You Should Quit Reddit
By: Jacob Desforges
4.16
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
By: Neil Shubin
4.03
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are b… read more
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"We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"Look at the first arch in a human and a shark, and you find a very similar state of affairs: jaws."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"Many of the molecules that microbes use to cause us misery are primitive versions of the molecules that make our own bodies possible."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
2. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman
4.15
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls … read more
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- nonfiction
"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
3. Your Brain On Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction
By: Gary Wilson , Anthony Jack
4.22
Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition
When high speed internet became widely available a few years ago, growing numbers of people began t… read more
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- nonfiction
- personal development
- self help
4. Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential
By: Barbara Oakley
3.89
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Mindshift reveals how we can overcome stereotypes and preconceived ideas about what is possible for… read more
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- nonfiction
- personal development
- self help
"Many ordinary and extraordinary people have made fantastic changes in their lives by keeping themselves open to learning."-Barbara Oakley, Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential
5. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
By: Greg McKeown
3.80
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin? Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underuti… read more
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- nonfiction
- personal development
- self help
6. Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
By: Johann Hari
3.98
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
New York TimesBestseller It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned in the United St… read more
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- nonfiction
7. How to Become a Straight-A Student
By: Cal Newport
3.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Looking to jumpstart your GPA? Most college students believe that straight A's can be achieved only… read more
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- nonfiction
- personal development
- self help
8. The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else
By: Daniel Coyle , John Farrell
3.46
Format: None pages, Audio CD
A New York Times bestselling author explores cutting-edge brain science to learn where talent comes… read more
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- nonfiction
- personal development
- self help
9. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
By: Nicholas Carr
3.28
Format: 437 pages, Paperback
"Is Google making us stupid?" When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Mont… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
10. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
By: Cal Newport
3.82
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this sk… read more
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11. Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!
By: Anthony Robbins , Tony Robbins , Frederick L. Covan
3.78
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Wake up and take control of your life! From the bestselling author of Inner Strength, Unlimited Pow… read more
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12. Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
By: Adam Alter
3.63
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to the age of behavioral addiction--an age in which half of the American population is addi… read more
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13. Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
By: Kristin Neff
4.25
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
From leading psychologist Dr. Kristin Neff comes a step-by-step guide explaining how to be more sel… read more
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14. One Up On Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market
By: John Rothchild , Peter Lynch
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
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15. Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America
By: Alissa Quart
3.37
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Families today are squeezed on every side—from high childcare costs and harsh employment policies t… read more
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- nonfiction
16. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
By: Morgan Housel
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
17. Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
By: Tiago Forte
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
>For the first time in history, we have instantaneous access to the world’s knowledge. There has ne… read more
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- nonfiction
- personal development
- self help
18. Fast, Feast, Repeat: The Comprehensive Guide to Delay, Don't Deny® Intermittent Fasting
By: Gin Stephens
4.31
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller! Change when you eat and change your body, y… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"I hope that I have convinced you of the importance of weighing regularly and understanding what your overall trend is doing rather than getting caught up in the madness of fluctuating weights. I beli…"-Gin Stephens, Fast, Feast, Repeat: The Comprehensive Guide to Delay, Don't Deny® Intermittent Fasting
"Whether you choose the 500-calorie modified fast day or the 16- to 42-hour full fast, on the up days, you'll eat without restriction. While that doesn't mean that you should force-feed yourself or pu…"-Gin Stephens, Fast, Feast, Repeat: The Comprehensive Guide to Delay, Don't Deny® Intermittent Fasting
19. Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
By: Johann Hari
4.24
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing t… read more
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- nonfiction
- personal development
- self help
"We live in a culture that is constantly amping us up with stress and stimulation."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"We are now exposed to ten times the amount of artificial light that people were exposed to just fifty years ago."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"If you see the world through fragments, your empathy often doesn’t kick in, in the way that it does when you engage with something in a sustained, focused way."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"In situations of low stress and safety, mind-wandering will be a gift, a pleasure, a creative force. In situations of high stress or danger, mind-wandering will be a torment."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
20. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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- nonfiction
- personal development
- self help
"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
21. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
22. Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
By: Cal Newport
4.06
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to o… read more
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- nonfiction
- personal development
- self help
"Who could justify trading a lifetime of stress and backbreaking labor for better blinds? Is a nicer-looking window treatment really worth so much of your life?"-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
"Digital minimalism definitively does not reject the innovations of the internet age, but instead rejects the way so many people currently engage with these tools."-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
"The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them, . . . was all about: “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?"-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
"For many people, their compulsive phone use papers over a void created by a lack of a well-developed leisure life. Reducing the easy distraction without also filling the void can make life unpleasant…"-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
23. Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
By: Jake Knapp
4.08
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling authors of Sprint, a simple 4-step system for improving focus, … read more
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- nonfiction
- personal development
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24. Stop Reading the News: A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life
By: Rolf Dobelli
3.71
Format: 125 pages, Kindle Edition
STOP READING THE NEWS is a vital toolkit for managing the upsetting coronavirus news cycle and find… read more
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- personal development
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"News is aimed straight at our mental health. We need to get out of the way."-Rolf Dobelli, Stop Reading the News: A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life
"News is to the mind what sugar is to the body: appetising, easily digestible and extremely damaging."-Rolf Dobelli, Stop Reading the News: A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life
"In the past few decades we’ve learned to recognise the many hazards of poor nutrition: insulin resistance, obesity, susceptibility to inflammation and fatigue. All of these factors can contribute to …"-Rolf Dobelli, Stop Reading the News: A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life
25. No-Nonsense Buddhism for Beginners: Clear Answers to Burning Questions About Core Buddhist Teachings
By: Noah Rasheta
4.45
Format: 147 pages, Kindle Edition
Presented in a practical Q&A format, No-Nonsense Buddhism for Beginners is the most clear-cut intro… read more
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- personal development
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26. Learn Like a Pro
By: Barbara Oakley
4.14
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A book for learners of all ages containing the best and most updated advice on learning from neuros… read more
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27. How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
By: Catherine Price
3.92
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Packed with tested strategies and practical tips, this book is the essential, life-changing guide f… read more
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- nonfiction
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"In short, if ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to look at your phone."-Catherine Price, How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
"Flow is a term coined by the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi to describe the feeling you get when you’re completely and totally engaged in an experience. People can experience flow when they’re …"-Catherine Price, How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
"If you wanted to invent a device that could rewire our minds, if you wanted to create a society of people who were perpetually distracted, isolated, and overtired, if you wanted to weaken our memorie…"-Catherine Price, How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
"Every moment of attention we spend scrolling through social media is attention spent making money for someone else. The numbers are staggering: a New York Times analysis calculated that as of 20414, …"-Catherine Price, How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
28. Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs
By: Johann Hari
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs u… read more
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- self help
29. The Art of the Good Life
By: Rolf Dobelli
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The indispensable new work from the author of the international and Sunday Times bestseller The Art… read more
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"As long as I keep the downside at bay, the upside will take care of itself."-Rolf Dobelli, The Art of the Good Life
"Because problems aren't like great Bordeaux wines—they don’t improve with age."-Rolf Dobelli, The Art of the Good Life
"We overestimate the impact of purchases on our wellbeing and underestimate the impact of experiences"-Rolf Dobelli, The Art of the Good Life
30. You Should Quit Reddit
By: Jacob Desforges
4.16
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
In recent years, countless books, articles, and documentaries have addressed the negative effects t… read more
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