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Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
by:
David Aaronovitch
3.54 avg rating β 2,364 ratings
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Probability 1: Why There Must Be Intelligent Life in the Universe
by:
Amir D. Aczel
3.58 avg rating β 137 ratings
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The End of Illness
by:
David B. Agus
3.48 avg rating β 2,684 ratings
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Breakdown of Will
by:
George Ainslie
4.22 avg rating β 126 ratings
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Food for the Heart: The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah
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Ajahn Chah
4.50 avg rating β 1,001 ratings
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Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
by:
James Allen
4.65 avg rating β 642 ratings
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The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back
by:
Andrew Sullivan
3.76 avg rating β 437 ratings
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Gulag: A History
by:
Anne Applebaum
4.28 avg rating β 12,846 ratings
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Terrorist Hunter
by:
Anonymous
4.04 avg rating β 223 ratings
10.
Experiments in Ethics
by:
Kwame Anthony Appiah
3.75 avg rating β 263 ratings
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
by:
Hannah Arendt
4.20 avg rating β 31,567 ratings
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by:
Dan Ariely
4.12 avg rating β 129,375 ratings
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The First Crusade: A New History
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Thomas Asbridge
4.13 avg rating β 1,631 ratings
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Meditations
by:
Marcus Aurelius
4.28 avg rating β 320,856 ratings
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Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now
by:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
4.14 avg rating β 4,723 ratings
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Infidel
by:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
4.20 avg rating β 91,951 ratings
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One Soldier's War in Chechnya
by:
Arkady Babchenko
4.08 avg rating β 1,902 ratings
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The Day of the Barbarians: The Battle That Led to the Fall of the Roman Empire
by:
Alessandro Barbero
3.95 avg rating β 964 ratings
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Thinking and Deciding
by:
Jonathan Baron
4.06 avg rating β 315 ratings
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Mindblindness: An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind
by:
Simon Baron-Cohen
3.82 avg rating β 285 ratings
21.
The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty
by:
Simon Baron-Cohen
3.77 avg rating β 6,401 ratings
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Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
by:
James Barrat
3.72 avg rating β 3,847 ratings
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Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
by:
Stephen Batchelor
4.01 avg rating β 9,942 ratings
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Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
by:
Stephen Batchelor
3.91 avg rating β 4,572 ratings
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
by:
Jean-Dominique Bauby
3.98 avg rating β 76,140 ratings
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While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within
by:
Bruce Bawer
3.88 avg rating β 1,112 ratings
27.
The Denial of Death
by:
Ernest Becker
4.05 avg rating β 15,168 ratings
28.
Patterns of Culture
by:
Ruth Benedict
3.82 avg rating β 1,626 ratings
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Terror and Liberalism
by:
Paul Berman
3.86 avg rating β 595 ratings
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My Lunches with Orson
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Henry Jaglom
3.88 avg rating β 1,395 ratings
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Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human
by:
Susan Blackmore
4.02 avg rating β 2,006 ratings
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The Psychopath: Emotion and the Brain
by:
James Blair
3.90 avg rating β 231 ratings
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The Oxford Companion to the Body
by:
Colin Blakemore
4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
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The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates
by:
Ned Block
3.94 avg rating β 52 ratings
35.
Omens of the Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams & Resurrection
by:
Harold Bloom
3.58 avg rating β 195 ratings
36.
The Book of J
by:
Harold Bloom
3.77 avg rating β 749 ratings
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Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life
by:
Sissela Bok
3.64 avg rating β 450 ratings
38.
The Legacy Of Jihad: Islamic Holy War And The Fate Of Non-muslims
by:
Andrew G. Bostom
4.19 avg rating β 69 ratings
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
by:
Nick Bostrom
3.85 avg rating β 20,392 ratings
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
by:
James Boswell
3.80 avg rating β 5,264 ratings
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Honor: A History
by:
James Bowman
3.58 avg rating β 140 ratings
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Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought
by:
Pascal Boyer
3.98 avg rating β 2,408 ratings
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When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture
by:
Paul S. Boyer
4.01 avg rating β 194 ratings
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Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft
by:
Robin Briggs
3.76 avg rating β 298 ratings
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Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology
by:
Paul Broks
3.91 avg rating β 1,310 ratings
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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
by:
Erik Brynjolfsson
3.91 avg rating β 12,074 ratings
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Among the Thugs
by:
Bill Buford
4.12 avg rating β 10,158 ratings
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Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives
by:
Dean Buonomano
3.80 avg rating β 2,873 ratings
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Self-Contradictions of the Bible
by:
William Henry Burr
3.75 avg rating β 65 ratings
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On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
by:
Robert A. Burton
3.90 avg rating β 2,330 ratings
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The Anatomy of Melancholy
by:
Robert Burton
4.11 avg rating β 1,841 ratings
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The Heart of Awareness: A Translation of Ashtavakra Gita
by:
AshαΉΔvakra
4.64 avg rating β 992 ratings
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Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West
by:
Christopher Caldwell
3.72 avg rating β 563 ratings
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Crowds and Power
by:
Elias Canetti
4.07 avg rating β 2,054 ratings
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In Cold Blood
by:
Truman Capote
4.09 avg rating β 710,465 ratings
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Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews
by:
James Carroll
4.10 avg rating β 2,306 ratings
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Mapping the Mind
by:
Rita Carter
4.10 avg rating β 3,366 ratings
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Natural Ethical Facts: Evolution, Connectionism, and Moral Cognition
by:
William D. Casebeer
3.32 avg rating β 25 ratings
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#republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media
by:
Cass R. Sunstein
3.34 avg rating β 322 ratings
60.
Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide
by:
Cass R. Sunstein
4.20 avg rating β 640 ratings
61.
The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge
by:
Jean-Pierre Changeux
4.17 avg rating β 18 ratings
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Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
by:
Charles Murray
3.80 avg rating β 5,642 ratings
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Tracing Back the Radiance: Chinul's Korean Way of Zen (Kuroda Classics in East Asian Buddhism, 2)
by:
Robert E. Buswell Jr.
4.23 avg rating β 31 ratings
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Matter and Consciousness: A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind
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Paul M. Churchland
3.88 avg rating β 1,380 ratings
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Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind
by:
Paul M. Churchland
4.13 avg rating β 46 ratings
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The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain
by:
Paul M. Churchland
4.10 avg rating β 119 ratings
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
by:
Robert B. Cialdini
4.22 avg rating β 170,829 ratings
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Sleep Thieves: an Eye-Opening Exploration into the Science and Mysteries of Sleep
by:
Stanley Coren
3.93 avg rating β 220 ratings
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Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
by:
Tyler Cowen
3.64 avg rating β 2,195 ratings
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Why Evolution Is True
by:
Jerry A. Coyne
4.19 avg rating β 25,753 ratings
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The Nature of Explanation
by:
Kenneth J.W. Craik
3.81 avg rating β 16 ratings
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Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul
by:
Francis Crick
3.77 avg rating β 924 ratings
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The Book of Dead Philosophers
by:
Simon Critchley
3.60 avg rating β 1,166 ratings
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Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
by:
Mason Currey
3.65 avg rating β 20,655 ratings
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The Secular Conscience: Why Belief Belongs in Public Life
by:
Austin Dacey
3.81 avg rating β 63 ratings
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Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
by:
Theodore Dalrymple
4.23 avg rating β 3,886 ratings
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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
by:
AntΓ³nio DamΓ‘sio
3.96 avg rating β 9,781 ratings
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Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain
by:
AntΓ³nio DamΓ‘sio
3.96 avg rating β 2,221 ratings
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The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
by:
AntΓ³nio DamΓ‘sio
4.01 avg rating β 4,035 ratings
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Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
by:
Daniel Goleman
3.91 avg rating β 5,680 ratings
81.
The Origin of Species
by:
Charles Darwin
4.01 avg rating β 120,201 ratings
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The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
by:
David Benatar
4.01 avg rating β 798 ratings
83.
The Road to Character
by:
David Brooks
3.65 avg rating β 25,863 ratings
84.
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory
by:
David J. Chalmers
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2,439 ratings
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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
by:
David Deutsch
4.17 avg rating β 9,239 ratings
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The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications
by:
David Deutsch
4.14 avg rating β 5,776 ratings
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Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation
by:
Donald Davidson
4.13 avg rating β 253 ratings
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Europe: A History
by:
Norman Davies
4.21 avg rating β 5,139 ratings
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A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
by:
Richard Dawkins
3.98 avg rating β 7,922 ratings
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Climbing Mount Improbable
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.11 avg rating β 9,953 ratings
91.
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.09 avg rating β 41,146 ratings
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The God Delusion
by:
Richard Dawkins
3.90 avg rating β 279,354 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.16 avg rating β 189,074 ratings
94.
The Koran: With Parallel Arabic Text
by:
N.J. Dawood
3.71 avg rating β 24 ratings
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Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime
by:
Aubrey de Grey
4.07 avg rating β 764 ratings
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Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved
by:
Frans de Waal
3.81 avg rating β 1,333 ratings
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Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
by:
Daniel C. Dennett
3.89 avg rating β 12,829 ratings
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Consciousness Explained
by:
Daniel C. Dennett
3.90 avg rating β 8,569 ratings
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
by:
Daniel C. Dennett
4.07 avg rating β 16,863 ratings
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Freedom Evolves
by:
Daniel C. Dennett
3.82 avg rating β 2,858 ratings