Non-Fiction

Discussions in Non-Fiction

• Big history books: useful or tidy?

  Started by Dae-Hyun Park

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• Essay collections that read like novels

  Started by Ines Barrow

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• How do you take notes on non-fiction?

  Started by Mira Ferreira

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Posts about Non-Fiction

Dae-Hyun Park Pioneer@cozyorbit · 13h

Sapiens hot take: the chapters on money are better than the chapters on happiness, and the book knows it. Still the best 40 pages on trust I've read.

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Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari

$16.99

A brief history of humankind that reframes money, religion and empire as the stories we agreed to believe.

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Mira Ferreira 11h

The wheat domestication argument is the one that stuck with me.

Nadia Okonkwo 11h

Agreed, the last third loses the thread a bit.