The Secret Language of Cells: What Biological Conversations Tell Us About the Brain-Body Connection, the Future of Medicine, and Life Itself
By: Jon Lieff
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Your cells are talking about you. Right now, both your inner and outer worlds are abuzz with chatt…
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1. This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
By: Daniel J. Levitin
4.18
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
Whether you load your iPod with Bach or Bono, music has a significant role in your life--even if yo… read more
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- psychology
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3. The Bad Guys Won!
By: Jeff Pearlman
4.32
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
The Bad Guys Won, award-winning Sports Illustratedbaseball writer Jeff Pearlman returns to an innoc… read more
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4. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
By: Clifford Stoll
4.15
Format: 200 pages,
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5. The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically
By: Peter Singer
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the ethicist the New Yorkercalls "the most influential living philosopher," a new way of think… read more
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6. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
7. 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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"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
8. 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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"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
9. When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
By: Daniel H. Pink
3.79
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Everyone knows that timing is everything. But we don't know much about timing itself. Our lives are… read more
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10. Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.08
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A startling new look at quantum theory, from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physi… read more
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"But structures are processes are not there so that organisms can survive and reproduce. It is the other way round: organisms survive and reproduce because these structures have happened to gradually …"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
"Credo che uno dei grandi errori che fanno gli esseri umani quando tentano di capire qualcosa sia volere certezze. La ricerca della conoscenza non si nutre di certezze: si nutre di una radicale assenz…"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
"In qualunque angolo dell'universo troviamo vertiginosi pozzi di strati di realtà. In questi strati siamo riusciti a riconoscere regolarità, sulle quali abbiamo raccolto informazione rilevante per noi…"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
11. The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
By: Brian Christian
4.37
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement … read more
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"Curiosity bred competence."-Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
12. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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13. Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me
By: Whoopi Goldberg
4.33
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influ… read more
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"Listen. The confines of this neighbourhood do not represent the confines of your life. You can go and do and be whatever you want. But, whatever you choose, be yourself."-Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me
14. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
By: Kyle Chayka
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more
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15. What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
By: Adam Becker
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of the heretical thinkers who dared to question the nature of our quantum universe… read more
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"Science, done right, works hard to respect absolutely no authority at all other than experience and empirical data. It never succeeds entirely, but it comes closer and has a better track record than …"-Adam Becker, What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
"Philosophy has an image problem. Philosophers are thought to be mystics, religious figures, bullshit artists—anything divorced from reality... Why is philosophy held in such contempt by many physicis…"-Adam Becker, What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
16. Beyond Weird
By: Philip Ball
4.11
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
'This is the book I wish I could have written but am very glad I've read' Jim Al-Khalili ‘I thin… read more
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"Quantum theory had the strangest genesis,"-Philip Ball, Beyond Weird
"[C]lassical physics is just a special case of quantum physics."-Philip Ball, Beyond Weird
"Cabe decir que los genios tienen más posibilidades de incurrir en el error que la media."-Philip Ball, Beyond Weird
"Creer que el genio conlleva estar libre de error es malinterpretar la naturaleza de la creatividad y el entendimiento."-Philip Ball, Beyond Weird
17. Mitochondria and the Future of Medicine: The Key to Understanding Disease, Chronic Illness, Aging, and Life Itself
By: Lee Know
4.16
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
"From infertility to aging to cancer and neurological disease, Dr. Lee Know will teach you that mit… read more
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18. Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else
By: Jordan Ellenberg
3.73
Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition
From the New York Times-bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong—himself a world-class geometer—a … read more
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"The paradox of education: what we most admire we put in a box and make dull."-Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else
"The ultimate reason for teaching kids to write a proof is not that the world is full of proofs. It's that the world is full of non-proofs , and grown-ups need to know the difference. It's hard to set…"-Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else
"Often people think of developments in computation as arising when we make our computers more blazingly fast, so they can compute more stuff , bigger data . It's actually just as important to prune aw…"-Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else
"What I like about stochastic gradient descent is how nuts it sounds. Imagine, for instance, that the president of the United States made decisions without any kind of global strategy; rather, the nat…"-Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else
19. The Secret Language of Cells: What Biological Conversations Tell Us About the Brain-Body Connection, the Future of Medicine, and Life Itself
By: Jon Lieff
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Your cells are talking about you. Right now, both your inner and outer worlds are abuzz with chatt… read more
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20. When My Time Comes: Conversations About Whether Those Who Are Dying Should Have the Right to Determine When Life Should End
By: Diane Rehm
4.10
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The renowned radio host and one of the most trusted voices in the nation candidly and compassionate… read more
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