Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are
By: Kevin J. Mitchell
4.17
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A leading neuroscientist explains why your personal traits are more innate than you think What make…
Want to Read $ 9.99"There is a power in accepting people the way they are—our friends, partners, workmates, children, siblings, and especially ourselves. People really are born different from each other and those differences persist. We’re shy, smart, wild, kind, anxious, impulsive, hardworking, absent-minded, quick-tempered. We literally see the world differently, think differently, and feel things differently. Some of us make our way through the world with ease, and some of us struggle to fit in or get along or keep it together. Denying those differences or constantly telling people they should change is not helpful to anyone. We should recognize the diversity of our human natures, accept it, embrace it, even celebrate it."-Kevin J. Mitchell, Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are
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1. Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
By: Stanislas Dehaene
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Until the late 1980s it was believed that consciousness could not be investigated by objective expe… read more
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"Science often progresses by carving out new distinctions that refine the fuzzy categories of natural language."-Stanislas Dehaene, Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
"I do not mean, of course, that we can always accurately express our conscious thoughts with Proustian accuracy. Consciousness overflows language: we perceive vastly more than we can describe."-Stanislas Dehaene, Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
"Introspection makes our conscious motives and strategies transparent to us, while we have no sure means of deciphering them in others. Yet we never genuinely know our true selves. We remain largely i…"-Stanislas Dehaene, Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
2. Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety
By: Joseph E. LeDoux
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"[Anxious] helps to explain and prevent the kinds of debilitating anxieties all of us face in this … read more
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- neuroscience
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3. Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking
By: Daniel C. Dennett
4.19
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of th… read more
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4. Consciousness Explained
By: Daniel C. Dennett
3.90
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
"Brilliant...as audacious as its title....Mr. Dennett's exposition is nothing short of brilliant." … read more
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"Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity."-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
"Our fundamental tactic of self-protection, self-control, and self-definition is not spinning webs or building dams, but telling stories, and more particularly connecting and controlling the story we …"-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
"This 'web of discourses' as Robyn called it...is as much a biological product as any of the other constructions to be found in the animal world. (Clothes too, are part of the extended phenotype of Ho…"-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
"There is a species of primate in South America more gregarious than most other mammals, with a curious behavior.The members of this species often gather in groups, large and small, and in the course …"-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
5. The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
By: Keith Payne , Keith Payne
3.20
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
"The Broken Ladderis an important, timely, and beautifully written account of how inequality affect… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
6. Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain
By: António Damásio
3.46
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From one of the most significant neuroscientists at work today, a pathbreaking investigation of a q… read more
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- biology
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7. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
By: Lisa Feldman Barrett
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care,… read more
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8. Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
By: Camille Paglia
3.00
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the fiery intellectual provocateur: a brilliant essay collection that both celebrates and chal… read more
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9. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
By: Leonard Mlodinow
3.48
Format: None pages,
In this irreverent and illuminating book, acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us … read more
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10. 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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11. Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
By: Joshua D. Greene
4.67
Format: 46 pages, Hardcover
Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us) and … read more
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12. The Enigma of Reason
By: Dan Sperber , Hugo Mercier
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Reason, we are told, is what makes us human, the source of our knowledge and wisdom. If reason is s… read more
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13. 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
14. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
By: Anil Seth
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons wo… read more
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15. Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
By: David Reich
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human histo… read more
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- science
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- evolution
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- genetics
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16. Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
By: Stuart Russell
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A leading artificial intelligence researcher lays out a new approach to AI that will enable us to c… read more
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"To get just an inkling of the fire we're playing with, consider how content-selection algorithms function on social media. They aren't particularly intelligent, but they are in a position to affect t…"-Stuart Russell, Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
17. The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
By: Stephanie Kelton
4.04
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Bestseller The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary… read more
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18. The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds ar… read more
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"A wealthy CEO could justify his or her advantages to a lower paid worker on a factory floor as: "I am not worthier then you nor morally deserving of the privileged position I hold. My generous compen…"-Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
19. After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
By: Eric H. Cline
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened a… read more
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20. A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
By: Sara Manning Peskin
4.21
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the ve… read more
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21. 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
22. Rationality
By: Steven Pinker
3.85
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 In Rationality, Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are … read more
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"Everyone wants someone to help but prefers that it not be them."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"If contemporary humans seem irrational, don't blame the hunter-gatherers."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"The press is an availability machine. It serves up anecdotes which feed our impression of what's common in a way that is guaranteed to mislead."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"Disagreement is necessary in deliberations among mortals. As the saying goes, the more we disagree, the more chance there is that at least one of us is right."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
23. The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
By: Mark Solms
4.26
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
For Mark Solms, one of the boldest thinkers in contemporary neuroscience, discovering how conscious… read more
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"What you experience all the time is fluctuating pulses of feeling in response to your movement through the world, as you check whether everything is as you expected to find it - and as you try to clo…"-Mark Solms, The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
24. 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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"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
25. 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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26. Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
By: Robert Plomin
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
One of the world's top behavioural geneticists argues that we need a radical rethink about what mak… read more
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27. Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond
By: Lydia Denworth
3.66
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
An engaging and deeply reported investigation of friendship: its evolution, purpose, and centrality… read more
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28. Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are
By: Kevin J. Mitchell
4.17
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A leading neuroscientist explains why your personal traits are more innate than you think What make… read more
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"There is a power in accepting people the way they are—our friends, partners, workmates, children, siblings, and especially ourselves. People really are born different from each other and those differ…"-Kevin J. Mitchell, Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are
29. The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
By: Kathryn Paige Harden
3.91
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A Virginia Living Favorite Book (2021) A provocative and timely case for how the science of gene… read more
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- genetics
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"We are living in a golden age of genetic research, with new technologies permitting the easy collection of genetic data from millions upon millions of people and the rapid development of new statisti…"-Kathryn Paige Harden, The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
30. The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
By: Joseph E. LeDoux
3.85
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms … read more
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31. How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
By: Philip Ball
4.28
Format: 552 pages, Hardcover
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to en… read more
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"The growth and maintenance of living things like us is a delicate (but also robust) dance of cause and effect, cascading up and down the hierarchy of scales in space and time. This leads to that, but…"-Philip Ball, How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
"I don’t anticipate a consensus any time soon on the question of how to define life, but it seems to me that cognition provides a much better, more apt way to talk about it than invoking more passive …"-Philip Ball, How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
