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Big Questions from Little People Summary
Big Questions from Little People
And Simple Answers from Great Minds
by Gemma Elwin Harris 2012 336 pages
3.88
1k+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Childrens
50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True Summary
50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True
by Guy P. Harrison 2011 458 pages
3.61
1k+ ratings
Science
Skepticism
Psychology
How to Create a Mind Summary
How to Create a Mind
The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
by Ray Kurzweil 2012 352 pages
3.96
7k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Artificial Intelligence
Subliminal Summary
Subliminal
How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
by Leonard Mlodinow 2012 260 pages
4.06
13k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Self Help
The Storytelling Animal Summary
The Storytelling Animal
How Stories Make Us Human
by Jonathan Gottschall 2012 248 pages
3.69
6k+ ratings
Psychology
Writing
Science
The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living Summary
The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living
by Jeff S. Volek 2011 316 pages
4.22
2k+ ratings
Health
Nutrition
Diets
Blue Zones, The Summary
Blue Zones, The
Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest
by Dan Buettner 2010 320 pages
4.07
12k+ ratings
Health
Self Help
Science
The Believing Brain Summary
The Believing Brain
From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
by Michael Shermer 2011 400 pages
3.93
7k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Religion
Brain Power Summary
Brain Power
Improve Your Mind as You Age
by Michael J. Gelb 2011 248 pages
3.73
100+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Brain
Bounce Summary
Bounce
Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success
by Matthew Syed 2010 320 pages
4.06
9k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Business
The Magic of Reality Summary
The Magic of Reality
How We Know What's Really True
by Richard Dawkins 2012 272 pages
4.05
26k+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Religion
The Food Revolution Summary
The Food Revolution
How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World
by John Robbins 2010 453 pages
4.28
3k+ ratings
Health
Food
Nutrition
Plastic Summary
Plastic
A Toxic Love Story
by Susan Freinkel 2011 336 pages
3.97
1k+ ratings
Science
Environment
History
The Science of Yoga Summary
The Science of Yoga
The Risks and the Rewards
by William J. Broad 2012 352 pages
3.74
3k+ ratings
Science
Health
Fitness
The 7 Principles of Fat Burning Summary
The 7 Principles of Fat Burning
Lose the Weight. Keep It Off.
by Eric Berg 2010 330 pages
4.13
500+ ratings
Health
Nutrition
Diets
The World Until Yesterday Summary
The World Until Yesterday
What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
by Jared Diamond 2012 512 pages
3.77
10k+ ratings
History
Anthropology
Science
Liespotting Summary
Liespotting
Proven Techniques to Detect Deception
by Pamela Meyer 2010 256 pages
3.52
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Self Help
On Killing Summary
On Killing
The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman 1995 400 pages
4.12
11k+ ratings
Psychology
Military Fiction
War
Metaphors We Live By Summary
Metaphors We Live By
by George Lakoff 2003 242 pages
4.1
6k+ ratings
Philosophy
Linguistics
Psychology
The Great Cholesterol Myth Summary
The Great Cholesterol Myth
Why Lowering Your Cholesterol Won't Prevent Heart Disease-and the Statin-Free Plan That Will
by Jonny Bowden 2012 240 pages
4.3
2k+ ratings
Health
Nutrition
Science
Salt Sugar Fat Summary
Salt Sugar Fat
How the Food Giants Hooked Us
by Michael Moss 2013 480 pages
4.01
31k+ ratings
Food
Health
Science
When the Body Says No Summary
When the Body Says No
The Cost of Hidden Stress
by Gabor Maté 2003 320 pages
4.22
23k+ ratings
Psychology
Health
Self Help
Dollars and Sex Summary
Dollars and Sex
How Economics Influences Sex and Love
by Marina Adshade 2013 272 pages
3.62
100+ ratings
Economics
Psychology
Business
The Wisdom of Psychopaths Summary
The Wisdom of Psychopaths
What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
by Kevin Dutton 2012 288 pages
3.75
13k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Self Help
Automate This Summary
Automate This
How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World
by Christopher Steiner 2012 256 pages
3.82
3k+ ratings
Science
Technology
Business
Naked Statistics Summary
Naked Statistics
Stripping the Dread from the Data
by Charles Wheelan 2013 302 pages
3.95
14k+ ratings
Science
Business
Mathematics
Think Like a Cat Summary
Think Like a Cat
How to Raise a Well-Adjusted Cat — Not a Sour Puss
by Pam Johnson-Bennett 2000 432 pages
4.08
1k+ ratings
Cats
Animals
Reference
Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future Summary
Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future
The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers
by John MacCormick 2012 232 pages
3.88
1k+ ratings
Computer Science
Science
Technology
The Tiger That Isn't Summary
The Tiger That Isn't
Seeing Through a World of Numbers
by Andrew Blastland and Michael Dilnot 2007 256 pages
3.93
500+ ratings
Science
Economics
Mathematics
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf Summary
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf
Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust
by John Coates 2012 352 pages
3.93
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Finance
Science
Pieces of Light Summary
Pieces of Light
How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our Pasts
by Charles Fernyhough 2013 320 pages
3.54
100+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
Contagious Summary
Contagious
Why Things Catch On
by Jonah Berger 2013 256 pages
3.98
31k+ ratings
Business
Psychology
Science
The Logic of Life Summary
The Logic of Life
The Rational Economics of an Irrational World
by Tim Harford 2008 272 pages
3.81
5k+ ratings
Economics
Psychology
Business
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
3.7
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 512 pages
3.78
4k+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
Who Owns the Future? Summary
Who Owns the Future?
by Jaron Lanier 2013 416 pages
3.77
3k+ ratings
Technology
Science
Economics
Surfaces and Essences Summary
Surfaces and Essences
Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
by Douglas R. Hofstadter 2013 592 pages
3.82
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
Finding Flow Summary
Finding Flow
The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi 1998 192 pages
3.89
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
3.91
4k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Nature
The Future of Life Summary
The Future of Life
ALA Notable Books for Adults
by Edward O. Wilson 2003 256 pages
4.15
3k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Environment
The Mind's Eye Summary
The Mind's Eye
by Oliver Sacks 2010 263 pages
3.93
13k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
The Self Illusion Summary
The Self Illusion
by Bruce M. Hood 2012 258 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 288 pages
4.03
7k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Science
Looking for Spinoza Summary
Looking for Spinoza
Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain
by António Damásio 2003 368 pages
3.96
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
Science Set Free Summary
Science Set Free
10 Paths to New Discovery
by Rupert Sheldrake 2012 400 pages
4.08
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
Psychology
Science
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
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
3.9
6k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Business
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