Best Cognitive Science Books

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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow 4.17 avg rating — 564,482 ratings
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales 4.05 avg rating — 239,787 ratings
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How the Mind Works
How the Mind Works 3.99 avg rating — 20,871 ratings
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature 4.09 avg rating — 25,079 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene 4.16 avg rating — 189,044 ratings
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language 4.01 avg rating — 22,310 ratings
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Consciousness Explained
Consciousness Explained 3.90 avg rating — 8,568 ratings
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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain 4.09 avg rating — 33,994 ratings
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The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science 4.20 avg rating — 39,541 ratings
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Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ 4.05 avg rating — 131,712 ratings
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions 4.12 avg rating — 129,356 ratings
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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain 3.96 avg rating — 9,779 ratings
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Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong
Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong 3.86 avg rating — 454 ratings
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Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain
Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain 3.97 avg rating — 3,225 ratings
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Mind Maps: Quicker Notes, Better Memory, and Improved Learning 2.0
Mind Maps: Quicker Notes, Better Memory, and Improved Learning 2.0 3.63 avg rating — 533 ratings
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Metaphors We Live By
Metaphors We Live By 4.09 avg rating — 6,741 ratings
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Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (Book & DVD)
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (Book & DVD) 4.01 avg rating — 34,187 ratings
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This Is Your Brain on Music
This Is Your Brain on Music 3.89 avg rating — 66,728 ratings
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking 3.96 avg rating — 614,666 ratings
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature 3.91 avg rating — 11,146 ratings
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An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales 4.15 avg rating — 23,339 ratings
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Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind 4.27 avg rating — 20,281 ratings
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The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self
The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self 4.10 avg rating — 3,210 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid 4.29 avg rating — 51,675 ratings
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In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind 4.14 avg rating — 5,263 ratings
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I Am a Strange Loop
I Am a Strange Loop 3.95 avg rating — 8,437 ratings
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain 3.95 avg rating — 72,830 ratings
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The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present
The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present 4.21 avg rating — 1,811 ratings
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The Brain: The Story of You
The Brain: The Story of You 4.26 avg rating — 22,090 ratings
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The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature
The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature 3.92 avg rating — 434 ratings
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The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently... and Why
The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently... and Why 3.82 avg rating — 3,554 ratings
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Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention
Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention 4.07 avg rating — 2,176 ratings
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Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life
Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life 4.03 avg rating — 7,589 ratings
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The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World 4.35 avg rating — 3,767 ratings
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Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts 4.18 avg rating — 1,931 ratings
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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts 4.04 avg rating — 28,664 ratings
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On Intelligence
On Intelligence 4.11 avg rating — 6,920 ratings
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The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience
The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience 4.14 avg rating — 1,256 ratings
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Stumbling on Happiness
Stumbling on Happiness 3.82 avg rating — 63,106 ratings
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The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems 4.18 avg rating — 1,910 ratings
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Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of Mind
Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of Mind 4.32 avg rating — 92 ratings
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MindHub: Personality Profiler
MindHub: Personality Profiler 4.34 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature
Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature 4.05 avg rating — 624 ratings
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey 3.91 avg rating — 31,793 ratings
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Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom 4.04 avg rating — 5,670 ratings
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The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding
The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding 4.20 avg rating — 1,302 ratings
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Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious
Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious 3.98 avg rating — 2,116 ratings
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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain 3.85 avg rating — 8,018 ratings
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Hallucinations
Hallucinations 3.93 avg rating — 24,811 ratings
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Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking 3.78 avg rating — 4,334 ratings
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The Social Animal
The Social Animal 4.30 avg rating — 4,322 ratings
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You Are Not So Smart
You Are Not So Smart 3.86 avg rating — 35,859 ratings
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The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics
The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics 4.01 avg rating — 605 ratings
