Your Conscious Mind: Unravelling the greatest mystery of the human brain (New Scientist Instant Expert)
By: New Scientist
3.91
Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition
What is this strange mental world that seems so essential to being human? The conscious mind brings…
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1. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
By: Marjane Satrapi , Mattias Ripa
4.26
Format: 153 pages, Paperback
In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from … read more
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- nonfiction
"To each his own way of calming down."-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
"Saying goodbye is a little like dying."-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
"My natural optimism just leads me to be skeptical."-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
"I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one."-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
2. Wij zijn ons brein: van baarmoeder tot Alzheimer
By: Dick Swaab
3.90
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Het verhaal van je leven is het verhaal van je brein. Dat begint in de baarmoeder, waar de hersenen… read more
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- biology
- psychology
- neuroscience
- nonfiction
- science
"Mountaineers, especially when alone, sometimes have very vivid hallucinations [...]. So it is interesting that the revelations received by the leaders of the world's three main religions were precede…"-Dick Swaab, Wij zijn ons brein: van baarmoeder tot Alzheimer
3. The Undiscovered Self
By: C.G. Jung , R.F.C. Hull
4.14
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
One of the world's greatest psychiatrists reveals how to embrace our own humanity and resist the pr… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
- science
"İnancın temeli bilinç değil, bireyin inancını Tanrı ile dolaysız yolla ilişkilendiren, spontan dinsel deneyimdir."-C.G. Jung, The Undiscovered Self
"Bilinci ne kadar genişlemiş ve farklılaşmışsa, ahlaki yapısı o denli geri kalmıştır. İşte bugün önümüzdeki sorun budur. Akıl tek başına yeterli değildir."-C.G. Jung, The Undiscovered Self
"Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally short-sighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations..."-C.G. Jung, The Undiscovered Self
"Kaç tane sıfırı eklerseniz ekleyin bir birim elde edemeyeceğiniz gibi, bir topluluğun değeri de onu oluşturan bireylerin ruhsal ve ahlaki büyüklüklerine bağlıdır."-C.G. Jung, The Undiscovered Self
4. 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
- science
5. Black Holes and Baby Universes
By: Stephen Hawking
4.31
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
NY Timesbestseller. 13 extraordinary essays shed new light on the mysteries of the universe & on on… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- science
6. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
By: Cass R. Sunstein , Richard H. Thaler
3.84
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
From the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a r… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
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"Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context."-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
"As good architects know, seemingly arbitrary decisions, such as where to locate the bathrooms, will have subtle influences on how the people who use the building interact. Every trip to the bathroom …"-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
7. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
By: Carlo Rovelli , Simon Carnell , Erica Segre
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Hardcover
Everything you need to know about the beauty of modern physics in less than 100 pages. In seven bri… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- science
8. The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
By: Richard Dawkins , Dave McKean
3.74
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Magic takes many forms. Supernatural magic is what our ancestors used in order to explain the world… read more
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- philosophy
- biology
- nonfiction
- science
9. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
By: Lewis Carroll , John Tenniel , Martin Gardner
4.06
Format: 239 pages, Paperback
"I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir," said Alice, "Because I'm not myself, you see." When A… read more
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"Curiouser and curiouser."-Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
"Go on till you come to the end; then stop."-Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
"You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!"-Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
"I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it."-Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
10. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
By: Richard H. Thaler
4.16
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central … read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- science
11. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more
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12. Three Roads To Quantum Gravity
By: Lee Smolin
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
"It would be hard to imagine a better guide to this difficult subject."--Scientific American In Thr… read more
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13. In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
By: John Gribbin
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
It is so shocking that Einstein could not bring himself to accept it. It is so important that it pr… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- science
"If the business of physics is ever finished, the world will be a much less interesting place in which to live . . ."-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
"...it is not the way of science to sit idly back and hope that someone will come up with a "better" answer to our problems. In the absence of a better answer, we have to face up to the implications o…"-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
"In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...…"-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
"Heisenberg's uncertainty relation measures the amount by which the complementary descriptions of the electron, or other fundamental entities, overlap. Position is very much a particle property - part…"-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
14. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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15. The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Animal Behavior
By: David Attenborough
4.45
Format: 864 pages,
"Watching and filming animals world-wide has occupied most of my working life. By the end of the 19… read more
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16. Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
By: Michio Kaku
3.75
Format: 273 pages,
A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible--from death rays and force fields to inv… read more
