Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny
By: Michael Tomasello
4.11
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A radical reconsideration of how we develop the qualities that make us human, based on decades of c…
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1. Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
By: Susan Blackmore
3.87
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
"The last great mystery for science," consciousness has become a controversial topic. Consciousness… read more
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"إننا أحيانًا نعتقد أننا لا نقوم بشيء في حين أننا نقوم به بالفعل ص 94"-Susan Blackmore, Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
"إذا كان هناك سؤال لا يمكن الإجابة عنه، فربما من الأفضل أن نتوقَّفَ عن طرحه ص 119"-Susan Blackmore, Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
"نقلاً عن ليبيت: على الرغم من أنه ليسَتْ لدينا إرادة حرة للفعل، فإن لدينا إرادةً حرة لعدم الفعل ص 91"-Susan Blackmore, Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
"في التأمُّل، هناك دائمًا خطران: أن تُصاب بالنعاس وتنام، أو أن تنفعل بسبب الأفكار المشوشة أو الشعور بعدم الراحة ص 114"-Susan Blackmore, Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
2. Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth (Princeton Science Library)
By: Andrew H. Knoll
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled wit… read more
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- biology
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3. 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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- biology
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4. The March
By: E.L. Doctorow
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched his sixty thousand troops through Georgia t… read more
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5. No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
3.49
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer for History, No Ordinary Timeis a chronicle of one of the most vibrant & rev… read more
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6. The Origins of Totalitarianism
By: Hannah Arendt
3.37
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twent… read more
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7. What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
By: Roger Penrose , Erwin Schrödinger
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What Is Life? is a 1944 non-fiction science book written for the lay reader by physicist Erwin Schr… read more
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8. 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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9. The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
By: None
3.67
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known … read more
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10. A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
By: Jennifer A. Doudna , Samuel H. Sternberg
4.08
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era: a c… read more
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11. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
By: Erving Goffman , Sven Bergström
0.00
Format: 400 pages,
A study of human behavior in social situations and the way we appear to others. Dr. Goffman has emp… read more
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12. Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans
By: Brian M. Fagan
3.33
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Cro-Magnons were the first fully modern Europeans?not only the creators of the stunning cave painti… read more
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13. Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science
By: Karl Sigmund , None
3.00
Format: 9 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling group biography of the early twentieth-century thinkers who transformed the way the worl… read more
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14. God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
By: Meghan O'Gieblyn
4.27
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
A meditation on what it might mean to be human in an age of ever-accelerating technology. read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"As black-box technologies become more widespread, there have been no shortage of demands for increased transparency. In 2016 the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation included in its st…"-Meghan O'Gieblyn, God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
15. 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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- 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
16. Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational
By: Michael Shermer
3.76
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Best-selling author Michael Shermer presents an overarching review of conspiracy theories―who belie… read more
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17. From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
By: Daniel C. Dennett
3.77
Format: 477 pages, Paperback
How did we come to have minds? For centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists ha… read more
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"Comprehension is not the source of competence or the active ingredient in competence; comprehension is composed of competences."-Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
"That's a rhetorical question, and trying to answer rhetorical questions instead of being cowed by them is a good habit to cultivate."-Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
"We Homo sapiens are the only species (so far) with richly cumulative culture, and the key ingredient of culture that makes this possible is language."-Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
"Don’t be afraid of a little metaphor; it won’t bite you, but you should always make sure you know how to cash it in for unvarnished fact when you feel the urge."-Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
18. Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
By: Camilla Townsend
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingd… read more
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- nonfiction
- anthropology
- audiobook
"Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only s…"-Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
19. Models of the Mind: How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain
By: Grace Lindsay
4.39
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The brain is made up of 85 billion neurons, which are connected by over 100 trillion synapses. For … read more
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20. Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny
By: Michael Tomasello
4.11
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A radical reconsideration of how we develop the qualities that make us human, based on decades of c… read more
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