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 …
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1. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Why do we do the things we do? More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert … read more
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2. Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
By: António Damásio
4.23
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Since Descartes famously proclaimed, "I think, therefore I am," science has often overlooked emotio… read more
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3. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
3.66
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness Peter Godfrey-Smith is … read more
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4. How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
By: Ray Kurzweil
2.83
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
The bold futurist and bestselling author explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering th… read more
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5. 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
6. 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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7. 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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8. Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
By: Lisa Feldman Barrett
4.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the author of How Emotions Are Made , a captivating collection of short essays about your bra… read more
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"The triune brain idea is one of the most successful and widespread errors in all of science."-Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
"Sometimes we're responsible for things not because they're our fault, but because we're the only ones who can change them."-Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
"The best thing for your nervous system is another human. The worst thing for your nervous system is also another human. This situation leads us to a fundamental dilemma of the human condition."-Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
9. Disunited Nations: Succeeding in a World Where No One Gets Along
By: Peter Zeihan
4.25
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Should we stop caring about fading regional powers like China, Russia, Germany, and Iran? Will the … read more
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"In many ways, industrialization is a straitjacket. The suite of industrial technologies improves literacy and mobility and reach and wealth and health, but without the inputs of oil, natural gas, iro…"-Peter Zeihan, Disunited Nations: Succeeding in a World Where No One Gets Along
10. Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time
By: Dean Buonomano
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The brain - the most complex dynamical system in the known universe - tells, represents, and percei… read more
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"Neuroscientists rarely have to grapple with the issue of presentism versus existentialism. But in practice, neuroscientists are implicitly presentists. They view the past, present, and future as fund…"-Dean Buonomano, Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time
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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12. T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us
By: Carole Hooven
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Testosterone: Misunderstood. Mythologized. Controversial. A Harvard evolutionary biologist debun… read more
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13. 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
14. Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
By: Neil Shubin
4.14
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
In Some Assembly Required, Neil Shubin takes readers on a journey of discovery spanning centuries, … read more
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15. 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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16. 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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17. Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
By: David J. Chalmers
3.73
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
Virtual reality is genuine reality; that’s the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original wor… read more
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18. Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
By: Anne Case
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the f… read more
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"As Bertrand Russell once noted, among the strongest advocates that the poor should work more are the idle rich, who have never done any."-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
"At a time when the American military was bombing the opium supply in Helmand province in Afghanistan, Johnson & Johnson was legally growing the raw material for the nation’s opioid supply in Tasma…"-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
"It would be a tragedy if the profits of the drug trade were allowed to corrupt America and were later seen, as was the case in China a century and a half ago, as the beginning of a hundred years …"-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
"As is often noted, and only partially in jest, economists seek to explain why people choose to commit suicide, while sociologists explain why they have no such choice. On suicide, the sociologists ha…"-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
19. Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies
By: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
4.02
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when … read more
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"My unexpected finding is that inside every man there lurk ancient caretaking tendencies that render a man every bit as protective and nurturing as the most committed mother."-Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies
20. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
By: Nate Silver
3.84
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more
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