The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
By: Mark W. Moffett
3.67
Format: 468 pages, Hardcover
Biologist Mark W. Moffett draws on findings in psychology, sociology and anthropology to explain th…
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1. The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
By: Michael Booth
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years and has grown in… read more
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"This ungodly act is simply something that Finns do, like the British and their DIY, or the French and their adultery."-Michael Booth, The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
"They go out, they drink a lot of beer and they eat dead pigs, and then they go home and have sex with strangers afterwards."-Michael Booth, The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
"They had inherited a poor, patriarchal, and formal society, and turned it into a rich, feminist, and fiercely egalitarian one."-Michael Booth, The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
"The country now has the second highest GDP per capita in the world after Luxembourg, and Luxembourg is hardly a proper country."-Michael Booth, The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
2. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
By: Thomas S. Kuhn
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual histor… read more
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- history
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3. Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
By: Mark Miodownik
3.92
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
A New York TimesBestseller An eye-opening adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surroun… read more
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5. The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality
By: Julie Sondra Decker
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
What if you weren't sexually attracted to anyone? A growing number of people are identifying as ase… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
6. Animal Dreams
By: Barbara Kingsolver
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet drea… read more
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7. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
By: Niall Ferguson
3.69
Format: 47 pages,
"Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it… read more
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8. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
9. Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
By: Nick Lane
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end? For decades, biology has been domina… read more
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"Almost the only thing we know for sure about consciousness is that it is, so to speak, soluble in ether, chloroform and a variety of other solvents ..."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Core metabolism has changed little in part because it was never powered down in its four-billion-year history. The genes are custodians of this flame, but without the flame life is – dead."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Keen to progress the work on photosynthesis, Lawrence hired Melvin Calvin, a colleague from the Manhattan Project, immediately after the war. The story has it that on the day of the Japanese surrende…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Putting terms aside, we’ll see that the ancient biosynthetic Krebs cycle was fixing CO2 a billion years before rubisco and the evolution of photosynthesis in the cyanobacterial ancestors of plant chl…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
10. Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
By: Sarah Bakewell
4.03
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years o… read more
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11. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.21
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more
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"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
12. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
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13. The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion -- Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
By: Peter Wohlleben
3.75
Format: 7 pages, Audio CD
Through vivid stories of devoted pigs, two-timing magpies, and scheming roosters, The Inner Life of… read more
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"La ciencia es contraria a la sensibilidad de los animales hasta que ésta ya no pueda negarse. ¿No sería mejor argumentar, por si acaso, lo contrario, para no maltratar innecesariamente a los animales?"-Peter Wohlleben, The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion -- Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
"Si de verdad somos la especie más inteligente de este planeta -algo que presupongo-, ¿entonces por qué la ciencia no recorrió hace tiempo el camino inverso? ¿Por qué esforzarse durante años en enseña…"-Peter Wohlleben, The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion -- Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
14. Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs
By: Johann Hari
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs u… read more
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15. Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream
By: David Leonhardt
4.28
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American D… read more
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16. The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain Is Different and How to Understand Yours
By: Chantel Prat
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From University of Washington professor Chantel Prat comes The Neuroscience of You, a rollicking ad… read more
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17. The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity
By: Byron Reese
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“ The Fourth Age not only discusses what the rise of A.I. will mean for us, it also forces readers … read more
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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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"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.
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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20. The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
By: Mark W. Moffett
3.67
Format: 468 pages, Hardcover
Biologist Mark W. Moffett draws on findings in psychology, sociology and anthropology to explain th… read more
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