Jan 2025
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Third Reich - A History of Nazi Germany - Thomas Childers
Daniel Defoe - The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Defoe - The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Jack London Boxed Set
02 Jan 2025
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The Call of the Wild A bold-spirited dog named Buck is stripped from his comfortable life on a California estate and thrust into the rugged terrain...
South Sea Tales
02 Jan 2025
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South Sea Tales
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
02 Jan 2025
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Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Gulliver's Travels
02 Jan 2025
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Gulliver's Travels
The Catcher in the Rye
02 Jan 2025
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The Catcher in the Rye
The Brothers Karamazov Penguin Classics
02 Jan 2025
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The Brothers Karamazov Penguin Classics
Anna Karenina
02 Jan 2025
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Anna Karenina
The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy
02 Jan 2025
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The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy
Models Attract Women Through Honesty
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Models Attract Women Through Honesty
Cicero The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cicero The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
Stalin as Warlord
20 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Stalin as Warlord
Joanna Potts, Simon Berthon - Warlords
20 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Joanna Potts, Simon Berthon - Warlords
The Great Courses - Espionage and Covert Operations - A Global History
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Great Courses - Espionage and Covert Operations - A Global History
Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt’s Shadow and Remade the World - David L. Roll
08 Oct 2024
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Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt’s Shadow and Remade the World - David L. Roll
David McCullough - Truman
08 Oct 2024
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David McCullough - Truman
The Watchdog How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two
07 Oct 2024
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The Watchdog How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two
The Watchdog How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two
06 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Watchdog How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two
Alien Oceans The Search for Life in the Depths of Space
05 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alien Oceans The Search for Life in the Depths of Space
The Book on Rental Property Investing
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Book on Rental Property Investing
Dear Shareholder: The best executive letters from Warren Buffett, Prem Watsa and other great CEOs
12 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Shareholder: The best executive letters from Warren Buffett, Prem Watsa and other great CEOs
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
12 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
Screw It, Lets Do It - Lessons in Life and Business (Richard Branson)
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Screw It, Lets Do It - Lessons in Life and Business (Richard Branson)
Peter Diamandis - Bold
08 May 2024
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Peter Diamandis - Bold
Business Stripped Bare Richard Branson
08 May 2024
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Business Stripped Bare Richard Branson
The Virgin Way - Richard Branson
07 May 2024
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The Virgin Way - Richard Branson
22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
Paul Kennedy - The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
11 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen o...
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed or Fail - Ray Dalio
06 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed or Fail - Ray Dalio
Don Quixote (Good Version)
17 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish ma...
Uncle Tom's Cabin
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the nov...
The Return of the King: Book Three in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy
21 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The awesome conclusion to The Lord of the Rings—the greatest fantasy epic of all time—which began in The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two T...
The Fellowship of the Ring: Book One in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
21 Aug 2022
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Inspired by The Hobbit and begun in 1937, The Lord of the Rings is a trilogy that J.R.R. Tolkien created to provide "the necessary background of...
The Two Towers: Book Two in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy
21 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Two Towers is the second volume of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic saga, The Lord of the Rings. The Fellowship has been forced to split up. Frodo and ...
The Hobbit: Book Zero in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy
21 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The journey through Middle-earth begins here with J.R.R. Tolkien's classic prelude to his Lord of the Rings trilogy. “A glorious acc...
Dune by Frank Herbert
12 Aug 2022
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Frank Herbert’s classic masterpiece—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time. Set on the desert...
Caesar: Life of a Colossus [Better Version]
30 Jun 2022
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Named 2006 Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com “An authoritative and exciting portrait not only of Caesar but of the complex society in which he l...
Philip Freeman - Julius Caesar
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A fascinating, comprehensive biography of the cunning Roman conqueror Julius Caesar. More than two thousand years after his death, Julius Caesa...
James Romm - The Sacred Band (Vivienne Leheny)
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From classicist James Romm comes a “striking…fascinating” (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up t...
