Ranked: Why Conflict Occurs And How To Resolve Them?

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: Why Conflict Occurs And How To Resolve Them?


  1. Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
  2. Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco
  3. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
  4. A Philosophy of Evil by Lars Svendsen
  5. War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
  6. Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas
  7. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
  8. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson
  9. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
  10. The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good by Robert H. Frank
  11. The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis
  12. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
  13. The Second Stage by Betty Friedan
  14. Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba
  15. The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society by Debra Soh
  16. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  17. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
  18. Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
  19. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
  20. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
  21. Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
  22. A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
  23. Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
  24. Hot Buttons: How to Resolve Conflict and Cool Everyone Down by Sybil Evans, Sherry Suib Cohen
  25. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
  26. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
  27. Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition & Conventional Military Conflict by Curtis L. Fox
  28. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
  29. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
  30. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
  31. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
  32. Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
  33. The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
  34. Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
  35. Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  36. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
  37. Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger by Peter Bevelin
  38. Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule by Tsering Woeser
  39. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
  40. The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World by Stewart Patrick
  41. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
  42. The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor
  43. The Secret Network of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things-- Stories from Science and Observation by Peter Wohlleben
  44. Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
  45. The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by Shlomo Sand
  46. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
  47. The Possibility Principle: How Quantum Physics Can Improve the Way You Think, Live, and Love by Mel Schwartz
  48. The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau
  49. The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means For The United States by Ross Terrill
  50. Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach
  51. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
  52. Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming by McKenzie Funk
  53. Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump by Joseph E. Stiglitz
  54. The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann
  55. Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship Is Poisoning the U.S. House of Representatives by Juliet Eilperin
  56. Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry
  57. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
  58. When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
  59. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
  60. A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich
  61. Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns
  62. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
  63. Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Peter Godfrey-Smith
  64. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  65. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  66. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  67. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
  68. Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek
  69. Indonesia, Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation by Elizabeth Pisani
  70. The Mandela Revolution: A British Soldier's Inside View of His Rise to Power by Huw Lawford
  71. The Perdiccas Years, 323–320 BC: Alexander's Successors at War by Tristan Hughes
  72. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville
  73. Black Sea by Neal Ascherson
  74. The Battle of the Little Bighorn: A Good Day To Die by Francis Hayes

Fiction
  1. Berlin by Jason Lutes
  2. A Voracious Grief by Lindsey Lamh
  3. Elektra by Jennifer Saint