29 must-read nonfiction books like The Ten Types of Human: Who We Are and Who We Can Be by Dexter Dias

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The Ten Types of Human: Who We Are and Who We Can Be

By: Dexter Dias

4.18

Format: 816 pages, Paperback

This book will introduce you to ten people. In a way, you already know them. Only you don’t – not r…

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1. What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes from a Street-smart Executive

By: Mark H. McCormack

3.60

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

This business classic features straight-talking advice you’ll never hear in school.   Featuring a n… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • self help
Cover of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes by Adam Rutherford

2. A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

By: Adam Rutherford

4.03

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
"We look to statistics for reassurance in these types of situations. Here is one: 100% of mass shootings have been enabled by access to guns. I can guarantee that even if there were a genotype shared …"

-Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

"(...) prawo Godwina (tendencja do pojawiania się wzmianki o Hitlerze w przedłużających się dyskusjach w sieci) lub prawo nagłówków Betteridge'a (jeśli nagłówek zawiera pytanie, odpowiedź prawdopodobn…"

-Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

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3. Chimp Paradox: How Our Impulses and Emotions Can Determine Success and Happiness and How We Can Control Them

By: None , Steve Peters

3.99

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

Leading consultant psychiatrist Steve Peters knows more than anyone how impulsive behaviour or nagg… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
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4. Climbing Mount Improbable

By: Richard Dawkins

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

The human eye is so complex and works so precisely that surely, one might believe, its current shap… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
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5. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

By: Steven Pinker

3.77

Format: 341 pages,

read more

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  • history
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • science
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6. The Man Who Spoke Snakish

By: Andrus Kivirähk , Christopher Moseley

3.31

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

A bestseller in the author's native country of Estonia, where the book is so well known that a popu… read more

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7. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Why do we do the things we do? More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert … read more

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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • science
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8. Hvor solen græder: En fortælling fra Syrien

By: Puk Damsgård

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

Nour levede et sorglost storbyliv i Damaskus. Hun korte pa arbejde i egen bil og drak cocktails med… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford

9. Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure

By: Tim Harford

4.01

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

Author Q&A with Tim Harford So are you an economic missionary, or is this just something that you l… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help

10. The Psychology Book

By: Nigel C. Benson , Joanna Ginsburg , Marcus Weeks , Voula Grand , None , Catherine Collin

3.47

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

Clearly explaining more than 100 groundbreaking ideas in the field, The Psychology Book uses access… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help

11. Never Binge Again: Reprogram Yourself to Think Like a Permanently Thin Person

By: Glenn Livingston

4.30

Format: 324 pages,

If you struggle with binge eating, emotional eating, stress eating, or if you repeatedly manage to … read more

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12. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more

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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • science
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

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13. The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

By: S. Jaishankar

3.96

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The decade from the 2008 global financial crisis to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic has seen a real t… read more

Similar categories in S. Jaishankar's The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World book and Dexter Dias's The Ten Types of Human: Who We Are and Who We Can Be

  • nonfiction
  • history
"Being an ethical power is one aspect of the India Way."

-S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

"Many friends, few foes, great goodwill, more influence. That must be achieved through the India Way."

-S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

"India is today on a voyage of self-discovery and the lessons of Awadh are its surest compass in that quest."

-S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

"Unlike other nations that rose earlier in Asia, China is much harder to fit into the Western-led global order."

-S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

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14. The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

By: The Secret Barrister

3.90

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the world of the Secret Barrister. These are the stories of life inside the courtroom. T… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • society
Cover of The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It by Mary Ann Sieghart

15. The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It

By: Mary Ann Sieghart

4.36

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An incisive, intersectional look at the mother of all gender biases: a resistance to women’s author… read more

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  • society
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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16. This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

By: Peter Pomerantsev

4.04

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

Learn how the perception of truth has been weaponized in modern politics with this “insightful” acc… read more

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  • history
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
"З багатьох поглядів Ігорю пощастило. Він мав видимість вибору. Майор чітко дав зрозуміти, що він проведе сім років у в’язниці і п’ять на засланні у радянських загумінках, якщо залишиться. Якби він бу…"

-Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

"The display, which was called 'Can Democracy Survive the Internet?' was dedicated to a 'global election management' company called Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica claimed to have gathered 5,…"

-Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

"Some of the farm's work reached a level of granularity that stunned Lyudmilla. Two trolls would go on the comments sections of small' provincial newspapers and start chatting about the street they li…"

-Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

"Conspiracy theories have long been used to maintain power: the Soviet leadership saw capitalist and counter-revolutionary conspiracies everywhere; the Nazis, Jewish ones. But those conspiracies were …"

-Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

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17. The World: A Family History of Humanity

By: Simon Sebag Montefiore

4.00

Format: 1344 pages, Hardcover

From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from pre… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
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18. How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy

By: Julian Baggini

3.69

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

Julian Baggini's How the World Thinks is there to fill the Sapiens-size hole in your life' Observer… read more

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  • history
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • science
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19. The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

By: Kerry Daynes

4.03

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the world of the forensic psychologist, where the people you meet are wildly unpredictab… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
"There is no them and us, it is just us."