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Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14,702 ratings
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What's Behind Your Belly Button? A Psychological Perspective of the Intelligence of Human Nature and Gut Instinct
What's Behind Your Belly Button? A Psychological Perspective of the Intelligence of Human Nature and Gut Instinct 4.11 avg rating — 124 ratings
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The Mind Shaman
The Mind Shaman 3.47 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Singularity is Coming: The Artificial Intelligence Explosion
The Singularity is Coming: The Artificial Intelligence Explosion 4.32 avg rating — 65 ratings
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How the Mind Explains Behavior: Folk Explanations, Meaning, and Social Interaction (A Bradford Book)
How the Mind Explains Behavior: Folk Explanations, Meaning, and Social Interaction (A Bradford Book) 3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism 4.10 avg rating — 16,786 ratings
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How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method 4.13 avg rating — 5,046 ratings
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The Intentional Stance
The Intentional Stance 4.01 avg rating — 329 ratings
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The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us 3.91 avg rating — 14,816 ratings
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Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order 4.07 avg rating — 3,261 ratings
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The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul 4.15 avg rating — 5,920 ratings
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The Rediscovery of the Mind
The Rediscovery of the Mind 3.94 avg rating — 484 ratings
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Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships 3.99 avg rating — 14,170 ratings
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The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain
The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain 4.20 avg rating — 597 ratings
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Wider Than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness
Wider Than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness 3.66 avg rating — 416 ratings
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How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now 4.33 avg rating — 2,533 ratings
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The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind 4.07 avg rating — 85,086 ratings
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Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys But Never Forget How To Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Behavior
Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys But Never Forget How To Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Behavior 3.72 avg rating — 1,741 ratings
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Awakenings
Awakenings 4.09 avg rating — 13,804 ratings
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Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Psychology 3.59 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Big Book of Concepts (Bradford Books)
The Big Book of Concepts (Bradford Books) 4.03 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Society of Mind
The Society of Mind 4.04 avg rating — 3,332 ratings
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Born on a Blue Day
Born on a Blue Day 3.84 avg rating — 23,814 ratings
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How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like 3.71 avg rating — 3,693 ratings
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The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human 4.15 avg rating — 10,815 ratings
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Where Mathematics Come From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being
Where Mathematics Come From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being 3.95 avg rating — 395 ratings
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Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos 4.05 avg rating — 3,093 ratings
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The Illusion of Conscious Will
The Illusion of Conscious Will 4.02 avg rating — 685 ratings
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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning 4.16 avg rating — 21,588 ratings
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The Spinoza Problem
The Spinoza Problem 4.26 avg rating — 17,849 ratings
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Culture and Depression: Studies in the Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Psychiatry of Affect and Disorder
Culture and Depression: Studies in the Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Psychiatry of Affect and Disorder really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions 4.13 avg rating — 34,094 ratings
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Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience
Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience 4.14 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything 3.88 avg rating — 93,068 ratings
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Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness
Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness 3.81 avg rating — 2,167 ratings
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Seeing Voices
Seeing Voices 4.06 avg rating — 6,058 ratings
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Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter
Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter 4.02 avg rating — 443 ratings
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A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers
A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers 4.01 avg rating — 3,637 ratings
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At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity 4.02 avg rating — 1,427 ratings
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Experimental Philosophy
Experimental Philosophy 3.58 avg rating — 55 ratings
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SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable
SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable 3.75 avg rating — 1,284 ratings
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Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension
Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension 3.87 avg rating — 306 ratings
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Perfume. The story of a murderer
Perfume. The story of a murderer 4.04 avg rating — 530,034 ratings
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity 4.29 avg rating — 17,211 ratings
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Lessons Learned from The Path Less Traveled Volume 1: Get motivated & overcome obstacles with courage, confidence & self-discipline
Lessons Learned from The Path Less Traveled Volume 1: Get motivated & overcome obstacles with courage, confidence & self-discipline
by: Zero Dean
4.59 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The Pimp Guide: Secrets of Mind Manipulation (The Pimp Game Book 2)
The Pimp Guide: Secrets of Mind Manipulation (The Pimp Game Book 2) 3.60 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Optimal Happiness: The Fastest & Surest Way to Reach Your Happiest Potential
Optimal Happiness: The Fastest & Surest Way to Reach Your Happiest Potential 4.52 avg rating — 27 ratings
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