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17. The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
By: Brian Greene
3.82
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Elegant Universeand The Fabric of the Cosmoscomes his most expa… read more
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18. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
By: Anil Seth
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons wo… read more
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- biology
- psychology
- philosophy
- neuroscience
- nonfiction
- science
19. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
By: David Epstein
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- science
"We learn who we are only by living, and not before."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"Repetition, it turned out, was less important than struggle."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"If we treated careers more like dating, nobody would settle down so quickly."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"mental meandering and personal experimentation are sources of power, and head starts are overrated"-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
20. The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
By: Donald D. Hoffman
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim th… read more
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- biology
- psychology
- philosophy
- neuroscience
- nonfiction
- science
"Once we know the rules that human vision uses to decode messages about fitness, we can use those rules to send the messages we want. Consider jeans."-Donald D. Hoffman, The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
21. Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy
By: Herman Pontzer
4.14
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
One of the foremost researchers in human metabolism reveals surprising new science behind food and … read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- science
"..incompetent people are so annoying: their very incompetence blinds them to how incompetent they are." (or as Darwin said, "ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge") - both o…"-Herman Pontzer, Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy
22. The Laws of Human Nature
By: Robert Greene
4.37
Format: 624 pages, Kindle Edition
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power comes the definitive new book… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
"Fo each weakness there is a corresponding strength."-Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature
"Results are important, but the way they are achieved, the process, is equally important."-Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature
"Rationality is not a power you are born with but one you acquire through training and practice."-Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature
"So often we think that power has changed people, when in fact it simply reveals more of who they are."-Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature
23. Visual Intelligence: Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your Life
By: Amy E. Herman
4.11
Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition
An engrossing guide to seeing – and communicating – more clearly from the groundbreaking course tha… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- science
24. Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
By: Lisa Feldman Barrett
4.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the author of How Emotions Are Made , a captivating collection of short essays about your bra… read more
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- biology
- psychology
- neuroscience
- nonfiction
- science
"The triune brain idea is one of the most successful and widespread errors in all of science."-Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
"Sometimes we're responsible for things not because they're our fault, but because we're the only ones who can change them."-Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
"The best thing for your nervous system is another human. The worst thing for your nervous system is also another human. This situation leads us to a fundamental dilemma of the human condition."-Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
25. The Almighty Dollar: Follow the Incredible Journey of a Single Dollar to See How the Global Economy Really Works
By: Dharshini David
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Have you ever wondered why we can afford to buy far more clothes than our grandparents ever could .… read more
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- nonfiction
"Money may not buy happiness but it does buy choice."-Dharshini David, The Almighty Dollar: Follow the Incredible Journey of a Single Dollar to See How the Global Economy Really Works
26. 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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- biology
- psychology
- neuroscience
- nonfiction
- science
"... 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
27. The Psychology of Stupidity
By: Jean-François Marmion
3.20
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Stupidity is all around us. But in order to vanquish it, we must first understand it. In The Psycho… read more
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- psychology
- philosophy
- neuroscience
- nonfiction
- science
"Fighting stupidity tends to reinforce it."-Jean-François Marmion, The Psychology of Stupidity
28. Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
By: Brian Greene
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the world-renowned physicist and bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
- science
"Messy arrangements far outweigh orderly ones."-Brian Greene, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
"The point being that everything emerges from the same collection of ingredients governed by the same physical principles. And those principles, as attested to by a few hundred years of observation, e…"-Brian Greene, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
29. The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer
By: Elizabeth Blackburn
3.78
Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition
The New York Times bestselling book coauthored by the Nobel Prize winner who discovered telomerase … read more
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- biology
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30. Your Conscious Mind: Unravelling the greatest mystery of the human brain (New Scientist Instant Expert)
By: New Scientist
3.91
Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition
What is this strange mental world that seems so essential to being human? The conscious mind brings… read more
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- philosophy
- neuroscience
- nonfiction
- science
31. Introducing Economics: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides)
By: David Orrell
3.56
Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition
A comic-book introduction to economics from David Orrell, the author of 11 Ways Economics Gets it … read more
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