Listopia > Harry Rappaport's votes on the list Personal List of Outstanding Books (60 Books)
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A History of the Modern World
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"World War I through Vietnam: a historical tour de force."
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When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
by See Review |
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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
by See Review |
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A Treatise of Human Nature
by See Review |
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Imperium
by See Review |
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Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture
by See Review |
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by See Review |
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Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by See Review |
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The Case for Israel
by See Review |
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Art: A New History
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A Tale Of Love And Darkness
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Saturday
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View from the Eye of the Storm: Terror and Reason in the Middle East
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Mao: The Unknown Story
by See Review |
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The God Delusion
by See Review |
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The Illusion of Conscious Will
by See Review |
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Neurophilosophy of Free Will: From Libertarian Illusions to a Concept of Natural Autonomy
by See Review |
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Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity
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Chaos: Making a New Science
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History of the Jews: A National Bestseller—A Brilliant Survey Exploring 4000 Years of Jewish Genius and Their World Impact
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Solar
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36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction
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"Atheism meets Hasidism in this delightful fiction for intellectuals."
Harry Rappaport
rated it 5 stars
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The Grand Design
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"The original grand book of modern cosmology."
Harry Rappaport
rated it 5 stars
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The Essays of Montaigne, Complete.
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"Brimming with wisdom and humanity."
Harry Rappaport
rated it 5 stars
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The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
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"A skeptic's take on the foibles of the masses."
Harry Rappaport
rated it 5 stars
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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"Leadership and group dynamics is at the core of this sci-fi classic."
Harry Rappaport
rated it 5 stars
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Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1)
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"A sci-fi world operatic in its scale."
Harry Rappaport
rated it 5 stars
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Of Mice and Men
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"A heart-breaker of a short story on friendship and humanity."
Harry Rappaport
rated it 5 stars
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The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
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"An intellectual history of America, beautifully and engagingly written."
Harry Rappaport
rated it 5 stars
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Steve Jobs
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"A fascinating biography of a fascinating man."
Harry Rappaport
rated it 5 stars
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A Universe from Nothing
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"A physicist's lucid explanation of recent cosmology."
Harry Rappaport
rated it 5 stars
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A Game of Thrones / A Clash of Kings / A Storm of Swords / A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire #1-4)
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"A fantasy world peopled with larger than life personae and motivations. An engrossing read."
Harry Rappaport
rated it 5 stars
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A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
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"A fantasy world peopled with larger than life personae and motivations. An engrossing read."
Harry Rappaport
rated it 5 stars
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The Beginning of Infinity By Deutsch David
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"An out of the box thinker places information at the center of the universe."
Harry Rappaport
rated it 5 stars
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Stoner
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"A gem of a short story on the tragedy of everyman."
Harry Rappaport
rated it 5 stars
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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
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"Statistics and our inability to intuit probability."
Harry Rappaport
rated it 5 stars
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Trying Not to Try: The Ancient Art of Effortlessness and the Surprising Power of Spontaneity
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"Cognitive and Automatic brain processes as seen through the eyes of Chinese philosophy. An enlightening exposition on: There's nothing new under the Sun"."
Harry Rappaport
rated it 5 stars
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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"A seminal book summarizing decades of research on cognitive versus unconscious brain processes."
Harry Rappaport
rated it 5 stars
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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"A captivating dystopia."
Harry Rappaport
rated it 5 stars
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Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
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"An important take on our development of moral sentiments."
Harry Rappaport
rated it 5 stars
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The Kindly Ones
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"Perhaps "the" book on the holocaust from the vantage point of an intellectual SS officer."
Harry Rappaport
rated it 5 stars
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My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
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"A personal and emotional series of vignettes that may shake previously held views on the subject"
Harry Rappaport
rated it 5 stars
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Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
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"Perhaps the premier book exposing the present experimental basis to understand consciousness."
Harry Rappaport
rated it 5 stars
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The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
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"A fantasy world that breathes authenticity and draws the reader into its orbit."
Harry Rappaport
rated it 5 stars
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The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2)
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"A fantasy world that breathes authenticity and draws the reader into its orbit"
Harry Rappaport
rated it 5 stars
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The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BC - 1492 AD
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"A refreshingly new look on a well-trodden path with surprising new points of view."
Harry Rappaport
rated it 5 stars
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
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"A tour de force of historical economic data leading to ideologically tilted conclusions."
Harry Rappaport
rated it 5 stars
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The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress
by See Review |
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World (181 POCHE)
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Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
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The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
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The Vital Question: Why is life the way it is?
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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The Name of the Rose
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Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes, and Politics
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Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious
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