Science Book Summaries

The Distraction Addiction Summary
The Distraction Addiction
Getting the Information You Need and the Communication You Want, Without Enraging Your Family, Annoying Your Colleagues, and Destroying Your Soul
by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang 2013 304 pages
3.52
634 ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Technology
The Mind is Flat Summary
The Mind is Flat
by Nick Chater 2018 272 pages
3.75
778 ratings
Psychology
Science
Neuroscience
This Book May Save Your Life Summary
This Book May Save Your Life
Everyday Health Hacks to Worry Less and Live Better
by Karan Rajan 2023 296 pages
4.07
1.4K ratings
Health
Science
Self Help
Healthy to 120 Summary
Healthy to 120
More sex, more life...the secret plan that 21,262 men are using to live happy, sexy and healthy to 120 years old and beyond.
by Matt Cook 2017 180 pages
3.53
32 ratings
Health
Science
The Story of the Human Body Summary
The Story of the Human Body
Evolution, Health, and Disease
by Daniel E. Lieberman 2013 480 pages
4.26
8.6K ratings
Science
Health
Biology
Pipe Dreams Summary
Pipe Dreams
The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet
by Chelsea Wald 2021 304 pages
4.05
405 ratings
Science
History
Technology
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness Summary
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness
by Carlo Rovelli 2018 224 pages
4.03
3.0K ratings
Science
Philosophy
Essays
The Grain Brain Whole Life Plan Summary
The Grain Brain Whole Life Plan
Boost Brain Performance, Lose Weight, and Achieve Optimal Health
by David Perlmutter 2016 304 pages
3.92
1.0K ratings
Health
Food
Nutrition
Good Reasonable People Summary
Good Reasonable People
The Psychology Behind America's Dangerous Divide
by Keith Payne 2024 272 pages
4.06
606 ratings
Politics
Psychology
History
Effective Unit Testing Summary
Effective Unit Testing
by Lasse Koskela 2012 350 pages
3.79
117 ratings
Programming
Software
Technology
The Vaccine Summary
The Vaccine
Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic
by Joe Miller 2021 288 pages
4.25
851 ratings
Science
History
Medicine
The Yeast Connection Summary
The Yeast Connection
A Medical Breakthrough
by William G. Crook 1983 434 pages
3.79
255 ratings
Health
Diets
Nutrition
What the Face Reveals Summary
What the Face Reveals
Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using the Facial Action Coding System
by Paul Ekman 1998 672 pages
4.18
234 ratings
Psychology
Communication
Science
The Conscious Universe Summary
The Conscious Universe
The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena
by Dean Radin 1997 384 pages
3.97
611 ratings
Science
Paranormal
Psychology
War and Peace and War Summary
War and Peace and War
The Rise and Fall of Empires
by Peter Turchin 2005 416 pages
4.18
854 ratings
History
Politics
War
Tomatoland Summary
Tomatoland
How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
by Barry Estabrook 2011 240 pages
3.95
4.5K ratings
Food
Science
History
Physical Intelligence Summary
Physical Intelligence
The Science of How the Body and the Mind Guide Each Other Through Life
by Scott Grafton 2020 288 pages
3.64
185 ratings
Science
Neuroscience
Health
Uncle Tungsten Summary
Uncle Tungsten
by Oliver Sacks 2001 337 pages
3.99
6.9K ratings
Science
Memoir
Biography
The Disappearing Spoon Summary
The Disappearing Spoon
And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
by Sam Kean 2010 394 pages
3.93
54.2K ratings
Science
History
Chemistry
Superconvergence Summary
Superconvergence
How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform our Lives, Work, and World
by Jamie Metzl 2024 432 pages
3.75
207 ratings
Science
Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Delusions of Gender Summary
Delusions of Gender
How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
by Cordelia Fine 2010 338 pages
4.08
11.2K ratings
Feminism
Science
Psychology
Aging Backwards Summary
Aging Backwards
Reverse the Aging Process and Look 10 Years Younger in 30 Minutes a Day
by Miranda Esmonde-White 2014 450 pages
3.86
1.1K ratings
Health
Self Help
Fitness
The Science of Food Summary
The Science of Food
An Exploration of What We Eat and How We Cook
by Marty Jopson 2017 225 pages
3.78
198 ratings
Science
Food
Cooking
How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place Summary
How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place
by Bjรธrn Lomborg 2006 206 pages
3.38
153 ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
Ignition! Summary
Ignition!
