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Playing and Reality Summary
Playing and Reality
by D.W. Winnicott 1971 214 pages
4.21
2.5K ratings
Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Parenting
Life Time Summary
Life Time
by Russell Foster 2022 480 pages
3.96
936 ratings
Health
Science
Self Help
The Psychobiotic Revolution Summary
The Psychobiotic Revolution
Mood, Food, and the New Science of the Gut-Brain Connection
by Scott C. Anderson 2017 311 pages
4.10
1.1K ratings
Health
Science
Psychology
Artificial Intelligence For Dummies Summary
Artificial Intelligence For Dummies
by John Paul Mueller 2018 338 pages
3.50
187 ratings
Artificial Intelligence
Science
Technology
Falter Summary
Falter
Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
by Bill McKibben 2019 291 pages
4.00
2.1K ratings
Science
Environment
Climate Change
The End of Nature Summary
The End of Nature
by Bill McKibben 1989 224 pages
3.94
3.1K ratings
Environment
Science
Nature
Who Gets What ― and Why Summary
Who Gets What ― and Why
The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design
by Alvin E. Roth 2015 260 pages
3.85
3.1K ratings
Economics
Business
Science
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
4.4K ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Mental Health
Teaming with Nutrients Summary
Teaming with Nutrients
The Organic Gardener’s Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition
by Jeff Lowenfels 2013 250 pages
4.29
380 ratings
Gardening
Science
Agriculture
Quantum Summary
Quantum
Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
by Manjit Kumar 2007 448 pages
4.26
10.2K ratings
Science
Physics
History
The Intel Trinity Summary
The Intel Trinity
How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company
by Michael S. Malone 2014 560 pages
4.21
803 ratings
Business
Technology
Biography
Neurodharma Summary
Neurodharma
New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness
by Rick Hanson 2020 352 pages
3.87
645 ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Spirituality
Chancing It Summary
Chancing It
The Laws of Chance and How They Can Work for You
by Robert Matthews 2017 368 pages
3.78
220 ratings
Science
Mathematics
Creativity Code Summary
Creativity Code
by Marcus du Sautoy 2019 336 pages
3.95
1.7K ratings
Science
Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Brainstorm Summary
Brainstorm
The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
by Daniel J. Siegel 2011 336 pages
3.89
4.3K ratings
Parenting
Psychology
Education
Molecular Cell Biology Summary
Molecular Cell Biology
by Harvey F. Lodish 1992 973 pages
4.11
720 ratings
Biology
Science
Textbooks
Attacking Faulty Reasoning Summary
Attacking Faulty Reasoning
A Practical Guide to Fallacy-Free Arguments
by T. Edward Damer 1980 256 pages
4.00
200 ratings
Philosophy
Logic
Reference
Seven Days that Divide the World Summary
Seven Days that Divide the World
The Beginning According to Genesis & Science
by John C. Lennox 2011 192 pages
4.15
2.6K ratings
Science
Christian
Theology
Quantum Warrior Summary
Quantum Warrior
The Future of the Mind
by John Kehoe 2011 204 pages
4.12
582 ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Spirituality
Best Things First Summary
Best Things First
by Bjørn Lomborg 2023 305 pages
3.92
333 ratings
Economics
Politics
Science
The Indoctrinated Brain Summary
The Indoctrinated Brain
How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom
by Michael Nehls 2023 290 pages
4.15
244 ratings
Psychology
Politics
Science
Kluge Summary
Kluge
The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind
by Gary F. Marcus 2008 224 pages
3.82
2.1K ratings
Psychology
Science
Neuroscience
The Book of Minds Summary
The Book of Minds
How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens
by Philip Ball 2022 512 pages
4.01
175 ratings
Science
Psychology
Philosophy
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Summary
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
by William Kamkwamba 2009 304 pages
4.25
11.0K ratings
Picture Books
Biography
Science
Mating Intelligence Unleashed Summary
Mating Intelligence Unleashed
The Role of the Mind in Sex, Dating, and Love
by Glenn Geher 2012 298 pages
3.70
206 ratings
Psychology
Sexuality
Science
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
2.5K ratings
Technology
