Freely Determined: What the New Psychology of the Self Teaches Us About How to Live
By: Kennon M. Sheldon
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A renowned psychologist argues that free will is not only real but essential to our well-being I…
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1. The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It
By: Kelly McGonigal
4.09
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
The author of The Willpower Instinct delivers a controversial and groundbreaking new book that over… read more
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"Stress is what arises when something you care about is at stake."-Kelly McGonigal, The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It
"The best way to manage stress isn’t to reduce or avoid it, but rather to rethink and even embrace it"-Kelly McGonigal, The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It
"[A]dopt a growth mindset — to view setbacks as inevitable, and understand that hitting an obstacle means it is time to draw on your resources."-Kelly McGonigal, The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It
"In addition to optimism, two other personality traits seem to be associated with a more positive view of stress: mindfulness and the ability to tolerate uncertainty."-Kelly McGonigal, The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It
2. Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood
By: John J. Ratey , Edward M. Hallowell
4.12
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
Through vivid stories of the experiences of their patients (both adults and children), Drs. Hallowe… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
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"Families, by and large, like most groups, resist change. If one member of a family wants to move away, this is regarded as a betrayal, for example. If one member of a family is fat and tries to lose …"-John J. Ratey, Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood
3. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Why do we do the things we do? More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert … read more
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- nonfiction
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4. Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Enlightenment
By: Robert Wright
3.64
Format: None pages, Audiobook
From one of America's greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditat… read more
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5. The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters
By: Emily Esfahani Smith
4.27
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
This wise, stirring book argues that the search for meaning can immeasurably deepen our lives and i… read more
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- personal development
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6. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By: Ilan Pappé
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more
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7. Philosophical Investigations
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein , G.E.M. Anscombe
3.68
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Philosophische Untersuchungen is, with the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one of two major works b… read more
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8. A Brief History of Neoliberalism
By: David Harvey
3.76
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Neoliberalism--the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guid… read more
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9. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
By: Douglas R. Hofstadter
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal s… read more
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10. 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
11. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it
By: Will Storr
4.14
Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition
For centuries, philosophers and scholars have described human behaviour in terms of sex, power and … read more
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"Whilst we play life as a game, our conscious experience of it takes the form of a story."-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it
"We build an infinite variety of imaginary games. Groups of people gather together, agree what symbols they’re going to use to mean “status,"-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it
"The story idealists sometimes tell of humanity says we're natural seekers of equality. This isn't true. Utopians talk of injustice whilst building new hierarchies and placing themselves at the top. W…"-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it
12. Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
By: Kate Manne
4.25
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research t… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
13. 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
14. The Infinite Game
By: Simon Sinek
4.17
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
Do you know how to play the game you're in? In finite games, like football or chess, the players a… read more
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- nonfiction
- personal development
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"In any game, there are always two currencies required to play - will and resources."-Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game
"And like all infinite games, in the game of life, the goal is not to win, it is to perpetuate the game."-Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game
"The best way to drive performance in an organization is to create an environment in which information can flow freely, mistakes can be highlighted and help can be offered and received."-Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game
"Traditional competition forces us to take on an attitude of winning. A worthy rival inspires us to take an attitude of improvement. The former focuses our attention on the outcome, the latter focuses…"-Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game
15. 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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16. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
By: Dean Spade
4.38
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around… read more
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"In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using t…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult …"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"Burnout is the combination of resentment, exhaustion, shame, and frustration that make us lose connection to pleasure and passion in the work, and instead encounter difficult feelings like avoidance,…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
17. Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
By: Mehdi Hasan
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Win Every Argument shows how anyone can communicate with confidence, r… read more
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18. The End of Policing
By: Alex S. Vitale
4.19
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself Recent years have seen an explosion of pr… read more
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"Our standard of living is not declining because of migrants but because of unregulated neoliberal capitalism, which has allowed corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes or decent wages. It is …"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"There is no question that American police use their weapons more than police in any other developed democracy. Unfortunately, we don’t have fully accurate information about the number or nature of ho…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"As Jeffrey Reiman points out in the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, the criminal justice system excuses and ignores crimes of the rich that produce profound social harms while intensely crim…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"Heavy-handed immigration policing will not build a worker’s movement, it will shatter it. One of the mistakes that Trump supporters make is imagining that their own economic conditions will be improv…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
19. Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
By: David Graeber
3.33
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everyt… read more
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"God and Man were inseparable companions. One day God said to Man: why don’t you go walk around on earth for a while so we can find some new topics for conversation? —beginning of a Malagasy folktale"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
"The toothless or peg-legged buccaneer hoisting a flag of defiance against the world, drinking and feasting to a stupor on stolen loot, fleeing at the first sign of serious opposition, leaving only ta…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
"We would seem to be in the presence of a genuine historical anomaly: a political entity that presented itself to the outside world as a kingdom, organized around the charismatic figure of a brilliant…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
20. Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity
By: Sander van der Linden
4.03
Format: 368 pages, ebook
Winner of the 2024 APA William James Book Award • Winner of the 2024 Harvard Goldsmith Book Prize •… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
"Whereas lies and fake news tend to be simple and sticky, science is often presented as nuanced and complex."-Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity
21. 10x Is Easier Than 2x: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less
By: Dan Sullivan
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Expanding upon one of his high-level foundational Strategic Coach co-founder Dan Sullivan explains… read more
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22. Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity
By: Gloria Mark
3.53
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
AS SEEN ON ARMCHAIR EXPERT WITH DAX SHEPARD, WALL STREET JOURNAL , NEW YORK TIMES AND MORE **A COS… read more
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"…it is time to rethink our relationship with our personal technologies. We need to reframe our goal from that of maximizing human productivity with our devices, to instead using them in maintaining a…"-Gloria Mark, Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity
"We know from project management that there is usually slippage, and tasks almost always take longer than what one envisions. There is also no room for fitting human well-being into task schedules. We…"-Gloria Mark, Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity
"Design your day thinking that you have limited mental resources, knowing that taking time to replenish them will not only help you be less stressed and better able to resist distractions, but also mo…"-Gloria Mark, Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity
23. The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain
By: Gina Rippon
3.88
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
For decades if not centuries, science has backed up society’s simple dictum that men and women are … read more
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- psychology
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"Stereotypes could be straitjackening our flexible, plastic brains. So, yes, challenging them does matter."-Gina Rippon, The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain
24. The Science of Storytelling
By: Will Storr
4.06
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
Stories mould who we are, from our character to our cultural identity. They drive us to act out our… read more
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"The gift of story is wisdom"-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
"If tribal thinking is original sin, then story is prayer. At its best, it reminds us that, beneath our many differences, we remain beasts of one species."-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
"Locked inside the black vault of our skulls, stuck forever in the solitude of our own hallucinated universe, story is a portal, a hallucination within the hallucination, the closest we'll ever really…"-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
"Stories work on multiple evolved systems in the brain and a skilled storyteller activates these networks like the conductor of an orchestra, a little trill of moral outrage here, a fanfare of status …"-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
25. The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World
By: Jamil Zaki
3.96
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
"In this masterpiece, Jamil Zaki weaves together the very latest science with stories that will sta… read more
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"Novels and stories give people the chance to experience countless lives."-Jamil Zaki, The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World
"People who believe in themselves do things that give them even more reason to believe. They adopt habits of mind that work over the long term."-Jamil Zaki, The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World
"Fiction is empathy's gateway drug. It helps us feel for others when real-world caring is too difficult, complicated or painful. Because of this, it can restore bonds between people even when that see…"-Jamil Zaki, The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World
"Bring people together, and they'll awaken to their common humanity. A similar thought led Mark Twain to quip, "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people nee…"-Jamil Zaki, The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World
26. If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
By: Justin Gregg
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“A dazzling, delightful read on what animal cognition can teach us about our own mental shortcoming… read more
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- psychology
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27. The Character Gap: How Good Are We? (Philosophy in Action)
By: Christian B. Miller
3.41
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
We like to think of ourselves, our friends, and our families as decent people. We may not be saints… read more
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28. ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
By: John Paul Brammer
4.05
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
From popular LGBTQ advice columnist and writer John Paul Brammer comes a hilarious, heartwarming me… read more
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"I thought of myself more as "a person with unique difficulty accessing heterosexuality."-John Paul Brammer, ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
"All those years of remembering, carrying, and suffering over this person, and he probably hadn't thought about me at all since I'd moved away. I was willing to bet all my tormentors were also sufferi…"-John Paul Brammer, ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
29. Selfless: The Social Creation of “You”
By: Brian Lowery
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Social psychologist and Stanford professor Brian Lowery presents a provocative, powerful theory of … read more
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30. Freely Determined: What the New Psychology of the Self Teaches Us About How to Live
By: Kennon M. Sheldon
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A renowned psychologist argues that free will is not only real but essential to our well-being I… read more
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31. Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
By: Oliver Burkeman
4.51
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From Oliver Burkeman, author of the New York Times bestseller Four Thousand Weeks, a four-week jour… read more
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