21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
21st Century Monetary Policy takes readers inside the Federal Reserve, explaining what it does and why. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, th...
The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
07 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many appreciate Richard P. Feynman's contributions to twentieth-century physics, but few realize how engaged he was with the world around ...
“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character
07 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most famous science books of our time, the phenomenal national bestseller that "buzzes with energy, anecdote and life. It almos...
James S. Romm - Ghost on the Throne The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire
07 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alexander the Great, perhaps the most commanding leader in history, united his empire and his army by the titanic force of his will. His d...
The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece
07 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Spartans were a society of warrior-heroes who were the living exemplars of such core values as duty, discipline, self-sacrifice, and e...
What Do You Care What Other People Think - Richard Feynman
07 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The New York Times best-selling sequel to "Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!" Like the "funny, brilliant, bawdy" (The New Yorker) "Surely You’re ...
Plutarch and Pamela Mensch - The Age of Caesar
07 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Plutarch regularly shows that great leaders transcend their own purely material interests and petty, personal vanities. Noble ideals ac...
How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
07 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Timeless wisdom on death and dying from the celebrated Stoic philosopher Seneca "It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die," wrote the Ro...
The Character of Physical Law, with new foreword (The MIT Press)
07 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An introduction to modern physics and to Richard Feynman at his witty and enthusiastic best, discussing gravitation, irreversibility, symm...
Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today . . . and the Lessons You Can Learn
01 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Based on an extraordinary collaboration between Steve Forbes, chairman, CEO, and editor in chief of Forbes Media, and classics professor J...
Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout this lively and concise historical account of Mao Zedong's life and thought, Rebecca E. Karl places the revolutionary leader's ...
How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks
17 Mar 2022
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“Amazing stories . . . Intimate portraits of how [these five ruthless leaders] were at home and at the table.” —Lulu Garcia-Navarro,  ...
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Perhaps no one in the twentieth century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar of contemporary...
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
First published in 1841, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is often cited as the best book ever written about mark...
The Sword and the Shield – The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB [Unabridged]
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Sword and the Shield is based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent times: a secret archive of top-level KGB documen...
Flip the Script: Getting People to Think Your Idea Is Their Idea
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF PITCH ANYTHING IS BACK TO FLIP YOUR ENTIRE APPROACH TO PERSUASION. Is there anything worse than a high-pressure sales...
The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"It’s a startling and disconcerting read that should make you think twice every time a friend of a friend offers you the opportunity of a lifetime.”...
Verbal Judo, Updated Edition: The Gentle Art of Persuasion
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When you react, the event controls you. When you respond, you're in control. Verbal Judo is the classic guide to the martial art of the mind and mouth...
Thank You for Arguing, Third Edition What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion (Unabridged)
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A master class in the art of persuasion, as taught by professors ranging from Bart Simpson to Winston Churchill, newly revised and updated...
How to Win an Argument: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Persuasion
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Timeless techniques of effective public speaking from ancient Rome's greatest orator
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
National Book Award Finalist TIME Magazine's #1 Nonfiction Book of 2012 A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2012 Best Non...
Twilight of Democracy - The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism - Anne Applebaum
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "How did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document ... is Applebaum's answer." —Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyran...
Stalin: Breaker of Nations
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Of all the despots of our time, Joseph Stalin lasted the longest and wielded the greatest power, and his secrets have been the most jealously &n...
The Last Days of Stalin
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A gripping account of the months before and after Stalin’s death and how his demise reshaped the course of twentieth-century history &...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
21 Dec 2021
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The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants 'Laurence Rees brilliantly co...
Simon Ings - Stalin and the Scientists
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Scientists throughout history, from Galileo to today’s experts on climate change, have often had to contend with politics in their pursuit &nb...
When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Here is the story of Jerry Weintraub: the self-made, Brooklyn-born, Bronx-raised impresario, Hollywood producer, legendary deal maker, and  ...
