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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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4.17 avg rating — 585,423 ratings
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Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
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3.67 avg rating — 16,193 ratings
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The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
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4.23 avg rating — 55,914 ratings
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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4.20 avg rating — 32,285 ratings
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Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
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4.17 avg rating — 10,452 ratings
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The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death
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4.04 avg rating — 212 ratings
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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4.19 avg rating — 65,726 ratings
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Imagine: How Creativity Works
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3.98 avg rating — 54,043 ratings
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Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe
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3.90 avg rating — 465 ratings
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Who Owns the Future?
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3.77 avg rating — 3,655 ratings
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Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science
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3.92 avg rating — 644 ratings
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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4.09 avg rating — 25,285 ratings
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Risk Intelligence: How to Live with Uncertainty
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3.71 avg rating — 256 ratings
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The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe
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3.64 avg rating — 350 ratings
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The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
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3.97 avg rating — 4,721 ratings
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Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum
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3.92 avg rating — 1,111 ratings
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Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
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3.90 avg rating — 393 ratings
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On the Future: Prospects for Humanity
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3.64 avg rating — 975 ratings
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
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4.18 avg rating — 286,599 ratings
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Wit's End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It
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3.35 avg rating — 477 ratings
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How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration
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3.93 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
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4.06 avg rating — 7,618 ratings
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Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
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3.98 avg rating — 2,226 ratings
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Why Religion? A Personal Story
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3.97 avg rating — 3,338 ratings
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Remainder
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3.67 avg rating — 8,512 ratings
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This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
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3.79 avg rating — 7,079 ratings
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Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
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4.22 avg rating — 76,832 ratings
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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4.19 avg rating — 26,081 ratings
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The Precipice
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3.95 avg rating — 5,002 ratings
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Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science
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3.81 avg rating — 68 ratings
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The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
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4.02 avg rating — 6,378 ratings
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Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain
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4.04 avg rating — 8,297 ratings
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The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
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4.34 avg rating — 4,872 ratings
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Creation: Life and How to Make It
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4.05 avg rating — 341 ratings
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The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir
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3.95 avg rating — 1,436 ratings
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Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
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4.26 avg rating — 41,299 ratings
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The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
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4.13 avg rating — 5,284 ratings
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What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
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3.75 avg rating — 1,763 ratings
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Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
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4.15 avg rating — 2,701 ratings
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Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope
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3.67 avg rating — 97,151 ratings
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The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code
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3.83 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being
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3.83 avg rating — 7,218 ratings
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The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
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4.26 avg rating — 8,843 ratings
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Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World
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3.85 avg rating — 397 ratings
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The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
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4.13 avg rating — 4,260 ratings
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How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do—and What It Says About You
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3.75 avg rating — 1,170 ratings
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Know This: Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas, Discoveries, and Developments – Pulitzer and Nobel Prize Winners from Edge.org
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3.58 avg rating — 626 ratings
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The Last Unknowns
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3.33 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Free: The Future of a Radical Price
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3.88 avg rating — 17,539 ratings
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The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention
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3.50 avg rating — 1,467 ratings
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After the Ice: Life, Death and Politics in the New Arctic
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4.02 avg rating — 102 ratings
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The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It
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3.87 avg rating — 1,396 ratings
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The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
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3.91 avg rating — 1,360 ratings
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The XX Brain
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Ideas That Matter a Personal Guide for the 21st Century
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3.93 avg rating — 475 ratings
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Happy Ever After: A Radical New Approach to Living Well
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3.66 avg rating — 987 ratings
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Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind
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3.56 avg rating — 312 ratings
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Machines like Me
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3.59 avg rating — 34,855 ratings
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Seeing Myself: What Out-of-body Experiences Tell Us About Life, Death and the Mind
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3.77 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
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4.04 avg rating — 4,924 ratings
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Introducing Evolutionary Psychology
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3.78 avg rating — 1,090 ratings
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Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas
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4.23 avg rating — 615 ratings
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The Utopia Experiment
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3.42 avg rating — 873 ratings
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Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
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4.08 avg rating — 6,135 ratings
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Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life
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4.21 avg rating — 8,776 ratings
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Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists
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4.09 avg rating — 91 ratings
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The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution
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4.19 avg rating — 1,048 ratings
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The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science
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4.01 avg rating — 2,149 ratings
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The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism
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3.70 avg rating — 215 ratings
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I is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World
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3.87 avg rating — 786 ratings
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Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism
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4.06 avg rating — 6,316 ratings
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Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
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3.94 avg rating — 2,399 ratings
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Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness
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3.97 avg rating — 1,344 ratings
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Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave
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3.56 avg rating — 4,512 ratings
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The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter
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4.28 avg rating — 676 ratings
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Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition
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3.77 avg rating — 436 ratings
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Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
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3.95 avg rating — 2,470 ratings
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Cities: The First 6,000 Years
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3.26 avg rating — 444 ratings
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The Human Network: How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors
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4.01 avg rating — 389 ratings
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I am Not a Brain: Philosophy of Mind for the 21st Century
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3.51 avg rating — 224 ratings
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The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
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3.86 avg rating — 697 ratings
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Why Cities Lose: The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide
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3.79 avg rating — 250 ratings
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The Last Unknowns
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3.33 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI
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Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis (Civilizations Rise and Fall, #3)
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Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
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4.01 avg rating — 2,828 ratings
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Team Human
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3.84 avg rating — 1,291 ratings
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The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
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3.87 avg rating — 3,745 ratings
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Possessed: Why We Want More Than We Need
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BIG. Hot to Cold. An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation
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4.22 avg rating — 233 ratings
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Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought
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3.73 avg rating — 321 ratings
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The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
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4.08 avg rating — 1,312 ratings
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Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physical Reality
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3.74 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind
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3.83 avg rating — 8,785 ratings
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The Power of Human: How Our Shared Humanity Can Help Us Create a Better World
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3.84 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Judged: The Value of Being Misunderstood
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Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
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Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together
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Consciousness: An Introduction
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Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
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