The Neuroscience of Intelligence (Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology)
By: Richard J. Haier
4.23
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
This book introduces new and provocative neuroscience research that advances our understanding of i…
Want to Read $ 29.99"Any lingering doubts that intelligence is a rich topic for neuroscience should be melted away given the genetic and neuroimaging studies described in the previous two chapters. If not, please suspend any remaining disbelief until the end of this chapter wherein even more compelling findings are described."-Richard J. Haier, The Neuroscience of Intelligence (Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology)
"Any lingering doubts that intelligence is a rich topic for neuroscience should be melted away given the genetic and neuroimaging studies described in the previous two chapters. If not, please suspend any remaining disbelief until the end of this chapter wherein even more compelling findings are described."-Richard J. Haier, The Neuroscience of Intelligence (Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology)
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1. Your Brain On Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction
By: Gary Wilson , Anthony Jack
4.22
Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition
When high speed internet became widely available a few years ago, growing numbers of people began t… read more
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2. The Selfish Gene
By: Richard Dawkins
4.16
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
"The Selfish Gene" caused a wave of excitement among biologists and the general public when it was … read more
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"Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance"-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
"What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes?"-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry."-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
"I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene."-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
3. 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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- nonfiction
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4. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
By: Jared Diamond
3.93
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of … read more
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"...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
5. Puslu Kıtalar Atlası
By: İhsan Oktay Anar
3.84
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
Yeniceriler kapiyi zorlarken Uzun Ihsan Efendi hala malum konuyu dusunuyor, fakat isin icinden bir … read more
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6. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
By: John W. Dower
4.27
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel … read more
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7. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
By: Eliezer Yudkowsky
3.86
Format: 258 pages, ebook
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is a work of alternate-universe Harry Potter fan-fictio… read more
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8. 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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9. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
By: Clayton M. Christensen
3.92
Format: 368 pages,
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10. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
By: Brian Christian , Tom Griffiths
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday l… read more
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11. The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating
By: David M. Buss
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
If we all want love, why is there so much conflict in our most cherished relationships? To answer t… read more
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12. The Nicomachean Ethics
By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick
3.99
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more
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"Philosophy can make people sick."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"A man without regrets cannot be cured."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
13. Friendship is Optimal
By: None
3.87
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Hanna, the CEO of Hofvarpnir Studios, just won the contract to write the official My Little Pony MM… read more
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14. Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
By: Paul Bloom
4.00
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
New York Post Best Book of 2016 We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of other… read more
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15. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
By: Max Solomon Bennett
4.46
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts Sapiens , Behave, and Superintelligence , but wholly original in scope, A Brief History… read more
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16. The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
By: Timothy Snyder
4.36
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the ris… read more
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"For the reporters, the heroes of our time"-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
"In 1976, Stephen King published a short story, “I Know What You Need,"-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
"Міф Жовтневої революції обіцяв усе; міф Великої Вітчизняної війни не обіцяв нічого."-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
"When [Ivan] Ilyin wrote that the art of politics was “identifying and neutralizing the enemy,"-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
17. The Laws of Human Nature
By: Robert Greene
4.37
Format: 624 pages, Kindle Edition
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power comes the definitive new book… read more
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"Fo each weakness there is a corresponding strength."-Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature
"Results are important, but the way they are achieved, the process, is equally important."-Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature
"Rationality is not a power you are born with but one you acquire through training and practice."-Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature
"So often we think that power has changed people, when in fact it simply reveals more of who they are."-Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature
18. Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
By: Paul Bloom
4.15
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read A compelling and accessible new perspective on the modern science… read more
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"If you’re looking for a word to refer to the process of coming to know things through exposure to the right sort of information in the environment, I’d recommend “learning."-Paul Bloom, Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
19. Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
By: Robert Plomin
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
One of the world's top behavioural geneticists argues that we need a radical rethink about what mak… read more
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20. The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics
By: Richard Hanania
3.87
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
Richard Hanania has come out of nowhere to become one of the best-known writers in the nation in th… read more
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21. The Neuroscience of Intelligence (Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology)
By: Richard J. Haier
4.23
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
This book introduces new and provocative neuroscience research that advances our understanding of i… read more
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- textbooks
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"Any lingering doubts that intelligence is a rich topic for neuroscience should be melted away given the genetic and neuroimaging studies described in the previous two chapters. If not, please suspend…"-Richard J. Haier, The Neuroscience of Intelligence (Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology)
