6 must-read science books like Brain Architecture by Larry W. Swanson

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Brain Architecture

By: Larry W. Swanson

4.09

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Now in its second edition, Brain Architecture is the continued exploration of how the brain works. …

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Cover of Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche, Michael Tanner, R.J. Hollingdale

1. Beyond Good and Evil

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"The noble soul reveres itself"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"...all that is rare is for the rare."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"In music the passions enjoy themselves."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"One is punished most for one’s virtues."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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2. The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life

By: Joseph E. LeDoux

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The Emotional Brain investigates the origins of human emotions and explains that many exist as part… read more

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  • biology
  • psychology
  • neuroscience
  • brain
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, Gia-Fu Feng, Jane English, Jacob Needleman, Toinette Lippe

3. Tao Te Ching

By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The heart that gives, gathers."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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4. Ecce Homo

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

3.00

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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5. Poetics

By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. Genius: The Natural History of Creativity

By: Hans Jürgen Eysenck

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

This text presents a novel theory of creativity that is based on the linkage between the psychopath… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
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7. The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious

By: Sigmund Freud , Joyce Crick , John Carey

3.50

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Why do we laugh? The answer, argued Freud in this groundbreaking study of humor, is that jokes, lik… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology

8. The Descent of Man

By: Charles Darwin

4.04

Format: 202 pages, paper

Applying his controversial theory of evolution to the origins of the human species, Charles Darwin'… read more

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  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • science
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9. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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10. Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (Collected Works 7)

By: C.G. Jung , R.F.C. Hull , Gerhard Adler

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Bollingen Series XX Bibliography & index. This volume has become known as perhaps the best introduc… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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11. Free Will

By: Sam Harris

4.26

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think abo… read more

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  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
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12. The Idiot

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky

4.21

Format: 667 pages, Paperback

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin find… read more

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"I'm drunk but truthful."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"Beauty will save the world."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"The Russian soul is a dark place."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"She is passion embodied, a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

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13. An Outline of Psycho-Analysis

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay

3.70

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

Freud approved the overall editorial plan, specific renderings of key words and phrases, and the ad… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychiatry
  • psychology
  • science

14. Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops

By: Jen Campbell

3.60

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

This Sunday Times bestseller is a miscellany of hilarious and peculiar bookshop moments: 'Can books… read more

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15. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

By: Ludwig Wittgenstein

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Ph… read more

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16. 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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17. The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception

By: None

3.19

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This is a book about how we see: the environment around us (its surfaces, their layout, and their c… read more

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18. The Denial of Death

By: Daniel Goleman , Ernest Becker , Sam Keen

4.32

Format: 80 pages,

Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, "The Denial of Death" is… read more

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19. Notes from Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None

4.17

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more

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  • psychology
"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

20. Civilization and Its Discontents

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay

4.02

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he … read more

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21. Brain Architecture

By: Larry W. Swanson

4.09

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Now in its second edition, Brain Architecture is the continued exploration of how the brain works. … read more

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  • love
  • health
  • biology
  • psychiatry
  • psychology
  • neuroscience
  • brain
  • nonfiction
  • science

13 best-selling nonfiction books like Brain Architecture by Larry W. Swanson

Transform Your Habits

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life

Joseph E. LeDoux

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Ecce Homo

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

3.00

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18 best-selling classics books like The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin

Transform Your Habits

A Treatise of Human Nature

David Hume

3.94

None

Alexis de Tocqueville , Isaac Kramnick , Gerald Bevan

None

Transform Your Habits

The Marx-Engels Reader

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Robert C. Tucker

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte

Adelbert von Chamisso , William Howitt

3.62

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