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The Age of American Unreason Summary
The Age of American Unreason
by Susan Jacoby 2008 384 pages
3.84
3.2K ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
In Plain Sight Summary
In Plain Sight
by Ross Coulthart 2021 471 pages
4.30
2.0K ratings
Science
Paranormal
Aliens
A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age Summary
A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age
Scientific Habits of Mind
by David J. Helfand 2016 344 pages
3.71
211 ratings
Science
Psychology
Politics
Food Rules Summary
Food Rules
A Doctor's Guide to Healthy Eating
by Catherine Shanahan 2010 176 pages
4.17
407 ratings
Health
Nutrition
Food
Psychology of the Future Summary
Psychology of the Future
Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research
by Stanislav Grof 2000 361 pages
4.27
290 ratings
Psychology
Science
Spirituality
How Music Works Summary
How Music Works
by David Byrne 2014 345 pages
4.01
27.1K ratings
Music
History
Art
Cognition Summary
Cognition
Exploring the Science of the Mind
by Daniel Reisberg 2005
3.78
266 ratings
Psychology
Science
School
The Thyroid Connection Summary
The Thyroid Connection
Why You Feel Tired, Brain-Fogged, and Overweight - and How to Get Your Life Back
by Amy Myers 2016 425 pages
3.72
866 ratings
Health
Medical
Science
The Real Anthony Fauci Summary
The Real Anthony Fauci
Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2021 934 pages
4.49
8.4K ratings
Politics
Health
History
The Marshmallow Test Summary
The Marshmallow Test
Mastering Self-Control
by Walter Mischel 2014 336 pages
3.72
9.3K ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Science
Back to Earth Summary
Back to Earth
What Life in Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet―And Our Mission to Protect It
by Nicole Stott 2021 304 pages
3.90
200 ratings
Space
Science
Biography
A Sense of the Mysterious Summary
A Sense of the Mysterious
Science and the Human Spirit
by Alan Lightman 2005 224 pages
3.81
651 ratings
Science
Philosophy
Essays
Guesstimation Summary
Guesstimation
Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin
by Lawrence Weinstein 2008 301 pages
3.73
422 ratings
Science
Mathematics
Business
Exploding the Phone Summary
Exploding the Phone
The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell
by Phil Lapsley 2013 431 pages
4.20
1.7K ratings
History
Technology
True Crime
Traces Summary
Traces
The Memoir of a Forensic Scientist and Criminal Investigator
by Patricia Wiltshire 2019 312 pages
3.60
2.9K ratings
True Crime
Science
Memoir
How the Brain Works Summary
How the Brain Works
The Facts Visually Explained
by D.K. Publishing 2020 224 pages
4.31
248 ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
Behavioural Economics Summary
Behavioural Economics
Psychology, Neuroscience, and the Human Side of Economics
by David Orrell 2021 195 pages
3.52
161 ratings
Psychology
Economics
Science
A Beautiful Question Summary
A Beautiful Question
Finding Nature's Deep Design
by Frank Wilczek 2015 448 pages
3.87
1.5K ratings
Science
Physics
Philosophy
American Cosmic Summary
American Cosmic
UFOs, Religion, Technology
by D.W. Pasulka 2019 288 pages
3.92
2.9K ratings
Religion
Paranormal
Science
The Skin Type Solution Summary
The Skin Type Solution
by Leslie Baumann 2006 352 pages
3.85
341 ratings
Health
Reference
Science
The Joy of Abstraction Summary
The Joy of Abstraction
An Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and Life
by Eugenia Cheng 2022 424 pages
3.86
146 ratings
Mathematics
Science
Popular Science
Science for Life Summary
Science for Life
A manual for better living
by Brian Clegg 2015 400 pages
3.44
110 ratings
Science
Popular Science
Self Help
The Biological Mind Summary
The Biological Mind
How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are
by Alan Jasanoff 2018 304 pages
3.71
224 ratings
Science
Neuroscience
Psychology
Pasteur's Quadrant Summary
Pasteur's Quadrant
Basic Science and Technological Innovation
by Donald E. Stokes 1997 199 pages
3.82
142 ratings
Science
Technology
Business
Down to Earth Summary
Down to Earth
Politics in the New Climatic Regime
by Bruno Latour 2017 140 pages
3.76
1.6K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Environment
The Enlightenment Summary
The Enlightenment
