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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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4.19 avg rating — 66,669 ratings
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Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
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Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction
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What Is This Thing Called Science?
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The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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The econocracy: The perils of leaving economics to the experts
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The Name of the Rose
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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The God Delusion
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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir
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Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
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After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
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Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
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Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
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Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement
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4.31 avg rating — 11,358 ratings
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The Architect's Apprentice
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A Brief History of Time
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The Bad Side of Books: Selected Essays of D.H. Lawrence
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3.82 avg rating — 76 ratings
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The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire
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3.93 avg rating — 3,616 ratings
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The Basic Writings: On Liberty/The Subjection of Women/Utilitarianism
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4.11 avg rating — 360 ratings
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The Price of Time
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Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants
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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 — 56,925 ratings
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Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character
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4.48 avg rating — 937 ratings
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Metaphors We Live By
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4.09 avg rating — 6,989 ratings
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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
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Why I Write
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4.01 avg rating — 15,498 ratings
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How to Fake a Moon Landing: Exposing the Myths of Science Denial
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3.50 avg rating — 1,648 ratings
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Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education
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True or False: A CIA Analyst's Guide to Spotting Fake News
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Digital Vertigo: How Today's Online Social Revolution Is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us
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How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict
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Dressed: A Philosophy of Clothes
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How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God
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The Great Degeneration
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What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
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Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness
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Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter
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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
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Failure: Why Science Is so Successful
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Philosophy Made Simple: A Complete Guide to the World's Most Important Thinkers and Theories
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Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
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Does God Exist?: A Dialogue
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Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs
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The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad
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Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite
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Critical Thinking: Your Guide to Effective Argument, Successful Analysis and Independent Study
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Free Speech: A Very Short Introduction
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The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Empowering Women
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Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
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The Head Game: High-Efficiency Analytic Decision Making and the Art of Solving Complex Problems Quickly
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Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties
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How to Find Fulfilling Work
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Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do
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History: A Very Short Introduction
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The Memory Illusion: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Science of False Memory
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
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The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
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How to Stay Sane
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Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
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How to Fix the Future
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How the Mind Works
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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
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Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
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The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
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Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design
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Life is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free And Unlocked the Universe
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Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently
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The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience
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Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
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The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
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Climbing Mount Improbable
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The Poetry and Music of Science: Comparing Creativity in Science and Art
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Jezebel: The Untold Story of the Bible's Harlot Queen
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Humanism and Democratic Criticism
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
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Kant: A Very Short Introduction
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Man is the Measure
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The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
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Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf
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Learning to Flourish: A Philosophical Exploration of Liberal Education
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
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The Little Book of Scientific Principles, Theories and Things
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Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
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The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse
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Out of Our Minds: The Power of Being Creative
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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It's Not Rocket Science
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Philosophy Bites Again
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The Devils of Loudun
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Philosophy Bites Back
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The Poisonwood Bible
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Signs of Hope: How Small Acts of Love Can Change Your World
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The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir
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