From Darwin to Derrida: Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life
By: David Haig
3.67
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
How the meaningless process of natural selection produces purposeful beings who find meaning in the…
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1. Why is the Penis Shaped Like That?: And Other Reflections on Being Human
By: Jesse Bering
3.97
Format: 352 pages,
Why do testicles hang the way they do? Is there an adaptive function to the female orgasm? What doe… read more
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2. Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society
By: David Sloan Wilson
3.80
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
One of the great intellectual battles of modern times is between evolution and religion. Until now,… read more
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3. Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain
By: António Damásio
3.67
Format: 44 pages, Paperback
The last in a trilogy of books that investigates the philosophical and scientific foundations of hu… read more
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4. The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
By: Richard Dawkins
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
The renowned biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins presents his most expansive work yet: a comprehe… read more
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5. Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.30
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
How do imperceptibly small differences in the environment change one's behavior? What is the anatom… read more
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6. The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language
By: None
3.73
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light … read more
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7. Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
By: Elizabeth Wein
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Oct. 11th, 1943 - A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are … read more
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8. Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
By: António Damásio
4.23
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Since Descartes famously proclaimed, "I think, therefore I am," science has often overlooked emotio… read more
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9. The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters
By: Sean B. Carroll
3.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African sa… read more
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10. Capital in the Twenty-First Century
By: Thomas Piketty , Arthur Goldhammer
4.61
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions abou… read more
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11. Death at La Fenice (Commissario Brunetti, #1)
By: Donna Leon
3.44
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
There is little violent crime in Venice, a serenely beautiful floating city of mystery and magic, h… read more
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12. The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
By: None
3.67
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known … read more
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13. The Trouble with Testosterone and Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
5.00
Format: 120 pages,
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14. Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations (Ted Books)
By: Dan Ariely
3.81
Format: None pages,
Bestselling author Dan Ariely reveals fascinating new insights into motivation--showing that the su… read more
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15. The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
By: Sean Carroll
4.18
Format: None pages,
It was the universe's most elusive particle, the linchpin for everything scientists dreamed up to e… read more
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17. The Absent Superpower: The Shale Revolution and a World Without America
By: Peter Zeihan
3.08
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
The world is changing in ways most of us find incomprehensible. Terrorism spills out of the Middle … read more
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18. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
3.66
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness Peter Godfrey-Smith is … read more
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19. Biology and Human Behavior: The Neurological Origins of Individuality
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
3.95
Format: None pages,
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20. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
By: Douglas R. Hofstadter
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal s… read more
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21. 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
22. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
23. The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
By: Andrew L. Seidel
4.45
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Do “In God We Trust,” the Declaration of Independence, and other historical “evidence” prove that A… read more
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"Evangelical Christianity invaded and polarized the political debate in the decades leading up to the Civil War, limiting the potential political solutions. It turned the democratic process, which rel…"-Andrew L. Seidel, The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
"In God we Trust", "one nation under God," "God bless America." These tidbits are not historical so much as they are rhetorical. Their tardiness precludes arguments that they somehow prove the foundin…"-Andrew L. Seidel, The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
"Trump's dictatorial tendencies and mendacity, negative attributes for many voters, poised him perfectly to manipulate the evangelical mind. Like the biblical god evangelicals worship, Trump is a thin…"-Andrew L. Seidel, The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
"For the average American during the 1950s, afraid of facing societal backlash, the question may simply have been: Which god or which religion? Today, the question is not which god or religion, but: S…"-Andrew L. Seidel, The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
24. The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
By: Daniel Z. Lieberman
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Why are we obsessed with the things we want and bored when we get them? Why is addiction "perfect… read more
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"It’s better to be smart than strong."-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
"Success inspired confidence; confidence produced success."-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
"Having a confident expectation of success can make obstacles melt before your eyes."-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
"As the German philosopher Arthur Schoppenhauer wrote, "Dreams are brief madness and madness a long dreams."-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
25. 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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"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
26. The History of Philosophy
By: A.C. Grayling
4.08
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of some o… read more
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27. Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
By: Richard Dawkins
4.13
Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition
Richard Dawkins on how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to t… read more
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28. The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
By: Joseph Henrich
4.12
Format: 706 pages, Kindle Edition
A New York Times Notable Book of 2020A Bloomberg Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020A Behavioral Scientis… read more
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"The assembly of the innovation engine that propelled the Industrial Revolution becomes easier to see once we recognize how the psychology of premodern Europeans had been quietly evolving in the backg…"-Joseph Henrich, The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
29. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
By: Sean Carroll
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that h… read more
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30. Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being
By: Neil Theise
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying introduction to complexity theory, the science of how complex systems behave—from c… read more
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31. From Darwin to Derrida: Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life
By: David Haig
3.67
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
How the meaningless process of natural selection produces purposeful beings who find meaning in the… read more
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