6 must-read neuroscience books like Connections: A Story of Human Feeling by Karl Deisseroth

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Connections: A Story of Human Feeling

By: Karl Deisseroth

3.78

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

In this riveting journey through the hidden realms of the human mind, a world-renowned psychiatrist…

If you liked the neuroscience plot in Connections: A Story of Human Feeling by Karl Deisseroth , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Soldados de Salamina

By: Javier Cercas

3.58

Format: 24 pages,

Un joven periodista topa por casualidad con una historia fascinante, y muy significativa, de la Gue… read more

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2. Rhythms of Life: The Biological Clocks that Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing

By: Russell Foster , Leon Kreitzman

2.74

Format: None pages, Paperback

Why can't teenagers get out of bed in the morning? How do bees tell the time? Why do some plants op… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science

3. The Tools: Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity

By: Phil Stutz , Barry Michels

4.43

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking book about personal growth that presents a uniquely effective set of four tools th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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4. On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

By: Carl R. Rogers , Peter D. Kramer

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement, revolutionized psychotherapy w… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help

5. La bella estate

By: Cesare Pavese

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

"A quei tempi era sempre festa. Bastava uscire di casa e attraversare la strada, per diventare come… read more

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6. Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages

By: Guy Deutscher

4.75

Format: None pages,

A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny qu… read more

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7. Paesi tuoi

By: Cesare Pavese

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

Prima prova narrativa di Pavese, Paesi tuoivenne pubblicato nel 1941 e suscito immediatamente scand… read more

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8. No voy a pedirle a nadie que me crea

By: Juan Pablo Villalobos

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

<>, nos advierten con frecuencia los distintos narradores y personajes de esta historia, en la que … 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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  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
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10. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

By: Kim Ghattas

4.40

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Black Wave is a paradigm-shifting recasting of the modern history of the Middle East, telling the l… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Beyond the headlines about war and death, the region is alive with music, art, books, theater, social entrepreneurship, advocacy, libraries, cafes, bookshops, poetry, and so much more, as old and you…"

-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

"If Beirut was the supermarket of the left in the 1970s, where Marxists, communists, Egyptians, Iraqis, and all the Palestinian factions debated and theorized, published and drank in bars arguing over…"

-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

"Every king had tried to put his imprint on the city and the mosque; some were worse than others. King Faisal had been a parsimonious man and the expansion works reflected as much—measured and reasona…"

-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

"Although our countries have been changed by the hegemonizing influences of both Iran and Saudi Arabia, the headlines in the Western media have always reduced matters of extraordinary depth and comple…"

-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

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11. Merking

By: Fríða Ísberg

3.70

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

Skáldsagan Merking er margradda verk sem fjallar um afstöðu og pólaríseringu, fordóma og samkennd. … read more

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12. 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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  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
"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

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13. Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes

By: Nathan H. Lents

3.95

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

A biology professor’s illuminating tour of the physical imperfections—from faulty knees to junk DNA… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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14. Recupera tu mente, reconquista tu vida

By: Marian Rojas Estapé

4.35

Format: 447 pages, Kindle Edition

Cómo rescatar la atención perdida en un mundo distraído e hiperconectado. Cada vez somos más impac… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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15. Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious

By: António Damásio

3.59

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From one of the world’s leading neuroscientists: a succinct, illuminating, wholly engaging investig… read more

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  • self help
  • psychology
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • science
"In no way can interoception be regarded as a plain perceptual representation of the body inside the nervous system. There is, rather, an extensive commingling of signals. By now we should be clear ab…"

-António Damásio, Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious

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16. Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

By: Leonard Mlodinow

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

We’ve all been told that thinking rationally is the key to success. But at the cutting edge of scie… read more

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  • self help
  • psychology
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • science
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17. Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way

By: Kieran Setiya

3.58

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

A NEW YORKER AND THE ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2022" Life Is Hard is a humane consolation for challeng… read more

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  • self help
  • unfinished
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
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18. 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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  • self help
  • psychology
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • science
"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

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19. Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence

By: Gavin Francis

4.07

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

“An essential book for our times, full of wisdom, compassion and sound advice. Every patient needs … read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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20. Bir Kalbin Çöküşü

By: Stefan Zweig

3.74

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Bir Kalbin Çöküşü, Stefan Zweig’ın psikolojiye duyduğu yoğun ilgiyi yansıtan öykülerinden biridir. … read more

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21. Connections: A Story of Human Feeling

By: Karl Deisseroth

3.78

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

In this riveting journey through the hidden realms of the human mind, a world-renowned psychiatrist… read more

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  • relationships
  • science
  • unfinished
  • psychology
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • self help

14 best-selling nonfiction books like Connections: A Story of Human Feeling by Karl Deisseroth

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Russell Foster , Leon Kreitzman

2.74

The Tools: Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity

Phil Stutz , Barry Michels

4.43

Transform Your Habits

On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

Carl R. Rogers , Peter D. Kramer

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

Anil Seth

4.10

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Siddharth Kara

4.37

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Chris Miller

4.44

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Jeremy Bowen

4.38

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