Science Book Summaries

Buddhist Biology Summary
Buddhist Biology
Ancient Eastern Wisdom Meets Modern Western Science
by David Philip Barash 2013 216 pages
3.79
107 ratings
Science
Buddhism
Philosophy
Beyond Coffee Summary
Beyond Coffee
A Sustainable Guide to Nootropics, Adaptogens, and Mushrooms
by James Beshara 2019 146 pages
3.30
221 ratings
Health
Science
Food
Whole Earth Summary
Whole Earth
The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
by John Markoff 2022 416 pages
3.91
231 ratings
Biography
Science
History
Memory Summary
Memory
by Alan Baddeley 1982 464 pages
3.80
216 ratings
Psychology
Science
Textbooks
The Blindspots Between Us Summary
The Blindspots Between Us
How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias and Build Better Relationships
by Gleb Tsipursky 2020 216 pages
3.94
270 ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Relationships
Newton's Football Summary
Newton's Football
The Science Behind America's Game
by Allen St. John 2013 272 pages
3.86
180 ratings
Sports
Science
Football
The Family Gene Summary
The Family Gene
A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future
by Joselin Linder 2017 272 pages
4.04
1.1K ratings
Memoir
Science
Medical
Taking on the Plastics Crisis Summary
Taking on the Plastics Crisis
by Hannah Testa 2020 64 pages
3.88
601 ratings
Science
Social Justice
Activism
How to Dunk a Doughnut Summary
How to Dunk a Doughnut
The Science Of Everyday Life
by Len Fisher 2002 272 pages
3.34
268 ratings
Science
Physics
Food
Anxious in Love Summary
Anxious in Love
How to Manage Your Anxiety, Reduce Conflict, and Reconnect with Your Partner
by Carolyn Daitch 2012 208 pages
3.57
244 ratings
Self Help
Relationships
Mental Health
The Harvard Psychedelic Club Summary
The Harvard Psychedelic Club
How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America
by Don Lattin 2010 256 pages
3.92
2.0K ratings
History
Psychology
Biography
Alcoholics Anonymous Summary
Alcoholics Anonymous
The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism
by Alcoholics Anonymous 1991 605 pages
3.96
340 ratings
Self Help
Psychology
Spirituality
The Secret History of the Rape Kit Summary
The Secret History of the Rape Kit
A True Crime Story
by Pagan Kennedy 2025 237 pages
3.93
2.9K ratings
True Crime
History
Feminism
What Type Am I? Summary
What Type Am I?
The Myers-Brigg Type Indication Made Easy
by Renee Baron 1998 171 pages
3.94
527 ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Reference
This View of Life Summary
This View of Life
Completing the Darwinian Revolution
by David Sloan Wilson 2019 288 pages
3.96
354 ratings
Science
Biology
Evolution
Mutants Summary
Mutants
On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
by Armand Marie Leroi 2003 448 pages
4.05
3.9K ratings
Science
Biology
Medicine
Creation Summary
Creation
How Science Is Reinventing Life Itself
by Adam Rutherford 2013 288 pages
3.98
748 ratings
Science
Biology
Evolution
The Human Swarm Summary
The Human Swarm
How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
by Mark W. Moffett 2019 468 pages
3.66
441 ratings
Science
History
Sociology
The Stupidity Paradox Summary
The Stupidity Paradox
The Power and Pitfalls of Functional Stupidity at Work
by Mats Alvesson 2016 0 pages
3.62
517 ratings
Business
Psychology
Science
Fat for Fuel Summary
Fat for Fuel
A Revolutionary Diet to Combat Cancer, Boost Brain Power, and Increase Your Energy
by Joseph Mercola 2017 369 pages
3.98
2.1K ratings
Health
Nutrition
Food
Whatever Happened to the Metric System? Summary
Whatever Happened to the Metric System?
