The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
By: Iain McGilchrist
4.35
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
In a book of unprecedented scope, Iain McGilchrist presents a fascinating exploration of the differ…
Want to Read $ 14.82"We don't need a lot more quick fixes. We need a change in the paradigm."-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
"We don't need a lot more quick fixes. We need a change in the paradigm."-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
"We don't need a lot more quick fixes. We need a change in the paradigm."-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
"We don't need a lot more quick fixes. We need a change in the paradigm."-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
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1. The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
By: David Deutsch
4.18
Format: 487 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestseller: A provocative, imaginative exploration of the nature and progress o… read more
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2. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
By: Julian Jaynes
4.26
Format: 491 pages, Paperback
At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human… read more
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"No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the Iliad . Good and evil do not exist."-Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
"Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a s…"-Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
"Logic is the science of the justification of conclusions we have reached by natural reasoning. My point is that, for such natural reasoning to occur, consciousness is not necessary. The very reason w…"-Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
"We sometimes think, and even like to think, that the two greatest exertions that have influenced mankind, religion and science, have always been historical enemies, intriguing us in opposite directio…"-Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
3. Consciousness Explained
By: Daniel C. Dennett
3.90
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
"Brilliant...as audacious as its title....Mr. Dennett's exposition is nothing short of brilliant." … read more
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"Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity."-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
"Our fundamental tactic of self-protection, self-control, and self-definition is not spinning webs or building dams, but telling stories, and more particularly connecting and controlling the story we …"-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
"This 'web of discourses' as Robyn called it...is as much a biological product as any of the other constructions to be found in the animal world. (Clothes too, are part of the extended phenotype of Ho…"-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
"There is a species of primate in South America more gregarious than most other mammals, with a curious behavior.The members of this species often gather in groups, large and small, and in the course …"-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
4. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
By: Steven Pinker
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and p… read more
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5. Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything
By: Bernardo Kastrup
3.71
Format: 101 pages, Paperback
The present framing of the cultural debate in terms of materialism versus religion has allowed mate… read more
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6. Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
By: Simon Critchley
3.17
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
In this enlightening new Very Short Introduction, Simon Critchley shows us that Continental philoso… read more
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7. The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
By: Iain McGilchrist
4.35
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
In a book of unprecedented scope, Iain McGilchrist presents a fascinating exploration of the differ… read more
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"We don't need a lot more quick fixes. We need a change in the paradigm."-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
"[C]hildren with right-brain deficit disorder ignore task obstacles, accept impossible challenges, make grossly inadequate efforts, and are stunned by the poor outcomes. These children act fearless be…"-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
"The left hemisphere prefers the impersonal to the personal, and that tendency would be in any case be instantiated in the fabric of a technologically driven and bureaucratically administered society.…"-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
"Believing is not to be reduced to thinking that such-and-such might be the case. It is not a weaker form of thinking, laced with doubt. Sometimes we speak like this: ‘I believe that the train leaves …"-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
8. 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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9. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
By: James C. Scott
4.20
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning t… read more
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"An urban space where the police are the sole agents of order is a very dangerous place."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"The authorized histories of revolutions, as Milovan Djilas points out, “describe the revolution as if it were the fruit of the previously planned action of its leaders."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat…"-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
10. Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
By: Jordan B. Peterson
4.05
Format: 564 pages, Paperback
Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structur… read more
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"Un acontecimiento significativo existe en la frontera entre el orden y el caos."-Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
"...todo momento de amenaza es también, simultáneamente, un momento de oportunidad."-Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
"Nuestras insignificantes debilidades se acumulan y multiplican, y se convierten en grandes males de Estado."-Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
"La actitud tiránica mantiene a la sociedad en una predictibilidad homogénea y rígida, pero la condena a un derrumbamiento final."-Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
11. 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
12. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
By: Anil Seth
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons wo… read more
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13. The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
By: William Egginton
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of … read more
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14. The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God: Why New Atheism Grew Old and Secular Thinkers Are Considering Christianity Again
By: Justin Brierley
4.43
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Could We Be Witnessing a Return of Belief in Our Generation? Justin Brierley is convinced that in … read more
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15. The Language of Creation: Cosmic Symbolism in Genesis
By: Matthieu Pageau
4.45
Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition
The Language of Creation is a commentary on the primeval stories from the book of Genesis. It is of… read more
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16. More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief
By: Bernardo Kastrup
4.54
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
This book is a three-part journey into the rabbit hole we call the nature of reality. Its ultimate … read more
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"Only nothing is true."-Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief
"Past and future are myths: stories in the mind."-Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief
"The very foundations of truth are inherently subjective."-Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief
"It is your head that is in your mind, not your mind in your head."-Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief
17. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
By: Brian Klaas
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more
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18. The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
By: Tamim Ansary
4.27
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From language to culture to cultural collision: the story of how humans invented history, from the … read more
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19. The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
By: Mark Solms
4.26
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
For Mark Solms, one of the boldest thinkers in contemporary neuroscience, discovering how conscious… read more
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"What you experience all the time is fluctuating pulses of feeling in response to your movement through the world, as you check whether everything is as you expected to find it - and as you try to clo…"-Mark Solms, The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
20. The Fourth Turning Is Here:
By: Neil Howe
3.96
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Twenty-five years ago, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss dazzled the world with a provocative … read more
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21. They Flew: A History of the Impossible
By: Carlos M.N. Eire
4.10
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning historian’s examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their… read more
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