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Mi dieta cojea

by Aitor Sánchez • 2016

The Spanish food pyramid was built by industry; breakfast is optional; and fat isn't the enemy.

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🥜 Nutrition Myths 🏭 Food Industry Critique 🔢 Calorie Counting 🥗 Food Quality 🔬 Evidence-Based Nutrition

Mi dieta cojea

The Spanish food pyramid was built by industry; breakfast is optional; and fat isn't the enemy.

by Aitor Sánchez 2016 195 pages

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1k+ ratings

🥜 Nutrition Myths 🏭 Food Industry Critique 🔢 Calorie Counting 🥗 Food Quality 🔬 Evidence-Based Nutrition

An Essay on the Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field

by Jacques Hadamard • 1945

Mathematical discovery relies on the unconscious, not logic; beauty picks the winning ideas.

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🔢 Mathematical Creativity 🧠 Cognitive Psychology 🌊 Unconscious Processing 👁️ Visual Thinking ✨ Beauty In Mathematics

An Essay on the Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field

Mathematical discovery relies on the unconscious, not logic; beauty picks the winning ideas.

by Jacques Hadamard 1945 162 pages

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🔢 Mathematical Creativity 🧠 Cognitive Psychology 🌊 Unconscious Processing 👁️ Visual Thinking ✨ Beauty In Mathematics

Basketball on Paper

by Dean Oliver • 2003

Basketball's scoreboard is a liar. Here is what actually decides who wins and who loses.

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🏀 Basketball Analytics 📊 Sports Analytics 📈 Performance Metrics 🔢 Statistical Modeling 📋 Data-Driven Coaching

Basketball on Paper

Basketball's scoreboard is a liar. Here is what actually decides who wins and who loses.

by Dean Oliver 2003 392 pages

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467 ratings

🏀 Basketball Analytics 📊 Sports Analytics 📈 Performance Metrics 🔢 Statistical Modeling 📋 Data-Driven Coaching

Foreign Bodies

by Simon Schama • 2023

How smallpox, cholera, and plague shaped the modern world, and why we keep repeating the mistakes.

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🦠 Pandemic History 💉 Vaccine History 🏛️ Colonial Medicine 🐀 Zoonotic Diseases 🌱 Environmental History

Foreign Bodies

How smallpox, cholera, and plague shaped the modern world, and why we keep repeating the mistakes.

by Simon Schama 2023 480 pages

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500+ ratings

🦠 Pandemic History 💉 Vaccine History 🏛️ Colonial Medicine 🐀 Zoonotic Diseases 🌱 Environmental History

The Breath of the Gods

by Simon Winchester • 2025

Polynesian canoes, the Spanish Armada, and Japan's salvation all turned on wind. Its full biography.

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🧱 Microhistories 🌬️ Atmospheric Science 🌍 Climate And Civilization 🌪️ Forces Of Nature 📖 Popular Science

The Breath of the Gods

Polynesian canoes, the Spanish Armada, and Japan's salvation all turned on wind. Its full biography.

by Simon Winchester 2025 386 pages

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500+ ratings

🧱 Microhistories 🌬️ Atmospheric Science 🌍 Climate And Civilization 🌪️ Forces Of Nature 📖 Popular Science

Could Should Might Don't

by Nick Foster • 2025

Four ways we imagine the future. Three are fantasies. One is a discipline.

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🧭 Futures Thinking 🚫 Technocritique 🛠️ Critical Design ⚠️ Forecasting Fallacies 🏠 Everyday Futures

Could Should Might Don't

Four ways we imagine the future. Three are fantasies. One is a discipline.

by Nick Foster 2025 352 pages

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231 ratings

🧭 Futures Thinking 🚫 Technocritique 🛠️ Critical Design ⚠️ Forecasting Fallacies 🏠 Everyday Futures

The Midrange Theory

by Seth Partnow • 2021

Analytics was going to kill the eye test. It proved why eyes still matter.

