21 must-read science books like Gut Reactions: The Science of Weight Gain and Loss by Simon Quellen Field

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Gut Reactions: The Science of Weight Gain and Loss

By: Simon Quellen Field

3.55

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

How much do you really know about how the human body works and how it reacts to food, exercise, nut…

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Cover of The Queen of Distraction: How Women with ADHD Can Conquer Chaos, Find Focus, and Get More Done by Terry Matlen

1. The Queen of Distraction: How Women with ADHD Can Conquer Chaos, Find Focus, and Get More Done

By: Terry Matlen

3.49

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Do you rule the realm of disorganization, clutter, and chaos? Are you constantly battling to get th… read more

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  • health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Diet Cults: The Surprising Fallacy at the Core of Nutrition Fads and a Guide to Healthy Eating for the Rest of US by Matt Fitzgerald

2. Diet Cults: The Surprising Fallacy at the Core of Nutrition Fads and a Guide to Healthy Eating for the Rest of US

By: Matt Fitzgerald

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the national bestselling author of Racing Weight , Matt Fitzgerald exposes the irrationality, … read more

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  • science
  • health
  • nutrition
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements by Hugh Aldersey-Williams

3. Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements

By: Hugh Aldersey-Williams

3.80

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

Everything is made of them, from the furthest reaches of the universe to this book that you hold in… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew by Alan Lightman

4. The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew

By: Alan Lightman

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreamsand Mr g,a meditation on the unexpected ways in which… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality by Jared Diamond

5. Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality

By: Jared Diamond

3.64

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in private? Why are human females the only mammal… read more

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  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love – Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Judson Brewer

6. The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love – Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits

By: Jon Kabat-Zinn , Judson Brewer

3.68

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A leading neuroscientist and pioneer in the study of mindfulness explains why addictions are so ten… read more

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  • science
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"How we relate to our thoughts and feelings makes all the difference."

-Jon Kabat-Zinn, The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love – Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits

"Until we define happiness for ourselves, clearly seeing the difference between excitement and joy, for example, our habits will likely not change. We will keep returning to the fruits of our desires."

-Jon Kabat-Zinn, The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love – Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits

"The self itself isn't a problem, since remembering who we are when we wake up each morning is very helpful. Instead, the problem is the extent to which we get caught up in the drama of our lives and …"

-Jon Kabat-Zinn, The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love – Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits

"We read stories and see YouTube videos about people who, distracted by their smartphones, walk into traffic and off piers into the ocean. Perhaps not surprisingly, a report in 2013 found that pedest…"

-Jon Kabat-Zinn, The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love – Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits

7. What Makes You Not a Buddhist

By: Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

3.89

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Dzongsar Khyentse is one of the most creative and innovative young Tibetan Buddhist lamas teaching … read more

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8. Get Up!: The Dire Health Consequences of Sitting and What We Can Do About It

By: James A. Levine

3.88

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the codirector of the Mayo Clinic / Arizona State University Obesity Solutions Initiative and … read more

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9. The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet

By: Nina Teicholz

3.11

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

In The Big Fat Surprise, investigative journalist Nina Teicholz reveals the unthinkable: that every… read more

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10. The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles

By: Bruce H. Lipton

4.10

Format: None pages,

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11. Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong

By: Paul A. Offit

3.21

Format: 192 pages,

What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with… read more

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Cover of Stop Self-Sabotage: Six Steps to Unlock Your True Motivation, Harness Your Willpower, and Get Out of Your Own Way by Judy Ho

12. Stop Self-Sabotage: Six Steps to Unlock Your True Motivation, Harness Your Willpower, and Get Out of Your Own Way

By: Judy Ho

3.83

Format: 8 pages, Audio CD

Award-winning psychologist and TV personality Dr. Judy Ho helps you stop the cycle of self-sabotage… read more

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  • health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It by Benjamin Bikman

13. Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It

By: Benjamin Bikman

4.12

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

A scientist reveals the groundbreaking evidence linking many major diseases, including cancer, diab… read more

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  • science
  • health
  • biology
  • medicine
  • nutrition
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense by Gad Saad

14. Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

By: Gad Saad

3.94

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

The West’s commitment to freedom, reason, and true liberalism has never been more seriously threate… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We envy people whose traits compete with our desirability as a mate."

