Books metioned in rationally speaking podcast
1. 
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character 4.27 avg rating — 213,220 ratings
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by:
Randall Munroe
4.14 avg rating — 191,216 ratings 
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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing 3.94 avg rating — 30,330 ratings
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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Steven Pinker
4.16 avg rating — 29,270 ratings 
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The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
by:
Michael Shermer
3.91 avg rating — 3,056 ratings 11. 
Answers for Aristotle: How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to A More Meaningful Life 3.77 avg rating — 349 ratings
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Rethinking Positive Thinking: Inside the New Science of Motivation 3.69 avg rating — 1,351 ratings
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Scientists Greater Than Einstein: The Biggest Lifesavers of the Twentieth Century
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Billy Woodward
4.04 avg rating — 25 ratings 14. 
The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
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Lee Smolin
4.04 avg rating — 10,551 ratings 
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Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
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Jerry A. Coyne
4.12 avg rating — 1,778 ratings 18. 
Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law
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Peter Woit
3.94 avg rating — 1,748 ratings 
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Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World
by:
Amir Alexander
3.87 avg rating — 1,011 ratings 22. 
The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us 3.91 avg rating — 14,816 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by:
Dava Sobel
3.99 avg rating — 75,027 ratings 25. 
Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine
by:
Paul A. Offit
4.10 avg rating — 3,075 ratings 26. 
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
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Nate Silver
3.97 avg rating — 51,882 ratings 
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The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
by:
Roger Penrose
4.16 avg rating — 8,351 ratings 30. 
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
by:
James C. Scott
4.21 avg rating — 6,470 ratings 31. 
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How to Measure Anything Workbook: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business 4.08 avg rating — 215 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 — 2,006 ratings 
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Soccer and Philosophy: Beautiful Thoughts on the Beautiful Game (Popular Culture and Philosophy, 51)
by:
Ted Richards
3.57 avg rating — 91 ratings 43. 
The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age
by:
John Horgan
3.59 avg rating — 625 ratings 45. 
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
by:
Chip Heath
3.96 avg rating — 18,032 ratings 46. 
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Science Fiction and Philosophy: From Time Travel to Superintelligence
by:
Susan Schneider
3.78 avg rating — 283 ratings 48. 
Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth
by:
Jim Baggott
3.92 avg rating — 407 ratings 
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Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science
by:
Michael Nielsen
3.94 avg rating — 642 ratings 
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The Dark Side of the Enlightenment: Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason
by:
John V. Fleming
3.20 avg rating — 200 ratings 
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The Ebony Exodus Project: Why Some Black Women Are Walking Out on Religion--and Others Should Too 3.98 avg rating — 93 ratings
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The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow Into Depressive Disorder
by:
Allan V. Horwitz
3.76 avg rating — 186 ratings 
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The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
by:
Michael E. Mann
4.16 avg rating — 453 ratings 
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Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
by:
Sally L. Satel
3.67 avg rating — 659 ratings 66. 
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
by:
Corey Robin
3.94 avg rating — 2,722 ratings 
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The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science—and Reality
by:
Chris C. Mooney
3.85 avg rating — 1,500 ratings 70. 
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The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
by:
Samuel Arbesman
3.59 avg rating — 1,382 ratings 
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Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions
by:
Jaak Panksepp
4.40 avg rating — 453 ratings 74. 
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
by:
Jim Holt
3.81 avg rating — 6,740 ratings 
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Meaning and Value in a Secular Age: Why Eupraxsophy Matters - The Writings of Paul Kurtz
by:
Nathan Bupp
3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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The Belief Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life
by:
Jesse Bering
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,326 ratings 
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Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards?: Philosophical Essays on Darwin's Theory
by:
Elliott Sober
3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings 89. 
Catastrophes!: Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Tornadoes, and Other Earth-Shattering Disasters 3.62 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Filthy Lucre: Economics for People Who Hate Capitalism
by:
Joseph Heath
4.05 avg rating — 594 ratings 92. 
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The Efficient Society: Why Canada Is as Close to Utopia as It Gets
by:
Joseph Heath
4.05 avg rating — 103 ratings 94. 
The Socialist System: The Political Economy of Communism
by:
János Kornai
4.11 avg rating — 62 ratings 
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The Middle Way: Finding Happiness in a World of Extremes
by:
Lou Marinoff
3.77 avg rating — 134 ratings 