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🏀 Basketball Analytics 💰 Sports Economics 📊 Data-Driven Decisions 📏 Advanced Metrics ⚾ Moneyball

The Midrange Theory

Analytics was going to kill the eye test. It proved why eyes still matter.

by Seth Partnow 2021 288 pages

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500+ ratings

🏀 Basketball Analytics 💰 Sports Economics 📊 Data-Driven Decisions 📏 Advanced Metrics ⚾ Moneyball

The Greatest Show on Earth

by Richard Dawkins • 2009

From radioactive rocks to lizards that grew new heads in 37 years: the evidence for evolution.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🎯 Natural Selection 🦴 Fossil Record 🧪 Molecular Biology 🌍 Biogeography

The Greatest Show on Earth

From radioactive rocks to lizards that grew new heads in 37 years: the evidence for evolution.

by Richard Dawkins 2009 470 pages

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56k+ ratings

🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🎯 Natural Selection 🦴 Fossil Record 🧪 Molecular Biology 🌍 Biogeography

The Case against Perfection

by Michael J. Sandel • 2007

Genetic engineering really threatens: the humility and mutual obligation a decent society needs.

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🧬 Bioethics 🧫 Genetic Engineering 🧪 Human Enhancement ⚖️ Meritocracy Critique 🧘 Human Limits

The Case against Perfection

Genetic engineering really threatens: the humility and mutual obligation a decent society needs.

by Michael J. Sandel 2007 176 pages

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🧬 Bioethics 🧫 Genetic Engineering 🧪 Human Enhancement ⚖️ Meritocracy Critique 🧘 Human Limits

The Primitive Edge of Experience

by Thomas H. Ogden • 1989

Older than thought, a sensory psychological mode forms the self. Its isolation makes the mind rigid.

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🧩 Object Relations 🛋️ Psychoanalytic Theory 🌫️ Primitive Mental States 👶 Presymbolic Experience 🤱 Mother-Infant Dynamics

The Primitive Edge of Experience

Older than thought, a sensory psychological mode forms the self. Its isolation makes the mind rigid.

by Thomas H. Ogden 1989 254 pages

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105 ratings

🧩 Object Relations 🛋️ Psychoanalytic Theory 🌫️ Primitive Mental States 👶 Presymbolic Experience 🤱 Mother-Infant Dynamics

The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind

by Barbara K. Lipska • 2018

She studied mental illness for decades. Then 18 brain tumors gave it to her firsthand.

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🧠 Neuroscience Memoir 🔖 Medical Memoir 🩺 Medical Mystery 🧬 Brain Disorders 🔄 Neural Plasticity

The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind

She studied mental illness for decades. Then 18 brain tumors gave it to her firsthand.

by Barbara K. Lipska 2018 208 pages

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🧠 Neuroscience Memoir 🔖 Medical Memoir 🩺 Medical Mystery 🧬 Brain Disorders 🔄 Neural Plasticity

Roar

by Stacey Sims

Women burn fuel and build muscle differently. Train and eat with your physiology, not against it.

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🏋️ Women's Fitness 🍽️ Sports Nutrition 📅 Cycle Syncing 💪 Strength Training For Women 🦠 Gut Health

Roar

Women burn fuel and build muscle differently. Train and eat with your physiology, not against it.

by Stacey Sims

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126 ratings

🏋️ Women's Fitness 🍽️ Sports Nutrition 📅 Cycle Syncing 💪 Strength Training For Women 🦠 Gut Health

Designing Regenerative Food Systems

by Marina O'Connell • 2022

Farming doesn't have to destroy. Six systems that restore soil, store carbon, and feed the world.

