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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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Jonathan Haidt
4.20 avg rating β 63,327 ratings 4. 
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating β 445,037 ratings 
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The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
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Peter Zeihan
4.33 avg rating β 5,503 ratings 
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The Intelligent Man's Guide To The Physical Sciences
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Isaac Asimov
4.36 avg rating β 110 ratings 10. 
The Intelligent Man's Guide to the Biological Sciences
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Isaac Asimov
4.29 avg rating β 58 ratings 11. 
An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned But Probably Didn't
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Judy Jones
3.90 avg rating β 2,417 ratings 
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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Peter Thiel
4.15 avg rating β 381,675 ratings 28. 
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
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Edward S. Herman
4.24 avg rating β 23,236 ratings 29. 
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
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Naomi Oreskes
4.17 avg rating β 7,786 ratings 
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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James W. Loewen
3.97 avg rating β 72,722 ratings 32. 
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Negotiating Your Salary: How To Make $1,000 A Minute
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Jack Chapman
3.74 avg rating β 309 ratings 
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
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Legs McNeil
4.19 avg rating β 35,978 ratings 41. 
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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Robert A. Caro
4.52 avg rating β 27,075 ratings 
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Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud
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Peter Watson
4.36 avg rating β 1,414 ratings 
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The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
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Rich Cohen
4.11 avg rating β 7,968 ratings 47. 
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
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Iain McGilchrist
4.35 avg rating β 3,767 ratings 48. 
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Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature 4.36 avg rating β 2,716 ratings
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The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics 4.27 avg rating β 1,726 ratings
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The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life
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Paul Seabright
3.68 avg rating β 300 ratings 52. 
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Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger 4.41 avg rating β 16,006 ratings
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
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David Quammen
4.29 avg rating β 8,561 ratings 
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What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam & Modernity in the Middle East
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Bernard Lewis
3.54 avg rating β 3,867 ratings 
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Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos
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Garrett Hardin
4.02 avg rating β 220 ratings 60. 
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
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Alan W. Watts
4.21 avg rating β 23,899 ratings 61. 
The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
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Arthur Herman
4.18 avg rating β 1,794 ratings 62. 
Learn or Die: Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization
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Edward D. Hess
3.84 avg rating β 262 ratings 63. 
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
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Michio Kaku
4.08 avg rating β 15,336 ratings 
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
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Charles Mackay
3.82 avg rating β 4,975 ratings 73. 
Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life (Norton Paperback)
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Avinash K. Dixit
3.87 avg rating β 3,836 ratings 74. 
The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence
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Win Wenger
3.73 avg rating β 492 ratings