9 must-read psychology books like Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships by Camilla Pang

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Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships

By: Camilla Pang

3.49

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

How proteins, machine learning and molecular chemistry can teach us about the complexities of human…

"Science thrives on error, because it allows us to fine-tune, to evolve and to fix mistakes in our underlying assumptions"

-Camilla Pang, Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships

"The lesson of proteins is to be more confident, less self-conscious and more accepting of the different roles people play, because of our very different personalities."

-Camilla Pang, Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships

If you liked the psychology plot in Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships by Camilla Pang , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Final Confession of Mabel Stark

By: Robert Hough

3.92

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

In the 1910s and '20s, during the golden age of the big top, Mabel Stark was the superstar of the R… read more

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2. The Angry Chef: Bad Science and the Truth about Healthy Eating

By: Anthony Warner

3.24

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

"The popular understanding of nutrition is clouded by superstitions, primitive intuitions, conspira… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science

3. Nerdy, Shy, and Socially Inappropriate: A User Guide to an Asperger Life

By: Cynthia Kim

4.09

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Cynthia Kim explores all the quirkyness of living with Asperger Syndrome (ASD) in this accessible, … read more

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4. The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters

By: Sean B. Carroll

3.43

Format: None pages, Hardcover

How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African sa… read more

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5. The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum

By: Richard Panek , Temple Grandin

4.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism, from the best-selling author and advocate W… read more

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6. The Tiger That Isn't: Seeing Through A World Of Numbers

By: Michael Blastland , Andrew Dilnot

2.86

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

Numbers have become the all-powerful language of public argument. Too often, that power is abused a… read more

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7. Odd Girl Out: Being Autistic in a Neurotypical World

By: Laura James

3.62

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

From early childhood, Laura James knew she was different, but it wasn't until her mid-forties that … read more

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8. NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

By: Steve Silberman

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

A New York Timesbestseller Winner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction A groundbreaking… read more

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9. Pretending to Be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome

By: Liane Holliday Willey

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The story of a woman who, after years of self-doubt, learned to embrace her Asperger's syndrome tra… read more

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10. Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

By: Devon Price

4.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving in… read more

Similar categories in Devon Price's Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity book and Camilla Pang's Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Therapy that is focused on battling “irrational beliefs,"

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"Refusing to perform neurotypicality is a revolutionary act of disability justice. It's also a radical act of self-love."

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"Much of what we call maturity is a silly pantomime of independence and unfeeling, not a real quality of unbreakable strength."

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"We have to keep other people at arm's length, because letting them see our hyperfixations, meltdowns, obsessions, and outbursts could mean losing their respect. But locking ourselves away means we ca…"

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

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11. Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind

By: Annaka Harris

3.83

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "If you’ve ever wondered how you have the capacity to wonder, some fas… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biology
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
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12. I Will Die on This Hill

By: Meghan Ashburn

4.56

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

There is a significant divide between autistic advocates and parents of autistic children. Parents … read more

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  • memoir
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
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13. Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

By: Chloé Hayden

4.34

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

An empowering lived-experience guide to celebrating and supporting neurodivergence from 24-year-old… read more

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  • self help
  • memoir
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Our identities make us who we are, and all aspects of our identities are important, including (maybe even specifically) our disabilities."

-Chloé Hayden, Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

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14. We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation

By: Eric Garcia

4.14

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

“This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doc… read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • memoir
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
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15. Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

By: Madhumita Murgia

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, reveal… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves

By: Eric R. Kandel

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Nobel Prize recipient Eric R. Kandel investigates The Disordered Mind to uncover what brain disorde… read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
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17. The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves

By: Arik Kershenbaum

3.96

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

DISCOVER HOW LIFE REALLY WORKS - ON EARTH AND IN SPACE We are unprepared for the greatest discov… read more

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  • biology
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"One of the most fundamental rules of natural selection, on Earth and across the universe, is that there is always a cost-benefit trade-off. Improving your abilities in one field must reduce your capa…"

-Arik Kershenbaum, The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves

"Whenever there is a conflict of interest (or a potential conflict of interest) between two animals making their own decisions to maximize their own fitness, then an evolutionary game is in play. Each…"

-Arik Kershenbaum, The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves

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18. Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships

By: Camilla Pang

3.49

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

How proteins, machine learning and molecular chemistry can teach us about the complexities of human… read more

Similar categories in Camilla Pang's Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships book and Camilla Pang's Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • memoir
  • biology
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • science
"Science thrives on error, because it allows us to fine-tune, to evolve and to fix mistakes in our underlying assumptions"

-Camilla Pang, Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships

"The lesson of proteins is to be more confident, less self-conscious and more accepting of the different roles people play, because of our very different personalities."

-Camilla Pang, Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships

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19. Lavender Clouds

By: Bex Ollerton

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lavender Clouds is a collection of autobiographical comics about mental health, neurodiversity and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
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20. Autism for Adults: An Approachable Guide to Living Excellently on the Spectrum

By: Daniel M. Jones

3.20

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

The Ultimate Handbook for Success on the Spectrum – Written by and for Autistic People! I feel l… read more

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  • science
  • memoir
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. See What You're Missing

By: Will Gompertz

4.13

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

'Art can amaze us into changing our minds. This remarkable book teaches us how' En Devlin Artists … read more

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  • nonfiction

9 Best audiobook books like Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships by Camilla Pang

Transform Your Habits

Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

Devon Price

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind

Annaka Harris

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

Chloé Hayden

4.34

Transform Your Habits

We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation

Eric Garcia

4.14

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7 must-read adult books like Autism for Adults: An Approachable Guide to Living Excellently on the Spectrum by Daniel M. Jones

Transform Your Habits

Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it

Pete Wharmby

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Looking After Your Autistic Self: A Personalised Self-Care Approach to Managing Your Sensory and Emotional Well-Being

Niamh Garvey

4.31

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UNMASKED

Ellie Middleton

4.24

Transform Your Habits

But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life

Paige Layle

4.28

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