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🌾 Sustainable Agriculture 🌱 Regenerative Farming 🏡 Permaculture 🌍 Agroecology 🌳 Agroforestry

Designing Regenerative Food Systems

Farming doesn't have to destroy. Six systems that restore soil, store carbon, and feed the world.

by Marina O'Connell 2022 228 pages

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4 ratings

🌾 Sustainable Agriculture 🌱 Regenerative Farming 🏡 Permaculture 🌍 Agroecology 🌳 Agroforestry

Diversity and Complexity

by Scott E. Page • 2010

Diversity isn't a slogan: it's a measurable property with predictable benefits and knowable limits.

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🌀 Complexity Science 🏜️ Santa Fe Institute 🐝 Emergence 🔄 Adaptive Systems 🛡️ System Resilience

Diversity and Complexity

Diversity isn't a slogan: it's a measurable property with predictable benefits and knowable limits.

by Scott E. Page 2010 304 pages

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207 ratings

🌀 Complexity Science 🏜️ Santa Fe Institute 🐝 Emergence 🔄 Adaptive Systems 🛡️ System Resilience

Do You See What I See?

by Russell Targ • 2008

A blind physicist ran the CIA's psychic spy program and discovered that suffering can be unlearned.

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🧪 Psi Research 👨‍🔬 Physicist Memoir 🧠 Nonlocal Mind ☸️ Buddhist Psychology 😌 Suffering Reduction

Do You See What I See?

A blind physicist ran the CIA's psychic spy program and discovered that suffering can be unlearned.

by Russell Targ 2008 296 pages

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56 ratings

🧪 Psi Research 👨‍🔬 Physicist Memoir 🧠 Nonlocal Mind ☸️ Buddhist Psychology 😌 Suffering Reduction

Epic Disruptions

by Scott D. Anthony • 2025

Gunpowder and the iPhone follow the same disruption rules. Eleven case studies trace them.

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🌪️ Disruption Theory 💡 Innovation History 📊 Business Model Design 🚀 Market Creation 🏚️ Incumbent Failure

Epic Disruptions

Gunpowder and the iPhone follow the same disruption rules. Eleven case studies trace them.

by Scott D. Anthony 2025 288 pages

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109 ratings

🌪️ Disruption Theory 💡 Innovation History 📊 Business Model Design 🚀 Market Creation 🏚️ Incumbent Failure

A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs

by Joanna Moncrieff • 2009

Psychiatric drugs don't fix chemical imbalances. They induce intoxication. Here is how to walk away.

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🧠 Critical Psychiatry 🧪 Chemical Imbalance Myth 💊 Psychiatric Withdrawal 🏭 Pharmaceutical Critique 📋 Informed Consent

A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs

Psychiatric drugs don't fix chemical imbalances. They induce intoxication. Here is how to walk away.

by Joanna Moncrieff 2009 344 pages

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107 ratings

🧠 Critical Psychiatry 🧪 Chemical Imbalance Myth 💊 Psychiatric Withdrawal 🏭 Pharmaceutical Critique 📋 Informed Consent

The Biology of Trauma

by Aimie Apigian • 2025

Trauma lives in your mitochondria and gut, not just your mind. The missing half of healing.

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🧠 Somatic Psychology 🩹 Trauma Recovery ⚡ Nervous System Regulation 🔗 Mind-Body Medicine 🧭 Polyvagal Theory

The Biology of Trauma

Trauma lives in your mitochondria and gut, not just your mind. The missing half of healing.

by Aimie Apigian 2025 320 pages

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215 ratings

🧠 Somatic Psychology 🩹 Trauma Recovery ⚡ Nervous System Regulation 🔗 Mind-Body Medicine 🧭 Polyvagal Theory

Limits to Growth

by Donella H. Meadows • 1972

A computer model of Earth's limits, tested for 30 years: the math says overshoot has already begun.