An informal history of liquid rocket propellants
by John Drury Clark 1972 214 pages
4.13
2.7K ratings
Science
History
Space
Oil and Honey Summary
Oil and Honey
The Education of an Unlikely Activist
by Bill McKibben 2013 272 pages
3.91
1.3K ratings
Environment
Memoir
Politics
Spousonomics Summary
Spousonomics
Using Economics to Master Love, Marriage, and Dirty Dishes
by Paula Szuchman 2011 335 pages
3.70
1.9K ratings
Economics
Psychology
Self Help
NurtureShock Summary
NurtureShock
New Thinking About Children
by Po Bronson 2008 336 pages
4.03
26.4K ratings
Parenting
Psychology
Education
Statistics 101 Summary
Statistics 101
From Data Analysis and Predictive Modeling to Measuring Distribution and Determining Probability, Your Essential Guide to Statistics
by David Borman 2018 240 pages
2.91
128 ratings
Mathematics
Science
Economics
God and Stephen Hawking Summary
God and Stephen Hawking
Whose design is it anyway?
by John C. Lennox 2011 96 pages
4.10
1.1K ratings
Science
Philosophy
Christian
Arts with the Brain in Mind Summary
Arts with the Brain in Mind
by Eric Jensen 2001 182 pages
3.98
107 ratings
Education
Art
Science
America Before Summary
America Before
The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
by Graham Hancock 2019 624 pages
4.14
3.5K ratings
History
Science
Anthropology
Why? Summary
Why?
What Makes Us Curious
by Mario Livio 2017 272 pages
3.54
769 ratings
Science
Psychology
Philosophy
Plan B 3.0 Summary
Plan B 3.0
Mobilizing to Save Civilization
by Lester R. Brown 2008 416 pages
3.93
528 ratings
Environment
Science
Economics
Reader, Come Home Summary
Reader, Come Home
The Reading Brain in a Digital World
by Maryanne Wolf 2018 272 pages
3.89
4.2K ratings
Science
Psychology
Education
Everything Is Miscellaneous Summary
Everything Is Miscellaneous
The Power of the New Digital Disorder
by David Weinberger 2007 288 pages
3.74
2.5K ratings
Technology
Library Science
Information Science
Invisible Women Summary
Invisible Women
Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
by Caroline Criado Pรฉrez 2019 448 pages
4.34
151.0K ratings
Feminism
Science
Politics
Popular Summary
Popular
The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World
by Mitch Prinstein 2017 288 pages
3.66
1.2K ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Sociology
50 Psychology Ideas You Really Need to Know Summary
50 Psychology Ideas You Really Need to Know
by Adrian Furnham 2008 208 pages
3.47
962 ratings
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Carl Jung Summary
Carl Jung
Wounded Healer of the Soul: An Illustrated Biography
by Claire Dunne 2000 242 pages
4.17
519 ratings
Psychology
Biography
Philosophy
The Game Theorist's Guide to Parenting Summary
The Game Theorist's Guide to Parenting
How the Science of Strategic Thinking Can Help You Deal with the Toughest Negotiators You Know--Your Kids
by Paul Raeburn 2016 222 pages
3.48
363 ratings
Parenting
Psychology
Economics
The Sociology Book Summary
The Sociology Book
Big Ideas Simply Explained
by Sam Atkinson 2015 352 pages
4.01
1.1K ratings
Sociology
Reference
Science
Social Psychology Summary
Social Psychology
A Very Short Introduction
by Richard J. Crisp 2015 144 pages
3.96
190 ratings
Psychology
Sociology
Philosophy
Science and Religion Summary
Science and Religion
A Very Short Introduction
by Thomas Dixon 1903 168 pages
3.67
485 ratings
Religion
Science
Philosophy
Anticancer. A New Way of Life Summary
Anticancer. A New Way of Life
by David Servan-Schreiber 2007 274 pages
4.40
5.6K ratings
Health
Science
Self Help
How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Summary
How Many Friends Does One Person Need?
by Robin I.M. Dunbar 2010 304 pages
3.51
633 ratings
Science
Psychology
Anthropology
Math and the Mona Lisa Summary
Math and the Mona Lisa
by Bรผlent Atalay 2004 314 pages
3.79
540 ratings
Science
History
Mathematics
Critical Thinking Summary
Critical Thinking
A Concise Guide
by Tracy Bowell 2001 288 pages
3.83
236 ratings
Philosophy
Logic
Psychology
Aliens Summary
Aliens
The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
by Jim Al-Khalili 2016 240 pages
3.78
1.3K ratings
Science
Space
Astronomy
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
3.85
562 ratings
Business
Science
Mathematics
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