Our Senses: An Immersive Experience
By: Robert DeSalle
3.57
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
A lively and unconventional exploration of our senses, how they work, what is revealed when they do…
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1. Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
By: Stanislas Dehaene
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Until the late 1980s it was believed that consciousness could not be investigated by objective expe… read more
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"Science often progresses by carving out new distinctions that refine the fuzzy categories of natural language."-Stanislas Dehaene, Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
"I do not mean, of course, that we can always accurately express our conscious thoughts with Proustian accuracy. Consciousness overflows language: we perceive vastly more than we can describe."-Stanislas Dehaene, Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
"Introspection makes our conscious motives and strategies transparent to us, while we have no sure means of deciphering them in others. Yet we never genuinely know our true selves. We remain largely i…"-Stanislas Dehaene, Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
2. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
By: James Gleick
4.03
Format: 527 pages, Hardcover
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonis… read more
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"At the end of 2006, people concerned with the “Cat"-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
"Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too."-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
"Before Newton the English word gravity denoted a mood—seriousness, solemnity…."-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
"Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace."-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
3. The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
By: Stephon Alexander
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
More than fifty years ago, John Coltrane drew the twelve musical notes in a circle and connected th… read more
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4. The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
By: Steven H. Strogatz
2.70
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A world-class mathematician and regular contributor to the New York Timeshosts a delightful tour of… read more
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5. Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect
By: Matthew D. Lieberman
3.60
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
We are profoundly social creatures - more than we know. In Social, renowned psychologist Matthew Li… read more
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6. Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe
By: Lee Smolin , Henry Reich
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
One of our foremost thinkers and public intellectuals offers a radical new view of the nature of ti… read more
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7. Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
By: Nick Lane
3.87
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
If it weren't for mitochondria, scientists argue, we'd all still be single-celled bacteria. Indeed,… read more
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8. Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness
By: Daniel C. Dennett
4.27
Format: 412 pages, Paperback
Combining ideas from philosophy, artificial intelligence, and neurobiology, Daniel Dennett leads th… read more
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9. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more
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10. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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11. Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World
By: Nick Lane
4.19
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
In Oxygen, Nick Lane takes the reader on an enthralling journey as he unravels the unexpected ways … read more
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12. Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
By: Manjit Kumar
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
For most people, quantum theory is a byword for mysterious, impenetrable science. And yet for many … read more
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13. Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
By: Peter Matthiessen , None
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes read… read more
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14. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
15. The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning
By: Paul Bloom
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“This book will challenge you to rethink your vision of a good life. With sharp insights and lucid … read more
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16. 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
17. From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
By: Daniel C. Dennett
3.77
Format: 477 pages, Paperback
How did we come to have minds? For centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists ha… read more
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"Comprehension is not the source of competence or the active ingredient in competence; comprehension is composed of competences."-Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
"That's a rhetorical question, and trying to answer rhetorical questions instead of being cowed by them is a good habit to cultivate."-Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
"We Homo sapiens are the only species (so far) with richly cumulative culture, and the key ingredient of culture that makes this possible is language."-Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
"Don’t be afraid of a little metaphor; it won’t bite you, but you should always make sure you know how to cash it in for unvarnished fact when you feel the urge."-Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
18. Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World
By: Nina Kraus
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Наш слышащий мозг обширен — это нечто большее, чем просто прибор для обработки звука. Нина Краус ра… read more
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19. Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny
By: Michael Tomasello
4.11
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A radical reconsideration of how we develop the qualities that make us human, based on decades of c… read more
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20. Social Empathy: The Art of Understanding Others
By: Elizabeth A. Segal
4.07
Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition
Our ability to understand others and help others understand us is essential to our individual and c… read more
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21. Our Senses: An Immersive Experience
By: Robert DeSalle
3.57
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
A lively and unconventional exploration of our senses, how they work, what is revealed when they do… read more
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