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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
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The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
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Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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4.17 avg rating — 601,146 ratings
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Culture Of Honor: The Psychology Of Violence In The South
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3.76 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment
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3.92 avg rating — 12,622 ratings
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The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently... and Why
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3.82 avg rating — 3,703 ratings
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Black Rednecks and White Liberals
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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
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The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
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4.20 avg rating — 40,700 ratings
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The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else
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4.03 avg rating — 27,282 ratings
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The Straight-A Conspiracy: A Student's Secret Guide to Ending the Stress of High School and Totally Ruling the World
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La Conspiracion de Las Calificaciones Perfectas: Tu Guia Secreta Para Convertirte En Un Genio y Dominar El Mundo
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Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language
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The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
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4.39 avg rating — 2,243 ratings
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Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
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4.14 avg rating — 28,971 ratings
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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3.83 avg rating — 509,527 ratings
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The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism
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3.89 avg rating — 432 ratings
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
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4.19 avg rating — 10,523 ratings
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Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
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4.11 avg rating — 12,697 ratings
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The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government
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3.94 avg rating — 581 ratings
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A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity
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3.96 avg rating — 461 ratings
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
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Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
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Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
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3.97 avg rating — 31,928 ratings
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A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire
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3.83 avg rating — 4,328 ratings
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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Diffusion of Innovations
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
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Contagious: Why Things Catch On
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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The Jungle
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Silent Spring
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4.06 avg rating — 55,949 ratings
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Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
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3.98 avg rating — 1,875 ratings
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The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual
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3.82 avg rating — 618 ratings
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
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4.15 avg rating — 24,314 ratings
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Houston, We Have a Narrative: Why Science Needs Story
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3.75 avg rating — 505 ratings
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Is Shame Necessary?: New Uses for an Old Tool
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Up from Slavery
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1776
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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Bossypants
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The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
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4.22 avg rating — 28,487 ratings
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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
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4.20 avg rating — 104,146 ratings
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Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il
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4.20 avg rating — 1,598 ratings
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The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture
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3.79 avg rating — 3,148 ratings
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Does Altruism Exist?: Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others
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3.73 avg rating — 217 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
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In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing
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Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It
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The Collapse of Complex Societies
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So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
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The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers
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The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
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Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
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4.17 avg rating — 8,213 ratings
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A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
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The Birth of Plenty : How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created
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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
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Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth
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The Physics of Life: The Evolution of Everything
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