20 best-selling nonfiction books like Changing Minds: How Aging Affects Language and How Language Affects Aging by Roger J. Kreuz

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Changing Minds: How Aging Affects Language and How Language Affects Aging

By: Roger J. Kreuz

3.53

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Why language ability remains resilient and how it shapes our lives. We acquire our native langua…

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1. Heart of a Dog

By: Mikhail Bulgakov , Mirra Ginsburg , Michail Bulgakov

4.10

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

This satirical novel tells the story of the surgical transformation of a dog into a man, and is an … read more

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"A dog's spirit dies hard."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"One can find time for everything if one is never in a hurry."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"Why bother to learn to read when you can smell meat a mile away?"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"İki ayağını bir pabuca sokmayan herkes, her şey için zaman bulabilir."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

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2. Sea of Rust (Sea of Rust, #1)

By: C. Robert Cargill

4.05

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

A scavenger robot wanders in the wasteland created by a war that has destroyed humanity in this evo… read more

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"America wasn’t its people,"

-C. Robert Cargill, Sea of Rust (Sea of Rust, #1)

"People liked to believe in magic."

-C. Robert Cargill, Sea of Rust (Sea of Rust, #1)

"No thinking thing should be another thing's property."

-C. Robert Cargill, Sea of Rust (Sea of Rust, #1)

"But I had to dream. I had to hope. Even if it made me the fool of this particular tale."

-C. Robert Cargill, Sea of Rust (Sea of Rust, #1)

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3. Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

By: Johann Hari

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

New York TimesBestseller It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned in the United St… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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4. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

By: Sy Montgomery

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this astonishing book from the author of the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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5. Demons

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.30

Format: 733 pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a… read more

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"God is the pain of the fear of death"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

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6. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

By: Marshall B. Rosenberg , Arun Gandhi

4.34

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Do you hunger for skills to improve the quality of your relationships, to deepen your sense of pers… read more

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  • nonfiction
"At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs."

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

"All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished."

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

"Anger is a result of life-alienating thinking that is disconnected from needs. It indicates that we have moved up to our head to analyze and judge somebody rather than focus on what we are needing an…"

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

"All criticism, attack, insults, and judgments vanish when we focus attention on hearing the feelings and needs behind a message. The more we practice in this way, the more we realize a simple truth: …"

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

7. 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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8. The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

By: Elaine N. Aron

3.85

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food… read more

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  • nonfiction
"In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

"Being highly sensitive does not at all rule out being, in your own way, a tenacious survivor."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

"But psychology is not perfect. It can only reflect the biases of the culture from which it comes."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

"With sensitive children, physical blows or traumas aren't required to make them afraid of the dark."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

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9. The Woman in the Dunes

By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders

3.89

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, su… read more

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"Timpului nu-i dai pinteni ca unui cal."

-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

"Defeat begins with the fear that one had lost."

-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

"Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?"

-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

"Aşa se spune, înfrangerea începe cu teama de a fi înfrant."

-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

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10. The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

By: Iain McGilchrist

4.35

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

In a book of unprecedented scope, Iain McGilchrist presents a fascinating exploration of the differ… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"We don't need a lot more quick fixes. We need a change in the paradigm."

-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

"[C]hildren with right-brain deficit disorder ignore task obstacles, accept impossible challenges, make grossly inadequate efforts, and are stunned by the poor outcomes. These children act fearless be…"

-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

"The left hemisphere prefers the impersonal to the personal, and that tendency would be in any case be instantiated in the fabric of a technologically driven and bureaucratically administered society.…"

-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

"Believing is not to be reduced to thinking that such-and-such might be the case. It is not a weaker form of thinking, laced with doubt. Sometimes we speak like this: ‘I believe that the train leaves …"

-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

11. Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca

By: None

4.00

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

"Superb." --Steven Pinker "In Talking Back, Talking Black, John McWhorter, the maestro at communica… read more

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12. Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth

By: Chris Stringer

3.44

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A leading researcher on human evolution proposes a new and controversial theory of how our species … read more

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13. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

By: David Brooks

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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14. Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life

By: Bill Perkins

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A Common-Sense Guide to Living Rich….Instead of Dying Rich Imagine if by the time you died, you did… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Your biggest fear ought to be wasting your life and time, not "Am I going to have x number of dollars when I'm 80?"

-Bill Perkins, Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life

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15. Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World

By: Gretchen Rubin

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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16. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

By: Charles Duhigg

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more

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  • science
"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

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17. The Librarianist

By: Patrick deWitt

3.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more

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18. Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

By: Amanda Montell

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The word "bitch" conjures many images for many people but is most often meant to describe an unplea… read more

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  • linguistics
  • nonfiction
"Language pedantry is snobbery and snobbery is prejudice,"

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

"One of the burdens of being a woman is the imperative to be nice."

