Science Book Summaries

Eat Smarter Summary
Eat Smarter
Use the Power of Food to Reboot Your Metabolism, Upgrade Your Brain, and Transform Your Life
by Shawn Stevenson 2020 432 pages
4.25
2.3K ratings
Health
Self Help
Nutrition
Expert Political Judgment Summary
Expert Political Judgment
How Good Is It? How Can We Know?
by Philip E. Tetlock 2005 344 pages
3.98
684 ratings
Politics
Psychology
Science
Ignorance Summary
Ignorance
How it drives science
by Stuart Firestein 2012 208 pages
3.86
1.3K ratings
Science
Philosophy
Psychology
Generation Dread Summary
Generation Dread
Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis
by Britt Wray 2022 296 pages
3.93
686 ratings
Climate Change
Environment
Psychology
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Summary
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering
by Steven H. Strogatz 1994 497 pages
4.38
1.5K ratings
Mathematics
Science
Physics
Moonshot Summary
Moonshot
What Landing a Man on the Moon Teaches Us About Collaboration, Creativity, and the Mind-set for Success
by Richard Wiseman 2019 272 pages
3.89
393 ratings
Space
History
Self Help
How to Study for a Mathematics Degree Summary
How to Study for a Mathematics Degree
by Lara Alcock 2012 256 pages
4.05
203 ratings
Mathematics
Academic
Science
The Orbital Perspective Summary
The Orbital Perspective
Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles
by Ron Garan 2015 208 pages
3.81
191 ratings
Space
Science
Astronomy
The Reading Mind Summary
The Reading Mind
A Cognitive Approach to Understanding How the Mind Reads
by Daniel T. Willingham 2017 233 pages
4.15
544 ratings
Education
Psychology
Science
Bursts Summary
Bursts
The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do
by Albert-László Barabási 2010 310 pages
3.31
1.1K ratings
Science
Psychology
Sociology
What If? 2 Summary
What If? 2
Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by Randall Munroe 2022 354 pages
4.37
15.9K ratings
Science
Humor
Physics
Uncertainty Summary
Uncertainty
Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science
by David Lindley 1996 272 pages
4.01
2.3K ratings
Science
Physics
History
How We Eat Summary
How We Eat
The Brave New World of Food and Drink
by Paco Underhill 2022 256 pages
3.52
440 ratings
Food
Business
Science
The Compass of Pleasure Summary
The Compass of Pleasure
How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good
by David J. Linden 2010 240 pages
3.89
5.7K ratings
Psychology
Science
Neuroscience
The Invisible Gorilla Summary
The Invisible Gorilla
And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
by Christopher Chabris 2010 320 pages
3.91
14.8K ratings
Psychology
Science
Business
Follow Your Gut Summary
Follow Your Gut
The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes
by Rob Knight 2014 128 pages
3.83
1.4K ratings
Science
Health
Nutrition
Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics Summary
Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics
by Alpha C. Chiang 1974 788 pages
4.02
530 ratings
Economics
Mathematics
Textbooks
Freud Summary
Freud
The Key Ideas
by Ruth Snowden 2010 205 pages
3.70
554 ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Science
Data, A Love Story Summary
Data, A Love Story
How I Gamed Online Dating to Meet My Match
by Amy Webb 2013 296 pages
3.57
2.0K ratings
Memoir
Relationships
Self Help
How We Think Summary
How We Think
by John Dewey 1910 240 pages
3.86
981 ratings
Philosophy
Education
Psychology
The Challenger Launch Decision Summary
The Challenger Launch Decision
Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA
by Diane Vaughan 1996 592 pages
4.09
432 ratings
History
Science
Space
Climate Change Summary
Climate Change
What Everyone Needs to Know
by Joseph Romm 2015 328 pages
4.22
686 ratings
Science
Climate Change
Environment
Nutrient Power Summary
Nutrient Power
Heal Your Biochemistry and Heal Your Brain
by William J. Walsh 2012 224 pages
4.09
681 ratings
Health
Nutrition
Science
The Internet of Things Summary
The Internet of Things
by Samuel Greengard 2015 230 pages
3.24
534 ratings
Technology
Science
Business
The Idea Factory Summary
The Idea Factory
Learning to Think at MIT
by Pepper White 1991
3.85
254 ratings
Education
Science
Biography
The Science of Mind Summary
The Science of Mind
by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes 1938 364 pages
4.35
2.5K ratings
Spirituality
Psychology