How America Kept Its Feet
by John Bemelmans Marciano 2013 320 pages
3.62
317 ratings
History
Science
Mathematics
Natural Disaster Summary
Natural Disaster
I Cover Them. I am One.
by Ginger Zee 2017 288 pages
4.02
3.9K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Practical Intelligence Summary
Practical Intelligence
The Art and Science of Common Sense
by Karl Albrecht 2007 416 pages
3.73
149 ratings
Psychology
Science
Self Help
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death Summary
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
by Caitlin Doughty 2019 200 pages
4.13
45.7K ratings
Science
Humor
Death
The Germ Code Summary
The Germ Code
How to Stop Worrying and Love the Microbes
by Jason Tetro 2013 272 pages
3.75
142 ratings
Science
Medical
Biology
p53 Summary
p53
The Gene that Cracked the Cancer Code
by Sue Armstrong 2014 288 pages
4.07
617 ratings
Science
Medicine
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
Crash Test Girl Summary
Crash Test Girl
An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life’s Toughest Questions
by Kari Byron 2018 254 pages
3.92
1.0K ratings
Biography
Science
Memoir
Unknown Quantity Summary
Unknown Quantity
A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra
by John Derbyshire 2006 374 pages
3.90
763 ratings
Mathematics
Science
History
How Infrastructure Works Summary
How Infrastructure Works
Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
by Deb Chachra 2023 320 pages
3.66
802 ratings
Science
Technology
History
What Happens When We Die? Summary
What Happens When We Die?
A Groundbreaking Study into the Nature of Life and Death
by Sam Parnia 2005 240 pages
3.61
282 ratings
Science
Death
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
3.76
223 ratings
Science
Nature
Biology
That Sugar Book Summary
That Sugar Book
by Damon Gameau 2015 240 pages
4.15
872 ratings
Health
Nutrition
Food
The Occasional Human Sacrifice Summary
The Occasional Human Sacrifice
Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No
by Carl Elliott 2024 368 pages
3.94
356 ratings
Science
History
Medical
Pictures of the Mind Summary
Pictures of the Mind
What the New Neuroscience Tells Us About Who We Are
by Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald 2009 177 pages
3.76
890 ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
Bad Advice Summary
Bad Advice
Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information
by Paul A. Offit 2018 272 pages
4.10
567 ratings
Science
Medical
Medicine
Programming the Raspberry Pi Summary
Programming the Raspberry Pi
Getting Started with Python
by Simon Monk 2012 170 pages
3.80
413 ratings
Programming
Technology
Computer Science
The Inkblots Summary
The Inkblots
Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing
by Damion Searls 2015 405 pages
3.74
959 ratings
Psychology
History
Biography
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
Why Can't We Sleep Summary
Why Can't We Sleep
by Darian Leader 2019 210 pages
3.17
393 ratings
Psychology
Science
Psychoanalysis
The Gift of Not Belonging Summary
The Gift of Not Belonging
How Outsiders Thrive in a World of Joiners
by Rami Kaminski 2025 240 pages
3.68
288 ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Science
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR Summary
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR
by American Psychiatric Association 1952 943 pages
3.90
12.1K ratings
Psychology
Reference
Mental Health
Beyond Words Summary
Beyond Words
What Animals Think and Feel
by Carl Safina 2015 461 pages
4.41
4.5K ratings
Animals
Science
Nature
A Cancer in the Family Summary
A Cancer in the Family
Take Control of Your Genetic Inheritance
by Theodora Ross 2016 304 pages
4.13
181 ratings
Science
Health
Medicine
How Your Brain Works Summary
How Your Brain Works
Inside the most complicated object in the known universe
by New Scientist 2017 202 pages
3.91
341 ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
Uncontrolled Spread Summary
Uncontrolled Spread
Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic
by Scott Gottlieb 2021 480 pages
4.07
1.1K ratings
Science
History
Health
Build Your Running Body Summary
Build Your Running Body
by Melissa Breyer 2014 448 pages
4.19
813 ratings
Fitness
Health
Sports
Generation Sleepless Summary
Generation Sleepless
Why Tweens and Teens Aren't Sleeping Enough and How We Can Help Them
by Heather Turgeon MFT 2022 304 pages
4.05
151 ratings
Parenting
Health
Psychology
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
First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 2011 Summary
First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 2011
by Tao Le 1996 623 pages
4.38
1.5K ratings
Medicine
Medical
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