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The Flaw of Averages Summary
The Flaw of Averages
Why We Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty
by Sam L. Savage 2009 416 pages
3.86
500+ ratings
Business
Science
Mathematics
Phantoms in the Brain Summary
Phantoms in the Brain
Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
by V.S. Ramachandran 1998 320 pages
4.26
19k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Neuroscience
The Hidden Brain Summary
The Hidden Brain
How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives
by Shankar Vedantam 2010 288 pages
3.98
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Neuroscience
The Better Angels of Our Nature Summary
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker 2012 832 pages
4.16
28k+ ratings
History
Psychology
Science
Smarter Summary
Smarter
The New Science of Building Brain Power
by Dan Hurley 2013 304 pages
3.50
500+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Self Help
Future Minds Summary
Future Minds
How the Digital Age Is Changing Our Minds, Why This Matters, and What We Can Do About It
by Richard Watson 2010 228 pages
3.76
100+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Business
Brainstorm Summary
Brainstorm
The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
by Daniel J. Siegel 2014 336 pages
3.89
4k+ ratings
Parenting
Psychology
Education
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar Summary
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar
What Everyone Needs to Know®
by P.W. Singer 2014 320 pages
3.83
1k+ ratings
Technology
Politics
Science
The End of Illness Summary
The End of Illness
by David B. Agus 2012 352 pages
3.48
2k+ ratings
Health
Science
Medicine
Skunk Works Summary
Skunk Works
A Personal Memoir of My Year at Lockheed
by Ben R. Rich 1994 370 pages
4.45
13k+ ratings
History
Biography
Military Fiction
The Undercover Economist Strikes Back Summary
The Undercover Economist Strikes Back
How to Run-or Ruin-an Economy
by Tim Harford 2014 272 pages
3.92
3k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
The Intelligence Paradox Summary
The Intelligence Paradox
Why the Intelligent Choice Isn't Always the Smart One
by Satoshi Kanazawa 2012 272 pages
3.52
100+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Anthropology
Learning From the Octopus Summary
Learning From the Octopus
How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters, and Disease
by Rafe Sagarin 2012 320 pages
3.73
100+ ratings
Science
Nature
Animals
The Immune System Recovery Plan Summary
The Immune System Recovery Plan
A Doctor's 4-Step Program to Treat Autoimmune Disease
by Susan Blum 2013 384 pages
4.02
1k+ ratings
Health
Food
Nutrition
The Future of the Mind Summary
The Future of the Mind
The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
by Michio Kaku 2014 400 pages
4.09
14k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
Mindwise Summary
Mindwise
How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want
by Nicholas Epley 2014 272 pages
3.77
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Science
The Elements of Cooking Summary
The Elements of Cooking
Translating the Chef's Craft for Every Kitchen
by Michael Ruhlman 2007 256 pages
3.95
1k+ ratings
Food
Cookbooks
Cooking
Plato at the Googleplex Summary
Plato at the Googleplex
Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
by Rebecca Goldstein 2014 480 pages
3.86
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Science
Animals in Translation Summary
Animals in Translation
Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
by Temple Grandin 2004 368 pages
4.14
9k+ ratings
Animals
Science
Psychology
Trying Not to Try Summary
Trying Not to Try
The Art and Science of Spontaneity
by Edward Slingerland 2014 304 pages
3.74
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Self Help
A Garden of Marvels Summary
A Garden of Marvels
How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants
by Ruth Kassinger 2014 416 pages
3.85
100+ ratings
Science
Nature
Gardening
How the Hippies Saved Physics Summary
How the Hippies Saved Physics
Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
by David Kaiser 2011 400 pages
3.55
500+ ratings
Science
Physics
History
Caffeinated Summary
Caffeinated
How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts, and Hooks Us
by Murray Carpenter 2014 288 pages
3.59
1k+ ratings
Science
Health
Food
The Next America Summary
The Next America
Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown
by Paul Taylor 2014 288 pages
3.68
500+ ratings
Politics
Sociology
Economics
The Improbability Principle Summary
The Improbability Principle
Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day
by David J. Hand 2014 288 pages
3.72
1k+ ratings
