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The Microbiome Diet Summary
The Microbiome Diet
The Scientifically Proven Way to Restore Your Gut Health and Achieve Permanent Weight Loss
by Raphael Kellman 2014 352 pages
3.77
500+ ratings
Health
Nutrition
Food
The Sense of Style Summary
The Sense of Style
The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
by Steven Pinker 2014 368 pages
4.04
8k+ ratings
Writing
Language
Linguistics
Guesstimation Summary
Guesstimation
Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin
by Lawrence Weinstein 2008 301 pages
3.73
100+ ratings
Science
Mathematics
Business
Predictably Irrational Summary
Predictably Irrational
The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by Dan Ariely 2008 247 pages
4.12
100k+ ratings
Psychology
Business
Science
Freakonomics Summary
Freakonomics
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven D. Levitt 2005 268 pages
4.01
800k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Science
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life Summary
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness
by Daniel G. Amen 1998 337 pages
3.97
12k+ ratings
Self Help
Psychology
Health
Self-Analysis Summary
Self-Analysis
by Karen Horney 1942 312 pages
4.08
500+ ratings
Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Self Help
How We Got to Now Summary
How We Got to Now
Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
by Steven Johnson 2014 293 pages
4.11
15k+ ratings
History
Science
Technology
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking Summary
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking
by Gerald M. Weinberg 1975 320 pages
3.94
500+ ratings
Science
Business
Computer Science
The Marshmallow Test Summary
The Marshmallow Test
Mastering Self-Control
by Walter Mischel 2014 336 pages
3.72
9k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Science
The Innovators Summary
The Innovators
How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
by Walter Isaacson 2011 542 pages
4.12
38k+ ratings
History
Biography
Business
Virtually Human Summary
Virtually Human
The Promise and the Peril of Digital Immortality
by Martine Rothblatt 2014 368 pages
3.47
100+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Technology
Oil and Honey Summary
Oil and Honey
The Education of an Unlikely Activist
by Bill McKibben 2013 272 pages
3.90
1k+ ratings
Environment
Memoir
Politics
Ada's Algorithm Summary
Ada's Algorithm
How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age
by James Essinger 2013 272 pages
3.28
1k+ ratings
Biography
History
Science
The Glass Cage Summary
The Glass Cage
How Our Computers Are Changing Us
by Nicholas Carr 2014 288 pages
3.75
2k+ ratings
Technology
Science
Psychology
Think Twice Summary
Think Twice
Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition
by Michael J. Mauboussin 2009 224 pages
3.93
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Business
Finance
The Rise of Superman Summary
The Rise of Superman
Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance
by Steven Kotler 2014 256 pages
3.92
5k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Personal Development
Cannabis Pharmacy Summary
Cannabis Pharmacy
The Practical Guide to Medical Marijuana
by Michael Backes 2013 320 pages
4.28
100+ ratings
Health
Science
Reference
The Invisible History of the Human Race Summary
The Invisible History of the Human Race
How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures
by Christine Kenneally 2014 355 pages
3.81
1k+ ratings
Science
History
Genetics
Learn or Die Summary
Learn or Die
Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization
by Edward D. Hess 2014 280 pages
3.84
100+ ratings
Business
Leadership
Management
Smarter Than You Think Summary
Smarter Than You Think
How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better
by Clive Thompson 2013 352 pages
3.94
2k+ ratings
Technology
Science
Psychology
Keeping Up with the Quants Summary
Keeping Up with the Quants
Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics
by Thomas H. Davenport 2013 229 pages
3.57
500+ ratings
Business
Science
Finance
Why Most Things Fail Summary
Why Most Things Fail
Evolution, Extinction and Economics
by Paul Ormerod 2005 272 pages
3.48
100+ ratings
Economics
Business
Science
Scarcity Summary
Scarcity
Why Having Too Little Means So Much
by Sendhil Mullainathan 2013 304 pages
3.94
7k+ ratings
Psychology
Economics
Business
The Zero Marginal Cost Society Summary
The Zero Marginal Cost Society
The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism
by Jeremy Rifkin 2014 368 pages
3.93
2k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
Rock Breaks Scissors Summary
Rock Breaks Scissors
A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody
by William Poundstone 2014 320 pages
3.49
500+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Economics
Being Logical Summary
Being Logical
A Guide to Good Thinking
by D.Q. McInerny 2004 160 pages
3.75
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
Logic
Self Help
How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Summary
How Many Friends Does One Person Need?