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🧠 Systems Thinking 📊 Environmental Economics 🌍 Planetary Boundaries ⛏️ Resource Depletion ⚖️ Carrying Capacity

Limits to Growth

A computer model of Earth's limits, tested for 30 years: the math says overshoot has already begun.

by Donella H. Meadows 1972 368 pages

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🧠 Systems Thinking 📊 Environmental Economics 🌍 Planetary Boundaries ⛏️ Resource Depletion ⚖️ Carrying Capacity

The First Scientist

by Carlo Rovelli • 2005

26 centuries ago, one man freed the Earth from its supports and nature from its gods.

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🏛️ Pre-Socratic Thought 🌌 Early Cosmology 🔬 Scientific Naturalism ⚖️ Philosophy Of Science 📜 Origins Of Science

The First Scientist

26 centuries ago, one man freed the Earth from its supports and nature from its gods.

by Carlo Rovelli 2005 256 pages

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🏛️ Pre-Socratic Thought 🌌 Early Cosmology 🔬 Scientific Naturalism ⚖️ Philosophy Of Science 📜 Origins Of Science

The Mind-Body Method

by Anders Hansen • 2024

Your brain evolved for motion. A sedentary life is quietly dismantling your focus, mood, and memory.

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🧠 Exercise Neuroscience 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🔄 Neuroplasticity 🏃 Movement And Mood ⚡ Stress Biology

The Mind-Body Method

Your brain evolved for motion. A sedentary life is quietly dismantling your focus, mood, and memory.

by Anders Hansen 2024 250 pages

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122 ratings

🧠 Exercise Neuroscience 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🔄 Neuroplasticity 🏃 Movement And Mood ⚡ Stress Biology

Learning Python Data Visualization

by Chad Adams • 2014

Turn spreadsheets and web data into SVG charts with Python, no design background required.

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📊 Data Visualization 🐍 Python Programming 📈 Chart Creation 🎨 Svg Graphics 🕸️ Web Scraping

Learning Python Data Visualization

Turn spreadsheets and web data into SVG charts with Python, no design background required.

by Chad Adams 2014 212 pages

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5 ratings

📊 Data Visualization 🐍 Python Programming 📈 Chart Creation 🎨 Svg Graphics 🕸️ Web Scraping

Reading in the Brain

by Stanislas Dehaene • 2007

The brain never evolved to read. Writing systems adapted to the brain's older circuits instead.

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 📖 Reading Science 🔄 Brain Plasticity 🧬 Cultural Evolution 📝 Dyslexia

Reading in the Brain

The brain never evolved to read. Writing systems adapted to the brain's older circuits instead.

by Stanislas Dehaene 2007 388 pages

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2k+ ratings

🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 📖 Reading Science 🔄 Brain Plasticity 🧬 Cultural Evolution 📝 Dyslexia

The Vitamin Cure for Depression

by Bo H. Jonsson • 2012

A Stone Age brain on a modern diet: the mismatch that looks like depression.

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🧠 Nutritional Psychiatry 🧪 Orthomolecular Medicine 💊 Antidepressant Critique 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🌿 Functional Medicine

The Vitamin Cure for Depression

A Stone Age brain on a modern diet: the mismatch that looks like depression.

by Bo H. Jonsson 2012 240 pages

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15 ratings

🧠 Nutritional Psychiatry 🧪 Orthomolecular Medicine 💊 Antidepressant Critique 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🌿 Functional Medicine

The Ice at the End of the World

by Jon Gertner • 2019

Greenland's ice holds a climate archive; it shows the planet can flip in a human lifetime.

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🧊 Polar Exploration 🌍 Climate Science 🏔️ Glaciology ⚡ Abrupt Climate Change 🌊 Sea Level Rise

The Ice at the End of the World

Greenland's ice holds a climate archive; it shows the planet can flip in a human lifetime.

by Jon Gertner 2019 418 pages

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🧊 Polar Exploration 🌍 Climate Science 🏔️ Glaciology ⚡ Abrupt Climate Change 🌊 Sea Level Rise

Physics For Entertainment

by Yakov Perelman • 1913

A bullet fired in a vacuum would fly forty kilometers; in air, it barely clears four.