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

"Hitler wasn’t any less fascist because he could write a coherent sentence."

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

"Anytime language reform happens, it has to happen in the context of social change,"

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

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19. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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20. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

By: Adam M. Grant

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestseller“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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21. Ten Steps to Nanette

By: Hannah Gadsby

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared tha… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Nanette is basically Eat Pray Love for autistic queer folk."

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"So, I will just share it here, because I truly believe that the only universal “body"

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"It really is something when you can make collecting and organising objects boring to a young kid with autism spectrum disorder (but that’s exactly what Stamp Explorer managed to do)."

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"And I needed my audience to trust me because I needed my audience to feel safe, and I needed my audience to feel safe so that I could take that safety away and not give it back. Why? Because that is …"

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

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22. If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

By: Noor Naga

3.92

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobr… read more

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23. The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

By: Amitav Ghosh

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"This is the great burden that now rests upon writers, artists, filmmakers, and everyone else who is involved in the telling of stories: to us falls the task of imaginatively restoring agency and voic…"

-Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

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24. The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

By: Nghi Vo

3.95

Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition

A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of… read more

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"Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"[,,,] if you want to understand people who have gone, that's what you look at, isn't it? Their offal. Their leavings."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"The abbey at Singing Hills would say that if a record cannot be perfect, it should at least be present. Better for it to exist than for it to be perfect and only in your mind."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"... He was unimportant, the least of In-yo's spies and couriers, but—" Almost Brilliant fluttered her wings in the dying light. "I understand. I will remember Sukai for you, and so will my children a…"

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

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25. All the Seas of the World

By: Guy Gavriel Kay

4.17

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Returning triumphantly to the brilliantly evoked near-Renaissance world of A Brightness Long Ago an… read more

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"Maybe home for some is always the one they lost."

-Guy Gavriel Kay, All the Seas of the World

"The effect of being violently driven from home, and that home being despoiled .... it can go on and on like sea-surf against rocks. On and on within a man or a woman, or within a child as it grows up…"

-Guy Gavriel Kay, All the Seas of the World

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26. Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time

By: Dean Buonomano

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The brain - the most complex dynamical system in the known universe - tells, represents, and percei… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"Neuroscientists rarely have to grapple with the issue of presentism versus existentialism. But in practice, neuroscientists are implicitly presentists. They view the past, present, and future as fund…"

-Dean Buonomano, Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time

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27. Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

By: Devon Price

4.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"Therapy that is focused on battling “irrational beliefs,"

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"Refusing to perform neurotypicality is a revolutionary act of disability justice. It's also a radical act of self-love."

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"Much of what we call maturity is a silly pantomime of independence and unfeeling, not a real quality of unbreakable strength."

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"We have to keep other people at arm's length, because letting them see our hyperfixations, meltdowns, obsessions, and outbursts could mean losing their respect. But locking ourselves away means we ca…"

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

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28. You're Only Human: How Your Limits Reflect God’s Design and Why That’s Good News

By: Kelly M. Kapic

4.40

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Work. Family. Church. Exercise. Sleep. The list of demands on our time seems to be never ending.… read more

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29. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

By: Zora Neale Hurston

4.04

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-… read more

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"The present was too urgent to let the past intrude."

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

"You see de rattlesnake in de woods?' Dey say, 'Yeah.' I say 'If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him?' (Oluale Kossula)"

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

"So den we gittee married by de license, but I doan love my wife no mo' wid de license than I love her befo' de license. She a good woman and I love her all de time. (Oluale Kossula)"

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

"Whole nations are transported, exterminated, their name to be forgotten, except in the annual festival of their conquerors, when sycophants call the names of the vanquished countries to the remembran…"

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

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30. Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

By: Brian Merchant

4.14

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The "rich and gripping" true story … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"If the Luddites have taught us anything, it’s that robots aren’t taking our jobs. Our bosses are."

-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

"It’s the same story, time and again: a new technology that promises to alleviate work degrades it instead."

-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

"The Luddites knew exactly who owned the machinery they destroyed. They saw that automation is not a faceless phenomenon that we must submit to. And they were right: Automation is, quite often and qui…"

-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

"Uber’s chief innovation is not that its app summons a car to your location with a smartphone and a GPS signal. It is that it used this moderately novel configuration of technology to argue that the o…"

-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

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31. Changing Minds: How Aging Affects Language and How Language Affects Aging

By: Roger J. Kreuz

3.53

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Why language ability remains resilient and how it shapes our lives. We acquire our native langua… read more

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The Cow in the Parking Lot: A Zen Approach to Overcoming Anger

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