5 must-read nonfiction books like The Neuroscience of Emotion: A New Synthesis by Ralph Adolphs

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The Neuroscience of Emotion: A New Synthesis

By: Ralph Adolphs

3.76

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

A new framework for the neuroscientific study of emotions in humans and animals The Neuroscience…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Neuroscience of Emotion: A New Synthesis by Ralph Adolphs , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. Memories of My Melancholy Whores

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Edith Grossman

3.89

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

A New York TimesNotable Book On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himsel… read more

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2. 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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3. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

By: Malala Yousafzai , Christina Lamb

3.37

Format: None pages, Hardcover

I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday. Wh… read more

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4. Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

By: Julie Smith

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith provides… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
"When we focus on trying to fix the problem, it is easy to underestimate the power of simply being there."

-Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

"In acceptance, the new reality is still not OK. It is still not as we want it to be. But we begin to take on the new reality, listen to our needs, open up to new experiences and make connections."

-Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

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5. The House of Hidden Meanings

By: RuPaul

3.84

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and persona… read more

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  • nonfiction
"We all have that magic within us - But it's the faculty to harness it - to turn something seemingly meaningless into something special, to be loose and spontaneous with it - that makes life most wort…"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"But in that time the RuPaul idea was born, and people outside of my world were inspired to talk about me and androgyny and drag in a way that was unprecedented. Not long after that, the questions cam…"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"Life is full of dualities: night and day, black and white, yin and yang, good and evil, birth and death, love and fear. You can't have one without the other. It takes two to create the magnetic pull …"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"There are ideological precepts that people will fight or even kill for. But those things are never really what they seem to be. As much as people will claim a hard moral line, that line becomes very …"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

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6. The Toll (Arc of a Scythe, #3)

By: Neal Shusterman

4.18

Format: 625 pages, Hardcover

It’s been three years since Rowan and Citra disappeared; since Scythe Goddard came into power; sinc… read more

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"Where are you, my dear Marie?"

-Neal Shusterman, The Toll (Arc of a Scythe, #3)

"I long for the luxury of being impractical."

-Neal Shusterman, The Toll (Arc of a Scythe, #3)

"I don't forgive him-I merely understand him."

-Neal Shusterman, The Toll (Arc of a Scythe, #3)

"Fear, Ayn. Fear is the beloved father of respect."

-Neal Shusterman, The Toll (Arc of a Scythe, #3)

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7. The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness

By: Robert Waldinger

4.16

Format: 352 pages, ebook

What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? In their book, the directors of the Ha… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
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8. Rationality

By: Steven Pinker

3.85

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 In Rationality, Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
"Everyone wants someone to help but prefers that it not be them."

-Steven Pinker, Rationality

"If contemporary humans seem irrational, don't blame the hunter-gatherers."

-Steven Pinker, Rationality

"The press is an availability machine. It serves up anecdotes which feed our impression of what's common in a way that is guaranteed to mislead."

-Steven Pinker, Rationality

"Disagreement is necessary in deliberations among mortals. As the saying goes, the more we disagree, the more chance there is that at least one of us is right."

-Steven Pinker, Rationality

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9. The Neuroscience of Emotion: A New Synthesis

By: Ralph Adolphs

3.76

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

A new framework for the neuroscientific study of emotions in humans and animals The Neuroscience… read more

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  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science

15 must-read philosophy books like Rationality by Steven Pinker

Transform Your Habits

Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

Richard Dawkins

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Transform Your Habits

The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

Greg Lukianoff

3.93

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