by Robin I.M. Dunbar 2010 304 pages
3.51
500+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Anthropology
Rethinking Positive Thinking Summary
Rethinking Positive Thinking
Inside the New Science of Motivation
by Gabriele Oettingen 2014 240 pages
3.69
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Personal Development
When Science Meets Religion Summary
When Science Meets Religion
Enemies, Strangers, or Partners?
by Ian G. Barbour 2000 205 pages
3.53
100+ ratings
Science
Religion
Philosophy
The Emotional Life of Your Brain Summary
The Emotional Life of Your Brain
How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live — and How You Can Change Them
by Richard J. Davidson 2012 304 pages
3.94
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Self Help
This Changes Everything Summary
This Changes Everything
Capitalism vs. The Climate
by Naomi Klein 2014 566 pages
4.16
26k+ ratings
Politics
Environment
Science
The Germ Code Summary
The Germ Code
How to Stop Worrying and Love the Microbes
by Jason Tetro 2013 272 pages
3.76
100+ ratings
Science
Medical
Biology
The Honeymoon Effect Summary
The Honeymoon Effect
The Science of Creating Heaven on Earth
by Bruce H. Lipton 2013 193 pages
3.98
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Spirituality
Health
The Teenage Brain Summary
The Teenage Brain
A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults
by Frances E. Jensen 2014 384 pages
3.77
5k+ ratings
Parenting
Psychology
Science
The Man Who Couldn't Stop Summary
The Man Who Couldn't Stop
by David Adam 2014 304 pages
3.89
5k+ ratings
Psychology
Mental Health
Memoir
Complications Summary
Complications
A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
by Atul Gawande 2002 270 pages
4.28
50k+ ratings
Medicine
Medical
Science
The Brain's Way of Healing Summary
The Brain's Way of Healing
Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity
by Norman Doidge 2015 409 pages
4.20
5k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Health
How to Fly a Horse Summary
How to Fly a Horse
The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery
by Kevin Ashton 2014 336 pages
4.01
2k+ ratings
Business
History
Science
A Mind of Its Own Summary
A Mind of Its Own
How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives
by Cordelia Fine 2005 224 pages
3.86
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Neuroscience
Psychotherapy Summary
Psychotherapy
A Very Short Introduction
by Tom Burns 2014 144 pages
3.75
100+ ratings
Psychology
Mental Health
Medicine
Future Crimes Summary
Future Crimes
by Marc Goodman 2015 393 pages
3.93
4k+ ratings
Technology
Science
Business
Kluge Summary
Kluge
The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind
by Gary F. Marcus 2008 224 pages
3.82
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Neuroscience
The End of Faith Summary
The End of Faith
Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
by Sam Harris 2004 348 pages
3.90
42k+ ratings
Religion
Philosophy
Atheism
Bold Summary
Bold
How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World
by Peter H. Diamandis 2015 336 pages
3.97
9k+ ratings
Business
Entrepreneurship
Self Help
In an Unspoken Voice Summary
In an Unspoken Voice
How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness
by Peter A. Levine 2010 384 pages
4.35
3k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Mental Health
The Two Cultures Summary
The Two Cultures
by C.P. Snow 1959 181 pages
3.66
1k+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
History
The Future of Violence Summary
The Future of Violence
Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones: Confronting A New Age of Threat
by Benjamin Wittes 2014 336 pages
3.40
100+ ratings
Politics
Technology
Military Fiction
This Idea Must Die Summary
This Idea Must Die
Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress
by John Brockman 2015 568 pages
3.51
1k+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Psychology
القانون في الطب Summary
القانون في الطب
by Avicenna 1025 2500 pages
4.30
100+ ratings
Science
Medicine
Philosophy
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