Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World
By: Nina Kraus
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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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. Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
By: Octavia E. Butler , Walter Mosley , Steven Barnes , Samuel R. Delany , Charles W. Chesnutt , W.E.B. Du Bois , Tananarive Due , Amiri Baraka , Derrick A. Bell , Nisi Shawl , Nalo Hopkinson , Sheree Renée Thomas , Kalamu ya Salaam , None , None , Charles R. Saunders , Jewelle L. Gómez , Henry Dumas , None , Kiini Ibura Salaam , Robert Fleming , None , None , Honorée Fanonne Jeffers , Paul D. Miller , Evie Shockley , Leone Ross
4.16
Format: 427 pages, Paperback
This volume introduces black science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction writers to the gener… read more
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3. Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
By: Neil Shubin
4.03
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are b… read more
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"We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"Look at the first arch in a human and a shark, and you find a very similar state of affairs: jaws."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"Many of the molecules that microbes use to cause us misery are primitive versions of the molecules that make our own bodies possible."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
4. Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
By: Nick Lane
3.87
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
If it weren't for mitochondria, scientists argue, we'd all still be single-celled bacteria. Indeed,… read more
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5. Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
By: Mark Miodownik
3.92
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
A New York TimesBestseller An eye-opening adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surroun… read more
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6. The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
By: James Howard Kunstler
3.85
Format: None pages,
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7. Independent People
By: Halldór Laxness , James Anderson Thompson
3.75
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
This magnificent novel--which secured for its author the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature--is at last… read more
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8. How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
By: David Richo
3.68
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
"Most people think of love as a feeling," says David Richo, "but love is not so much a feeling as a… read more
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9. 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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10. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
By: Max Solomon Bennett
4.46
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts Sapiens , Behave, and Superintelligence , but wholly original in scope, A Brief History… read more
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11. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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12. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
13. Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away
By: Annie Duke
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Thinking in Bets comes a toolkit for mastering the skill of quitting… read more
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14. Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
By: Susan Magsamen
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brai… read more
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15. This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You
By: Susan Rogers
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secret… read more
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16. 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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17. Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
By: Nicklas Brendborg
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A Sunday Times (UK) Best Book of the Year • This eye-opening book offers a "clear and captivating" … read more
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18. The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
By: Robert Waldinger
4.16
Format: 352 pages, ebook
What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? In their book, the directors of the Ha… read more
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19. The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
By: Annie Murphy Paul
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
A bold new book reveals how we can tap the intelligence that exists beyond our brains—in our bodies… read more
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20. The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
By: Fei-Fei Li
4.39
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at … read more
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21. The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
By: Anand Giridharadas
4.09
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change mi… read more
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"We were being explicitly taught: Don’t think that you are first to anything, pay attention to what preceded you, trust that you are standing on someone else’s ground until proven otherwise."-Anand Giridharadas, The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
"All this is new to white people, because white people generally think they can just do what they want. There’s no consulting, there’s no talking to people of color about what they think. So we were p…"-Anand Giridharadas, The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
22. Bitch: On the Female of the Species
By: Lucy Cooke
4.45
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom. Studying zoology m… read more
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23. The Mind of a Bee
By: Lars Chittka
4.11
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A rich and surprising exploration of the intelligence of bees Most of us are aware of the hive min… read more
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"American writer and biologist Frederick Kenyon (1867-1941) was the first to explore the inner workings of the bee brain. His 1896 study, in which he managed to dye and characterize numerous types of …"-Lars Chittka, The Mind of a Bee
24. The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread
By: Cailin O'Connor
3.77
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
The social dynamics of “alternative facts”: why what you believe depends on who you know Why sho… read more
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25. How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
By: Stanislas Dehaene
4.33
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean, and … read more
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"Yann LeCun's strategy provides a good example of a much more general notion: the exploitation of innate knowledge. Convolutional neural networks learn better and faster than other types of neural net…"-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
"Our brain is therefore not simply passively subjected to sensory inputs. From the get-go, it already possesses a set of abstract hypotheses, an accumulated wisdom that emerged through the sift of Dar…"-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
"The moral here is that nature and nurture should not be opposed. Pure learning, in the absence of any innate constraints, simply does not exist. Any learning algorithm contains, in one way or another…"-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
26. It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told)
By: Karen Tang
4.34
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An inclusive and essential guide to reproductive health—including period problems, pelvic pain, men… read more
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27. Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World
By: Nina Kraus
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Наш слышащий мозг обширен — это нечто большее, чем просто прибор для обработки звука. Нина Краус ра… read more
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28. Quantum Bullsh*t How to Ruin Your Life with Advice from Quantum Physics
By: Chris Ferrie
3.68
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Science is so f*cking rad. We don't deserve it. What actually is quantum physics? If you can answer… read more
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29. Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less
By: Leidy Klotz
3.45
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Blending behavioral science and design, Leidy Klotz's Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less offers… read more
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30. The Adventure Zone, Vol. 6: The Suffering Game
By: Clint McElroy
4.58
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Taako, Magnus, and Merle are near the end of their quest to collect the seven Grand Relics, dangero… read more
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31. Our Senses: An Immersive Experience
By: Robert DeSalle
3.57
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
A lively and unconventional exploration of our senses, how they work, what is revealed when they do… read more
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