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🍎 Everyday Physics ⚙️ Classical Physics 🧩 Physics Puzzles 👁️ Optical Illusions 💨 Fluid Dynamics

Physics For Entertainment

A bullet fired in a vacuum would fly forty kilometers; in air, it barely clears four.

by Yakov Perelman 1913 214 pages

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82 ratings

🍎 Everyday Physics ⚙️ Classical Physics 🧩 Physics Puzzles 👁️ Optical Illusions 💨 Fluid Dynamics

War, Peace, and Human Nature

by Douglas P. Fry • 2013

War began with farming, not in our genes. Twelve millennia of silence before that upends everything.

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🧬 Human Evolution ⚔️ Origins Of War 🕊️ Peace Studies 🐒 Primate Behavior 🏹 Nomadic Foragers

War, Peace, and Human Nature

War began with farming, not in our genes. Twelve millennia of silence before that upends everything.

by Douglas P. Fry 2013 582 pages

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33 ratings

🧬 Human Evolution ⚔️ Origins Of War 🕊️ Peace Studies 🐒 Primate Behavior 🏹 Nomadic Foragers

Spontaneous Activity in Education

by Maria Montessori • 1916

The case against teaching. What freedom and the right tools unlock in a child's mind.

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🧒 Child Development 📚 Progressive Education 🧭 Self-Directed Learning 💡 Intrinsic Motivation 🏗️ Constructivist Education

Spontaneous Activity in Education

The case against teaching. What freedom and the right tools unlock in a child's mind.

by Maria Montessori 1916 262 pages

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146 ratings

🧒 Child Development 📚 Progressive Education 🧭 Self-Directed Learning 💡 Intrinsic Motivation 🏗️ Constructivist Education

ChatGPT for Beginners

by Felix Venture • 2024

ChatGPT's real power lies in how you ask. A four-part prompt framework makes it work.

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🔧 Prompt Engineering 💬 Conversational AI 📚 AI Literacy 🆕 Beginner Guides ⚖️ AI Ethics

ChatGPT for Beginners

ChatGPT's real power lies in how you ask. A four-part prompt framework makes it work.

by Felix Venture 2024 232 pages

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12 ratings

🔧 Prompt Engineering 💬 Conversational AI 📚 AI Literacy 🆕 Beginner Guides ⚖️ AI Ethics

Why We Drink Too Much

by Charles Knowles • 2026

Alcohol rewires the brain to prioritize itself. Reversing that takes more than willpower.

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🌅 Addiction Recovery 🍺 Drinking Culture 🧠 Neuroscience Of Addiction 🤔 Sober Curious 🧘 Mindfulness Recovery

Why We Drink Too Much

Alcohol rewires the brain to prioritize itself. Reversing that takes more than willpower.

by Charles Knowles 2026 304 pages

3.67

452 ratings

🌅 Addiction Recovery 🍺 Drinking Culture 🧠 Neuroscience Of Addiction 🤔 Sober Curious 🧘 Mindfulness Recovery

Why Study Mathematics?

by Vicky Neale • 2020

A math degree opens careers from kidney swaps to climate models. Effort trumps genius every time.

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📐 Applied Mathematics 🧠 Growth Mindset 📊 Data Science ➗ Mathematical Thinking 📖 Popular Mathematics

Why Study Mathematics?

A math degree opens careers from kidney swaps to climate models. Effort trumps genius every time.

by Vicky Neale 2020 208 pages

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38 ratings

📐 Applied Mathematics 🧠 Growth Mindset 📊 Data Science ➗ Mathematical Thinking 📖 Popular Mathematics

NEW-Why We Sleep

by Walker and Matthew • 2018

Six hours of sleep makes your brain act drunk, and the damage is cumulative and invisible.