-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

"Any human endeavor rooted in the pursuit of truth must rely on fact and not feelings."

-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

"To be a truly wise person requires that we recognize those domains best served by our intellect versus those best guided by our emotions."

-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

"There is no "black mind" or "white mind", no "white male of knowing", there is only one truth, and we find it through the scientific method."

-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

Cover of Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine by Robert H. Lustig

15. Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine

By: Robert H. Lustig

4.28

Format: 416 pages, ebook

An urgent manifesto and strategy to cure both us and the planet.Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric neur… read more

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  • science
  • health
  • medicine
  • nutrition
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of This is Your Brain on Anxiety; What Happens and What Helps by Faith G. Harper

16. This is Your Brain on Anxiety; What Happens and What Helps

By: Faith G. Harper

3.41

Format: 65 pages, Unknown Binding

Anxiety .... it's the worst. Choking, stifling, smothering, tingling, panicking, brain cutting out,… read more

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  • audiobook
  • health
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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17. The Practicing Stoic

By: Ward Farnsworth

4.35

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

The great insights of the Stoics are spread over a wide range of ancient sources. This book brings … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If you would attain real freedom, you must be the slave of philosophy. Epicurus, quoted in Seneca, Epistles 8.7"

-Ward Farnsworth, The Practicing Stoic

"The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us."

-Ward Farnsworth, The Practicing Stoic

Cover of How to Train Your Mind: Exploring the Productivity Benefits of Meditation by Chris   Bailey

18. How to Train Your Mind: Exploring the Productivity Benefits of Meditation

By: Chris Bailey

3.84

Format: None pages, Audiobook

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  • health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Drink?: The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health

By: David J. Nutt

4.04

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO ALCOHOL AND YOUR HEALTH As the most harmful drug in the UK, alcohol has a p… read more

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  • science
  • health
  • biology
  • medicine
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Psychedelics: The revolutionary drugs that could change your life – a guide from the expert by David J. Nutt

20. Psychedelics: The revolutionary drugs that could change your life – a guide from the expert

By: David J. Nutt

4.43

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

We are on the cusp of a major revolution in psychiatric medicine and neuroscience. After fifty year… read more

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  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
  • health
Cover of Neurodiversity and the Myth of Normal by Kyler Shumway

21. Neurodiversity and the Myth of Normal

By: Kyler Shumway

3.77

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

We’ve all been told, at one point or another, to "just be yourself." Whether you are starting schoo… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Gut Reactions: The Science of Weight Gain and Loss by Simon Quellen Field

22. Gut Reactions: The Science of Weight Gain and Loss

By: Simon Quellen Field

3.55

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

How much do you really know about how the human body works and how it reacts to food, exercise, nut… read more

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  • science
  • health
  • biology
  • medicine
  • nutrition
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • audiobook
Cover of The Big Mysteries of Human Evolution by Elen Feuerriegel

23. The Big Mysteries of Human Evolution

By: Elen Feuerriegel

3.92

Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio

4 hours and 28 minutes Who are we? Where did we come from? These aren’t flippant questions,… read more

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  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • science
  • audiobook
Cover of Clean(ish): Eat (Mostly) Clean, Live (Mainly) Clean, and Unlock Your Body's Natural Ability to Self-Clean by Gin Stephens

24. Clean(ish): Eat (Mostly) Clean, Live (Mainly) Clean, and Unlock Your Body's Natural Ability to Self-Clean

By: Gin Stephens

3.66

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Clean(ish) leads readers to a focus on real foods and a healthier home environment free of obvious … read more

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  • health
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • audiobook
Cover of Conspiracies & Conspiracy Theories: What We Should and Shouldn't Believe - and Why by Michael Shermer

25. Conspiracies & Conspiracy Theories: What We Should and Shouldn't Believe - and Why

By: Michael Shermer

3.81

Format: 7 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length: 6 hours and 30 minutes The stuff of conspiracy theories makes for great, enter… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking by Cecilia Heyes

26. Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking

By: Cecilia Heyes

3.78

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“This is an important book and likely the most thoughtful of the year in the social sciences… Highl… read more

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  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • science
  • audiobook
"In short, distinctively human cognitive mechanisms are tracking targets that move too fast for genetic evolution. In a stable phase, “as­ similative alleles"

-Cecilia Heyes, Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking

"There are a number of potential answers. It could be that cogni­tive gadgets have not been genetically assimilated because they are locally but not globally optimal, or that genetic assimilation has …"

-Cecilia Heyes, Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking

"Many cognitive mechanisms, like imitation and mindreading, not only do their jobs well, but do jobs that, when done well, seem likely to en­ hance reproductive tness—to increase the number of babies …"

-Cecilia Heyes, Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking

"In contrast with cognitive gadgets, the components of the starter kit (Chapter 3) are ripe for genetic assimilation because they do nonspecific jobs that continue to be worth doing in spite of rapid …"

-Cecilia Heyes, Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking

Cover of The Awakened Ape: A Biohacker's Guide to Evolutionary Fitness, Natural Ecstasy, and Stress-Free Living by Jevan Pradas

27. The Awakened Ape: A Biohacker's Guide to Evolutionary Fitness, Natural Ecstasy, and Stress-Free Living

By: Jevan Pradas

3.78

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

What secrets do Amazonian tribes, Himalayan hermits, and enlightened monks know about health and h… read more

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  • science
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Skeptic's Guide to Alternative Medicine by Steven Novella

28. The Skeptic's Guide to Alternative Medicine

By: Steven Novella

4.04

Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length: 4 hours and 24 minutes Energy medicine. Acupuncture. Superfoods. Healing magne… read more

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  • audiobook
  • health
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of What to Eat When: A Strategic Plan to Improve Your Health and Life Through Food by Michael F. Roizen

29. What to Eat When: A Strategic Plan to Improve Your Health and Life Through Food

By: Michael F. Roizen

3.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

NY Times best-selling author Dr. Michael Roizen reveals how the food choices you make each day--and… read more

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  • science
  • health
  • nutrition
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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30. 36 Big Ideas

By: Various

3.66

Format: None pages, Audio CD

As the home to big ideas, The Great Courses has produced thousands of lectures that have introduced… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth by Andrew      Smith

31. Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth

By: Andrew Smith

4.05

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

In time for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing comes this edition of journalist And… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"Santa Claus is a lie but if you think that's bad, check out what 'fuck' really means."

-Andrew Smith, Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth

"Had (President) Kennedy turned to his advisers and wailed, "What can we beat the Russians at?" and if someone had cried "Backgammon!" at that point, Apollo would never have happened."

-Andrew Smith, Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth

"Apollo has something to teach us as we enter a new century of genetic modification, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology. It's a cautionary tale about that most fundamentally human of human traged…"

-Andrew Smith, Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth

"Was Apollo worth all the effort and expense? If it had been about the Moon, the answer would be no, but it wasn't, it was about the Earth. The answer is yes. The only thing I can't see in all this is…"

-Andrew Smith, Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth

22 best-selling audiobook books like Gut Reactions: The Science of Weight Gain and Loss by Simon Quellen Field

Transform Your Habits

The Queen of Distraction: How Women with ADHD Can Conquer Chaos, Find Focus, and Get More Done

Terry Matlen

3.49

Transform Your Habits

Diet Cults: The Surprising Fallacy at the Core of Nutrition Fads and a Guide to Healthy Eating for the Rest of US

Matt Fitzgerald

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements

Hugh Aldersey-Williams

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love – Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits

Jon Kabat-Zinn , Judson Brewer

3.68

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STUFFology 101: Get Your Mind Out of the Clutter

None , Eric M. Riddle , Brenda Avadian M.A.

2.87

Transform Your Habits

Cultural Literacy for Religion: Everything the Well-Educated Person Should Know

Mark Berkson

3.80

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The Odyssey of Homer (Great Courses, #302)

Elizabeth Vandiver

4.04

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Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

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