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The Science of Good Cooking Summary
The Science of Good Cooking
Master 50 Simple Concepts to Enjoy a Lifetime of Success in the Kitchen (Cook's Illustrated Cookbooks)
by The Editors of America's Test Kitchen and Guy Crosby Ph.D 2012 504 pages
4.44
3k+ ratings
Cookbooks
Cooking
Food
Elon Musk Summary
Elon Musk
Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
by Ashlee Vance 2015 400 pages
4.16
400k+ ratings
Biography
Business
Science
Dragnet Nation Summary
Dragnet Nation
A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance
by Julia Angwin 2014 304 pages
3.67
500+ ratings
Politics
Technology
Science
Troublemakers Summary
Troublemakers
Silicon Valley's Coming of Age
by Leslie Berlin 2017 512 pages
4.08
500+ ratings
History
Technology
Business
Unfair Summary
Unfair
The New Science of Criminal Injustice
by Adam Benforado 2015 400 pages
4.04
1k+ ratings
Law
Psychology
Politics
Alex's Adventures In Numberland Summary
Alex's Adventures In Numberland
by Alex Bellos 2010 448 pages
4.11
5k+ ratings
Science
Mathematics
Physics
Can You Solve My Problems? Summary
Can You Solve My Problems?
by Alex Bellos 2016 288 pages
4.02
100+ ratings
Puzzles
Mathematics
Science
Knocking on Heaven's Door Summary
Knocking on Heaven's Door
The Path to a Better Way of Death
by Katy Butler 2013 322 pages
4.12
3k+ ratings
Memoir
Death
Medicine
Energy Medicine for Women Summary
Energy Medicine for Women
Aligning Your Body's Energies to Boost Your Health and Vitality
by Donna Eden 2008 352 pages
4.28
500+ ratings
Health
Self Help
Spirituality
Idiot Brain Summary
Idiot Brain
What Your Head Is Really Up To
by Dean Burnett 2016 336 pages
3.97
9k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
Infinite Powers Summary
Infinite Powers
How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
by Steven H. Strogatz 2019 389 pages
4.3
6k+ ratings
Science
Mathematics
History
The Second Machine Age Summary
The Second Machine Age
Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
by Erik Brynjolfsson 2014 320 pages
3.91
12k+ ratings
Technology
Economics
Business
The End of Gender Summary
The End of Gender
Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society
by Debra Soh 2020 307 pages
3.9
2k+ ratings
Science
Politics
Psychology
Caffeine Blues Summary
Caffeine Blues
by Stephen Cherniske 2008 652 pages
4.06
500+ ratings
Health
Science
Nutrition
Humans Are Underrated Summary
Humans Are Underrated
What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will
by Geoff Colvin 2015 262 pages
3.79
500+ ratings
Business
Technology
Psychology
1493 Summary
1493
Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
by Charles C. Mann 2011 836 pages
4.12
19k+ ratings
History
Science
American History
How We Decide Summary
How We Decide
by Jonah Lehrer 2009 302 pages
3.84
40k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Business
Uncharted Summary
Uncharted
by Margaret Heffernan 2020 400 pages
3.68
100+ ratings
Business
Psychology
Science
Consciousness Explained Summary
Consciousness Explained
by Daniel C. Dennett 1993 528 pages
3.9
8k+ ratings
Philosophy
Science
Psychology
Childhood Disrupted Summary
Childhood Disrupted
How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal
by Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2015 304 pages
4.27
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Mental Health
50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need To Know Summary
50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need To Know
by Ben Dupre 2013 208 pages
3.69
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Reference
Science
How Babies Sleep Summary
How Babies Sleep
The Gentle, Science-Based Method to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night
by Sofia Axelrod 2020 234 pages
3.51
100+ ratings
Parenting
Science
Making Sense Summary
Making Sense
Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity
by Sam Harris 2020 469 pages
4.15
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Science
Psychology
Your Brain at Work, Revised and Updated Summary
Your Brain at Work, Revised and Updated
Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long
by David Rock 2020 331 pages
4.09
11k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Business
Sources of Power, 20th Anniversary Edition Summary
Sources of Power, 20th Anniversary Edition
How People Make Decisions (The MIT Press)
by Gary A. Klein 2017 360 pages
3.97
