7 must-read health books like Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey by Alice Robb

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Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey

By: Alice Robb

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A fresh, revelatory foray into the new science of dreams—how they work, what they’re for, and how w…

If you liked the health plot in Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey by Alice Robb , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. And Yet ...

By: Christopher Hitchens

3.96

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

The death of Christopher Hitchens in December 2011 prematurely silenced a voice that was among the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"As soon as I entered the room, he cried out, without any other greeting: "You've gotten very fat!" It was his way of disarming, I thought, any horror I might have felt at his own pudding-like rotundi…"

-Christopher Hitchens, And Yet ...

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2. An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

By: Elisabeth Rosenthal

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

A New York Times bestseller "The definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • health
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3. Guadalcanal Diary

By: Mark Bowden , Richard Tregaskis

3.77

Format: 342 pages,

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  • nonfiction

4. The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere

By: Pico Iyer

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Hardcover

A follow up to Pico Iyer's essay "The Joy of Quiet," The Art of Stillnessconsiders the unexpected a… read more

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5. Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

By: Sendhil Mullainathan , Eldar Shafir

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Hardcover

A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcity--and our flawed responses to it--shapes our… read more

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6. Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

By: John Taylor Gatto

3.33

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

"Gatto draws on thirty years in the classroom and many years of research as a school reformer. He p… read more

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7. Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

Renowned primatologist Robert Sapolsky offers a completely revised and updated edition of his most … read more

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8. Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

By: Jenny Odell

3.61

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from … read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"Most living entities and systems on this planet obviously do not live by the Western human clock (though some, like the crows who memorize a city's daily garbage truck route, do of course adapt to th…"

-Jenny Odell, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

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9. Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free

By: Caroline Williams

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

*Shortlisted for Sunday Times Book of the Year * *A Greater Good Science Center Best Book of 2022* … read more

Similar categories in Caroline Williams's Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free book and Alice Robb's Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • health
  • medical
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
"The brain evolved not for us to think but to allow us to move – away from danger and towards rewards."

-Caroline Williams, Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free

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10. 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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  • health
  • medical
  • biology
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
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11. Hey, Zoey

By: Sarah Crossan

3.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Dolores O'Shea’s marriage collapses when she discovers her husband’s AI sex doll in the garage. Whe… read more

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  • audiobook
"But I wished I wasn’t strong. Because when you are, no one thinks to take care of you."

-Sarah Crossan, Hey, Zoey

"We were too alike. We loved one another in the wrong way, but that doesn't mean it wasn't love."

-Sarah Crossan, Hey, Zoey

"How could we possibly tell another person everything about ourselves? It would take a lifetime. It would be incredibly boring."

-Sarah Crossan, Hey, Zoey

"As a young teacher I would raise my voice to get a group’s attention. Now I know better. To make yourself heard, you get very quiet. It instils fear."

-Sarah Crossan, Hey, Zoey

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12. The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep

By: Guy Leschziner

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

For Dr. Guy Leschziner's patients, there is no rest for the weary in mind and body. Insomnia, narco… read more

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  • audiobook
  • health
  • medical
  • biology
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
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13. Rez Ball

By: Byron Graves

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This debut novel by Byron Graves tells the story of a young athlete determined to play like the her… read more

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  • audiobook
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14. When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep

By: Antonio Zadra

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Questions on the origins and meaning of dreams are as old as humankind, and as confounding and exci… read more

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  • audiobook
  • health
  • biology
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
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15. Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines

By: Joy Buolamwini

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms an… read more

Similar categories in Joy Buolamwini's Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines book and Alice Robb's Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey

  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America

By: Jim Sciutto

4.10

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Are we losing a war few of us realize we’re fighting? Jim Sciutto, CNN’s Chief National Security … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. The Life of the Mind

By: Christine Smallwood

3.28

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A witty, intelligent novel of an American woman on the edge, by a brilliant new voice in fiction--"… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less by Leidy Klotz

18. Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less

By: Leidy Klotz

3.45

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Blending behavioral science and design, Leidy Klotz's Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less offers… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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19. O Oráculo da Noite : A História e a Ciência do Sonho

By: Sidarta Ribeiro

4.04

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

A partir de informações históricas, antropológicas, psicanalíticas e literárias, além das referênci… read more

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  • audiobook
  • health
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
"É gritante o contraste entre a relevância motivacional do sonho e sua banalização no mundo industrial globalizado."

-Sidarta Ribeiro, O Oráculo da Noite : A História e a Ciência do Sonho

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20. Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey

By: Alice Robb

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A fresh, revelatory foray into the new science of dreams—how they work, what they’re for, and how w… read more

Similar categories in Alice Robb's Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey book and Alice Robb's Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • health
  • medical
  • biology
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • science
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21. Sestry

By: Kamila Hladká

4.19

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Jsou tady již po staletí, v dějinách mnohokrát prokázaly velkou kuráž, stojí na nejnižším žebříčku … read more

Similar categories in Kamila Hladká's Sestry book and Alice Robb's Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey

  • nonfiction

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Christopher Hitchens

3.96

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Jenny Odell

3.61

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Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free

Caroline Williams

4.02

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Sarah Crossan

3.39

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Martin Moravec

4.78

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Filip Titlbach

4.59

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Nina Špitálníková

4.78

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Linda Bartošová

4.14

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