The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience
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Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons work to create our conscious experience. How does this happen? Why do we experience life in the first p…
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Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
A groundbreaking exploration of the science of why and how we age and die—from Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan.
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Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and greed for thousands of years. Without them, our modern worl…
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The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
This brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the world's great philosophers —Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell…
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Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind
The scuba-diving philosopher who wrote Other Minds explores the origins of animal consciousness
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Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: why are anima…
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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how everything that exists came to be in the first place.
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Why do we do the things we do?
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More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking… -
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How Economics Explains the World: A Short History of Humanity
“If you read just one book about economics, make it Andrew Leigh's clear, insightful, and remarkable (and short) work.” —Claudia Goldin, recipient of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics and Henry Lee Pr…
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Models of the Mind: How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain
The brain is made up of 85 billion neurons, which are connected by over 100 trillion synapses. For over a century, a diverse array of researchers have been trying to find a language that can be used t…
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Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
Bullshit isn't what it used to be. Now, two science professors give us the tools to dismantle misinformation and think clearly in a world of fake news and bad data.
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Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
How do imperceptibly small differences in the environment change one's behavior? What is the anatomy of a bad mood? Does stress shrink our brains? What does People magazine's list of America's "50 Mos…
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusatte enchanted readers with his definitive history of the dinosaurs. Now, picking up the narrative in …
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Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
Chip and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick, tackle one of the most critical topics in our work and personal lives: how to make better decisions.
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Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the science and philosophy of decision-making to mount a devastating case against free will, an argument …
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The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years and has grown increasingly frustrated with the rose-tinted view of this part of the world offered up by the Western m…
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