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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 494,214 ratings — published 1988
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,331,780 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 436,366 ratings — published 2003
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 198,117 ratings — published 1976
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 912,009 ratings — published 2005
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 891,580 ratings — published 2008
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 868,458 ratings — published 2000
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 201,400 ratings — published 2014
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 631,422 ratings — published 2005
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 618,005 ratings — published 2011
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 163,889 ratings — published 1980
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 239,026 ratings — published 2017
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 217,212 ratings — published 2017
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 249,260 ratings — published 2003
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 254,801 ratings — published 1985
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 473,617 ratings — published 1997
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 829,721 ratings — published 2010
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 42 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 296,285 ratings — published 2015
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,423 ratings — published 2008
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life ― A New York Times Bestselling Science Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 33,730 ratings — published 2016
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.92 — 58,081 ratings — published 2010
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,503 ratings — published 2010
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.28 — 83,299 ratings — published 1995
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.86 — 61,291 ratings — published 2008
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 53,058 ratings — published 2013
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 486,064 ratings — published 2012
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 105,094 ratings — published 2019
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 104,237 ratings — published 1999
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.03 — 42,212 ratings — published 1987
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 288,463 ratings — published 2006
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 57,108 ratings — published 2009
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 58,231 ratings — published 2016
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.98 — 70,441 ratings — published 2014
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,705 ratings — published 2010
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 133,301 ratings — published 2008
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.26 — 223,764 ratings — published 1985
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 577,780 ratings — published 2012
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.60 — 41,478 ratings — published 2005
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 194,619 ratings — published 2013
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.28 — 54,057 ratings — published 1979
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 91,585 ratings — published 2018
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 118,660 ratings — published 2010
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 32,037 ratings — published 1994
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,982 ratings — published 2008
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.46 — 39,273 ratings — published 2022
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.00 — 344,868 ratings — published 2019
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,591 ratings — published 1999
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 34,536 ratings — published 2017
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 34,249 ratings — published 1997
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,450 ratings — published 2006
“What worries me is the acceptance of the importance of feelings without any effort to understand their complex biological and sociocultural machinery. The best example of this attitude can be found in the attempt to explain bruised feelings or irrational behavior by appealing to surface social causes or the action of neurotransmitters, two explanations that pervade the social discourse as presented in the visual and printed media; and in the attempt to correct personal and social problems with medical and nonmedical drugs. It is precisely this lack of understanding of the nature of feelings and reason (one of the hallmarks of the "culture of complaint") that is cause for alarm.”
― Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
― Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
“Des résultats qui apparaissent pour la première fois dans des rapports ou des livres, même à gros tirage, n'ont aucune fiabilité. Tout simplement parce que ces publications n'ont pas passé le filtre du contrôle par les pairs. Les éditeurs n'ont évidemment pas la capacité d'expertise du monde académique et leur premier souci est plus de s'assurer du potentiel de vente d'un livre que de la parfaite légitimité scientifique des arguments que l'on y trouve. Par ailleurs, un livre qui se glorifie de présenter des résultats s'opposant au consensus, ou à la pensée unique ou à l'idéologie dominante, a toutes les chances d'être une imposture scientifique.”
― Le Négationnisme économique. Et comment s'en débarrasser (ESSAIS)
― Le Négationnisme économique. Et comment s'en débarrasser (ESSAIS)