-Kerry Daynes, The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

"It's a shithole but at least I can get a decent brew.' How very British, I thought to myself."

-Kerry Daynes, The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

"[t]he art of talking comes easier to some of us but others. For boys and men, so many of them still socialised in a myriad of destructive ways to hide weakness and took out their difficulties, the id…"

-Kerry Daynes, The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

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20. Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life

By: Jordan B. Peterson

4.17

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

The sequel to 12 Rules for Life offers further guidance on the periolus path of modern life. I… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
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21. Surrounded by Idiots

By: Thomas Erikson

3.50

Format: 11 pages, Audiobook

A runaway bestseller in Sweden that has sold more than a million copies worldwide, Surrounded by Id… read more

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  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • self help
"... the Green's inability to change."

-Thomas Erikson, Surrounded by Idiots

"Communication happens on the listener’s terms"

-Thomas Erikson, Surrounded by Idiots

"The analytical Blues are calm, levelheaded, and think before they speak."

-Thomas Erikson, Surrounded by Idiots

"Rhetoric isn't the art of talking but rather the art of getting others to listen."

-Thomas Erikson, Surrounded by Idiots

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22. The Earth Transformed: An Untold History

By: Peter Frankopan

3.94

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
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23. Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

By: Melanie Mitchell

4.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping examination of the current state of artificial intelligence and how it is remaking our w… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Hofstadter... fears that AI might show us that the human qualities we most value are disappointingly simple to mechanize."

-Melanie Mitchell, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

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24. The Ten Types of Human: Who We Are and Who We Can Be

By: Dexter Dias

4.18

Format: 816 pages, Paperback

This book will introduce you to ten people. In a way, you already know them. Only you don’t – not r… read more

Similar categories in Dexter Dias's The Ten Types of Human: Who We Are and Who We Can Be book and Dexter Dias's The Ten Types of Human: Who We Are and Who We Can Be

  • self help
  • personal development
  • history
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
  • science
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25. Hur jag lärde mig förstå världen

By: Hans Rosling

4.35

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

Eis as memórias, comoventes e divertidas, de Hans Rosling, génio sueco da estatística, extraordinár… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
"Det är aldrig för sent att ge upp, så det kan vi lika gärna göra någon annan gång."

-Hans Rosling, Hur jag lärde mig förstå världen

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26. Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World

By: Ryan Holiday

4.21

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for… read more

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  • personal development
  • history
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers by Eric    Weiner

27. The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers

By: Eric Weiner

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectua… read more

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  • history
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"No wonder so many philosophers walked. Socrates, of course, liked nothing more than strolling in the agora. Nietzsche regularly embarked on spirited two-hour jaunts in the Swiss Alps, convinced “all …"

-Eric Weiner, The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers

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28. What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology

By: Paul Nurse

3.96

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The Nobel Prize–winning scientist’s elegant explanation of the fundamental ideas in biology and the… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
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29. Murder At Roaringwater

By: Nick Foster

4.05

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

Murder at Roaringwater is the inside story of a young Frenchwoman, Sophie Toscan du Plantier. In th… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Happy Mind, Happy Life: The New Science of Mental Well-Being by Rangan Chatterjee

30. Happy Mind, Happy Life: The New Science of Mental Well-Being

By: Rangan Chatterjee

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The science is clear: Happiness plays a vital role in your health. Learn how to make it a priority.… read more

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  • science
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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31. Roaring Girls: The Forgotten Feminists of British History

By: Holly Kyte

3.98

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A Roaring Girl was loud when she should be quiet, disruptive when she should be submissive, sexual … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

15 must-read history books like The Ten Types of Human: Who We Are and Who We Can Be by Dexter Dias

Transform Your Habits

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

Adam Rutherford

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Steven Pinker

3.77

The Psychology Book

Nigel C. Benson , Joanna Ginsburg , Marcus Weeks , Voula Grand , None , Catherine Collin

3.47

Transform Your Habits

The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

S. Jaishankar

3.96

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19 must-read audiobook books like Happy Mind, Happy Life: The New Science of Mental Well-Being by Rangan Chatterjee

Transform Your Habits

Happy: Finding joy in every day and letting go of perfect

Fearne Cotton

2.62

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

Julie Smith

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

Chris van Tulleken

4.43

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