Science Book Summaries

Psychotherapy Summary
Psychotherapy
A Very Short Introduction
by Tom Burns 2014 144 pages
3.75
142 ratings
Psychology
Mental Health
Medicine
The User's Guide to the Human Mind Summary
The User's Guide to the Human Mind
Why Our Brains Make Us Unhappy, Anxious, and Neurotic and What We Can Do about It
by Shawn T. Smith 2011 216 pages
4.03
301 ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Mental Health
Join the Club Summary
Join the Club
How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World
by Tina Rosenberg 2011 432 pages
3.49
338 ratings
Sociology
Psychology
Politics
The Red Web Summary
The Red Web
The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries
by Andrei Soldatov 2015 384 pages
3.95
675 ratings
Politics
Russia
History
Possible Minds Summary
Possible Minds
25 Ways of Looking at AI
by John Brockman 2019 320 pages
3.77
809 ratings
Science
Artificial Intelligence
Technology
True Hallucinations Summary
True Hallucinations
by Terence McKenna 1993 256 pages
4.10
3.6K ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Spirituality
Where the Conflict Really Lies Summary
Where the Conflict Really Lies
Science, Religion, and Naturalism
by Alvin Plantinga 2011 376 pages
4.03
1.0K ratings
Philosophy
Science
Religion
Why Does the World Exist? Summary
Why Does the World Exist?
An Existential Detective Story
by Jim Holt 2011 279 pages
3.81
6.7K ratings
Philosophy
Science
Physics
Where the Water Goes Summary
Where the Water Goes
Life and Death Along the Colorado River
by David Owen 2017 288 pages
3.93
3.1K ratings
Science
Environment
Nature
Four Lost Cities Summary
Four Lost Cities
A Secret History of the Urban Age
by Annalee Newitz 2021 320 pages
3.78
7.0K ratings
History
Science
Anthropology
The Perfect Swarm Summary
The Perfect Swarm
The Science of Complexity in Everyday Life
by Len Fisher 2009 288 pages
3.51
319 ratings
Science
Psychology
Sociology
The Psychopath Whisperer Summary
The Psychopath Whisperer
The Science of Those Without Conscience
by Kent A. Kiehl 2014 304 pages
4.06
3.8K ratings
Psychology
Science
True Crime
Smarter Summary
Smarter
The New Science of Building Brain Power
by Dan Hurley 2013 275 pages
3.49
797 ratings
Science
Psychology
Self Help
The Next America Summary
The Next America
Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown
by Paul Taylor 2014 280 pages
3.68
693 ratings
Politics
Sociology
Economics
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character Summary
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character
by Richard P. Feynman 1988 256 pages
4.19
30.1K ratings
Science
Biography
Physics
Forensic Detective Summary
Forensic Detective
How I Cracked the World's Toughest Cases
by Robert Mann 2006 272 pages
3.91
823 ratings
True Crime
Science
Crime
Dirty Electricity Summary
Dirty Electricity
Electrification and the Diseases of Civilization
by Samuel Milham 2010 120 pages
4.01
188 ratings
Health
Science
Technology
Awestruck Summary
Awestruck
How Embracing Wonder Can Make You Happier, Healthier, and More Connected
by Jonah Paquette 2020 192 pages
3.62
284 ratings
Self Help
Psychology
Spirituality
ANYWAY YOU CAN Summary
ANYWAY YOU CAN
Doctor Bosworth Shares Her Mom's Cancer Journey: A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO KETONES FOR LIFE
by Annette Bosworth 2018 352 pages
4.47
196 ratings
Health
Diets
Science
The Myth of Race Summary
The Myth of Race
The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea
by Robert Wald Sussman 2014 384 pages
4.11
444 ratings
History
Race
Science
The Space Barons Summary
The Space Barons
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
by Christian Davenport 2018 320 pages
4.10
4.1K ratings
Science
Space
Business
What Evolution Is Summary
What Evolution Is
by Ernst W. Mayr 2001 318 pages
4.02
3.9K ratings
Science
Evolution
Biology
The Meaning of Madness Summary
The Meaning of Madness
by Neel Burton 2008 220 pages
3.98
256 ratings
Psychology
Mental Health
Science
Should We Eat Meat? Summary
Should We Eat Meat?
Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory
by Vaclav Smil 2013 288 pages
3.52
629 ratings
Science
Food
Health
The Passion Paradox Summary
The Passion Paradox
A Guide to Going All In, Finding Success, and Discovering the Benefits of an Unbalanced Life
by Brad Stulberg 2019 192 pages
4.02
1.8K ratings
Self Help
Psychology
Business
The Healing Code Summary
The Healing Code
6 Minutes to Heal the Source of Your Health, Success, or Relationship Issue
by Alexander Loyd 2005 300 pages
3.74
2.1K ratings
Health
Self Help
Psychology
The Male Brain Summary
The Male Brain
A Breakthrough Understanding of How Men and Boys Think
by Louann Brizendine 2009 271 pages
3.82
5.6K ratings
Psychology
Science
Neuroscience
The Great Influenza Summary
The Great Influenza
The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
by John M. Barry 2004 546 pages
3.98
41.7K ratings
History
Science
Medicine
To Save Everything, Click Here Summary
To Save Everything, Click Here
The Folly of Technological Solutionism
by Evgeny Morozov 2013 415 pages
3.68
1.4K ratings
Technology
Philosophy
Politics
Drop Acid Summary
Drop Acid
The Surprising New Science of Uric Acid―The Key to Losing Weight, Controlling Blood Sugar, and Achieving Extraordinary Health
by David Perlmutter 2022 336 pages
4.03
1.2K ratings
Health
Nutrition
Science
In Search of the Multiverse Summary
In Search of the Multiverse
by John Gribbin 2009 250 pages
4.09
1.2K ratings
Science
Physics
Astronomy
Introduction to Machine Learning with Python Summary
Introduction to Machine Learning with Python
A Guide for Data Scientists
by Andreas C. Müller 2015 398 pages
4.35
576 ratings
Programming
Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence
Broken Words Summary
Broken Words
The Abuse of Science and Faith in American Politics
by Jonathan Dudley 2011 208 pages
4.26
133 ratings
Religion
Science
Politics
Project Animal Farm Summary
Project Animal Farm
An Accidental Journey into the Secret World of Farming and the Truth About Our Food
by Sonia Faruqi 2015 336 pages
4.21
398 ratings
Food
Animals
Science
The Sea and Civilization Summary
The Sea and Civilization
A Maritime History of the World
by Lincoln Paine 2013 784 pages
3.88
648 ratings
History
Maritime
World History
My Father's Brain Summary
My Father's Brain
Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's
by Sandeep Jauhar 2023 256 pages
4.12
1.3K ratings
Memoir
Health
Science
Drug Dealer, MD Summary
Drug Dealer, MD
How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It's So Hard to Stop
by Anna Lembke 2016 192 pages
4.01
1.3K ratings
Medical
Medicine
Health
The Fractal Geometry of Nature Summary
The Fractal Geometry of Nature
by Benoît B. Mandelbrot 1977 468 pages
4.23
1.3K ratings
Science
Mathematics
Nature
الذرة الاجتماعية Summary
الذرة الاجتماعية
لماذا يزداد الأثرياء ثراءً والفقراء فقرًا؟
by Mark Buchanan 2007 333 pages
3.70
538 ratings
Sociology
Psychology
Politics
Liars and Outliers Summary
Liars and Outliers
Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive
by Bruce Schneier 2012 348 pages
3.78
1.5K ratings
Sociology
Psychology
Science
An Inconvenient Apocalypse Summary
An Inconvenient Apocalypse
Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity
by Wes Jackson 2022 184 pages
3.58
189 ratings
Climate Change
Science
Environment
Quantum Psychology Summary
Quantum Psychology
How Brain Software Programs You & Your World
by Robert Anton Wilson 1990 202 pages
4.23
2.6K ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Science
Structures Summary
Structures
Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
by J.E. Gordon 1978 395 pages
4.14
3.6K ratings
Science
Engineering
Architecture
Invention and Innovation Summary
Invention and Innovation
A Brief History of Hype and Failure
by Vaclav Smil 2023 232 pages
3.85
991 ratings
History
Science
Technology
Economics Rules Summary
Economics Rules
The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science
by Dani Rodrik 2015 272 pages
3.94
1.4K ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
Listening to the Animals Summary
Listening to the Animals
Becoming the Supervet
by Noel Fitzpatrick 2018 385 pages
4.27
3.4K ratings
Biography
Animals
Memoir
The Source Field Investigations Summary
The Source Field Investigations
The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations Behind the 2012 Prophecies
by David Wilcock 2011 560 pages
4.19
1.5K ratings
Spirituality
Metaphysics
Science
The Language Puzzle Summary
The Language Puzzle
Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
by Steven Mithen 2024 544 pages
3.97
269 ratings
History
Linguistics
Language
All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Watching Star Trek Summary
All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Watching Star Trek
by Dave Marinaccio 1994 128 pages
3.48
395 ratings
Star Trek
Philosophy
Self Help
Mirroring People Summary
Mirroring People
The New Science of How We Connect with Others
by Marco Iacoboni 2008 320 pages
3.79
982 ratings
Psychology
Science
Neuroscience
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