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A Garden of Marvels Summary
A Garden of Marvels
How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants
by Ruth Kassinger 2014 416 pages
3.84
100+ ratings
Science
Nature
Gardening
How the Hippies Saved Physics Summary
How the Hippies Saved Physics
Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
by David Kaiser 2011 400 pages
3.56
500+ ratings
Science
Physics
History
Caffeinated Summary
Caffeinated
How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts, and Hooks Us
by Murray Carpenter 2014 288 pages
3.59
1k+ ratings
Science
Health
Food
The Next America Summary
The Next America
Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown
by Paul Taylor 2014 280 pages
3.68
500+ ratings
Politics
Sociology
Economics
The Improbability Principle Summary
The Improbability Principle
Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day
by David J. Hand 2014 288 pages
3.72
1k+ ratings
Science
Mathematics
Psychology
The Hidden Gifts of the Introverted Child Summary
The Hidden Gifts of the Introverted Child
Helping Your Child Thrive in an Extroverted World
by Marti Olsen Laney 2005 256 pages
4.10
100+ ratings
Parenting
Psychology
Self Help
Just Babies Summary
Just Babies
The Origins of Good and Evil
by Paul Bloom 2013 273 pages
3.72
3k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
The Time Paradox Summary
The Time Paradox
The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life
by Philip G. Zimbardo 2008 368 pages
3.75
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Science
The Sober Truth Summary
The Sober Truth
Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
by Lance Dodes 2014 192 pages
3.91
500+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Health
The Obesity Paradox Summary
The Obesity Paradox
When Thinner Means Sicker and Heavier Means Healthier
by Carl J. Lavie 2014 288 pages
3.71
100+ ratings
Health
Nutrition
Science
50 Psychology Classics Summary
50 Psychology Classics
Who We Are, How We Think, What We Do: Insight and Inspiration from 50 Key Books
by Tom Butler-Bowdon 2006 312 pages
4.03
4k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Science
The Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi Summary
The Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi
12 Weeks to a Healthy Body, Strong Heart, and Sharp Mind
by Peter M. Wayne 2013 353 pages
3.86
100+ ratings
Health
Martial Arts
Reference
Methods of Persuasion Summary
Methods of Persuasion
How to Use Psychology to Influence Human Behavior
by Nick Kolenda 2013 242 pages
4.14
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Business
Self Help
Sociology Summary
Sociology
A Very Short Introduction
by Steve Bruce 1999 128 pages
3.40
500+ ratings
Sociology
Science
Philosophy
The Disease Delusion Summary
The Disease Delusion
Conquering the Causes of Chronic Illness for a Healthier, Longer, and Happier Life
by Jeffrey S. Bland 2014 432 pages
4.20
500+ ratings
Health
Science
Medicine
Brain on Fire Summary
Brain on Fire
My Month of Madness
by Susannah Cahalan 2012 250 pages
4.09
200k+ ratings
Memoir
Psychology
Biography
The Hormone Cure Summary
The Hormone Cure
Reclaim Balance, Sleep, Sex Drive and Vitality Naturally with the Gottfried Protocol
by Sara Gottfried 2013 432 pages
3.96
2k+ ratings
Health
Self Help
Nutrition
Think Like a Freak Summary
Think Like a Freak
by Steven D. Levitt 2014
3.86
55k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Psychology
Social Physics Summary
Social Physics
How Good Ideas Spreadβ€” The Lessons from a New Science
by Alex Pentland 2014 320 pages
3.53
1k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Sociology
You Are the Placebo Summary
You Are the Placebo
Making Your Mind Matter
by Joe Dispenza 2014 348 pages
4.26
12k+ ratings
Self Help
Psychology
Health
A Practical Guide to NLP Summary
A Practical Guide to NLP
Turn Negatives into Positives
by Neil Shah 2011 214 pages
3.36
100+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Business
The Big Fat Surprise Summary
The Big Fat Surprise
Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet
by Nina Teicholz 2014 496 pages
4.29
6k+ ratings
Health
Nutrition
Food
Why We Buy Summary
Why We Buy
The Science of Shopping
by Paco Underhill 1999 256 pages
3.88
13k+ ratings
Business
Psychology
Science
Risk Savvy Summary
Risk Savvy
How to Make Good Decisions
by Gerd Gigerenzer 2013 336 pages
4.01
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Business
Science
The Consuming Instinct Summary
The Consuming Instinct
What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature
by Gad Saad 2011 374 pages
3.71
500+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Business
