How the Mind Changed: A Human History of Our Evolving Brain
By: Joseph Jebelli
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved… and is still evolving. We’ve come a lo…
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1. Wij zijn ons brein: van baarmoeder tot Alzheimer
By: Dick Swaab
3.90
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Het verhaal van je leven is het verhaal van je brein. Dat begint in de baarmoeder, waar de hersenen… read more
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- neuroscience
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"Mountaineers, especially when alone, sometimes have very vivid hallucinations [...]. So it is interesting that the revelations received by the leaders of the world's three main religions were precede…"-Dick Swaab, Wij zijn ons brein: van baarmoeder tot Alzheimer
2. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
By: Ed Yong
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Every animal, whether human, squid, or wasp, is home to millions of bacteria and other microbes. Ma… read more
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- biology
- medicine
- evolution
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- science
"I was struck by how different everything seemed with microbes in mind."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"The brutal contract of natural selection ensures that if one partner is unnecessary, it gets dumped."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"There’s a popular saying among doctors: There’s no such thing as alternative medicine; if it works, it’s just called medicine."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
3. How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony
By: Ross W. Duffin
3.79
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Ross W. Duffin presents an engaging and elegantly reasoned expose of musical temperament and its im… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
4. Büyülü Dağ (Büyülü Dağ, #1)
By: Thomas Mann , İris Kantemir
3.57
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Thomas Mann, yuzyilimiza damgasini vurmus bir yazar. Hitler'in etkin olmaya basladigi donemde Alman… read more
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5. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
By: None
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Audio CD
How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of be… read more
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6. The Tell–Tale Brain – A Neuroscientist`s Quest for What Makes Us Human
By: V.S. Ramachandran
3.86
Format: 302 pages,
Drawing on strange and thought-provoking case studies, an eminent neurologist offers unprecedented … read more
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7. The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
By: Richard Dawkins , Dave McKean
3.74
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Magic takes many forms. Supernatural magic is what our ancestors used in order to explain the world… read more
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- biology
- evolution
- nonfiction
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8. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more
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9. The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
By: Sam Kean
4.09
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon, tales of the brain and the history of neu… read more
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10. Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership
By: Barry S. Strauss
4.33
Format: 57 pages, Hardcover
In Masters of Command, Barry Strauss compares the way the three greatest generals of the ancient wo… read more
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11. The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty
By: Simon Baron-Cohen
3.45
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Borderline personality disorder, autism, narcissism, psychosis, Asperger's: All of these syndromes … read more
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12. 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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- biology
- psychology
- neuroscience
- brain
- nonfiction
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13. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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- history
- biology
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
14. A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
By: Henry Gee
4.05
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place―in constant chemical flux, covered with chu… read more
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- biology
- evolution
- nonfiction
- science
"For if life on Earth was forged in fire, it was hardened in ice."-Henry Gee, A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
"Therefore, do not despair. The Earth abides, and life is living yet."-Henry Gee, A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
15. Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions
By: Michael Moss
3.80
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Michael Moss uses the latest research on addiction to uncover what the scientific and medical commu… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- psychology
- science
16. Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)
By: Salman Khan
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the founder of Khan Academy, the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
17. Magic Words
By: Jonah Berger
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB 'MUST-READ' New York Times bestselling author Jonah Berger’s cutting-edge rese… read more
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- nonfiction
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18. A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
By: Sara Manning Peskin
4.21
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the ve… read more
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19. Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
By: Paul Bloom
4.15
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read A compelling and accessible new perspective on the modern science… read more
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- neuroscience
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"If you’re looking for a word to refer to the process of coming to know things through exposure to the right sort of information in the environment, I’d recommend “learning."-Paul Bloom, Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
20. 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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- psychology
- neuroscience
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- nonfiction
- 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
21. Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do about It
By: Daniel Simons
3.91
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Two New York Times-bestselling psychologists explain the science of cons—and how we can avoid them … read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
22. Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are
By: David J. Lieberman
3.88
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Tired of guessing what they're really thinking? Read people in every situation--in person, on a scr… read more
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- psychology
- science
"Self-esteem is keenly observed as a reflection of one’s relationships and manifests in three main domains: one’s history and patterns, interactions and exchanges, and borders and boundaries."-David J. Lieberman, Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are
"If you give out of fear or guilt, your self-esteem is not enriched; indeed, it is only diminished. You aren’t really giving; the other person is taking. You are being taken advantage of, with your co…"-David J. Lieberman, Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are
"The ego corrupts our mindset in five ways: (a) It chooses what we focus on, (b) it makes what we see all about us, (c) it concludes that all negative experiences are due to a deficiency within oursel…"-David J. Lieberman, Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are
"Passivity manifests in complaining and blaming because these behaviors are both self-focused and correlate to feelings of helplessness. These people are likely to make frequent complaints with the ac…"-David J. Lieberman, Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are
23. Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
By: Jamie Metzl
3.99
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
Passionate, provocative, and highly illuminating, Hacking Darwin is the must read book about the fu… read more
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- medicine
- evolution
- nonfiction
- science
24. The Experience Machine
By: Andy Clark
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worldsFor as long as … read more
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- psychology
- neuroscience
- brain
- nonfiction
- science
25. Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
By: Jennifer Vanderbes
4.40
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told st… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
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26. The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers
By: Eric Weiner
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectua… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- psychology
"No wonder so many philosophers walked. Socrates, of course, liked nothing more than strolling in the agora. Nietzsche regularly embarked on spirited two-hour jaunts in the Swiss Alps, convinced “all …"-Eric Weiner, The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers
27. How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi: Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd Nite
By: Chris Balakrishnan
3.63
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
The co-founders of the global science organization Nerd Nite bring readers a collection of wacky, y… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- science
28. Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
By: Gaia Vince
3.98
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, a winner of the Royal Society Prize for Sci… read more
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- history
- biology
- evolution
- psychology
- nonfiction
- anthropology
29. The Nurture Revolution: Grow Your Baby’s Brain and Transform Their Mental Health through the Art of Nurtured Parenting
By: Greer Kirshenbaum
4.45
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The latest research in neuroscience and parenting come together in this groundbreaking book, which … read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
30. How the Mind Changed: A Human History of Our Evolving Brain
By: Joseph Jebelli
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved… and is still evolving. We’ve come a lo… read more
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- evolution
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- neuroscience
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- nonfiction
- anthropology
31. Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
By: Christof Koch
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The world’s leading investigator of consciousness argues that by understanding what consciousness d… read more
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