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The New Digital Age Summary
The New Digital Age
Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business
by Eric Schmidt 2013 336 pages
3.33
2k+ ratings
Business
Technology
Science
The Procrastination Equation Summary
The Procrastination Equation
How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done
by Piers Steel 2010 320 pages
3.71
3k+ ratings
Self Help
Psychology
Productivity
Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking Summary
Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking
by Daniel C. Dennett 2013 496 pages
3.78
4k+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
Who Owns the Future? Summary
Who Owns the Future?
by Jaron Lanier 2013 367 pages
3.77
3k+ ratings
Technology
Economics
Science
Surfaces and Essences Summary
Surfaces and Essences
Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
by Douglas R. Hofstadter 2011 578 pages
3.83
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
Finding Flow Summary
Finding Flow
The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi 1995 181 pages
3.90
6k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Personal Development
Letters to a Young Scientist Summary
Letters to a Young Scientist
by Edward O. Wilson 2013 256 pages
3.90
4k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Nature
The Future of Life Summary
The Future of Life
by Edward O. Wilson 2002 220 pages
4.15
3k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Environment
The Mind's Eye Summary
The Mind's Eye
by Oliver Sacks 2010 263 pages
3.92
13k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
The Self Illusion Summary
The Self Illusion
Why There is No 'You' Inside Your Head [Extract]
by Bruce M. Hood 2011 349 pages
3.84
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Emotions Revealed Summary
Emotions Revealed
Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life
by Paul Ekman 2003 304 pages
4.03
7k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Science
How to Stubbornly Refuse to Make Yourself Miserable About Anything Summary
How to Stubbornly Refuse to Make Yourself Miserable About Anything
Yes, Anything
by Albert Ellis 2000 215 pages
3.84
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Personal Development
Looking for Spinoza Summary
Looking for Spinoza
Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain
by António Damásio 2001 368 pages
3.96
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind Summary
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
by Julian Jaynes 1976 491 pages
4.26
5k+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Science
The Order of Things Summary
The Order of Things
An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
by Michel Foucault 1966 416 pages
4.12
9k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Theory
The Science Delusion Summary
The Science Delusion
Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry
by Rupert Sheldrake 2012 392 pages
4.07
1k+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Psychology
The Woman Who Changed Her Brain Summary
The Woman Who Changed Her Brain
And Other Inspiring Stories of Pioneering Brain Transformation
by Barbara Arrowsmith-Young 2012 288 pages
3.82
1k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
The Universe Within Summary
The Universe Within
Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
by Neil Shubin 2013 240 pages
3.87
2k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Evolution
1491 Summary
1491
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann 2005 563 pages
4.05
91k+ ratings
History
American History
Anthropology
The First 20 Minutes Summary
The First 20 Minutes
Surprising Science Reveals How We Can: Exercise Better, Train Smarter, Live Longer
by Gretchen Reynolds 2012 288 pages
3.80
4k+ ratings
Health
Science
Fitness
Spy the Lie Summary
Spy the Lie
Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception
by Philip Houston 2012 272 pages
3.90
6k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Business
Mindless Eating Summary
Mindless Eating
Why We Eat More Than We Think
by Brian Wansink 2006 276 pages
3.93
12k+ ratings
Health
Food
Psychology
Norm Chronicles Summary
Norm Chronicles
by Michael Blastland 2014 383 pages
3.59
500+ ratings
Science
Mathematics
Popular Science
Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain Summary
Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain
How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves
by Sharon Begley 2007 304 pages
4.00
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Neuroscience
Big Data Summary
Big Data
A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger 2013 242 pages
3.69
8k+ ratings
Business
Technology
Science
The Myths of Happiness Summary
The Myths of Happiness
by Sonja Lyubomirsky 2012 320 pages
3.67
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Personal Development
The Bonobo and the Atheist Summary
The Bonobo and the Atheist
In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
by Frans de Waal 2013 289 pages
4.15
5k+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Psychology
The Mind within the Brain Summary
The Mind within the Brain
How We Make Decisions and How those Decisions Go Wrong
by A. David Redish 2013 392 pages
3.93
100+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Neuroscience
Population 10 Billion Summary
Population 10 Billion
by Danny Dorling 2013 448 pages
3.42
100+ ratings
Geography
Science
Politics
Fat Chance Summary
Fat Chance
Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease
by Robert H. Lustig 2012 320 pages
4.18
6k+ ratings
Health
Food
Science
Brilliant Blunders Summary
Brilliant Blunders
From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe
by Mario Livio 2013 342 pages
3.57
2k+ ratings
Science
History
Physics
Mastermind Summary
Mastermind
How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
by Maria Konnikova 2013 273 pages
3.54
8k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Science
The Third Chimpanzee Summary
The Third Chimpanzee
The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
by Jared Diamond 1991 407 pages
4.08
28k+ ratings
Science
History
Anthropology
Conscious Dreaming Summary
Conscious Dreaming
A Spiritual Path for Everyday Life
by Robert Moss 1996 384 pages
4.23
500+ ratings
Spirituality
Psychology
Philosophy
Wheat Belly Summary
Wheat Belly
Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health
by William Davis 2011 292 pages
3.72
31k+ ratings
Health
Food
Nutrition
The Story of the Human Body Summary
The Story of the Human Body
Evolution, Health, and Disease
by Daniel E. Lieberman 2013 480 pages
4.27
8k+ ratings
Science
Health
Biology
Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream Summary
Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream
A Day in the Life of Your Body
by Jennifer Ackerman 2007 253 pages
3.59
500+ ratings
Science
Health
Biology
Magnificent Mind at Any Age Summary
Magnificent Mind at Any Age
Natural Ways to Unleash Your Brain's Maximum Potential
by Daniel G. Amen 2008 352 pages
3.89
500+ ratings
Health
Psychology
Self Help
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty Summary
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty
How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves
by Dan Ariely 2012 264 pages
3.93
16k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Economics
Mind & Cosmos Summary
Mind & Cosmos
Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False
by Thomas Nagel 2012 144 pages
3.59
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Science
Evolution
Small Things Considered Summary
Small Things Considered
Why There Is No Perfect Design
by Henry Petroski 2003 304 pages
3.41
100+ ratings
Design
Science
Engineering
An Epidemic of Absence Summary
An Epidemic of Absence
A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases
by Moises Velasquez-Manoff 2012 400 pages
4.15
500+ ratings
Science
Health
Medicine
A Universe from Nothing Summary
A Universe from Nothing
Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
by Lawrence M. Krauss 2012 204 pages
3.94
29k+ ratings
Science
Physics
Philosophy
Babel No More Summary
Babel No More
The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
by Michael Erard 2012 307 pages
3.53
1k+ ratings
Language
Linguistics
Psychology
Free Will Summary
Free Will
by Sam Harris 2012 96 pages
3.86
36k+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
The Ravenous Brain Summary
The Ravenous Brain
How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning
by Daniel Bor 2012 352 pages
3.91
100+ ratings
Psychology
Neuroscience
Science
Chaos Summary
Chaos
Making a New Science
by James Gleick 1987 352 pages
4.04
39k+ ratings
Science
Physics
Mathematics
The Anatomy of Hope Summary
The Anatomy of Hope
How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
by Jerome Groopman 2003 272 pages
4.02
2k+ ratings
Medicine
Medical
Health
The Lucifer Effect Summary
The Lucifer Effect
Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
by Philip G. Zimbardo 2007 551 pages
3.92
25k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Liars and Outliers Summary
Liars and Outliers
Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive
by Bruce Schneier 2012 348 pages
3.78
1k+ ratings
Sociology
Psychology
Science
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