A Very Short Introduction
by John Robertson 2015 147 pages
3.57
283 ratings
History
Philosophy
Religion
The Scientific American Book of Love, Sex and the Brain Summary
The Scientific American Book of Love, Sex and the Brain
The Neuroscience of How, When, Why and Who We Love
by Judith Horstman 2011 264 pages
3.86
118 ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
Listening to Whales Summary
Listening to Whales
What the Orcas Have Taught Us
by Alexandra Morton 2002 336 pages
4.51
986 ratings
Animals
Science
Nature
Whole Summary
Whole
Rethinking the Science of Nutrition
by T. Colin Campbell 2013 352 pages
3.90
6.8K ratings
Health
Nutrition
Food
The Doctors Book of Food Remedies Summary
The Doctors Book of Food Remedies
The Latest Findings on the Power of Food to Treat and Prevent Health Problems--From Aging and Diabetes to Ulcers and Yeast Infections
by Selene Yeager 2000 720 pages
4.00
165 ratings
Health
Reference
Nutrition
What I Wish People Knew About Dementia Summary
What I Wish People Knew About Dementia
by Wendy Mitchell 2022 240 pages
4.23
947 ratings
Psychology
Memoir
Health
The Cholesterol Myths Summary
The Cholesterol Myths
Exposing the Fallacy That Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease
by Uffe Ravnskov 2000 297 pages
4.30
179 ratings
Health
Nutrition
Medicine
Creativity Summary
Creativity
Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
by MihΓ‘ly CsΓ­kszentmihΓ‘lyi 1996 466 pages
4.07
5.8K ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Science
Organic Chemistry Summary
Organic Chemistry
by Jonathan Clayden 2000 1536 pages
4.30
1.0K ratings
Chemistry
Science
Textbooks
Big Breaches Summary
Big Breaches
Cybersecurity Lessons for Everyone
by Neil Daswani 2021 495 pages
4.31
39 ratings
Science
Programming
The Ketogenic Diet Summary
The Ketogenic Diet
A Scientifically Proven Approach to Fast, Healthy Weight Loss
by Kristen Mancinelli 2014 224 pages
3.83
161 ratings
Health
Science
Bodies
Megafire Summary
Megafire
The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame
by Michael Kodas 2017 384 pages
4.01
247 ratings
Science
Nature
Climate Change
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
3.84
456 ratings
Science
Nature
Gardening
Perception - How Our Bodies Shape Our Minds Summary
Perception - How Our Bodies Shape Our Minds
by Dennis Proffitt 2020 320 pages
3.99
215 ratings
Psychology
Science
Neuroscience
The Pride Guide Summary
The Pride Guide
A Guide to Sexual and Social Health for LGBTQ Youth
by Jo Langford 2018 363 pages
4.06
115 ratings
LGBT
Queer
Sexuality
The Philosophy of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Summary
The Philosophy of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Stoic Philosophy as Rational and Cognitive Psychotherapy
by Donald J. Robertson 2010 316 pages
4.19
311 ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Self Help
Grass, Soil, Hope Summary
Grass, Soil, Hope
A Journey through Carbon Country
by Courtney White 2014 244 pages
4.04
166 ratings
Food
Environment
Science
Norm Chronicles Summary
Norm Chronicles
by Michael Blastland 2014 383 pages
3.59
560 ratings
Science
Mathematics
Popular Science
Sensation Summary
Sensation
The New Science of Physical Intelligence
by Thalma Lobel 2014
3.42
382 ratings
Psychology
Science
Sociology
END OF OIL Summary
END OF OIL
by Paul Roberts 2004 412 pages
3.74
1.1K ratings
Politics
Science
Environment
The Theory of Almost Everything Summary
The Theory of Almost Everything
The Standard Model, the Unsung Triumph of Modern Physics
by Robert Oerter 2005 336 pages
4.08
791 ratings
Science
Physics
Popular Science
The Invisible History of the Human Race Summary
The Invisible History of the Human Race
How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures
by Christine Kenneally 2014 355 pages
3.81
1.6K ratings
Science
History
Genetics
The Dancing Universe Summary
The Dancing Universe
From Creation Myths to the Big Bang
by Marcelo Gleiser 1997 352 pages
4.20
532 ratings
Science
Physics
Astronomy
Memory Summary
Memory
by Alan Baddeley 1982 464 pages
3.80
216 ratings
Psychology
Science
Textbooks
Mad, Bad, and Sad Summary
Mad, Bad, and Sad
Women and the Mind Doctors
by Lisa Appignanesi 2007 560 pages
3.69
930 ratings
Psychology
History
Feminism
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