26 Best nonfiction books like Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

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Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies

By: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

4.02

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when …

"My unexpected finding is that inside every man there lurk ancient caretaking tendencies that render a man every bit as protective and nurturing as the most committed mother."

-Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy , here is a list of 26 books like this:

Cover of Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers by Gabor Maté, Gordon Neufeld

1. Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers

By: Gabor Maté , Gordon Neufeld

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

International authority on child development Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D., joins forces with bestselling a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • psychology
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2. A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy

By: Joel Mokyr

4.13

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
Cover of Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life by Richard Rohr

3. Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

By: Richard Rohr

4.23

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

In Falling Upward , Fr. Richard Rohr seeks to help readers understand the tasks of the two halves o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"The ego hates losing – even to God."

-Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

"Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing."

-Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

"Life is all about practicing for heaven." p 101."

-Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

"Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable."

-Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

4. A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

By: Diarmaid MacCulloch

3.89

Format: None pages,

The author of The Reformationreturns with the definitive history of Christianity for our time. Once… read more

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5. Games Without Rules: The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan

By: Tamim Ansary

4.00

Format: 258 pages,

Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist… read more

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Cover of The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty by Daron Acemoğlu

6. The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty

By: Daron Acemoğlu

4.23

Format: 560 pages, Kindle Edition

'A must-read. Acemoglu and Robinson are intellectual heavyweights of the first rank . . . erudite a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The only way of achieving durable liberty is to . . . forge the balance necessary for building a Shackled Leviathan. True liberty can flourish neither without a state nor under the yoke of a Despotic…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty

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7. Beautyland

By: Marie-Helene Bertino

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more

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8. Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

By: Rich Roll

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover for this edition can be found here. Finding Ultra is an incredible but true a… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I loved the pain, and the pain loved me back."

-Rich Roll, Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

Cover of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon

9. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

By: Cat Bohannon

4.32

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • feminism
  • evolution
  • nonfiction
  • anthropology
Cover of Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2) by Jasper Fforde

10. Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)

By: Jasper Fforde

4.50

Format: 459 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Shades of Grey—in an exclusive edition… read more

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"Choice," went the Word of Munsell, "leads only to dithering and unhealthy speculation over alternative outcomes. The choice to have no choice is the best choice of all."

-Jasper Fforde, Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)

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11. Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist

By: Frans de Waal

4.16

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal explores sex and … read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • anthropology
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12. What We Owe the Future

By: William MacAskill

3.84

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

An Oxford philosopher makes the case for "longtermism"—that positively influencing the long-term fu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
Cover of After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations by Eric H. Cline

13. After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations

By: Eric H. Cline

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
  • anthropology
Cover of Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show by Tommy Tomlinson

14. Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show

By: Tommy Tomlinson

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Elephant in the Room comes the first inside account … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It by Richard V. Reeves

15. Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

By: Richard V. Reeves

4.07

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

"A landmark, one of the most important books of the year" - David Brooks, New York Times“Real, prac… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • psychology
"True equality between groups that are different in any way can be attained only by providing for the differences". That´s Margaret Mead again, in 1974. Mead´s idea of true equality might now be label…"

-Richard V. Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

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16. 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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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There by Tali Sharot

17. Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There

By: Tali Sharot

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Thinking Fast and Slow and The Power of Habit , a groundbreaking new study of how disru… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
Cover of Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life by Luke Burgis

18. Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life

By: Luke Burgis

3.81

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking exploration of why we want what we want, and a toolkit for freeing ourselves from … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
Cover of T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us by Carole Hooven

19. T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us

By: Carole Hooven

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Testosterone: Misunderstood. Mythologized. Controversial. A Harvard evolutionary biologist debun… read more

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  • feminism
  • evolution
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
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20. Boobies

By: Nancy Vo

4.11

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

A cheeky celebration of boobies! "You have just opened a book about boobies." Meet the Blue-foot… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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21. Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

By: Madhumita Murgia

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, reveal… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution by Richard W. Wrangham

22. The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution

By: Richard W. Wrangham

4.21

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

“A fascinating new analysis of human violence, filled with fresh ideas and gripping evidence from o… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • evolution
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • anthropology
"The moral sense was once explained purely by religion. Now an evolutionary account is needed."

-Richard W. Wrangham, The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution

"However, being moral can include not only acts of kindness but also deeds of conformity and violence."

-Richard W. Wrangham, The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution

"Human competitiveness still has elements of the primate system of achieving status by individual combat."

-Richard W. Wrangham, The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution

"...there is one thing we all take from granted: from hunter-gatherers to the Pope, we all live by a moral compass."

-Richard W. Wrangham, The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution

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23. The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains

By: Joseph E. LeDoux

3.85

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms … read more

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  • history
  • evolution
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
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24. Science Fictions

By: Stuart Ritchie

4.37

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A major exposé that reveals the absurd and shocking problems that pervade and undermine contemporar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • psychology
  • science
"Another example of educational hype is in some ways the second coming of the growth mindset concept: ‘grit’. This is the idea, promoted by the psychologist Angela Duckworth , that the ability to stic…"

-Stuart Ritchie, Science Fictions

Cover of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

25. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years by Ulbe Bosma

26. The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years

By: Ulbe Bosma

3.60

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

“[A] tour de force of global history…Bosma has turned the humble sugar crystal into a mighty prism … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
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27. Hum

By: Helen Phillips

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more

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Cover of The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump by Clay Cane

28. The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump

By: Clay Cane

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Part history and part cultural analysis, The Grift chronicles the nuanced history of Black Republic… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

29. Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies

By: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

4.02

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when … read more

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  • science
  • history
  • parenting
  • feminism
  • evolution
  • psychology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • anthropology
"My unexpected finding is that inside every man there lurk ancient caretaking tendencies that render a man every bit as protective and nurturing as the most committed mother."

-Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies

Cover of On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything by Nate Silver

30. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

By: Nate Silver

3.84

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
Cover of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

31. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science

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