Mixed Mental Arts - All the Books
2. 
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
by:
Jonathan Haidt
4.09 avg rating β 43,680 ratings 3. 
Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life
by:
Paul Ekman
4.03 avg rating β 7,590 ratings 4. 
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
by:
Jonathan Haidt
4.20 avg rating β 63,333 ratings 
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Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment 3.92 avg rating β 12,433 ratings
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The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently... and Why 3.82 avg rating β 3,556 ratings
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
by:
Daniel H. Pink
3.95 avg rating β 123,672 ratings 12. 
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
by:
Norman Doidge
4.20 avg rating β 39,550 ratings 13. 
The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else
by:
Daniel Coyle
4.03 avg rating β 26,519 ratings 14. 
The Straight-A Conspiracy: A Student's Secret Guide to Ending the Stress of High School and Totally Ruling the World
by:
Hunter Maats
4.23 avg rating β 231 ratings 15. 
La Conspiracion de Las Calificaciones Perfectas: Tu Guia Secreta Para Convertirte En Un Genio y Dominar El Mundo
by:
Hunter Maats
4.23 avg rating β 231 ratings 
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The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
by:
Joseph Henrich
4.39 avg rating β 2,081 ratings 18. 
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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
by:
Jeff Hobbs
4.14 avg rating β 28,257 ratings 20. 
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by:
J.D. Vance
3.85 avg rating β 488,899 ratings 21. 
The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism
by:
Hernando de Soto
3.89 avg rating β 423 ratings 22. 
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
by:
Francis Fukuyama
4.18 avg rating β 10,199 ratings 23. 
Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
by:
Dan Senor
4.11 avg rating β 12,440 ratings 24. 
The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government
by:
Eric Liu
3.94 avg rating β 579 ratings 25. 
A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity
by:
Luigi Zingales
3.95 avg rating β 457 ratings 26. 
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
by:
Daron AcemoΔlu
4.09 avg rating β 59,226 ratings 27. 
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Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
by:
Christopher Ryan
3.98 avg rating β 31,324 ratings 29. 
A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire
by:
Sai Gaddam
3.83 avg rating β 4,073 ratings 30. 
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
4.01 avg rating β 844,314 ratings 
32. 
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
by:
Chip Heath
3.98 avg rating β 97,584 ratings 
37. 
Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
by:
John A. Nagl
3.98 avg rating β 1,855 ratings 
39. 
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism 4.15 avg rating β 23,623 ratings
40. 
Houston, We Have a Narrative: Why Science Needs Story
by:
Randy Olson
3.77 avg rating β 475 ratings 41. 
44. 
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
by:
Charles C. Mann
4.12 avg rating β 20,587 ratings 45. 
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
by:
Barbara Demick
4.45 avg rating β 96,078 ratings 
47. 
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
by:
Bethany McLean
4.22 avg rating β 27,096 ratings 48. 
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
by:
Ed Catmull
4.21 avg rating β 100,180 ratings 49. 
Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il
by:
Michael Malice
4.20 avg rating β 1,536 ratings 50. 
The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture
by:
Euny Hong
3.79 avg rating β 3,011 ratings 
52. 
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by:
Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating β 445,096 ratings 53. 
54. 
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
by:
Francis Fukuyama
4.35 avg rating β 4,811 ratings 55. 
In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing
by:
Matthew E. May
3.79 avg rating β 558 ratings 56. 
Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It
by:
Lawrence Lessig
4.18 avg rating β 2,849 ratings 
58. 
So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government
by:
Robert G. Kaiser
3.85 avg rating β 300 ratings 59. 
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by:
Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating β 73,877 ratings 60. 
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
by:
Robert McKee
4.27 avg rating β 17,108 ratings 61. 
The Writers Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, 2nd Edition 4.10 avg rating β 10,249 ratings
62. 
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
by:
John Truby
4.25 avg rating β 7,031 ratings 63. 
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
by:
Naomi Oreskes
4.17 avg rating β 7,789 ratings 
65. 
The Birth of Plenty : How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created 4.19 avg rating β 831 ratings
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67. 
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by:
Steven Pinker
4.16 avg rating β 29,271 ratings 68. 
Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
by:
Cesar A. Hidalgo
3.97 avg rating β 1,477 ratings 69. 
Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth
by:
Peter Turchin
4.11 avg rating β 436 ratings 70. 