The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World
By: Elkhonon Goldberg
4.15
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
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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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"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
"One is punished most for one’s virtues."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
2. Mastery
By: Robert Greene
4.26
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
In this book, Robert Greene demonstrates that the ultimate form of power is mastery itself. By anal… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
"Creative Endeavors are by their nature uncertain."-Robert Greene, Mastery
"The problem is that we humans are deep conformists."-Robert Greene, Mastery
"The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus."-Robert Greene, Mastery
"Read more books than those who have a formal education, developing this into a lifelong habit."-Robert Greene, Mastery
3. Suicide Notes
By: Michael Thomas Ford
3.81
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
I'm not crazy. I don't see what the big deal is about what happened. But apparently someone does th… read more
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- psychology
"you either are or aren't"-Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes
"I didn't ask to be saved"-Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes
"Why is it okay to put someone to death, but it’s not okay for those people to do it themselves?"-Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes
"I didn't do it; I can just imagine doing it. Maybe that's the difference between crazy and not crazy."-Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes
4. 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
5. Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders (Market Wizards, #1)
By: Jack D. Schwager
4.27
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
What separates the world's top traders from the vast majority of unsuccessful investors? Jack Schwa… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
6. The Gay Science
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann
4.11
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first pro… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
7. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
By: Oliver Sacks
3.75
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century" (The N… read more
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- neuroscience
- nonfiction
- psychology
- science
8. Upstream: Selected Essays
By: Mary Oliver
2.43
Format: None pages,
Comprising a selection of essays, Upstreamfinds beloved poet Mary Oliver reflecting on her astonish… read more
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- nonfiction
9. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
By: Alfred Lansing
4.44
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, on… read more
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"We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man."-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
"Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage—he had one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful."-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
"[...] "Who the hell are you?" he said at last. The man in the center stepped forward. "My name is Shackleton" he replied in a quiet voice."-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
"There once was a mouse who lived in a tavern. One night the mouse found a leaky barrel of beer, and he drank all he could hold. When the mouse had finished, he sat up, twirled his whiskers, and looke…"-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
10. 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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- nonfiction
- science
11. Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet's Future
By: David Grinspoon
3.54
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For the first time in Earth's history, our planet is experiencing a confluence of rapidly accelerat… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
12. Answer to Job
By: C.G. Jung , R.F.C. Hull
4.17
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
Jung has never pursued the "psychology of religion" apart from general psychology. The unique impor… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
"«Es necesario acostumbrarse a la idea de que 'tiempo' es un concepto relativo, y que propiamente tiene que ser completado por el concepto de una pleromática existencia 'simultánea' o 'bárdica' de tod…"-C.G. Jung, Answer to Job
"«El que algo sea una realidad 'física' no es el único criterio de verdad. También existen verdades 'anímicas', las cuales no pueden ni probarse ni explicarse, pero tampoco negarse físicamente. [...] …"-C.G. Jung, Answer to Job
"I would even go so far as to say that the mythical character of a life is just what expresses its universal human validity. It is perfectly possible, psychologically, for the unconscious or an archet…"-C.G. Jung, Answer to Job
"The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one which is consciously realized, is tremendous. In the first case consciousness nowhere inte…"-C.G. Jung, Answer to Job
13. The Brothers Karamazov
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.37
Format: 796 pages, Paperback
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more
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"How good life is when one does something good and just!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
14. The Interpretation of Dreams
By: Sigmund Freud
3.86
Format: 136 pages,
The Interpretation of Dreams 1st appeared in German in 11/1899 as Die Traumdeutung (publisher postd… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
15. On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
By: Carl R. Rogers , Peter D. Kramer
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement, revolutionized psychotherapy w… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- science
16. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
By: Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
3.00
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
The world's foremost producer of personal development and motivational audio programs gives you the… read more
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17. The Will to Power
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , R.J. Hollingdale , Walter Kaufmann
3.79
Format: 704 pages, Paperback
Nietzsche's notebooks, kept by him during his most productive years, offer a fascinating glimpse in… read more
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18. On the Genealogy of Morals
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
19. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
By: Andy Warhol
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
A loosely formed autobiography by Andy Warhol, told with his trademark blend of irony and detachmen… read more
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20. Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind
By: Andy Clark
4.32
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create… read more
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21. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
By: Hunter S. Thompson , Ralph Steadman
3.86
Format: 536 pages, Paperback
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegasis the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good … read more
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22. 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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23. 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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24. Modern Man in Search of a Soul
By: C.G. Jung
4.20
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
A provocative and enlightening look at spiritual unease and its contribution to the void in modern … read more
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- psychology
- science
"Is that which science calls the “psyche"-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
"Art has a way of anticipating future changes in man’s fundamental outlook."-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
"We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses."-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
"Much of the evil in this world is due to the fact that man, in general, is hopelessly unconscious."-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
25. 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
"[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
26. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
By: Jordan B. Peterson
3.92
Format: 409 pages, Hardcover
What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's ans… read more
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"Treat yourself like you would someone you're responsible for helping."-Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
"Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living - and the Ideal shames us all."-Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
"So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of …"-Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
"Sometimes, when people have a low opinion of their own worth—or, perhaps, when they refuse responsibility for their lives—they choose a new acquaintance, of precisely the type who proved troublesome …"-Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
27. A Thousand Ships
By: Natalie Haynes
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This is the women’s war, just as much as it is the men’s. They have waited long enough for their tu… read more
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"If he tells me to sing one more time, I think I might bite him."-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
"An artist constantly risks falling fully into chaos, instead of transforming it."-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
"Because really, how many cannibalistic giants can one Greek plausibly meet as he sails the open seas?"-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
"We are all human. That means there is something about our experience that is the same. Otherwise, we would not all be human."-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
28. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, educa… read more
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- psychology
"Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"Practice the virtue of "intellectual humility." Intellectual humility is the recognition that our reasoning is so flawed, so prone to bias, that we can rarely be certain that we are right."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"The college admissions process nowadays makes it harder for high school students to enjoy school and pursue intrinsic fulfillment. The process "warps the values of students drawn into a competitive f…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
29. Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life
By: Jordan B. Peterson
4.17
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
The sequel to 12 Rules for Life offers further guidance on the periolus path of modern life. I… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- science
30. The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
By: Iain McGilchrist
4.80
Format: 1500 pages, Hardcover
Is the world essentially inert and mechanical - nothing but a collection of things for us to use? A… read more
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- biology
- psychology
- neuroscience
- nonfiction
- science
"On the left hemisphere of the brain: 'Because it knows less, it thinks it knows everything."-Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
"Cynicism appears to be a coping strategy by the cognitively less gifted to avoid being duped by others."-Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
"To Heraclitus it was the logos; to Lao Tzu the tao; to Confucius lǐ; in Hinduism Brahman, and to the Vedic tradition Ṛta; in Zen ri; o Arabic peoples, since pre-Islamic times, Allah; to Hebrews YHWH.…"-Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
"Wittgenstein wrote: 'To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life.' And he continued: 'To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end o…"-Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
31. The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World
By: Elkhonon Goldberg
4.15
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Elkhonon Goldberg's groundbreaking The Executive Brain was a classic of scientific writing, reveali… read more
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