A History of the Human Brain
By: Bret Stetka
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle
By: Matt Fitzgerald
4.10
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
The greatest athletic performances spring from the mind, not the body. Elite athletes have know… read more
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"Exercising mental fitness was a daily battle for him, but a battle he chose."-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle
"It was a very hard race from the word go with a combination of great runners and a tough course,"-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle
"What is the logic of punishing yourself each day, of striving to become better, more efficient, tougher?"-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle
"Interpreting running as an opportunity to discover and become his best self, and to give his best to others, through the relentless pursuit of toughness, or guts—a kind of courage."-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle
2. Son of the Black Sword (Saga of the Forgotten Warrior, #1)
By: Larry Correia
4.18
Format: None pages, Hardcover
After the War of the Gods, the demons were cast out and fell to the world. Mankind was nearly eradi… read more
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3. Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
By: Elizabeth Wayland Barber
2.83
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient soci… read more
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4. Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
By: Paul A. Offit
3.21
Format: 192 pages,
What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with… read more
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5. 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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6. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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7. The Highgate Cemetery Murder (Tate and Bell Mystery, #1)
By: Irina Shapiro
4.35
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
His heart pounding, the man scribbles the words in his notebook as fast as he can: “Woman dead in H… read more
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8. Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices
By: Noah Whiteman
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An evolutionary biologist tells the story of nature’s toxins and why we are attracted—and addicted—… read more
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9. I Hate the Ivy League: Riffs and Rants on Elite Education
By: Malcolm Gladwell
4.30
Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio
Malcolm Gladwell has long relished the opportunity to skewer the upper echelons of higher education… read more
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10. The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
By: Jaime Green
4.02
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A dazzling cultural and scientific exploration of alien life and the cosmos, examining how the poss… read more
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"We’re not alone because we’re not separate from the swirl of a galaxy’s arms or the way wind catches dust in a gyre. We’re no more an anomaly than an atom is."-Jaime Green, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
"…science fiction writers may have been the first people to realize the unknowability of where technology would lead us… Where it used to be possible to set stories millennia in the future—affording h…"-Jaime Green, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
11. Destroyer of Worlds (Saga of the Forgotten Warrior, #3)
By: Larry Correia
4.44
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
If it's war you want...find here the best of military epic fantasy as the best-selling Saga of the … read more
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12. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
By: Rebecca Boyle
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the… read more
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13. A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
By: Jeff Hawkins
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An author, neuroscientist, and computer engineer unveils a theory of intelligence, of understanding… read more
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"To avoid hallucinating, the brain needs to keep its predictions separate from reality."-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
"Unlike species which often disappear as new ones appear, the brain evolved by adding new parts on top of the older parts."-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
"It is human nature - aka old brain - to suspect everyone wants to steal your idea, where the reality is that you are lucky if anyone cares about your idea at all."-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
"Reference frames in the old brain learn maps of environments. Reference frames in the what columns of the neocortex learn maps of physical objects. Reference frames in the where columns of the neocor…"-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
14. The Seed Detective: Uncovering the Secret Histories of Remarkable Vegetables
By: Adam Alexander
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Ever wonder how peas, kale, asparagus, beans, squash and sweetcorn ended up on our plates? Well, so… read more
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15. The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
By: Bill Hammack
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Discover the secret method used to build the world… For millennia, humans have used one simple m… read more
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16. Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses
By: Katie Spalding
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, whe… read more
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17. What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
By: Dan Levitt
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambiti… read more
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18. Tower of Silence (Saga of the Forgotten Warrior, #4)
By: Larry Correia
4.62
Format: 471 pages, Kindle Edition
The assassination of the Chief Judge has pushed the Capitol to the edge. The Great Extermination ha… read more
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19. Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
By: Lee Berger
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A true-life scientific adventure story, this thrilling book takes the reader deep into South Africa… read more
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"Protein is more stable than DNA over time, and so this new technology offers a fresh way to study fossils."-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
"By almost any definition, Homo naledi is not human. But if the present archaeological record reflects the complexity of Homo sapiens accurately, it means that naledi was significantly more complex th…"-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
"Their synchrotron, a super-powerful x-ray machine, can harness the radiation of überfast subatomic particles in order to -- among many other things -- look inside solid objects. It's spectacular scie…"-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
20. First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
By: Jeremy Desilva
4.33
Format: 352 pages, ebook
In First Steps, paleoanthropologist Jeremy DeSilva explores how unusual and extraordinary this seem… read more
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"...Bipedalism in an overly aggressive ape with purely selfish tendencies and a low tolerance for other group member would have been a recipe for extinction."-Jeremy Desilva, First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
21. A History of the Human Brain
By: Bret Stetka
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
“Crack open this book and take a read. You will be transported, illuminated, and delighted.” —Psych… read more
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