12 must-read science books like Four Ways of Thinking: A Journey into Human Complexity by David Sumpter

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Four Ways of Thinking: A Journey into Human Complexity

By: David Sumpter

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Beyond all the facts and figures, there is just one question at the heart of what is the best way t…

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1. Leaders Eat Last

By: Simon Sinek

4.14

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The highly anticipated follow-up to Simon Sinek's global bestseller Start with WhySimon Sinek is an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology

2. Scale: The Search for Simplicity and Unity in the Complexity of Life, from Cells to Cities, Companies to Ecosystems, Milliseconds to Millennia

By: Geoffrey West

3.97

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The former head of the Sante Fe Institute, visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the fi… read more

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3. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

By: Siddharth Kara

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"Now you understand how people like us work?"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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4. 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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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
"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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5. Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World

By: Tom Chivers

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A captivating and user-friendly tour of Bayes’s theorem and its global impact on modern life from t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
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6. De eerlijke vinder

By: Lize Spit

3.61

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Alternative cover edition of ISBN 9789059657328 'Hoe langer hij ermee wachtte, hoe minder moed h… read more

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7. 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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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"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

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8. The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World

By: David Robson

4.19

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A journey through the cutting-edge science of how our mindset shapes every facet of our lives, reve… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
Cover of How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Bent Flyvbjerg

9. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

By: Bent Flyvbjerg

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
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10. Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

By: Tom Burgis

3.80

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year • An Economist Book of the Year “A must-read for anyo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"When the past threatens to ambush you in the present, change the past."

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

"It was to Blair that Nazarbayev turned for counsel at this delicate moment. The information blackout on Zhanaozen had been insufficient to prevent the basic details leaking out. It was as though some…"

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

"Nazarbayev found that he and his regime had a certain chemistry with figures from Blair’s strand of Western politics: the Third Way. It was a system that purported to wed the humanity of the left to …"

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

"Nazarbayev had learned that Westerners could be just as adept as he was in turning money into power and power back into money. Some, like Dick Evans and Jonathan Aitken, went about it from positions …"

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

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11. 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
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12. Reading Genesis

By: Marilynne Robinson

4.10

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts by Shane Parrish

13. The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts

By: Shane Parrish

4.08

Format: 216 pages, Audiobook

The old saying goes, "To the man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail." But anyone who has d… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
"The quality of our thinking is largely influenced by the mental models in our heads. While we want accurate models, we also want a wide variety of models to uncover what’s really happening. The key h…"

-Shane Parrish, The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts

Cover of Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family by Daniel Finkelstein

14. Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family

By: Daniel Finkelstein

4.63

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You by Scott E. Page

15. The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You

By: Scott E. Page

3.91

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most import… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
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16. This Is Why You Dream: What Your Sleeping Brain Reveals About Your Waking Life

By: Rahul Jandial

3.82

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating dive into the purpose and potential of dreams Dreaming is one of the most deeply mis… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
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17. How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler

By: Peter Pomerantsev

4.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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18. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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

19. 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
  • science
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20. Four Ways of Thinking: A Journey into Human Complexity

By: David Sumpter

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Beyond all the facts and figures, there is just one question at the heart of what is the best way t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
Cover of Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell

21. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

By: Malcolm Gladwell

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science

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Simon Sinek

4.14

Transform Your Habits

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Siddharth Kara

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

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Tom Chivers

4.17

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Nicholas Shakespeare

4.09

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Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

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Jeremy Bowen

4.38

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Michael Palin

4.17

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