When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People: How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves
By: Steven Nadler
3.34
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Why the tools of philosophy offer a powerful antidote to today's epidemic of irrationality T…
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1. Ignorance
By: Milan Kundera , Linda Asher
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty… read more
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2. Absolution Gap
By: Alastair Reynolds
4.17
Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life-form reaching a certain level of intelligence - … read more
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- audiobook
3. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
By: Lisa Feldman Barrett
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care,… read more
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4. How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
By: David McRaney
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this lively journey through human psychology, bestselling author and creator of the You Are Not … read more
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- audiobook
"I couldn’t shake the idea that I, too, was probably one conversation away from changing my own mind about something, maybe a lot of things. But I also recalled how many conversations I’d had that onl…"-David McRaney, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
"Before scientists began researching the Leadership LAB’s technique, few studies supported the possibility that campaigns could change voters’ views on polarized, partisan, politically controversial i…"-David McRaney, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
5. 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
6. 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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"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
7. Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
By: Tom Chivers
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A captivating and user-friendly tour of Bayes’s theorem and its global impact on modern life from t… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
8. How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind
By: Clancy Martin
3.71
Format: 431 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous exploration of why the thought of death is so compu… read more
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9. La librería del señor Livingstone
By: Mónica Gutiérrez Artero
3.65
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Algunos lugares son un refugio en mitad de nuestras aceleradas vidas. Algunas novelas tienen la cap… read more
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"El hogar es el lugar donde guardamos los libros."-Mónica Gutiérrez Artero, La librería del señor Livingstone
"Ser valiente es no rendirte, seguir adelante aunque estés muerto de miedo."-Mónica Gutiérrez Artero, La librería del señor Livingstone
"El mundo sería un lugar mejor si no nos avergonzáramos de tener días entrañables."-Mónica Gutiérrez Artero, La librería del señor Livingstone
"La despedida es un dolor tan dulce que estaría diciendo buenas noches hasta el amanecer"-Mónica Gutiérrez Artero, La librería del señor Livingstone
10. The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds ar… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"A wealthy CEO could justify his or her advantages to a lower paid worker on a factory floor as: "I am not worthier then you nor morally deserving of the privileged position I hold. My generous compen…"-Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
11. When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
By: Laura E. Anderson
4.38
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Anderson strikes a smart, balanced tone. . . . An exemplary guide to an understudied issue."--Publ… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
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"Rebuilding a worldview and identity likely needs to include space for uncertainty."-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"I have lived far too much of my life with the end goal of eternal life in heaven, and so I missed a lot of life on earth."-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"A marker of healing from religious trauma is not simply the process of deconstructing one’s worldview and identity and rebuilding a new one; it is also the willingness to remain open to shifting and …"-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"Religious trauma resides in our bodies and nervous systems in the same way that trauma from war, developmental trauma, or sexualized trauma live inside us. Though the triggers and environment of the …"-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
12. Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
By: Shannon Lee
4.18
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Bruce Lee’s daughter illuminates her father’s most powerful life philosophies―demonstrating how mar… read more
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"Life is not a competition; it's a cocreation."-Shannon Lee, Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
"Life is not a competition, it's a cocreation."-Shannon Lee, Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
"Водата може да тече бързо, може да тече и бавно, но целта й е неизменна, а съдбата сигурна."-Shannon Lee, Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
"It is not to be without emotion or feeling but to be one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked."-Shannon Lee, Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
13. 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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- audiobook
14. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
By: Michael Lewis
3.99
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
“Brilliant. . . . Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncerta… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Regret was the ham in the back of the deli that caused people to switch from turkey to roast beef."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours"-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"The way it feels to me,' he said, 'is that there were certain ideas that I was put on this earth to think. And now I can think them."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
15. Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
By: David Eagleman
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Incognito and Sum comes a revelatory portrait of the human brain ba… read more
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- psychology
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"... So the basis of behavioral improvement is not simply the repeated performance of a task; it also requires neuromodulatory systems to encode relevance. Without acetylcholine, the ten thousand hour…"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
"The difference between predictions and outcomes is the key to understanding a strange property of learning: if you’re predicting perfectly, your brain doesn’t need to change further… Changes in the b…"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
"The fact is that the future is hard to predict. Whatever the case, as we move toward the horizon, the only certainty is that we will increasingly choose our own plug-and-play peripheral devices. We a…"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
"Several emerging companies, still in their infancy, hope to increase the speed of brain communication to the outside world by writing and reading neural data rapidly by means of direct plug-ins. The …"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
16. Babysitter
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.26
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From one of America's most renowned storytellers comes a novel about love and deceit, and lust and … read more
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17. The Essentials of Social Psychology
By: Wind Goodfriend
3.83
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Every interaction you have with people, each day of your life, involves social psychology. For thos… read more
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18. If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
By: Justin Gregg
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“A dazzling, delightful read on what animal cognition can teach us about our own mental shortcoming… read more
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19. The Learning Brain
By: Thad A. Polk
4.39
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
One of the most complicated and advanced computers on Earth can't be purchased in any store. This a… read more
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20. When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People: How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves
By: Steven Nadler
3.34
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Why the tools of philosophy offer a powerful antidote to today's epidemic of irrationality T… read more
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21. Ask a Philosopher: Answers to Your Most Important and Most Unexpected Questions
By: Ian Olasov
3.17
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
A collection of answers to the philosophical questions on people's minds—from the big to the person… read more
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