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😴 Sleep Science 🕰️ Circadian Biology 🧠 Sleep And Cognition 💭 Dreaming And Creativity ❤️ Sleep And Longevity

NEW-Why We Sleep

Six hours of sleep makes your brain act drunk, and the damage is cumulative and invisible.

by Walker and Matthew 2018 368 pages

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21 ratings

😴 Sleep Science 🕰️ Circadian Biology 🧠 Sleep And Cognition 💭 Dreaming And Creativity ❤️ Sleep And Longevity

Panarchy

by L.H. Gunderson • 2001

Why collapse is built into success: the adaptive cycle that governs forests, firms, and nations.

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🧬 Complex Adaptive Systems 🌿 Resilience Thinking 🤝 Social-Ecological Systems 🌍 Systems Ecology 🪆 Nested Systems

Panarchy

Why collapse is built into success: the adaptive cycle that governs forests, firms, and nations.

by L.H. Gunderson 2001 536 pages

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89 ratings

🧬 Complex Adaptive Systems 🌿 Resilience Thinking 🤝 Social-Ecological Systems 🌍 Systems Ecology 🪆 Nested Systems

Ecotherapy

by Craig Chalquist • 2009

Therapy spent a century in empty rooms. The missing ingredient was outside the whole time.

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🌿 Ecopsychology 🌲 Nature-Based Therapy 💧 Ecological Grief 🌍 Climate Psychology 🧘 Somatic Healing

Ecotherapy

Therapy spent a century in empty rooms. The missing ingredient was outside the whole time.

by Craig Chalquist 2009 312 pages

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169 ratings

🌿 Ecopsychology 🌲 Nature-Based Therapy 💧 Ecological Grief 🌍 Climate Psychology 🧘 Somatic Healing

The One Best Way

by Robert Kanigel • 1997

The stopwatch that built modern work and the privileged man who never had to obey one.

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🧪 Scientific Management 🏭 Industrial Management ⚒️ Labor Relations ⏱️ Efficiency Movement 🕰️ Time And Motion Studies

The One Best Way

The stopwatch that built modern work and the privileged man who never had to obey one.

by Robert Kanigel 1997 704 pages

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98 ratings

🧪 Scientific Management 🏭 Industrial Management ⚒️ Labor Relations ⏱️ Efficiency Movement 🕰️ Time And Motion Studies

The Mind's Mirror

by Daniela Rus • 2024

AI extends every human capability, including the worst of us. A framework for the double edge.

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📊 Ai Strategy ⚖️ Ai Ethics 💼 Future Of Work 🤖 Machine Learning 🏛️ Technology Governance

The Mind's Mirror

AI extends every human capability, including the worst of us. A framework for the double edge.

by Daniela Rus 2024 288 pages

3.59

110 ratings

📊 Ai Strategy ⚖️ Ai Ethics 💼 Future Of Work 🤖 Machine Learning 🏛️ Technology Governance

The Savage Mind

by Claude Lévi-Strauss • 1962

So-called primitive thought builds meaning like a handyman: from whatever pieces are at hand.

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🏗️ Structuralism 🇫🇷 French Theory 🔣 Symbolic Classification 🌿 Indigenous Knowledge 📖 Myth And Meaning

The Savage Mind

So-called primitive thought builds meaning like a handyman: from whatever pieces are at hand.

by Claude Lévi-Strauss 1962 310 pages

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1k+ ratings

🏗️ Structuralism 🇫🇷 French Theory 🔣 Symbolic Classification 🌿 Indigenous Knowledge 📖 Myth And Meaning

Carbon Finance

by Sonia Labatt • 2007

Hedging the weather and pricing carbon: the financial instruments built for a warming planet.

