The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain Is Different and How to Understand Yours
By: Chantel Prat
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From University of Washington professor Chantel Prat comes The Neuroscience of You, a rollicking ad…
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1. Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
By: Bernd Heinrich
3.79
Format: 128 pages,
From award-winning writer and biologist Bernd Heinrich, an intimate, accessible and eloquent illumi… read more
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2. The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind
By: Alison Gopnik , Andrew N. Meltzoff , Patricia K. Kuhl
3.22
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
This exciting book by three pioneers in the new field of cognitive science discusses important disc… read more
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3. How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
By: David McRaney
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this lively journey through human psychology, bestselling author and creator of the You Are Not … read more
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"I couldn’t shake the idea that I, too, was probably one conversation away from changing my own mind about something, maybe a lot of things. But I also recalled how many conversations I’d had that onl…"-David McRaney, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
"Before scientists began researching the Leadership LAB’s technique, few studies supported the possibility that campaigns could change voters’ views on polarized, partisan, politically controversial i…"-David McRaney, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
4. 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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"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
5. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
By: Charles Duhigg
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more
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"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
6. Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
By: Charan Ranganath
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, on… read more
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7. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
By: Adam M. Grant
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times Bestseller“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes … read more
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8. How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away
By: Emily P. Freeman
4.01
Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition
New York Times Bestseller If life were a house, then every room holds a story. What do we do when … read more
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9. Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
By: Nick Lane
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end? For decades, biology has been domina… read more
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"Almost the only thing we know for sure about consciousness is that it is, so to speak, soluble in ether, chloroform and a variety of other solvents ..."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Core metabolism has changed little in part because it was never powered down in its four-billion-year history. The genes are custodians of this flame, but without the flame life is – dead."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Keen to progress the work on photosynthesis, Lawrence hired Melvin Calvin, a colleague from the Manhattan Project, immediately after the war. The story has it that on the day of the Japanese surrende…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Putting terms aside, we’ll see that the ancient biosynthetic Krebs cycle was fixing CO2 a billion years before rubisco and the evolution of photosynthesis in the cyanobacterial ancestors of plant chl…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
10. 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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11. The Little Book of Aliens
By: Adam Frank
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“With wit and brio, Frank separates current nonsense about aliens from the serious and fascinating … read more
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12. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
By: Sabine Hossenfelder
3.92
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot t… read more
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"Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is 'We don't know."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Today I think they don't teach the principle of least action in school because then everybody would go and study physics."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"There are no exact metaphors, not for quantum mechanics and not for anything else, because if they were exact, they wouldn't be metaphors."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Instead of thinking of ourselves as selecting possible futures, I suggest we remain curious about what's to come and strive to learn more about ourselves and the universe we inhabit."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
13. Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)
By: Salman Khan
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the founder of Khan Academy, the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution… read more
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14. Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
By: Paul Bloom
4.15
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read A compelling and accessible new perspective on the modern science… read more
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"If you’re looking for a word to refer to the process of coming to know things through exposure to the right sort of information in the environment, I’d recommend “learning."-Paul Bloom, Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
15. The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep
By: Guy Leschziner
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
For Dr. Guy Leschziner's patients, there is no rest for the weary in mind and body. Insomnia, narco… read more
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16. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
By: Sean Carroll
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that h… read more
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17. Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are
By: David J. Lieberman
3.88
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Tired of guessing what they're really thinking? Read people in every situation--in person, on a scr… read more
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"Self-esteem is keenly observed as a reflection of one’s relationships and manifests in three main domains: one’s history and patterns, interactions and exchanges, and borders and boundaries."-David J. Lieberman, Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are
"If you give out of fear or guilt, your self-esteem is not enriched; indeed, it is only diminished. You aren’t really giving; the other person is taking. You are being taken advantage of, with your co…"-David J. Lieberman, Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are
