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Unthinking Summary
Unthinking
The Surprising Forces Behind What We Buy
by Harry Beckwith 2011 336 pages
3.46
100+ ratings
Business
Psychology
Self Help
Streetlights and Shadows Summary
Streetlights and Shadows
Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making
by Gary Klein 2009 337 pages
4.27
100+ ratings
Psychology
Business
Science
Life Ascending Summary
Life Ascending
The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
by Nick Lane 2009 352 pages
4.12
5k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Evolution
Oxygen Summary
Oxygen
The Molecule that Made the World
by Nick Lane 2002 384 pages
4.14
2k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Chemistry
The Filter Bubble Summary
The Filter Bubble
What the Internet is Hiding From You
by Eli Pariser 2011 294 pages
3.79
5k+ ratings
Technology
Science
Internet
You Are Not a Gadget Summary
You Are Not a Gadget
by Jaron Lanier 2010 221 pages
3.56
6k+ ratings
Technology
Philosophy
Science
Becoming Fluent Summary
Becoming Fluent
How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language
by Roger J. Kreuz 2015 226 pages
3.60
1k+ ratings
Language
Science
Linguistics
Merchants of Doubt Summary
Merchants of Doubt
How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
by Naomi Oreskes 2010 274 pages
4.17
7k+ ratings
Science
Politics
History
Marathon Summary
Marathon
The Ultimate Training Guide
by Hal Higdon 2005 356 pages
4.04
3k+ ratings
Sports
Fitness
Health
Quantum-Touch Summary
Quantum-Touch
The Power to Heal
by Richard Gordon 1999 240 pages
4.18
500+ ratings
Health
Spirituality
Science
The Quantum Doctor Summary
The Quantum Doctor
A Physicist's Guide to Health and Healing
by Amit Goswami 2004 320 pages
4.11
100+ ratings
Health
Science
Psychology
Thinking In Pictures Summary
Thinking In Pictures
And Other Reports from My Life with Autism
by Temple Grandin 1995 240 pages
4.10
16k+ ratings
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Memoir
Psychology
Habits of a Happy Brain Summary
Habits of a Happy Brain
Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin Levels
by Loretta Graziano Breuning 2015 238 pages
4.02
5k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Science
Awakenings Summary
Awakenings
by Oliver Sacks 1973 464 pages
4.09
13k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Medicine
2030 Summary
2030
How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything
by Mauro F. Guillén 2020 288 pages
3.70
2k+ ratings
Business
Economics
Politics
T-Minus AI Summary
T-Minus AI
Humanity's Countdown to Artificial Intelligence and the New Pursuit of Global Power
by Michael Kanaan 2020 304 pages
3.77
500+ ratings
Science
Artificial Intelligence
Technology
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple Summary
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple
10 Strategies for Managing Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Panic, and Worry
by Seth J. Gillihan 2018 231 pages
4.13
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Mental Health
Where Good Ideas Come From Summary
Where Good Ideas Come From
The Natural History of Innovation
by Steven Johnson 2010 326 pages
4.00
15k+ ratings
Business
Science
History
How Pleasure Works Summary
How Pleasure Works
The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
by Paul Bloom 2010 304 pages
3.71
3k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Sleights of Mind Summary
Sleights of Mind
What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions
by Stephen L. Macknik 2010 291 pages
3.94
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Neuroscience
The End of Alzheimer's Program Summary
The End of Alzheimer's Program
The First Protocol to Enhance Cognition and Reverse Decline at Any Age
by Dale E. Bredesen 2020 351 pages
4.19
100+ ratings
Health
Science
Medical
The Lost Art of Running Summary
The Lost Art of Running
A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement
by Shane Benzie 2020 303 pages
4.08
2k+ ratings
Sports
Health
Science
The Edge of Reason Summary
The Edge of Reason
A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World
by Julian Baggini 2016 272 pages
3.96
100+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
In Search of Memory Summary
In Search of Memory
The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
by Eric R. Kandel 2006 430 pages
4.13
5k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
Physics of the Impossible Summary
Physics of the Impossible
by Michio Kaku 2008 329 pages
4.10
40k+ ratings
Science
Physics
Popular Science
