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Healthy Aging Summary
Healthy Aging
by Andrew Weil 2005 384 pages
3.87
1.4K ratings
Health
Self Help
Food
How Learning Happens Summary
How Learning Happens
Seminal Works in Educational Psychology and What They Mean in Practice
by Paul A. Kirschner 2020 256 pages
4.45
163 ratings
Education
Psychology
Teaching
Take Off Your Glasses and See Summary
Take Off Your Glasses and See
A Mind/Body Approach to Expanding Your Eyesight and Insight
by Jacob Liberman 1995 288 pages
3.94
238 ratings
Health
Self Help
Psychology
Our Kind Summary
Our Kind
Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going
by Marvin Harris 1989 547 pages
4.16
655 ratings
Anthropology
Science
History
Exploring Happiness Summary
Exploring Happiness
From Aristotle to Brain Science
by Sissela Bok 2010 224 pages
3.68
196 ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Self Help
Plastic Purge Summary
Plastic Purge
How to Use Less Plastic, Eat Better, Keep Toxins Out of Your Body, and Help Save the Sea Turtles!
by Michael SanClements 2014 256 pages
3.86
429 ratings
Environment
Science
Sustainability
What an Owl Knows Summary
What an Owl Knows
The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
by Jennifer Ackerman 2023 333 pages
4.15
5.9K ratings
Science
Nature
Animals
How Data Science Is Transforming Health Care Summary
How Data Science Is Transforming Health Care
by Mike Loukides 2012 26 pages
3.53
118 ratings
Science
Technology
Business
Face Value Summary
Face Value
The Irresistible Influence of First Impressions
by Alexander Todorov 2017 323 pages
4.06
109 ratings
Psychology
Science
Politics
Thinking In Numbers Summary
Thinking In Numbers
On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math
by Daniel Tammet 2012 288 pages
3.53
1.9K ratings
Science
Mathematics
Essays
The Winner's Curse Summary
The Winner's Curse
Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life
by Richard H. Thaler 1991 240 pages
3.81
476 ratings
Economics
Finance
Psychology
Always Hungry? Summary
Always Hungry?
Conquer Cravings, Retrain Your Fat Cells, and Lose Weight Permanently
by David Ludwig 2015 384 pages
3.70
3.4K ratings
Health
Food
Nutrition
New Thinking Summary
New Thinking
From Einstein to Artificial Intelligence, the Science and Technology that Transformed Our World
by Dagogo Altraide 2019 393 pages
4.19
749 ratings
Science
Technology
History
Mathematica Summary
Mathematica
A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity
by David Bessis 2024 344 pages
4.26
423 ratings
Mathematics
Science
France
Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream Summary
Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream
A Day in the Life of Your Body
by Jennifer Ackerman 2007 253 pages
3.59
954 ratings
Science
Health
Biology
The Plague Year Summary
The Plague Year
America in the Time of Covid
by Lawrence Wright 2020 336 pages
4.12
2.9K ratings
History
Politics
Science
Machines of Loving Grace Summary
Machines of Loving Grace
The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots
by John Markoff 2015 400 pages
3.67
617 ratings
Science
Artificial Intelligence
Technology
Outraged Summary
Outraged
Why We Fight About Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground
by Kurt Gray 2025 368 pages
4.09
230 ratings
Politics
Psychology
Self Help
Wider Than the Sky Summary
Wider Than the Sky
The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness
by Gerald M. Edelman 2004 224 pages
3.67
412 ratings
Science
Psychology
Philosophy
Evolution's Captain Summary
Evolution's Captain
The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World
by Peter Nichols 2003 336 pages
3.97
470 ratings
History
Biography
Science
The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected Summary
The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected
A Natural Philosopher’s Quest for Trout and the Meaning of Everything
by Marcelo Gleiser 2016 192 pages
4.13
165 ratings
Science
Philosophy
The Devil's Playbook Summary
The Devil's Playbook
Big Tobacco, Juul, and the Addiction of a New Generation
by Lauren Etter 2021 495 pages
4.15
516 ratings
Business
Health
Science
Black Hole Survival Guide Summary
Black Hole Survival Guide
by Janna Levin 2020 160 pages
4.00
1.8K ratings
Science
Physics
Astronomy
Bright-Sided Summary
Bright-Sided
How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
