The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
By: Jonathan Davis , Frans de Waal
3.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this lively and illuminating discussion of his landmark research, esteemed primatologist Frans d…
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1. The Church and the Second Sex
By: Mary Daly
3.81
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
First published in 1968, The Church and the Second Sex represents one of the most important critiqu… read more
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2. Wij zijn ons brein: van baarmoeder tot Alzheimer
By: Dick Swaab
3.90
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Het verhaal van je leven is het verhaal van je brein. Dat begint in de baarmoeder, waar de hersenen… read more
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"Mountaineers, especially when alone, sometimes have very vivid hallucinations [...]. So it is interesting that the revelations received by the leaders of the world's three main religions were precede…"-Dick Swaab, Wij zijn ons brein: van baarmoeder tot Alzheimer
3. What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
By: Daniel Chamovitz
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
How does a Venus flytrap know when to snap shut? Can an orchid get jet lag? Does a tomato plant fee… read more
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4. The Philosopher and the Wolf: Lessons from the Wild on Love, Death, and Happiness
By: Mark Rowlands
3.33
Format: None pages,
This fascinating book charts the relationship between Mark Rowlands, a rootless philosopher, and Br… read more
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5. Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
By: Martin Ford
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
What are the jobs of the future? How many will there be? And who will have them? We might imagine--… read more
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6. 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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7. Stone Age Economics
By: Marshall Sahlins
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, Stone Age Econo… read more
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8. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
By: Neil Postman
3.93
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Deat… read more
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9. The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
By: Matt Ridley
3.71
Format: 101 pages, Paperback
Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queenfrom Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep r… read more
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10. The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
By: Jonathan Davis , Frans de Waal
3.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this lively and illuminating discussion of his landmark research, esteemed primatologist Frans d… read more
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11. Het lot van de familie Meijer
By: Charles Lewinsky , Elly Schippers
4.23
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
Als op een nacht in 1871 een ver familielid bij de deur van de Meijers aanklopt, kan niemand vermoe… read more
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13. A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and re… read more
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14. Diplomacy
By: Henry Kissinger
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A brilliant, sweeping history of diplomacy that includes personal stories from the noted former Sec… read more
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15. 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
16. Călătorie în jurul omului
By: Alexandru N. Stermin
4.12
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
„Biologul Alexandru Stermin călătorește în jurul lumii. Ceea ce începe ca un periplu în lumea biolo… read more
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17. The Shortest History of China
By: Linda Jaivin
4.01
Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition
From kung-fu to tofu, tea to trade routes, sages to silk, China has influenced cuisine, commerce, m… read more
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18. Journeys to Heaven and Hell: Tours of the Afterlife in the Early Christian Tradition
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.79
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times bestselling scholar’s illuminating exploration of the earliest Christian narrated … read more
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19. Konsten att tänka klart
By: Christer Sturmark
3.57
Format: 455 pages, Hardcover
Människan har en unik superkraft: förnuftet. Hon är förmögen att både förstå, förklara och förändra… read more
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20. High as the Waters Rise
By: Anja Kampmann
3.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
German poet Anja Kampmann’s award-winning debut novel is the dazzling, heart-rending story of an oi… read more
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21. Becoming Beauvoir: A Life
By: Kate Kirkpatrick
4.31
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
'One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman', wrote Simone de Beauvoir. This is a woman who wa… read more
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"Being a self involves perpetual change with others who are also changing, in a process of irreversible becoming."-Kate Kirkpatrick, Becoming Beauvoir: A Life
"What if becoming yourself simultaneously means being seen as a failure to be what you should be - a failure as a woman, or as a lover, or as a mother?"-Kate Kirkpatrick, Becoming Beauvoir: A Life
