Your Brain, Explained: What Neuroscience Reveals About Your Brain and its Quirks
By: Marc Dingman
4.16
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Sleep. Memory. Pleasure. Fear. Language. We experience these things every day, but how do our brain…
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1. The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
By: Michio Kaku
4.09
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times best-selling author of Physics of the Impossible, Physics of the Future and Hype… read more
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"In science fiction, telepaths often communicate across language barriers, since thoughts are considered to be universal. However, this might not be true. Emotions and feelings may well be nonverbal a…"-Michio Kaku, The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
"But on the question of whether the robots will eventually take over, he { Rodney A. Brooks } says that this will probably not happen, for a variety of reasons. First, no one is going to accidentally …"-Michio Kaku, The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
"Maybe somewhere telepaths walked the Earth, but I wasn't one of them. In the process, I began to realize that the wondrous exploits of telepaths were probably impossible--at least without outside ass…"-Michio Kaku, The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
"Recent brain scans have shed light on how the brain simulates the future. These simulation are done mainly in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the CEO of the brain, using memories of the past. On …"-Michio Kaku, The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
2. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
By: Carlo Rovelli , Simon Carnell , Erica Segre
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Hardcover
Everything you need to know about the beauty of modern physics in less than 100 pages. In seven bri… read more
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3. Outland
By: Dennis E. Taylor
3.86
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
"When the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts, it's up to six university students and their experimenta… read more
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4. Hjernen
By: None
3.71
Format: 234 pages, Audiobook
Din hjerne er genial. Slev om vi bttyer om pa bgotasvrene, kan den satidg fnide mnnieg i odrnee. De… read more
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5. Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School
By: Andrew Hallam
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
The incredible story of how a schoolteacher built a million-dollar portfolio, and how you can tooMo… read more
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6. 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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"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
7. The World According to Physics
By: Jim Al-Khalili
4.13
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili offers a fascinat… read more
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"The true beauty of physics, for me, is found not only in abstract equations or in surprising experimental results, but in the deep underlying principles that govern the way the world is."-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics
"By thinking about what we don't yet know, we can think about how we can best find out. It is the many questions we have asked over the course of our human history that have given us an ever-more-accu…"-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics
"Let me first make two important assumptions, which I will discuss in more detail later on, but will now just say that they are both supported strongly by observational evidence: (1) that the laws of …"-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics
"The trustworthiness of science comes not from certainty, but from its very openness about its uncertainty, always calling into question what we currently understand and being prepared to replace that…"-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics
8. Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
By: Scott H. Young
3.95
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
Now a Wall Street Journal bestseller. Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and ad… read more
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"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is."-Scott H. Young, Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
"Learning, at its core, is a broadening of horizons, of seeing things that were previously invisible and of recognizing capabilities within yourself that you didn't know existed"-Scott H. Young, Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
"In theory, consistency is about being disciplined, determined, and unwavering. In practice, consistency is about being adaptable. Don't have much time? Scale it down. Don't have much energy? Do the e…"-Scott H. Young, Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
9. Feedback
By: Dennis E. Taylor
3.84
Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 32 minutes If the past is prologue - what if the prologue never happened? When… read more
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10. Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
By: Tobias Hürter
4.42
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
The epic true story of how a global team of physics luminaries—Einstein, Curie, Schrödinger, and mo… read more
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11. Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong
By: Eric Barker
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
AN INSTANT USA TODAY and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER From the author of the Wall Street Journal … read more
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"To Aristotle, friends “are disposed toward each other as they are disposed to themselves: a friend is another self."-Eric Barker, Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong
"Edith Wharton in the 1800s? “There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not as a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self."-Eric Barker, Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong
"Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman found that when you survey people in the moment, their happiness levels are highest while with friends... To be fair, research by Beverley Fair shows that we're the…"-Eric Barker, Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong
"Without institutional obligations, the upkeep of friendships require must be very deliberate... However, the weakness of friendship is also the source of its immeasurable strength. Why do true friend…"-Eric Barker, Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong
12. 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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13. Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To
By: Dean Burnett
3.97
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The brain is an absolute marvel—the seat of our consciousness, the pinnacle (so far) of evolutionar… read more
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"Sadly, the words "reliable" and "accurate" can rarely be applied to the workings of the brain, particularly for memory."-Dean Burnett, Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To
"One of the brain's most prominent skills is the ability to ignore anything that becomes too predictable, no matter how important it may be"-Dean Burnett, Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To
"Every human is technically a meaningless sack of carbon clinging to a rock hurtling through the uncaring void around trillions of tons of nuclear fire, but that's too big for a single human to be awa…"-Dean Burnett, Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To
"Everything you are is a feature of your brain, and as such much of what your brain does is dedicated to making you look and feel as good as possible. ]...] For example by modifying your memories to m…"-Dean Burnett, Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To
14. The Lonesome Bodybuilder
By: Yukiko Motoya
3.59
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees radical changes to her physique--which her workaholic hu… read more
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"You must think you're really something. Calling yourself a phenomenon."-Yukiko Motoya, The Lonesome Bodybuilder
"Life’s not worth living if you’re not tending to the whims and demands of a high-maintenance lover!"-Yukiko Motoya, The Lonesome Bodybuilder
"When I woke up and looked in the mirror, I saw that my face had finally begun to forget who I was. I guessed my features had just been caught off guard that day. When I peered closer, they rushed to …"-Yukiko Motoya, The Lonesome Bodybuilder
15. Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way
By: Roma Agrawal
3.63
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Royal Society Science Book Prize A structural engineer examines the sev… read more
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16. Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
By: Judith Grisel
4.12
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovered drug addict, an authoritative and accessibl… read more
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"As always with addictive drugs, tolerance spoils the fun..."-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
"...there will never be enough drug, because the brain's capacity to learn and adapt is basically infinite."-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
"I'd sought wellness and became sick; fun, but lived in a constant state of anxious dread; freedom, and was enslaved."-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
"A victim of virtually any disease usually elicits pity, addicts mostly evoke revulsion. What is it about the irrational behavior of an addict that makes everyone want to turn away?"-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
17. The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
By: António Damásio
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition that re… read more
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18. Your Brain, Explained: What Neuroscience Reveals About Your Brain and its Quirks
By: Marc Dingman
4.16
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Sleep. Memory. Pleasure. Fear. Language. We experience these things every day, but how do our brain… read more
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19. Savage City (The Bliss Wars #1)
By: L. Penelope
3.75
Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition
For Talia, death is only the beginning of survival... When a tragic accident cuts my lonely life… read more
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20. Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse #5)
By: Dennis E. Taylor
4.38
Format: 11 pages, Audiobook
The number one best-selling series that Audible listeners call “wonderfully entertaining”, “packed … read more
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21. A Million Things To Ask A Neuroscientist
By: Mike Tranter
3.94
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Just how much do we really understand about the pink mushy thing in our head? A Million Things To … read more
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