Philosophy
Drunk Summary
Drunk
How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
by Edward Slingerland 2021 369 pages
3.81
2.9K ratings
History
Science
Sociology
Voyage of the Beagle Summary
Voyage of the Beagle
by Charles Darwin 1839 432 pages
4.02
8.2K ratings
Science
History
Travel
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Summary
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Techniques for Retraining Your Brain
by Jason M. Satterfield 2015
4.04
2.1K ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Science
Venomous Summary
Venomous
How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry
by Christie Wilcox 2016 260 pages
4.11
1.5K ratings
Science
Biology
Nature
Hope for Cynics Summary
Hope for Cynics
The Surprising Science of Human Goodness
by Jamil Zaki 2024 288 pages
3.92
1.5K ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Science
Virtually Human Summary
Virtually Human
The Promise and the Peril of Digital Immortality
by Martine Rothblatt 2014 368 pages
3.48
179 ratings
Science
Philosophy
Technology
Discover Your Genius Summary
Discover Your Genius
How to Think Like History's Ten Most Revolutionary Minds
by Michael J. Gelb 2003 384 pages
3.67
446 ratings
Self Help
History
Psychology
Letters to a Young Mathematician Summary
Letters to a Young Mathematician
by Ian Stewart 2006 224 pages
3.86
1.8K ratings
Mathematics
Science
Philosophy
Intelligence Summary
Intelligence
All That Matters
by Stuart Ritchie 2015 160 pages
4.06
691 ratings
Psychology
Science
Anthropology
The Science of Good and Evil Summary
The Science of Good and Evil
Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
by Michael Shermer 2004 368 pages
3.91
3.1K ratings
Science
Psychology
Philosophy
Triumphs of Experience Summary
Triumphs of Experience
The Men of the Harvard Grant Study
by George E. Vaillant 2012 457 pages
4.15
1.1K ratings
Psychology
Science
Sociology
Red Light Therapy Summary
Red Light Therapy
Miracle Medicine
by Mark Sloan 177 pages
4.29
750 ratings
Health
Science
This Is Your Brain on Parasites Summary
This Is Your Brain on Parasites
How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society
by Kathleen McAuliffe 2016 288 pages
3.98
2.4K ratings
Science
Biology
Health
Introduction to Logic Summary
Introduction to Logic
by Irving M. Copi 1953 683 pages
4.06
896 ratings
Philosophy
Logic
Textbooks
Eat Dirt Summary
Eat Dirt
Why Leaky Gut May Be the Root Cause of Your Health Problems and 5 Surprising Steps to Cure It
by Josh Axe 2016 352 pages
4.03
4.8K ratings
Health
Food
Nutrition
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY? Summary
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?
Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life
by Stephen Webb 2002 304 pages
4.21
1.4K ratings
Science
Space
Philosophy
How to Invent Everything Summary
How to Invent Everything
A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
by Ryan North 2018 437 pages
4.15
5.9K ratings
Science
History
Humor
Testosterone Summary
Testosterone
An Unauthorized Biography
by Rebecca M. Jordan-Young 2019 288 pages
4.05
291 ratings
Science
Gender
Feminism
Magnificent Mind at Any Age Summary
Magnificent Mind at Any Age
Natural Ways to Unleash Your Brain's Maximum Potential
by Daniel G. Amen 2008 352 pages
3.89
827 ratings
Health
Self Help
Psychology
The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs Summary
The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs
Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals―and Other Forgotten Skills
by Tristan Gooley 2014 416 pages
3.78
4.8K ratings
Nature
Science
Travel
Reentry Summary
Reentry
SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age
by Eric Berger 2024 450 pages
4.53
975 ratings
Space
Science
Business
Hormonal Summary
Hormonal
The Hidden Intelligence of Hormones -- How They Drive Desire, Shape Relationships, Influence Our Choices, and Make Us Wiser
by Martie Haselton 2018 320 pages
3.54
745 ratings
Health
Science
Psychology
Hooked Summary
Hooked
Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions
by Michael Moss 2021 304 pages
3.80
4.5K ratings
Food
Health
Science
Looking for Spinoza Summary
Looking for Spinoza
Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain
by António Damásio 2001 368 pages
3.95
2.2K ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
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