Unthinkable: What the World's Most Extraordinary Brains Can Teach Us About Our Own
By: Helen Thomson
3.99
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Our brains are far stranger than we think. We take for granted that we can remember, feel emotion, …
Want to Read $ 8.82"Our inability to understand our own minds is the price we pay for the ability to question it in the first place."-Helen Thomson, Unthinkable: What the World's Most Extraordinary Brains Can Teach Us About Our Own
"Back in that first lesson with Clive, I was told by my professor that 'If the brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't."-Helen Thomson, Unthinkable: What the World's Most Extraordinary Brains Can Teach Us About Our Own
"Science prides itself on explaining the parts of our life that can be measured and tested. Objectivity is, rightly so, the backbone of science. But I’d argue that subjectivity is its flesh and blood. Each is necessary but not sufficient alone."-Helen Thomson, Unthinkable: What the World's Most Extraordinary Brains Can Teach Us About Our Own
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1. The Folk Keeper
By: Franny Billingsley
3.92
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
She is never cold, she always knows exactly what time it is, and her hair grows two inches while sh… read more
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2. The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
By: Christopher Chabris , Daniel Simons
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Reading this book will make you lesssure of yourself--and that's a good thing. In The Invisible Gor… read more
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3. Circle Mirror Transformation
By: Annie Baker
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Thanks, you guys. I think this was a really, really great start. Five lost people come together at … read more
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4. Blood and Guts A History of Surgery by Hollingham, Richard
By: Richard Hollingham
3.91
Format: 318 pages,
Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making face transplants, limb transplants and a host … read more
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5. A Curious History of Sex
By: Kate Lister
4.17
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
This is not a comprehensive study of every sexual quirk, kink and ritual across all cultures throug… read more
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"Vulvas aren’t dainty. They can eat a penis and push out a baby."-Kate Lister, A Curious History of Sex
6. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
By: Neil Bradbury
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more
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"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
"Rather than throw the white arsenic away, it was realised that money could be made by selling the substance as a poison to get rid of all kinds of vermin, including cockroaches, rats, stray animals -…"-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
7. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
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"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
8. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
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9. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
By: Rebecca Boyle
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the… read more
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- audiobook
10. Unthinkable: What the World's Most Extraordinary Brains Can Teach Us About Our Own
By: Helen Thomson
3.99
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Our brains are far stranger than we think. We take for granted that we can remember, feel emotion, … read more
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- psychology
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"Our inability to understand our own minds is the price we pay for the ability to question it in the first place."-Helen Thomson, Unthinkable: What the World's Most Extraordinary Brains Can Teach Us About Our Own
"Back in that first lesson with Clive, I was told by my professor that 'If the brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't."-Helen Thomson, Unthinkable: What the World's Most Extraordinary Brains Can Teach Us About Our Own
"Science prides itself on explaining the parts of our life that can be measured and tested. Objectivity is, rightly so, the backbone of science. But I’d argue that subjectivity is its flesh and blood.…"-Helen Thomson, Unthinkable: What the World's Most Extraordinary Brains Can Teach Us About Our Own
11. The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
By: Barbara K. Lipska
3.88
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Neuroscientist Lipska was diagnosed early in 2015 with metastatic melanoma in her brain's frontal l… read more
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"Ich hoffe, dass meine persönliche Erfahrung wenigstens Zu der Erkenntnis beiträgt, dass psychisch kranke Menschen ebenso wenig für ihre Krankheit verantwortlich sind wie Krebskranke und dass die best…"-Barbara K. Lipska, The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
12. Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
By: Nathan H. Lents
3.95
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
A biology professor’s illuminating tour of the physical imperfections—from faulty knees to junk DNA… read more
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13. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
By: Bettany Hughes
4.02
Format: 416 pages, ebook
Their names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Th… read more
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14. Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses
By: Katie Spalding
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, whe… read more
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15. When the Dogs Don't Bark: A Forensic Scientist’s Search for the Truth
By: Angela Gallop
3.58
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Never before has criminal justice rested so heavily on scientific evidence. With ever-more sophisti… read more
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16. Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
By: Bethany Brookshire
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats t… read more
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17. Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
By: Micha Frazer-Carroll
4.40
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
‘A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health’ Dazed ‘E… read more
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18. Lost Ark Dreaming
By: Suyi Davies Okungbowa
3.69
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
The brutally engineered class divisions of Snowpiercer meets Rivers Solomon’s The Deep in this high… read more
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19. The Hidden Language of Cats: How They Have Us at Meow
By: Sarah Brown
3.85
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Descended from shy, solitary North African wild cats, domestic cats set up homes with devoted owner… read more
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20. Our Fight: A Memoir
By: Ronda Rousey
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author and trailblazing athlete Ronda Rousey, an unfiltered and ent… read more
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21. The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre
By: Cho yeeun
3.51
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
At New Seoul Park, Korea’s greatest theme park, an enigmatic man tempts visitors with a mysterious … read more
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"I couldn't help but feel empty inside as I thought about all the moments of my life fading away like that. What was I, after all, if all the memories that made me up were gone?"-Cho yeeun, The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre
