The Skeptic’s Guide to Health, Medicine, and the Media
By: Roy Benaroch
4.23
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
If you’ve ever sneezed while driving your car, did you immediately think, “Cars Cause the Common Co…
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1. The Myths of Nutrition and Fitness
By: Anthony A. Goodman
3.49
Format: 3 pages, Audio CD
This course goes beyond simplistic edicts of loading up on carbohydrates before running and staying… read more
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2. Lifelong Health: Achieving Optimum Well-Being at Any Age
By: Anthony A. Goodman
3.97
Format: 570 pages, Audiobook
18 hrs and 15 mins We all want to discover the secret to a long and healthy life. But how do you in… read more
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3. World War II: A Military and Social History
By: Thomas Childers
3.30
Format: 208 pages,
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4. The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat
By: Stephan Guyenet , Shizuka N. Aoki
3.43
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
From an obesity and neuroscience researcher with a knack for engaging, humorous storytelling, The H… read more
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5. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People
By: Joe Navarro , Marvin Karlins
3.67
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
He says that's his best offer. Is it? She says she agrees. Does she? The interview went great--or d… read more
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6. Secrets of Sleep Science: From Dreams to Disorders
By: H. Craig Heller
4.67
Format: 360 pages,
We spend about one third of our lives sleeping, but scientists are only beginning to understand how… read more
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7. 12 Essential Scientific Concepts
By: The Great Courses , Indre Viskontas
3.19
Format: 292 pages, Audible Audio
Length: 12 hours and 5 minutes Science is such a vast arena of knowledge that people looking for a … read more
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8. Black Rednecks and White Liberals
By: Thomas Sowell
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This book presents the kind of eye-opening insights into the history and culture of race for which … read more
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9. The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
By: Neal Stephenson
3.79
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson.… read more
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10. The Addictive Brain
By: Thad A. Polk
3.97
Format: None pages, Audiobook
http://www.thegreatcourses.com/course... Addiction touches us all. Whether it's a friend who can't … read more
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11. So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
By: Cal Newport
3.36
Format: 96 pages, ebook
In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is… read more
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12. Utopia and Terror in the 20th Century (Great Courses, #8313)
By: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
3.21
Format: 192 pages,
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13. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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- medical
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- science
14. The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
By: Andrew Chen
4.19
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
A venture capitalist draws on expertise developed at the premier venture capital firm, Andreessen H… read more
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15. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
By: Hannah Ritchie
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
‘Truly essential’ MARGARET ATWOOD Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our p… read more
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- audiobook
16. Agent 355
By: Marie Benedict
3.73
Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition
A novella A fictional portrayal of a real-life Revolutionary spy and her daring deeds, from the … read more
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17. The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.16
Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio
Everything we now know about the universe-from the behavior of quarks to the birth of entire galaxi… read more
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18. The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
By: Patrick N. Allitt
4.17
Format: 18 pages, Audio CD
Audio CDs in three cases (parts 1, 2, and 3), accompanied by a "like new" course booklet. 36 lectur… read more
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"Author reports that a group of tortoises was given to the British by India's natives during the Seven Years War which ended in 1763. The last of those tortoises died in 2004 at the age of 255."-Patrick N. Allitt, The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
"Author relates the reaction of an Irish village to a landowner who tried to raise rents on the land's occupants. The villagers refused to talk to or trade with the man, whose name was Captain Boycott."-Patrick N. Allitt, The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
"If you study a historical episode and feel good about it, it probably means that you haven't had it explained very well. Historical conflict is usually the struggle of different conceptions of what i…"-Patrick N. Allitt, The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
19. The Culture of Knighthood in Medieval Romance
By: Larissa Tracy
3.63
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
See the word "knight " and you’ll likely think of gallant men facing off on the field of battle, or… read more
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20. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
By: Ananyo Bhattacharya
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolution… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The young von Neumann made an instant impact on his new tutors. His first mentor, Gábor Szego˝, who would later lead Stanford University’s maths department, was moved to tears after their first meeti…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"The best estimates of Trinity’s power put the figure somewhere between 20,000 and 22,000 tons. Oppenheimer reached for poetry, recalling a verse from ancient Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, which…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"At one of his ‘high-proof, high-I.Q. parties’ one analyst produced a fat cylindrical ‘coin’ that was something of a RAND obsession at the time. Milled by the RAND machine shop at the behest of Willia…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"With his school years behind him, von Neumann took the train to Berlin with his father in September 1921 to begin the arduous programme of study that had been agreed. A passenger sharing their carria…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
21. The Hunger Habit: Why We Eat When We're Not Hungry and How to Stop
By: Judson Brewer
3.90
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
A program proven to heal our relationship with food and our bodies from New York Times bestselling … read more
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22. America After the Cold War: The First Thirty Years
By: Patrick N. Allitt
3.63
Format: 115 pages, Audible Audio
History is filled with surprises, not the least of which, was the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989.… read more
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23. Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto
By: Aaron Bastani
3.70
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
A different kind of politics for a new kind of society--beyond work, scarcity and capitalism In … read more
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24. The Rise of Modern Japan
By: Mark J. Ravina
4.05
Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio
Devastated by war, Japan in 1945 faced ruin as a major power. Yet within a quarter century it bounc… read more
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25. Stress and Your Body
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.32
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Feeling stressed? You're not alone. Stress is an inherent aspect of life that can have tremendous n… read more
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26. These Six Things Will Kill You
By: Brandy Shillace
3.63
Format: None pages, None
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27. Food, Science and the Human Body
By: Alyssa Crittenden
3.81
Format: 18 pages, Audible Audio
What foods did the human body evolve to eat, and why? How does the food we eat affect our genes and… read more
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28. The Secret World of Espionage
By: The Great Courses
3.51
Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio
The world of espionage is shrouded in mystery—even to those in it—but so much of what we think we k… read more
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29. The Skeptic’s Guide to Health, Medicine, and the Media
By: Roy Benaroch
4.23
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
If you’ve ever sneezed while driving your car, did you immediately think, “Cars Cause the Common Co… read more
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30. Understanding and Coping with Grief
By: Joanne Cacciatore
4.09
Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio
Grief remains one of the great mysteries that each of us will face one day. Even when grief is expe… read more
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31. Liberty on Trial in America: Cases that Defined Freedom
By: Douglas O. Linder
4.11
Format: 12 pages, Audiobook
We like to believe that the founding principle of the United States is liberty. “Give me liberty, o… read more
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