Science
Psychology
Area 51 Summary
Area 51
An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
by Annie Jacobsen 2011 540 pages
3.85
10.3K ratings
History
Science
Military Fiction
Mama's Last Hug Summary
Mama's Last Hug
Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
by Frans de Waal 2019 336 pages
4.21
5.4K ratings
Science
Animals
Psychology
Don't Trust Your Gut Summary
Don't Trust Your Gut
Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life
by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz 2022 320 pages
3.80
2.2K ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Science
The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition Summary
The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition
by Michael Tomasello 1999 256 pages
4.13
269 ratings
Psychology
Science
Anthropology
Being Digital Summary
Being Digital
by Nicholas Negroponte 1995 249 pages
3.81
2.4K ratings
Technology
Science
Business
Your Body in Balance Summary
Your Body in Balance
The New Science of Food, Hormones, and Health
by Neal D. Barnard 2020 352 pages
4.01
1.4K ratings
Health
Nutrition
Vegan
Everything Bad is Good for You Summary
Everything Bad is Good for You
How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter
by Steven Johnson 2005 254 pages
3.49
5.1K ratings
Sociology
Psychology
Cultural
The Green New Deal Summary
The Green New Deal
Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth
by Jeremy Rifkin 2019 304 pages
3.68
783 ratings
Politics
Environment
Economics
Brave Genius Summary
Brave Genius
A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
by Sean B. Carroll 2013 592 pages
4.27
699 ratings
History
Science
Biography
The Genesis Machine Summary
The Genesis Machine
Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
by Amy Webb 2022 368 pages
3.93
680 ratings
Science
Biology
Technology
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory Summary
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
by Caitlin Doughty 2014 254 pages
4.22
102.8K ratings
Memoir
Death
Science
The Metaverse Summary
The Metaverse
And How It Will Revolutionize Everything
by Matthew L. Ball 2022 352 pages
3.80
2.3K ratings
Technology
Business
Science
The Making of the Atomic Bomb Summary
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes 1986 886 pages
4.40
23.7K ratings
History
Science
Physics
The Sixth Extinction Summary
The Sixth Extinction
An Unnatural History
by Elizabeth Kolbert 2014 336 pages
4.16
76.4K ratings
Science
History
Environment
Mean Genes Summary
Mean Genes
From Sex to Money to Food Taming Our Primal Instincts
by Terry Burnham 2000 272 pages
3.85
1.2K ratings
Science
Psychology
Biology
Science and Spiritual Practices Summary
Science and Spiritual Practices
Reconnecting through direct experience
by Rupert Sheldrake 2017 255 pages
3.77
477 ratings
Spirituality
Science
Religion
The Climate of History in a Planetary Age Summary
The Climate of History in a Planetary Age
by Dipesh Chakrabarty 2021 292 pages
3.69
118 ratings
History
Climate Change
Philosophy
Sex by Numbers Summary
Sex by Numbers
What Statistics Can Tell Us About Sexual Behaviour
by David Spiegelhalter 2015 369 pages
3.86
199 ratings
Science
Sexuality
Psychology
The Anatomy of Hope Summary
The Anatomy of Hope
How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
by Jerome Groopman 2003 272 pages
4.03
2.1K ratings
Medicine
Medical
Health
Comment tout peut s'effondrer Summary
Comment tout peut s'effondrer
Petit manuel de collapsologie à l'usage des générations présentes
by Pablo Servigne 2015 267 pages
4.17
1.1K ratings
Science
Ecology
Politics
Stuff Matters Summary
Stuff Matters
Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
by Mark Miodownik 2013 272 pages
4.11
20.3K ratings
Science
History
Chemistry
Visions Summary
Visions
How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century
by Michio Kaku 1998 403 pages
4.03
2.4K ratings
Science
Physics
Futurism
50 Economics Ideas You Really Need to Know Summary
50 Economics Ideas You Really Need to Know
by Edmund Conway 2009 208 pages
3.83
1.4K ratings
Economics
Business
Reference
The Disordered Mind Summary
The Disordered Mind
What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves
by Eric R. Kandel 2018 304 pages
4.12
2.7K ratings
Psychology
Science
Neuroscience
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