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The DOSE Effect: An Inspiring Self-Healing Guide About the Mind-Body-Hormonal Connection, Achieve Wellness and Happiness with Practical Techniques!TJ Power
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest InfectionJohn Green
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AIYuval Noah Harari
Sex, God, and the Brain: How Sexual Pleasure Gave Birth to Religion and a Whole Lot MoreAndrew Newberg M.D.
Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What MattersCharan Ranganath PhD
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on EarthZoë Schlanger
Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes EverythingJames R. Doty MD
Poverty, by AmericaMatthew Desmond
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic CultureGabor Maté MD
Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and LifeRory Sutherland
The Nineties: A BookChuck Klosterman
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply AgainJohann Hari
Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really AreDavid J. Lieberman PhD
Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for ThemTom Phillips, Jonn Elledge
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for MortalsOliver Burkeman
The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary PsychologyRobert Wright
Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) WrongEric Barker
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It MattersSteven Pinker
Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes UsBrian Klaas
The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us ForwardDaniel H. Pink
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in AmericaEyal Press
We Need New Stories: The Myths That Subvert FreedomNesrine Malik
Upside: Profiting from the Profound Demographic Shifts AheadKenneth Gronbach
The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity--and Will Determine the Fate of the Human RaceDaniel Z. Lieberman, Michael E. Long
Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (Or Don't)Alex Bezzerides
Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum RevolutionCarlo Rovelli
Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We BuyMartin Lindstrom
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized WorldDavid Epstein
Caste: The Origins of Our DiscontentsIsabel Wilkerson
Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'Erich Fromm, Karl Marx
Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*tTom Phillips
Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All UpTom Phillips
The Communist ManifestoKarl Marx, Friedrich Engels
AngrynomicsEric Lonergan, Mark Blyth
Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939Frederick L Allen
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) WrongEric Barker
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and IdentityDouglas Murray
Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New MasculinityPeggy Orenstein
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't KnowMalcolm Gladwell
Hit Makers: How to Succeed in an Age of DistractionDerek Thompson
Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New LandscapePeggy Orenstein
Team HumanDouglas Rushkoff
Jung: A Very Short IntroductionAnthony Stevens
Sapiens: A Brief History of HumankindYuval Noah Harari
The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and DieKeith Payne
Lost Connections: Why You're Depressed and How to Find HopeJohann Hari
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You ThinkHans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling
Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth, the Illusion of Consent, and the Fight for Our FutureRaoul Martinez
On ColorDavid Kastan, Stephen Farthing
The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary ImpactChip Heath, Dan Heath
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year HistoryKurt Andersen
Eat the AppleMatt Young
Why Liberalism FailedPatrick J. Deneen
A Second Chance: For You, For Me, And For The Rest Of UsCatherine Hoke
When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect TimingDaniel H. Pink
Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media ManipulatorRyan Holiday
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive ThinkingOliver Burkeman
The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the MenuDan Jurafsky
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth CenturyTimothy Snyder
Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't MatterScott Adams
Recovery: Freedom from Our AddictionsRussell Brand
You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding YourselfDavid McRaney
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear SugarCheryl Strayed
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On ItChris Voss, Tahl Raz
All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern ParenthoodJennifer Senior
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us HookedAdam Alter
The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest CountryHelen Russell
Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It's Killing UsShane Claiborne
Tribe: On Homecoming and BelongingSebastian Junger
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern WorldSteven Johnson
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe ItselfSean Carroll
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and RedemptionBryan Stevenson
Seven Brief Lessons on PhysicsCarlo Rovelli
RevolutionRussell Brand
Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 YearsDavid Graeber
Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your BrainSteven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal TransformationJoseph Campbell
American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and PoliticsDan Savage
The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and FeelsThomas Cahill
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on DrugsJohann Hari
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in SpaceCarl Sagan
Positioning: The Battle for Your MindAl Ries, Jack Trout
Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the UniverseMario Livio
Days of Destruction, Days of RevoltChris Hedges, Joe Sacco
Contagious: Why Things Catch OnJonah Berger
The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young WomenJessica Valenti
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our BrainsNicholas Carr
The Science of Fear: How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your BrainDaniel Gardner
The Medium is the MassageMarshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies StrongerRichard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of RepulsionRachel Herz PhD
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is HardChip Heath, Dan Heath
The Age Curve: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic StormKenneth W. Gronbach
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is LessBarry Schwartz
How We DecideJonah Lehrer
Influence: The Psychology of PersuasionRobert B. Cialdini
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