Why Science Does Not Disprove God Summary
Why Science Does Not Disprove God
by Amir D. Aczel 2013 304 pages
3.80
500+ ratings
Science
Religion
Philosophy
How Not to Be Wrong Summary
How Not to Be Wrong
The Power of Mathematical Thinking
by Jordan Ellenberg 2014 480 pages
3.95
20k+ ratings
Science
Mathematics
Psychology
50 Psychology Ideas You Really Need to Know Summary
50 Psychology Ideas You Really Need to Know
by Adrian Furnham 2008 208 pages
3.47
500+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Buddhist Biology Summary
Buddhist Biology
Ancient Eastern Wisdom Meets Modern Western Science
by David Philip Barash 2013 216 pages
3.80
100+ ratings
Science
Buddhism
Philosophy
The Brain and the Meaning of Life Summary
The Brain and the Meaning of Life
by Paul Thagard 2010 296 pages
3.23
100+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
Body Language Summary
Body Language
by Julius Fast 1970 183 pages
3.49
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Communication
On Food and Cooking Summary
On Food and Cooking
The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
by Harold McGee 1984 896 pages
4.46
15k+ ratings
Food
Cooking
Cookbooks
Crisis and Command Summary
Crisis and Command
A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush
by John Yoo
3.61
100+ ratings
History
Politics
Presidents
The Genie in Your Genes Summary
The Genie in Your Genes
Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention
by Dawson Church 2007 363 pages
4.14
100+ ratings
Science
Health
Psychology
How to Read a Paper Summary
How to Read a Paper
The Basics of Evidence-based Medicine
by Trisha Greenhalgh 1999 248 pages
4.02
100+ ratings
Science
Medicine
Health
Mind over Medicine Summary
Mind over Medicine
Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself
by Lissa Rankin 2013 259 pages
4.12
3k+ ratings
Health
Psychology
Self Help
ADHD Does Not Exist Summary
ADHD Does Not Exist
The Truth About Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder
by Richard Saul 2014 336 pages
3.03
100+ ratings
Psychology
Adhd
Self Help
100 Simple Things You Can Do to Prevent Alzheimer's and Age-Related Memory Loss Summary
100 Simple Things You Can Do to Prevent Alzheimer's and Age-Related Memory Loss
by Jean Carper 2010 336 pages
3.93
500+ ratings
Health
Self Help
Mental Health
Identically Different Summary
Identically Different
Why You Can Change Your Genes
by Tim Spector 2012 338 pages
3.76
100+ ratings
Science
Health
Biology
A Mind for Numbers Summary
A Mind for Numbers
How to Excel at Math and Science
by Barbara Oakley 2014 336 pages
4.20
20k+ ratings
Science
Self Help
Mathematics
The End of Absence Summary
The End of Absence
Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection
by Michael Harris 2014 243 pages
3.64
1k+ ratings
Technology
Psychology
Sociology
The Organized Mind Summary
The Organized Mind
Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
by Daniel J. Levitin 2014 528 pages
3.65
13k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Science
Environmental Economics Summary
Environmental Economics
A Very Short Introduction
by Stephen Smith 2011 136 pages
3.61
100+ ratings
Economics
Environment
Science
Curious Summary
Curious
The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
by Ian Leslie 2014 310 pages
4.02
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Self Help
Ignorance Summary
Ignorance
How it drives science
by Stuart Firestein 2012 208 pages
3.86
1k+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Psychology
The Science of Fear Summary
The Science of Fear
Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn't β€” and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger
by Daniel Gardner 2008 339 pages
3.97
5k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Politics
Emotional First Aid Summary
Emotional First Aid
Practical Strategies for Treating Failure, Rejection, Guilt, and Other Everyday Psychological Injuries
by Guy Winch 2013 304 pages
3.86
4k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Mental Health
The Archaeology of Mind Summary
The Archaeology of Mind
Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions
by Jaak Panksepp 2010 592 pages
4.45
100+ ratings
Psychology
Neuroscience
Science
The How of Happiness Summary
The How of Happiness
A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want
by Sonja Lyubomirsky 2007 384 pages
3.90
10k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Personal Development
How We Learn Summary
How We Learn
The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
by Benedict Carey 2014 272 pages
3.91
7k+ ratings
Education
Psychology
Science
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