On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done
By: David Badre
4.07
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions―and how this shapes our ever…
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1. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
By: Adam Smith
3.88
Format: 1076 pages, Paperback
Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and… read more
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"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production"-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"of their passions in the same object at that particular time."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
2. Dead Souls
By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire
3.98
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more
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"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
3. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
By: Philip E. Tetlock , Dan Gardner
3.95
Format: 768 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Bestseller An EconomistBest Book of 2015 "The most important book on decision maki… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
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4. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
By: Nick Bostrom
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intellig… read more
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- artificial intelligence
- nonfiction
- psychology
- science
5. The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories
By: Leo Tolstoy , Hugh McLean
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Leo Tolstoy combined detailed physical description with perceptive psychological insight to sweep a… read more
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6. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
By: Charles C. Mann
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Over 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. They developed different … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
7. Grokking Algorithms An Illustrated Guide For Programmers and Other Curious People
By: None
5.00
Format: None pages,
An algorithm is nothing more than a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem. The algorithms yo… read more
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8. A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science
By: Barbara Oakley
1.80
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking… read more
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9. Letters from a Stoic
By: Seneca , Robin Campbell
4.75
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
The power and wealth which Seneca the Younger (c.4 B.C. - A.D. 65) acquired as Nero's minister were… read more
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10. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
By: Mark Twain
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP A nineteenth-century American travels back… read more
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11. Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
By: Tara Brach
4.16
Format: 355 pages, Paperback
For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hear… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
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"The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom."-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am."-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live."-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?"-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
12. 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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- psychology
- neuroscience
- brain
- nonfiction
- science
"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
13. Elon Musk
By: Walter Isaacson
4.40
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"[Musk] concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate. The buffoonery was not just an act. "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever," he says. "Like my…"-Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk
14. 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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- audiobook
- science
- psychology
- nonfiction
- self help
"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
15. Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
By: David Reich
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human histo… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
By: Tony Fadell
4.33
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Written for anyone who wants to grow at work—from young grads navigating their first jobs to CEOs d… read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
By: Steven Pinker
4.20
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
"There is no law of complex systems that says that intelligent agents must turn into ruthless conquistadors. Indeed, we know of one highly advanced form of intelligence that evolved without this defec…"-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
"Enlightenment humanism, then, is far from being a crowd-pleaser. The idea that the ultimate good is to use knowledge to enhance human welfare leaves people cold. Deep explanations of the universe, th…"-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
"This heroic story is not just another myth. Myths are fictions, but this one is true-true to the best of our knowledge, which is the only truth we can have. We believe it because we have reasons to b…"-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
"Our understanding of who we are, where we came from, how the world works, and what matters in life depends on partaking of the vast and ever-expanding store of knowledge. Though unlettered hunters, h…"-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
18. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
19. Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away
By: Annie Duke
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Thinking in Bets comes a toolkit for mastering the skill of quitting… read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
20. The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder
By: Sean McFate
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"Stunning. Sean McFate is a new Sun Tzu." -Admiral James Stavridis (retired), former Supreme Al… read more
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- audiobook
21. 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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- self help
- psychology
- neuroscience
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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
22. 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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- science
- psychology
- nonfiction
- self help
"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
23. Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
By: Titus Winters
4.20
Format: 599 pages, Paperback
The approach to and understanding of software engineering at Google is unlike any other company. Wi… read more
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- nonfiction
"Sometimes, the best thing you can do is just say, “I don’t know."-Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
"Google and Stack Overflow are great sources of opinions and information, but they’re no substitute for actual human experience."-Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
"Programming is the immediate act of producing code. Software engineering is the set of policies, practices, and tools that are necessary to make that code useful for as long as it needs to be used an…"-Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
"Making good engineering decisions is all about weighing all of the available inputs and making informed decisions about the trade-offs. Sometimes, those decisions are based on instinct or accepted be…"-Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
24. Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services
By: Jon Yablonski
4.35
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
An understanding of psychology—specifically the psychology behind how users behave and interact wit… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
"minimise choices when response time is critical to decrease decision time"-Jon Yablonski, Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services
"As designers, we have a responsibility to remove inherent complexity from our interfaces, or else we ship that complexity to our users. This can result in confusion, frustration and a bad user experi…"-Jon Yablonski, Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services
25. How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
By: Stanislas Dehaene
4.33
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean, and … read more
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- self help
- psychology
- neuroscience
- brain
- nonfiction
- science
"Yann LeCun's strategy provides a good example of a much more general notion: the exploitation of innate knowledge. Convolutional neural networks learn better and faster than other types of neural net…"-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
"Our brain is therefore not simply passively subjected to sensory inputs. From the get-go, it already possesses a set of abstract hypotheses, an accumulated wisdom that emerged through the sift of Dar…"-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
"The moral here is that nature and nurture should not be opposed. Pure learning, in the absence of any innate constraints, simply does not exist. Any learning algorithm contains, in one way or another…"-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
26. Models of the Mind: How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain
By: Grace Lindsay
4.39
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The brain is made up of 85 billion neurons, which are connected by over 100 trillion synapses. For … read more
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- neuroscience
- brain
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- science
27. How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
By: Matt Ridley
4.11
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. Breaking Through: My Life in Science
By: Katalin Karikó
4.67
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist wh… read more
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29. Design for How People Think: Using Brain Science to Build Better Products
By: John Whalen
3.67
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
Understanding the mind of a customer is essential for any product or service designer. True, some d… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
30. On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done
By: David Badre
4.07
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions―and how this shapes our ever… read more
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31. Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work
By: Alex Rosenblat
3.56
Format: 226 pages, ebook
Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. An Ameri… read more
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