How God Works: The Science Behind the Benefits of Religion
By: David DeSteno
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on a wealth of new evidence, pioneering research psychologist David DeSteno shows why relig…
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1. The Perennial Philosophy
By: Aldous Huxley
4.12
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Perennial Philosophy is defined by its author as "The metaphysic that recognizes a divine Reali… read more
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- history
- psychology
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
"Organized and balanced disunity is the necessary condition of liberty."-Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy
"We cannot hope to utter anything worth saying, unless we read and inwardly digest the utterances of our betters."-Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy
"If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion."-Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy
"In other words, the highest form of the love of God is an immediate spiritual intuition, by which 'knower, known and knowledge are made one."-Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy
2. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
By: Annette Lareau
5.00
Format: 646 pages, Paperback
Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth obs… read more
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3. Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry
By: Lenore Skenazy
3.84
Format: None pages, Hardcover
FREE RANGE KIDShas become a national movement, sparked by the incredible response to Lenore Skenazy… read more
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4. American Zion: A New History of Mormonism
By: Benjamin E. Park
4.21
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a pr… read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
- history
- audiobook
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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- science
- psychology
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- audiobook
"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. 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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- nonfiction
- history
- psychology
- science
7. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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- philosophy
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- spirituality
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"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
8. How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
By: Jason F. Stanley
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Fascist politics are running rampant in America today—and spreading around the world. A Yale philos… read more
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- history
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Fascist politics does not necessarily lead to an explicitly fascist state, but it is dangerous nonetheless. Fascist politics includes many distinct strategies: the mythic past, propaganda, anti-intel…"-Jason F. Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
9. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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- personal development
- psychology
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"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
10. Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
By: Ronen Bergman
4.40
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, from… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"The divide between the combat-sated generals, who once had "a knife between their teeth" but later grasped the limits of force, and the majority of the people of Israel, is the sad reality in which M…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
"Finally, a recruit would undergo one last test. The agency would send him home, to his own neighborhood and his own social circle, in disguise and with his alias. If he could circulate there, among t…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
"Indeed, in many respects the story of Israel’s intelligence community as recounted in this book has been one of a long string of impressive tactical successes, but also disastrous strategic failures.…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
11. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- psychology
- science
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
12. The Practice of Groundedness: A Transformative Path to Success That Feeds—Not Crushes—Your Soul
By: Brad Stulberg
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Join thousands of readers and learn about the foundations of sustainable excellence and concrete ha… read more
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- personal development
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
By: Dacher Keltner
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Awe is mysterious. How do we begin to quantify the goose bumps we feel when we see the Grand Canyon… read more
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- personal development
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- science
14. Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew
By: Emmanuel Acho
4.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From two New York Times bestselling authors, a timely, disarmingly honest, and thought-provoking in… read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
- history
- audiobook
15. Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
By: Steven Levitsky
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the New York Times… read more
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- history
- audiobook
16. Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
By: Richard V. Reeves
4.07
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
"A landmark, one of the most important books of the year" - David Brooks, New York Times“Real, prac… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
"True equality between groups that are different in any way can be attained only by providing for the differences". That´s Margaret Mead again, in 1974. Mead´s idea of true equality might now be label…"-Richard V. Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
17. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
By: Ethan Mollick
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more
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- nonfiction
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18. Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream
By: David Leonhardt
4.28
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American D… read more
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- history
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19. How God Works: The Science Behind the Benefits of Religion
By: David DeSteno
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on a wealth of new evidence, pioneering research psychologist David DeSteno shows why relig… read more
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- audiobook
- personal development
- history
- faith
- psychology
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- science
20. 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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- personal development
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- science
"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