by Barbara Ehrenreich 2009 206 pages
3.73
10.2K ratings
Psychology
Sociology
Politics
Essential Cell Biology Summary
Essential Cell Biology
by Bruce Alberts 1997 740 pages
3.96
831 ratings
Science
Biology
Textbooks
How Migration Really Works Summary
How Migration Really Works
A Factful Guide to the Most Divisive Issue in Politics
by Hein de Haas 2023 436 pages
4.38
1.6K ratings
Politics
Sociology
History
Psychedelic Medicine Summary
Psychedelic Medicine
The Healing Powers of LSD, MDMA, Psilocybin, and Ayahuasca
by Richard Louis Miller 2017 256 pages
3.99
293 ratings
Psychology
Science
Plants
TRIZ For Dummies Summary
TRIZ For Dummies
by Lilly Haines-Gadd 2016 352 pages
4.08
53 ratings
Science
Business
Python Programming Summary
Python Programming
An Introduction to Computer Science
by John Zelle 2003 528 pages
4.01
475 ratings
Programming
Computer Science
Technology
An Elegant Defense Summary
An Elegant Defense
The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
by Matt Richtel 2019 448 pages
4.06
5.8K ratings
Science
Health
Medicine
The Dawn of a Mindful Universe Summary
The Dawn of a Mindful Universe
A Manifesto for Humanity's Future
by Marcelo Gleiser 2023 256 pages
3.88
150 ratings
Science
Philosophy
Eye of the Beholder Summary
Eye of the Beholder
Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
by Laura J. Snyder 2015 448 pages
3.94
378 ratings
History
Science
Art
Spook Summary
Spook
Science Tackles the Afterlife
by Mary Roach 2005 311 pages
3.60
40.0K ratings
Science
Humor
Paranormal
Caffeinated Summary
Caffeinated
How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts, and Hooks Us
by Murray Carpenter 2014 288 pages
3.59
1.1K ratings
Science
Health
Food
Build Your Running Body Summary
Build Your Running Body
by Melissa Breyer 2014 448 pages
4.19
813 ratings
Fitness
Health
Sports
A Beautiful Math Summary
A Beautiful Math
John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature
by Tom Siegfried 2006 272 pages
3.60
379 ratings
Mathematics
Science
Economics
The Common Sense of Science Summary
The Common Sense of Science
With a New Preface by Sir Hermann Bondi
by J. Bronowski 1951 160 pages
3.82
139 ratings
Science
Philosophy
20th Century
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire Summary
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire
Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
by Henry Gee 2025 288 pages
3.66
121 ratings
Science
History
Evolution
Four Battlegrounds Summary
Four Battlegrounds
Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
by Paul Scharre 2023 496 pages
3.81
416 ratings
Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Military Fiction
Think Summary
Think
Why You Should Question Everything
by Guy P. Harrison 2013 240 pages
3.37
678 ratings
Science
Philosophy
Psychology
A Short History of the World Summary
A Short History of the World
by H.G. Wells 1922 371 pages
3.86
2.8K ratings
History
Classics
World History
Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them Summary
Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them
by Mark Jerome Walters 2003 224 pages
3.71
178 ratings
Health
Science
Medical
Optimal Illusions Summary
Optimal Illusions
The False Promise of Optimization
by Coco Krumme 2023 256 pages
3.07
210 ratings
Science
Psychology
Technology
Structural Analysis Summary
Structural Analysis
by Russell C. Hibbeler 1982 640 pages
4.11
402 ratings
Engineering
Civil Engineering
Physics
The Psychology of Language Summary
The Psychology of Language
From Data to Theory
by Trevor A. Harley 1995 624 pages
3.78
131 ratings
Linguistics
Psychology
Language
Diagnosis Summary
Diagnosis
Mercury: Money, Politics, and Poison
by Jane M. Hightower 2008 328 pages
3.55
33 ratings
Science
Medical
Counting Sheep Summary
Counting Sheep
The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams
by Paul R. Martin 2002 432 pages
3.98
426 ratings
Science
Psychology
Popular Science
Handwriting Analysis Summary
Handwriting Analysis
Putting It to Work for You
by Andrea McNichol 1991 368 pages
4.30
544 ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Reference
Stargazing for Dummies Summary
Stargazing for Dummies
by Steve Owens 2013 352 pages
4.06
151 ratings
Science
Astronomy
Space
How Not to Diet Summary
How Not to Diet
by Michael Greger 2019 608 pages
4.43
8.1K ratings
Health
Nutrition
Food
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