6 must-read neuroscience books like We Know It When We See It: What the Neurobiology of Vision Tells Us About How We Think by Richard Masland

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We Know It When We See It: What the Neurobiology of Vision Tells Us About How We Think

By: Richard Masland

3.61

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A Harvard researcher investigates the human eye in this insightful account of what vision reveals a…

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1. Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior

By: Leonard Mlodinow

3.69

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of The Drunkard's Walkand coauthor of The Grand Design(wi… read more

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  • psychology
  • science

2. The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

By: Norman Doidge

4.22

Format: 129 pages,

An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the… read more

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3. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

By: Leonard Mlodinow

3.48

Format: None pages,

In this irreverent and illuminating book, acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us … read more

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4. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

By: David Eagleman

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

If the conscious mind--the part you consider you--accounts for only a tiny fraction of the brain's … read more

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5. More Than We Can Tell

By: Brigid Kemmerer

4.14

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the author of Letters to the Lostcomes a heart-wrenching story of two teens with big secrets a… read more

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6. I Am a Strange Loop

By: Douglas R. Hofstadter

3.76

Format: None pages,

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7. Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry

By: Ogi Ogas , Jeffrey A. Lieberman

3.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The fascinating story of psychiatry's origins, demise, and redemption, by the former President of t… read more

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8. Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them

By: Jennifer Wright

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A humorous book about history's worst plagues--from the Antonine Plague, to leprosy, to polio--and … read more

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9. 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

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10. 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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11. Chłopki. Opowieść o naszych babkach

By: Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak

4.44

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Autorka Służących do wszystkiego wraca do tematu wiejskich kobiet, ale tym razem to opowieść zza dr… read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. Latarnik

By: Henryk Sienkiewicz

2.95

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Bohaterem opowiadania jest Polak - Skawiński, który przybywa do Aspinwall, aby tu objąć posadę lata… read more

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13. 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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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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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

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14. 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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  • nonfiction
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"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

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15. Tak działa mózg. Jak mądrze dbać o jego funkcjonowanie

By: Asia Podgórska

4.20

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Trudno odnaleźć twór bardziej złożony od ludzkiego mózgu. I paradoksalnie –twór najmniej poznany. J… read more

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16. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

By: Daniel Kahneman

3.66

Format: 454 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the co-author of Nudge, a groundbreaking… read more

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  • psychology
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17. This is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn To See

By: Seth Godin

3.94

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER & INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA game-changing approach to ma… read more

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18. Cukry

By: Dorota Kotas

4.01

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

To jest książka o kimś innym. Można się z niej dowiedzieć, jak jest w środku czyjejś głowy i czy to… read more

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19. Conspiracy: A History of B*llocks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them

By: Tom Phillips

3.78

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Satanic Panic to the anti-vaxx movement, the moon landing to Pizzagate, it's always been h… read more

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  • psychology
  • science
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20. Tu jest teraz twój dom. Adopcja w Polsce

By: Marta Wroniszewska

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Ponad siedemdziesiąt tysięcy polskich dzieci objętych jest pieczą zastępczą. Mieszkają w domach dzi… read more

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21. We Know It When We See It: What the Neurobiology of Vision Tells Us About How We Think

By: Richard Masland

3.61

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A Harvard researcher investigates the human eye in this insightful account of what vision reveals a… read more

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Leonard Mlodinow

3.69

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4.25

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4.10

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