The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique (Jean Nicod Lectures)
By: Kim Sterelny
4.18
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Over the last three million years or so, our lineage has diverged sharply from those of our great a…
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1. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
By: Steven Pinker
3.77
Format: 341 pages,
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2. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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3. Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence
By: Richard W. Wrangham , Dale Peterson
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Whatever their virtues, men are more violent than women. Why do men kill, rape, and wage war, and w… read more
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4. The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
By: Joseph Henrich
3.91
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, ofte… read more
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5. The Brothers Karamazov
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.37
Format: 796 pages, Paperback
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more
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- philosophy
"How good life is when one does something good and just!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
6. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
By: Lisa Feldman Barrett
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care,… read more
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7. Books v. Cigarettes
By: George Orwell
4.36
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell's … read more
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8. The Anomaly
By: Hervé Le Tellier
3.81
Format: 391 pages, Paperback
A virtuoso novel where logic confronts magic and that explores the part of ourselves that eludes us… read more
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"Le vrai pessimiste sait qu'il est déjà trop tard pour l'être."-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly
"Aimer évite au moins de chercher sans cesse un sens à sa vie."-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly
"Es gibt ein Leben nach dem Tod, besonders nach dem der anderen."-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly
"Une traduction est une œuvre, les traducteurs sont des auteurs."-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly
9. In Ascension
By: Martin MacInnes
3.79
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more
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"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
10. Why We're Polarized
By: Ezra Klein
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Discover how American politics became a toxic system, why we participate in it, and what it means f… read more
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"Unfortunately, the term “identity politics"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"The key idea here is “negative partisanship"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"So here, then, is the last fifty years of American politics summarized: we became more consistent in the party we vote for not because we came to like our party more—indeed, we’ve come to like the pa…"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"The political media is biased, but not toward the Left or Right so much as toward loud, outrageous, colorful, inspirational, confrontational. It is biased toward the political stories and figures who…"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
11. 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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12. Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind
By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
3.89
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The scuba-diving philosopher who wrote Other Minds explores the origins of animal consciousness … read more
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13. The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
By: Oded Galor
3.85
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A landmark, radically uplifting account of our species' progress from one of the world's pre-eminen… read more
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"У 1579-му міська рада Гданська наказала непомітно втопити винахідника нового верстата для плетіння тасьми, який загрожував традиційним виробникам цієї продукції."-Oded Galor, The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
"У 1958 році американський політолог Едвард Бенфілд сформулював впливову теорію, відповідно до якої низький рівень економічного розвитку в цьому регіоні пов’язаний з міцними родинними зв’язками. За йо…"-Oded Galor, The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
"Дуже часто рекомендації західних держав щодо розвитку політики в бідніших країнах мало відрізняються від «ритуалів відновлення» в жителів острова Танна. Вони передбачають зовнішню імітацію інститутів…"-Oded Galor, The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
"Після Великого повстання проти Римської імперії, яке спалахнуло в Юдеї 66 року н. е., римляни знищили Єрусалим і Єрусалимський храм. Кілька основних течій юдаїзму зникло, зокрема садукеї (священники …"-Oded Galor, The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
14. The Experience Machine
By: Andy Clark
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worldsFor as long as … read more
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15. Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking
By: Cecilia Heyes
3.78
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“This is an important book and likely the most thoughtful of the year in the social sciences… Highl… read more
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"In short, distinctively human cognitive mechanisms are tracking targets that move too fast for genetic evolution. In a stable phase, “as similative alleles"-Cecilia Heyes, Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking
"There are a number of potential answers. It could be that cognitive gadgets have not been genetically assimilated because they are locally but not globally optimal, or that genetic assimilation has …"-Cecilia Heyes, Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking
"Many cognitive mechanisms, like imitation and mindreading, not only do their jobs well, but do jobs that, when done well, seem likely to en hance reproductive tness—to increase the number of babies …"-Cecilia Heyes, Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking
"In contrast with cognitive gadgets, the components of the starter kit (Chapter 3) are ripe for genetic assimilation because they do nonspecific jobs that continue to be worth doing in spite of rapid …"-Cecilia Heyes, Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking
16. The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique (Jean Nicod Lectures)
By: Kim Sterelny
4.18
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Over the last three million years or so, our lineage has diverged sharply from those of our great a… read more
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