"The ego corrupts our mindset in five ways: (a) It chooses what we focus on, (b) it makes what we see all about us, (c) it concludes that all negative experiences are due to a deficiency within oursel…"-David J. Lieberman, Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are
"Passivity manifests in complaining and blaming because these behaviors are both self-focused and correlate to feelings of helplessness. These people are likely to make frequent complaints with the ac…"-David J. Lieberman, Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are
18. The Experience Machine
By: Andy Clark
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worldsFor as long as … read more
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19. Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity
By: Gloria Mark
3.53
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
AS SEEN ON ARMCHAIR EXPERT WITH DAX SHEPARD, WALL STREET JOURNAL , NEW YORK TIMES AND MORE **A COS… read more
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"…it is time to rethink our relationship with our personal technologies. We need to reframe our goal from that of maximizing human productivity with our devices, to instead using them in maintaining a…"-Gloria Mark, Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity
"We know from project management that there is usually slippage, and tasks almost always take longer than what one envisions. There is also no room for fitting human well-being into task schedules. We…"-Gloria Mark, Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity
"Design your day thinking that you have limited mental resources, knowing that taking time to replenish them will not only help you be less stressed and better able to resist distractions, but also mo…"-Gloria Mark, Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity
20. Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard
By: Bo Seo
3.65
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"The rare book that has the potential to make you smarter--and everyone around you wiser." --Adam G… read more
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21. Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
By: Judith Grisel
4.12
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovered drug addict, an authoritative and accessibl… read more
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"As always with addictive drugs, tolerance spoils the fun..."-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
"...there will never be enough drug, because the brain's capacity to learn and adapt is basically infinite."-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
"I'd sought wellness and became sick; fun, but lived in a constant state of anxious dread; freedom, and was enslaved."-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
"A victim of virtually any disease usually elicits pity, addicts mostly evoke revulsion. What is it about the irrational behavior of an addict that makes everyone want to turn away?"-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
22. Riding the Lightning: A Year in the Life of a New York City Paramedic
By: Anthony Almojera
3.84
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
The education of a New York City EMS worker, whose tales of tragedy and transcendence over a single… read more
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23. The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain Is Different and How to Understand Yours
By: Chantel Prat
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From University of Washington professor Chantel Prat comes The Neuroscience of You, a rollicking ad… read more
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24. If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
By: Justin Gregg
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“A dazzling, delightful read on what animal cognition can teach us about our own mental shortcoming… read more
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25. 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem
By: Nam Le
4.05
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
An explosive, devastating debut book of poetry from the acclaimed author of The Boat In his first … read more
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26. Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides
By: Geoffrey L. Cohen
3.87
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Finalist for The Next Big Idea Bookclub • Book of the Year Selection Behavioral Scientist and Great… read more
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"The overwhelming conclusion across a large body of studies is that personality matters less than we think while the situation matters more than we think."-Geoffrey L. Cohen, Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides
"When people reflect on harsh events in their lives, it's important that they write or talk and not just think. Thinking doesn't provide the narrative closure that writing or talking does, and it ofte…"-Geoffrey L. Cohen, Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides
"The impact of personality was overridden by whether the employees at the company perceived social norms that favored speaking up. If a company were interested in getting people to speak up, they'd be…"-Geoffrey L. Cohen, Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides
"The students on campuses with such a [Confederate] statue had higher levels of implicit racial bias. This finding speaks to the haunting effects of historical expressions of racism. Not only do these…"-Geoffrey L. Cohen, Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides
27. Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better
By: Woo-Kyoung Ahn
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Psychologist Woo-kyoung Ahn devised a course at Yale University to help students examine the biases… read more
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"When we keep trying to find answers to questions that are probably unanswerable, we may start to feel worse and worse."-Woo-Kyoung Ahn, Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better
"Why did we create a society that not only forces most people to work to live but also makes even the most privileged feel like they have to work desperately hard all the time? We created a mythology …"-Woo-Kyoung Ahn, Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better
28. Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People)
By: Amy Gallo
3.71
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Named one of "22 new books…that you should consider reading before the year is out" by Fortune A… read more
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29. The Pornography Wars: The Past, Present, and Future of America's Obscene Obsession
By: Kelsy Burke
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Peggy Orenstein and Rebecca Traister, an authoritative, big think look at pornograph… read more
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30. Complete Guide to Memory: The Science of Strengthening Your Mind
By: Richard Restak
3.68
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
A comprehensive guide to understanding how memory works, how memory forms, the mind-body connection… read more
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"Do whatever you have to, to keep yourself reading."-Richard Restak, Complete Guide to Memory: The Science of Strengthening Your Mind
31. The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
By: Mark W. Moffett
3.67
Format: 468 pages, Hardcover
Biologist Mark W. Moffett draws on findings in psychology, sociology and anthropology to explain th… read more
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