The Future of Humanity Summary
The Future of Humanity
Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
by Michio Kaku 2018 368 pages
4.18
11k+ ratings
Science
Physics
Space
Visions Summary
Visions
How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century
by Michio Kaku 1998 403 pages
4.03
2k+ ratings
Science
Physics
Technology
The Skin Type Solution Summary
The Skin Type Solution
by Leslie Baumann 2006 352 pages
3.85
100+ ratings
Health
Reference
Science
Forensics for Dummies Summary
Forensics for Dummies
by D.P. Lyle 2004 356 pages
4.08
500+ ratings
True Crime
Reference
Crime
What Doesn't Kill Us Summary
What Doesn't Kill Us
How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength
by Scott Carney 2017 272 pages
4.09
7k+ ratings
Health
Science
Self Help
Move Your DNA Summary
Move Your DNA
by Katy Bowman 2014 240 pages
4.36
2k+ ratings
Health
Fitness
Science
Plan B 3.0 Summary
Plan B 3.0
Mobilizing to Save Civilization
by Lester R. Brown 2008 416 pages
3.92
500+ ratings
Environment
Science
Economics
Concrete Planet Summary
Concrete Planet
The Strange and Fascinating Story of the World's Most Common Man-Made Material
by Robert Courland 2011 396 pages
3.88
100+ ratings
History
Science
Engineering
Persuasion Summary
Persuasion
Convincing Others When Facts Don't Seem to Matter
by Lee Hartley Carter 2019 272 pages
3.66
100+ ratings
Business
Psychology
Personal Development
Broad Band Summary
Broad Band
The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
by Claire L. Evans 2018 288 pages
3.93
2k+ ratings
History
Science
Feminism
Flow Summary
Flow
The Psychology of Optimal Experience
by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi 1990 303 pages
4.11
84k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Personal Development
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels Summary
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
by Alex Epstein 2014 248 pages
4.08
2k+ ratings
Politics
Science
Economics
The Will to Meaning Summary
The Will to Meaning
Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy
by Viktor E. Frankl 1969 208 pages
4.24
3k+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Self Help
How Luck Happens Summary
How Luck Happens
Using the Science of Luck to Transform Work, Love, and Life
by Janice Kaplan 2018 352 pages
3.64
500+ ratings
Self Help
Psychology
Science
Artificial Intelligence Summary
Artificial Intelligence
A Very Short Introduction
by Margaret A. Boden 2018 164 pages
3.32
100+ ratings
Science
Artificial Intelligence
Philosophy
The Animal Kingdom Summary
The Animal Kingdom
A Very Short Introduction
by Peter Holland 2011 144 pages
4.00
100+ ratings
Science
Biology
Nature
The Other Brain Summary
The Other Brain
From Dementia to Schizophrenia, How New Discoveries About the Brain Are Revolutionizing Medicine and Science
by R. Douglas Fields 2008 384 pages
4.12
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Neuroscience
Science
Chancing It Summary
Chancing It
The Laws of Chance and How They Can Work for You
by Robert Matthews 2017 368 pages
3.78
100+ ratings
Science
Mathematics
Pictures of the Mind Summary
Pictures of the Mind
What the New Neuroscience Tells Us About Who We Are
by Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald 2009 177 pages
3.76
500+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
Riveted Summary
Riveted
The Science of Why Jokes Make Us Laugh, Movies Make Us Cry, and Religion Makes Us Feel One with the Universe: The Science of Why Jokes Make ... Religion Makes Us Feel One with the Universe
by Jim Davies 2014 288 pages
3.70
100+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Religion
The HeartMath Solution Summary
The HeartMath Solution
The Institute of HeartMath's Revolutionary Program for Engaging the Power of the Heart's Intelligence
by Doc Childre 1999 304 pages
4.03
500+ ratings
Health
Self Help
Psychology
Cooking for Geeks Summary
Cooking for Geeks
Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food
by Jeff Potter 2007 412 pages
4.05
3k+ ratings
Cooking
Food
Cookbooks
Compassionomics Summary
Compassionomics
The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence that Caring Makes a Difference
by Stephen Trzeciak 2019 504 pages
4.04
500+ ratings
Medicine
Leadership
Science
On Dialogue Summary
On Dialogue
by David Bohm 1996 144 pages
4.07
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
Super Brain Summary
Super Brain
Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being
by Deepak Chopra 2012 336 pages
3.85
4k+ ratings
Self Help
Psychology
Health
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