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EDGE.org Summer Reading 2015
1.
Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation are Changing Life on Earth
by:
Juan Enríquez
4.17 avg rating — 694 ratings
2.
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
by:
Richard H. Thaler
4.16 avg rating — 23,024 ratings
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Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots
by:
John Markoff
3.67 avg rating — 616 ratings
4.
Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking
by:
Richard E. Nisbett
3.76 avg rating — 1,787 ratings
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Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
by:
Bruce Schneier
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,827 ratings
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Cool: How the Brain’s Hidden Quest for Cool Drives Our Economy and Shapes Our World
by:
Steven Quartz
3.58 avg rating — 219 ratings
7.
Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity
by:
James J. O'Donnell
3.39 avg rating — 1,032 ratings
8.
A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design
by:
Frank Wilczek
3.87 avg rating — 1,465 ratings
9.
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
by:
Philip E. Tetlock
4.08 avg rating — 21,614 ratings
10.
A Force for Good: The Dalai Lama's Vision for Our World
by:
Daniel Goleman
4.04 avg rating — 1,119 ratings
11.
This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress
by:
John Brockman
3.51 avg rating — 1,332 ratings
12.
Is Shame Necessary?: New Uses for an Old Tool
by:
Jennifer Jacquet
3.51 avg rating — 277 ratings
13.
The Utopia Experiment
by:
Dylan Evans
3.42 avg rating — 865 ratings
14.
The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch
by:
Jonathan Gottschall
3.77 avg rating — 1,260 ratings
15.
How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature
by:
Scott D. Sampson
3.79 avg rating — 2,303 ratings
16.
Data-ism: The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else
by:
Steve Lohr
3.46 avg rating — 550 ratings
17.
Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
by:
Jerry A. Coyne
4.12 avg rating — 1,778 ratings
18.
Privacy in the Modern Age: The Search for Solutions
by:
Marc Rotenberg
3.45 avg rating — 31 ratings
19.
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert
by:
John M. Gottman
4.25 avg rating — 33,921 ratings
20.
Dreams of Earth and Sky
by:
Freeman Dyson
3.92 avg rating — 135 ratings
21.
Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety
by:
Joseph E. LeDoux
3.65 avg rating — 710 ratings
22.
Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
by:
Cesar A. Hidalgo
3.97 avg rating — 1,477 ratings
23.
Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science
by:
Richard Dawkins
3.84 avg rating — 1,592 ratings
24.
Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature
by:
Alva Noë
3.68 avg rating — 227 ratings
25.
Monsters: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Birth of Pathological Technology
by:
Ed Regis
3.09 avg rating — 67 ratings