Viruses, the Brain, and Human Civilization
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The Blindspots Between Us: How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias and Build Better Relationships
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Gleb Tsipursky
3.93 avg rating — 272 ratings 3. 
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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David Quammen
4.42 avg rating — 20,026 ratings 
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
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Bill Wasik
3.72 avg rating — 11,396 ratings 7. 
The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime
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Adrian Raine
3.96 avg rating — 1,938 ratings 7. 
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
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Naomi Klein
4.16 avg rating — 27,263 ratings 
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Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
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Robert D. Hare
4.06 avg rating — 13,152 ratings 11. 
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating — 73,876 ratings 11. 
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
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Jennifer Wright
4.23 avg rating — 13,612 ratings 
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Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We "Catch" Mental Illness 3.73 avg rating — 602 ratings
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Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
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Mark Pendergrast
3.70 avg rating — 497 ratings 13. 
Spanish Influenza: The Story of the Epidemic That Swept America From the Newspaper Reports of 1918
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Ken Rossignol
3.44 avg rating — 55 ratings 
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This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society 3.98 avg rating — 2,436 ratings
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Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
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Richard Preston
3.75 avg rating — 5,027 ratings 
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Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World
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C.J. Peters
3.98 avg rating — 2,696 ratings 29. 
The Panic Virus: Fear, Myth and the Vaccination Debate
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Seth Mnookin
4.07 avg rating — 5,764 ratings 
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Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
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Gina Kolata
3.91 avg rating — 7,614 ratings 32. 
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
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Laura Spinney
3.91 avg rating — 7,932 ratings 33. 
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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John M. Barry
3.98 avg rating — 42,022 ratings 34. 
Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
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Sally L. Satel
3.67 avg rating — 660 ratings 35. 
Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain—and How it Changed the World
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Carl Zimmer
3.97 avg rating — 650 ratings 36. 
Brain Storms: The Race to Unlock the Mysteries of Parkinson's Disease
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Jon Palfreman
4.31 avg rating — 652 ratings 37. 
The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity
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Norman Doidge
4.20 avg rating — 5,601 ratings 38. 
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
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Sam Kean
4.26 avg rating — 13,466 ratings 39. 
Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Tales of Life and Death on the Neurology Ward
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Allan H. Ropper
3.98 avg rating — 5,657 ratings 40. 
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
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Norman Doidge
4.20 avg rating — 39,550 ratings 41. 
Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World's Strangest Brains
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Helen Thomson
3.99 avg rating — 4,534 ratings 42. 
The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves
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Eric R. Kandel
4.12 avg rating — 2,718 ratings 43. 
Braindance: New Discoveries about Human Origins and Brain Evolution
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Dean Falk
4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings 44. 
Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
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Gregory Bateson
4.26 avg rating — 1,457 ratings 45. 
Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos, and the Realm of the Gods 3.87 avg rating — 379 ratings
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The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body
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Steven Mithen
3.89 avg rating — 654 ratings 48. 
Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
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Spencer Wells
3.77 avg rating — 1,142 ratings 49. 
The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
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Brian M. Fagan
3.76 avg rating — 660 ratings