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🧪 Carbon Markets 🌍 Climate Finance 🏭 Emissions Trading ⚡ Energy Transition 🌿 Market Environmentalism

Carbon Finance

Hedging the weather and pricing carbon: the financial instruments built for a warming planet.

by Sonia Labatt 2007 288 pages

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15 ratings

🧪 Carbon Markets 🌍 Climate Finance 🏭 Emissions Trading ⚡ Energy Transition 🌿 Market Environmentalism

Here Comes the Sun

by Bill McKibben • 2025

The climate crisis has a solution: the sun, which quietly became the cheapest power on Earth.

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☀️ Renewable Energy ⚡ Electrification ✊ Climate Activism 💰 Energy Economics 🏘️ Decentralized Energy

Here Comes the Sun

The climate crisis has a solution: the sun, which quietly became the cheapest power on Earth.

by Bill McKibben 2025 224 pages

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1k+ ratings

☀️ Renewable Energy ⚡ Electrification ✊ Climate Activism 💰 Energy Economics 🏘️ Decentralized Energy

Lost in a Good Game

by Pete Etchells • 2019

The research that clears video games of harm, and the surprising ways they improve our lives.

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🎮 Video Game Psychology ⏳ Screen Time Research 🌐 Digital Culture 🧩 Gaming Motivation 🧠 Gaming And Cognition

Lost in a Good Game

The research that clears video games of harm, and the surprising ways they improve our lives.

by Pete Etchells 2019 320 pages

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500+ ratings

🎮 Video Game Psychology ⏳ Screen Time Research 🌐 Digital Culture 🧩 Gaming Motivation 🧠 Gaming And Cognition

Love 2.0

by Barbara L. Fredrickson • 2013

Love is a fleeting brain-body sync, not a lasting bond. Your health runs on these daily connections.

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🎓 Positive Psychology 🤝 Human Connection 🧬 Social Neuroscience 😊 Positive Emotions 💗 Compassion Practice

Love 2.0

Love is a fleeting brain-body sync, not a lasting bond. Your health runs on these daily connections.

by Barbara L. Fredrickson 2013 256 pages

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1k+ ratings

🎓 Positive Psychology 🤝 Human Connection 🧬 Social Neuroscience 😊 Positive Emotions 💗 Compassion Practice

Crooked

by Cathryn Jakobson Ramin • 2017

Your MRI is lying, your injections don't help, and back surgery fails 60% of the time.

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🩻 Back Pain 🧠 Chronic Pain ⚠️ Medical Overreach 💊 Opioid Crisis 🧘 Body-Mind Connection

Crooked

Your MRI is lying, your injections don't help, and back surgery fails 60% of the time.

by Cathryn Jakobson Ramin 2017 437 pages

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500+ ratings

🩻 Back Pain 🧠 Chronic Pain ⚠️ Medical Overreach 💊 Opioid Crisis 🧘 Body-Mind Connection

Chasing Life

by Sanjay Gupta • 2007

Your lifespan is 70% lifestyle. The evidence for what actually earns you extra decades.

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🧬 Longevity Science 🥗 Lifestyle Medicine 🧠 Cognitive Reserve ☀️ Positive Psychology 🩺 Disease Prevention

Chasing Life

Your lifespan is 70% lifestyle. The evidence for what actually earns you extra decades.

by Sanjay Gupta 2007 272 pages

3.73

464 ratings

🧬 Longevity Science 🥗 Lifestyle Medicine 🧠 Cognitive Reserve ☀️ Positive Psychology 🩺 Disease Prevention

Behavioral Economics When Psychology and Economics Collide

by Scott A. Huettel • 2013

Economists said you're rational. Psychologists proved otherwise. The field their collision created.

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🧠 Behavioral Economics 🔍 Cognitive Biases 🏗️ Choice Architecture 👥 Social Norms 🎯 Game Theory

Behavioral Economics When Psychology and Economics Collide

Economists said you're rational. Psychologists proved otherwise. The field their collision created.

by Scott A. Huettel 2013 12 pages

3.95

386 ratings

🧠 Behavioral Economics 🔍 Cognitive Biases 🏗️ Choice Architecture 👥 Social Norms 🎯 Game Theory

La fábrica de cretinos digitales

by Michel Desmurget • 2019

A neuroscientist's radical screen rules: zero before six, thirty minutes a day after.