Science
Mathematics
Psychology
The Hidden Gifts of the Introverted Child Summary
The Hidden Gifts of the Introverted Child
Helping Your Child Thrive in an Extroverted World
by Marti Olsen Laney 2005 256 pages
4.09
100+ ratings
Parenting
Psychology
Self Help
The Time Paradox Summary
The Time Paradox
The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life
by Philip G. Zimbardo 2008 368 pages
3.75
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Science
The Sober Truth Summary
The Sober Truth
Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
by Lance Dodes 2014 192 pages
3.91
500+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Health
The Obesity Paradox Summary
The Obesity Paradox
When Thinner Means Sicker and Heavier Means Healthier
by Carl J. Lavie 2014 288 pages
3.70
100+ ratings
Health
Nutrition
Science
50 Psychology Classics Summary
50 Psychology Classics
Who We Are, How We Think, What We Do: Insight and Inspiration from 50 Key Books
by Tom Butler-Bowdon 2006 312 pages
4.03
4k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Science
The Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi Summary
The Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi
12 Weeks to a Healthy Body, Strong Heart, and Sharp Mind
by Peter M. Wayne 2013 352 pages
3.87
100+ ratings
Health
Martial Arts
Reference
Methods of Persuasion Summary
Methods of Persuasion
How to Use Psychology to Influence Human Behavior
by Nick Kolenda 2013 240 pages
4.14
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Business
Self Help
Sociology Summary
Sociology
A Very Short Introduction
by Steve Bruce 2000 120 pages
3.41
500+ ratings
Sociology
Science
Psychology
The Disease Delusion Summary
The Disease Delusion
Conquering the Causes of Chronic Illness for a Healthier, Longer, and Happier Life
by Jeffrey S. Bland 2014 432 pages
4.21
500+ ratings
Health
Medicine
Nutrition
Brain on Fire Summary
Brain on Fire
My Month of Madness
by Susannah Cahalan 2013 272 pages
4.09
200k+ ratings
Memoir
Psychology
Biography
The Hormone Cure Summary
The Hormone Cure
Reclaim Balance, Sleep, Sex Drive and Vitality Naturally with the Gottfried Protocol
by Sara Gottfried 2013 432 pages
3.96
2k+ ratings
Health
Self Help
Nutrition
Think like a Freak Summary
Think like a Freak
The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
by Steven D. Levitt 2014 288 pages
3.86
54k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Psychology
Social Physics Summary
Social Physics
How Good Ideas Spread— The Lessons from a New Science
by Alex Pentland 2014 320 pages
3.53
1k+ ratings
Science
Sociology
Psychology
You Are the Placebo Summary
You Are the Placebo
Making Your Mind Matter
by Joe Dispenza 2014 392 pages
4.26
11k+ ratings
Self Help
Psychology
Health
Introducing Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) Summary
Introducing Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP)
A Practical Guide
by Neil Shah 2011 192 pages
3.34
100+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Business
The Big Fat Surprise Summary
The Big Fat Surprise
Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet
by Nina Teicholz 2014 496 pages
4.29
6k+ ratings
Health
Nutrition
Food
Why We Buy Summary
Why We Buy
The Science Of Shopping
by Paco Underhill 1999 256 pages
3.89
13k+ ratings
Business
Psychology
Economics
Risk Savvy Summary
Risk Savvy
How to Make Good Decisions
by Gerd Gigerenzer 2014 336 pages
4.03
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Business
Science
The Consuming Instinct Summary
The Consuming Instinct
What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature
by Gad Saad 2011 374 pages
3.71
500+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Business
Why Science Does Not Disprove God Summary
Why Science Does Not Disprove God
by Amir D. Aczel 2014 304 pages
3.80
500+ ratings
Science
Religion
Philosophy
How Not to Be Wrong Summary
How Not to Be Wrong
The Power of Mathematical Thinking
by Jordan Ellenberg 2014 480 pages
3.95
20k+ ratings
Science
Mathematics
Psychology
50 Psychology Ideas You Really Need to Know Summary
50 Psychology Ideas You Really Need to Know
by Adrian Furnham 2009 208 pages
3.46
500+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Buddhist Biology Summary
Buddhist Biology
Ancient Eastern Wisdom Meets Modern Western Science
by David Philip Barash 2013 216 pages
3.8
100+ ratings
Science
Buddhism
Philosophy
The Brain and the Meaning of Life Summary
The Brain and the Meaning of Life
by Paul Thagard 2010 296 pages
3.21
100+ ratings
Philosophy
Science
Psychology
Body Language Summary
Body Language
by Julius Fast 2014 968 pages
3.49
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Communication
Self Help
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