The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds
By: Mark Humphries
3.91
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
The story of a neural impulse and what it reveals about how our brains work We see the last cookie…
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1. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
By: Nick Bostrom
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intellig… read more
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2. The Gene: An Intimate History
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies--a magnificent h… read more
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- biology
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3. Our Man in Havana
By: Graham Greene
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
Mr. Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts, becomes a spy to earn extra income. read more
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4. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
By: Steven Pinker
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
The classic book on the development of human language by the world's leading expert on language and… read more
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5. Fathers and Sons
By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more
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"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"Death's an old story, but new for each person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
6. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
By: Lisa Feldman Barrett
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care,… read more
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7. The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
By: Douglas R. Hofstadter , Daniel C. Dennett
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Brilliant, shattering, mind-jolting, The Mind's Iis a searching, probing cosmic journey of the mind… read more
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8. How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
By: Ray Kurzweil
2.83
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
The bold futurist and bestselling author explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering th… 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
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. The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve
By: Steve Stewart-Williams
4.25
Format: 378 pages, Hardcover
The Ape that Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human a… read more
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12. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
13. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
By: Marc Lamont Hill
4.21
Format: 227 pages, Hardcover
A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. 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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- biology
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15. 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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"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
16. A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
By: Jeff Hawkins
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An author, neuroscientist, and computer engineer unveils a theory of intelligence, of understanding… read more
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"To avoid hallucinating, the brain needs to keep its predictions separate from reality."-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
"Unlike species which often disappear as new ones appear, the brain evolved by adding new parts on top of the older parts."-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
"It is human nature - aka old brain - to suspect everyone wants to steal your idea, where the reality is that you are lucky if anyone cares about your idea at all."-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
"Reference frames in the old brain learn maps of environments. Reference frames in the what columns of the neocortex learn maps of physical objects. Reference frames in the where columns of the neocor…"-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
17. The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed
By: Christof Koch
3.92
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Koch describes how the theory explains many facts about the neurology of consciousness and how it h… read more
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"To bring home the centrality of consciousness to life, consider a devil’s bargain in which you gain unlimited wealth at the expense of your conscious experiences. You get all the money you want but m…"-Christof Koch, The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed
"Mind-as-software is an unspoken background assumption that needs no justification. It is as obvious as the existence of the devil used to be. For what is the alternative to mind-as-software? A soul? …"-Christof Koch, The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed
"Their [personal digital assistants] siren voices are living proof of our times - that our mind is software, running on the computer that is our brain. Consciousness is just a couple of clever hack aw…"-Christof Koch, The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed
"Purkinje cells are among the most elaborate of all neurons; the cerebellum maps the body and outside space onto its tens of billions of neurons. Yet none of this seems sufficient to generate consciou…"-Christof Koch, The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed
18. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
By: Ethan Mollick
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more
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19. The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
By: Mark Solms
4.26
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
For Mark Solms, one of the boldest thinkers in contemporary neuroscience, discovering how conscious… read more
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"What you experience all the time is fluctuating pulses of feeling in response to your movement through the world, as you check whether everything is as you expected to find it - and as you try to clo…"-Mark Solms, The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
20. The Experience Machine
By: Andy Clark
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worldsFor as long as … read more
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21. The Mind of a Bee
By: Lars Chittka
4.11
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A rich and surprising exploration of the intelligence of bees Most of us are aware of the hive min… read more
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"American writer and biologist Frederick Kenyon (1867-1941) was the first to explore the inner workings of the bee brain. His 1896 study, in which he managed to dye and characterize numerous types of …"-Lars Chittka, The Mind of a Bee
22. Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn
By: Barbara Oakley
4.20
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Top 10 Pick for Learning Ladders’ Best Books for Educators Summer 2021 A groundbreaking guide to i… read more
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23. Models of the Mind: How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain
By: Grace Lindsay
4.39
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The brain is made up of 85 billion neurons, which are connected by over 100 trillion synapses. For … read more
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24. Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are
By: Kevin J. Mitchell
4.17
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A leading neuroscientist explains why your personal traits are more innate than you think What make… read more
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"There is a power in accepting people the way they are—our friends, partners, workmates, children, siblings, and especially ourselves. People really are born different from each other and those differ…"-Kevin J. Mitchell, Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are
25. How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi: Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd Nite
By: Chris Balakrishnan
3.63
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
The co-founders of the global science organization Nerd Nite bring readers a collection of wacky, y… read more
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- biology
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26. The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them
By: Euan Angus Ashley
4.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In The Genome Odyssey , Dr. Euan Ashley, Stanford professor of medicine and genetics, brings the br… read more
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27. A History of the Human Brain
By: Bret Stetka
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
“Crack open this book and take a read. You will be transported, illuminated, and delighted.” —Psych… read more
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28. The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience
By: Matthew Cobb
4.13
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A powerful examination of what we think we know about the brain and why -- despite technological ad… read more
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29. An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life
By: Mark Gober
4.03
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Consciousness creates all material reality. Biological processes do not create consciousness. This … read more
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30. The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds
By: Mark Humphries
3.91
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
The story of a neural impulse and what it reveals about how our brains work We see the last cookie… read more
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