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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari
Sex, God, and the Brain: How Sexual Pleasure Gave Birth to Religion and a Whole Lot More
Andrew Newberg M.D.
Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
Charan Ranganath PhD
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Zoë Schlanger
Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything
James R. Doty MD
Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
Gabor Maté MD
Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life
Rory Sutherland
The Nineties: A Book
Chuck Klosterman
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Johann Hari
Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are
David J. Lieberman PhD
Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them
Tom Phillips, Jonn Elledge
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman
The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
Robert Wright
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
Steven Pinker
Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us
Brian Klaas
The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
Daniel H. Pink
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
Eyal Press
We Need New Stories: The Myths That Subvert Freedom
Nesrine Malik
Upside: Profiting from the Profound Demographic Shifts Ahead
Kenneth 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 Race
Daniel 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 Revolution
Carlo Rovelli
Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy
Martin Lindstrom
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Epstein
Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson
Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts' (Bloomsbury Revelations)
Erich Fromm, Karl Marx
Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t
Tom Phillips
Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
Tom Phillips
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Angrynomics
Eric 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, 1939
Frederick L Allen
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
Douglas Murray
Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity
Peggy Orenstein
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
Malcolm Gladwell
Hit Makers: How to Succeed in an Age of Distraction
Derek Thompson
Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
Peggy Orenstein
Team Human
Douglas Rushkoff
Jung: A Very Short Introduction
Anthony Stevens
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
Keith Payne
Lost Connections: Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope
Johann Hari
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling
Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth, the Illusion of Consent, and the Fight for Our Future
Raoul Martinez
On Color
David Kastan, Stephen Farthing
The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
Chip Heath, Dan Heath
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
Kurt Andersen
Eat the Apple
Matt Young
Why Liberalism Failed (Politics and Culture)
Patrick J. Deneen
A Second Chance: For You, For Me, And For The Rest Of Us
Catherine Hoke
When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
Daniel H. Pink
Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
Ryan Holiday
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
Oliver Burkeman
The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu
Dan Jurafsky
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder
Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter
Scott Adams
Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions
Russell Brand
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Cheryl Strayed
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Chris Voss, Tahl Raz
All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
Jennifer Senior
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
Adam Alter
The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
Helen Russell
Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It's Killing Us
Shane Claiborne
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
Sebastian Junger
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
Steven Johnson
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
Sean Carroll
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli
Revolution
Russell Brand
Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber
Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation
Joseph Campbell
American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics
Dan Savage
The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (Hinges of History)
Thomas Cahill
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
Johann Hari
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan
Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
Al Ries, Jack Trout
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
Chris Hedges, Joe Sacco
Contagious: Why Things Catch On
Jonah Berger
The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women
Jessica Valenti
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Nicholas Carr
The Science of Fear: How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your Brain
Daniel Gardner
The Medium is the Massage
Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion
Rachel Herz PhD
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Chip Heath, Dan Heath
The Age Curve: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Storm
Kenneth W. Gronbach
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, Revised Edition
Barry Schwartz
How We Decide
Jonah Lehrer
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
Robert B. Cialdini