The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains: An Introduction to Cryptocurrencies and the Technology that Powers Them
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Understand Bitcoin, Blockchains, and Cryptocurrency “Antony helps us all clearly understand the mechanics of bitcoin and blockchain.” ―Rob Findl...
Blockchain: The Complete Guide to Uncovering Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin Technology and the Future of Money
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Blockchain: The Complete Guide to Uncovering Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin Technology and the Future of Money
Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
28 Nov 2021
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“Business Adventures remains the best business book I’ve ever read.” —Bill Gates, The Wall Street Journal What do the $350 million Ford Moto...
Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft
28 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2007 and 2008, Time named Paul Allen, the cofounder of Microsoft, one of the hundred most influential people in the world. Since he mad...
The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance
25 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eswar Prasad explains the world of finance is at the threshold of major disruption that will affect corporations, bankers, states, and ind...
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
25 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Built to Last, the defining management study of the '90s, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained perform...
Xiaomi: How a Startup Disrupted the Market and Created a Cult Following
25 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There may be no hotter company on the planet than Xiaomi. In less than a decade, the company has gone from being a Chinese start-up to a g...
Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built
25 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An engrossing insider's account of how a teacher built one of the world's most valuable companies - rivaling Walmart and Amazon - and fore...
The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything
13 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"I hope everyone reads this book. It has become such a crucial thing for all of us to understand." —Erin Burnett, CNN "An ideal tour guide f...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
13 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the extent to which they brutalized the world &nb...
The Rise of Communism: From Marx to Lenin
13 Nov 2021
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Communism has decisively shaped the modern world. After the Second World War, Marxist regimes ruled over one-third of the population of th...
Karl Marx: Selected Writings
13 Nov 2021
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This second edition of McLellan's comprehensive selection of Marx's writings includes carefully selected extracts from the whole range of Marx's...
Extremism (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
04 Nov 2021
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What extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence. A rising tide of extremist movements ...
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and S...
The Third Reich at War (Book 3 of 3: The History of the Third Reich)
04 Nov 2021
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“Masterful. . . . Evans demonstrates a fluent style and a sweeping grasp of the Third Reich’s history and of the enormous historical l...
The Third Reich in Power, 1933 - 1939: How the Nazis Won Over the Hearts and Minds of a Nation (Book 2 of 3: The History of the Third Reich)
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The second book in his acclaimed trilogy on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, Richard J. Evans' The Third Reich in Power: How the Nazis Won Over the ...
The Coming of the Third Reich (Book 1 of 3: The History of the Third Reich)
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Brilliant.” —Washington Post "The clearest and most gripping account I've read of German life before and during the rise of the Nazis." —...
The Will to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
24 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Who was Friedrich Nietzsche? This lonely and chronically ill, yet passionate, daring, and complex man is perhaps the most mysterious and least underst...
The Laws of Human Nature
24 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From the number-one New York Times best-selling author of The 48 Laws of Power comes the definitive new audiobook on decoding the behavior of the peop...
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers
24 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The product of 11 years of research, The Story of Philosophy is an endlessly inspiring and instructive chronicle of the world’s greatest thinkers, f...
The Drucker Lectures: Essential Lessons on Management, Society and Economy
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Previously unpublished talks from the Father of Modern Management. Throughout his professional life, Peter F. Drucker inspired millions of business le...
Understanding the Dark Side of Human Nature
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hardly a day goes by that we don’t hear about someone committing a violent, reprehensible, even evil, act. And each time it happens, before we know ...
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A commemorative edition of Peter F. Drucker's timeless classic work on leadership and management, with a foreword by Jim Collins. What makes an effect...
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Go from being a good manager to an extraordinary leader. If you listen to nothing else on leadership, you should at least hear these 10 articles (feat...
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Drucker's classic book on innovation and entrepreneurship This is the first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and ...
Why Women Have Sex: Women Reveal the Truth About Their Sex Lives, from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between)
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An unparalleled exploration of the mysteries underlying women's sexuality that rivals the culture-shifting Kinsey Report, from two of America's leadin...