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🧒 Child Development 📺 Screen Time Effects 📱 Digital Parenting 💻 Tech Criticism 💥 Attention Crisis

La fábrica de cretinos digitales

A neuroscientist's radical screen rules: zero before six, thirty minutes a day after.

by Michel Desmurget 2019 683 pages

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500+ ratings

🧒 Child Development 📺 Screen Time Effects 📱 Digital Parenting 💻 Tech Criticism 💥 Attention Crisis

I Heard There Was a Secret Chord

by Daniel J. Levitin • 2024

Neuroscience confirms: music eases pain, rebuilds the brain after stroke, and reaches dementia.

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🧠 Music Neuroscience 🎵 Music Therapy 🔄 Neuroplasticity 💔 Trauma Recovery 🧓 Cognitive Decline

I Heard There Was a Secret Chord

Neuroscience confirms: music eases pain, rebuilds the brain after stroke, and reaches dementia.

by Daniel J. Levitin 2024 416 pages

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1k+ ratings

🧠 Music Neuroscience 🎵 Music Therapy 🔄 Neuroplasticity 💔 Trauma Recovery 🧓 Cognitive Decline

The kingdom of infinite space

by Raymond Tallis • 2008

Spit, yawns, and blushes: a philosopher unpacks the biology that culture transforms.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 💪 Philosophy Of The Body 🌟 Human Uniqueness 👁️ Sensory Experience 😊 Face And Expression

The kingdom of infinite space

Spit, yawns, and blushes: a philosopher unpacks the biology that culture transforms.

by Raymond Tallis 2008 324 pages

3.38

151 ratings

🧠 Consciousness Studies 💪 Philosophy Of The Body 🌟 Human Uniqueness 👁️ Sensory Experience 😊 Face And Expression

Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy

by Patricia Coughlin • 1996

Weeks, not years. A psychodynamic method that confronts defenses for lasting character change.

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🛋️ Psychodynamic Therapy ⏱️ Short-Term Therapy 🛡️ Defense Mechanisms 🔒 Emotional Repression 🔧 Therapeutic Technique

Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy

Weeks, not years. A psychodynamic method that confronts defenses for lasting character change.

by Patricia Coughlin 1996 272 pages

4.46

48 ratings

🛋️ Psychodynamic Therapy ⏱️ Short-Term Therapy 🛡️ Defense Mechanisms 🔒 Emotional Repression 🔧 Therapeutic Technique

Believing Is Seeing

by Michael Guillen • 2021

Gödel, quantum weirdness, and the limits of logic: a physicist's equations that revived his faith.

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🧪 Science And Faith ✝️ Christian Apologetics 🔭 Worldview Analysis 🧩 Limits Of Logic ⚛️ Quantum Physics

Believing Is Seeing

Gödel, quantum weirdness, and the limits of logic: a physicist's equations that revived his faith.

by Michael Guillen 2021 288 pages

4.19

500+ ratings

🧪 Science And Faith ✝️ Christian Apologetics 🔭 Worldview Analysis 🧩 Limits Of Logic ⚛️ Quantum Physics

Operation Paperclip

by Annie Jacobsen • 2014

To beat the Soviets, America recruited 1,600 Nazi scientists and buried their crimes.

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🕰️ Postwar History 🕵️ Intelligence History 🧪 Nazi Scientists 🤫 Government Secrecy ⚖️ War Crimes

Operation Paperclip

To beat the Soviets, America recruited 1,600 Nazi scientists and buried their crimes.

by Annie Jacobsen 2014 575 pages

4.15

10k+ ratings

🕰️ Postwar History 🕵️ Intelligence History 🧪 Nazi Scientists 🤫 Government Secrecy ⚖️ War Crimes

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