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Business
Leadership
Frames of Mind Summary
Frames of Mind
The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
by Howard E Gardner 2011 530 pages
3.99
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Education
Science
Galileo's Error Summary
Galileo's Error
Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness
by Philip Goff 2019 192 pages
3.96
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Science
Psychology
The Tipping Point Summary
The Tipping Point
How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell 2006 298 pages
4
800k+ ratings
Business
Psychology
Self Help
What the Dog Saw Summary
What the Dog Saw
And Other Adventures
by Malcolm Gladwell 2009 433 pages
3.85
100k+ ratings
Psychology
Business
Essays
The Second Brain Summary
The Second Brain
A Groundbreaking New Understanding of Nervous Disorders of the Stomach and Intestine
by Michael D. Gershon 2019 328 pages
3.75
100+ ratings
Health
Science
Nutrition
Being Mortal Summary
Being Mortal
by Atul Gawande 2017 304 pages
4.49
100k+ ratings
Medicine
Science
Health
Discover Your Genius Summary
Discover Your Genius
How to Think Like History's Ten Most Revolutionary Minds
by Michael J. Gelb 2009 384 pages
3.65
100+ ratings
Self Help
History
Psychology
Healing at the Speed of Sound Summary
Healing at the Speed of Sound
How What We Hear Transforms Our Brains and Our Lives
by Don Campbell 2011 290 pages
3.67
100+ ratings
Music
Psychology
Health
Earth in Human Hands Summary
Earth in Human Hands
by David Grinspoon 2016 258 pages
4.19
100+ ratings
Science
Climate Change
Environment
Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog Summary
Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
by Bruce D. Perry 2017 448 pages
4.58
33k+ ratings
Psychology
Mental Health
Science
Inside of a Dog Summary
Inside of a Dog
What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
by Alexandra Horowitz 2009 368 pages
3.62
16k+ ratings
Dogs
Animals
Science
Irresistible Summary
Irresistible
The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
by Adam Alter 2018 368 pages
3.86
11k+ ratings
Psychology
Technology
Science
Free Summary
Free
The Future of a Radical Price
by Chris Anderson 2009 288 pages
3.85
16k+ ratings
Business
Economics
Technology
Neurodiversity Summary
Neurodiversity
Discovering the Extraordinary Gifts of Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Brain Differences
by Armstrong Thomas PhD 2010 293 pages
3.88
500+ ratings
Psychology
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Adhd
The Evolution of Cooperation Summary
The Evolution of Cooperation
Revised Edition
by Robert Axelrod 2006 264 pages
4.25
2k+ ratings
Economics
Science
Psychology
The Fourth Transformation Summary
The Fourth Transformation
by Robert Scoble 2016 208 pages
3.75
500+ ratings
Technology
Business
Virtual Reality
Loonshots Summary
Loonshots
How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
by Safi Bahcall 2019 368 pages
4.01
8k+ ratings
Business
Leadership
Science
The Grid Summary
The Grid
The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
by Gretchen Bakke 2016 384 pages
3.87
4k+ ratings
Science
History
Technology
Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes Summary
Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes
The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes Without Drugs
by Neal Barnard 2018 288 pages
4.22
1k+ ratings
Health
Nutrition
Vegan
Streetlights and Shadows Summary
Streetlights and Shadows
Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making
by Gary Klein 2009 352 pages
4.28
100+ ratings
Psychology
Business
Science
Life Ascending Summary
Life Ascending
The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
by Nick Lane 2009 353 pages
4.12
5k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Evolution
Oxygen Summary
Oxygen
by Nick Lane 2002
4.14
2k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Chemistry
You Are Not a Gadget Summary
You Are Not a Gadget
by Jaron Lanier 2009 295 pages
3.56
6k+ ratings
Technology
Philosophy
Science
Becoming Fluent Summary
Becoming Fluent
How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language (MIT Press)
by Richard M. Roberts 2015 248 pages
3.6
1k+ ratings
Language
Science
Linguistics
Merchants of Doubt Summary
Merchants of Doubt
by Naomi Oreskes,Erik M Conway 2012 355 pages
4.17
7k+ ratings
Science
Politics
History
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