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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 471,795 ratings — published 1988
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,224,682 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 416,379 ratings — published 2003
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 190,455 ratings — published 1976
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 890,303 ratings — published 2005
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 853,572 ratings — published 2008
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 848,310 ratings — published 2000
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 617,633 ratings — published 2005
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 193,092 ratings — published 2014
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 573,860 ratings — published 2011
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 156,941 ratings — published 1980
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 202,555 ratings — published 2017
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 219,861 ratings — published 2017
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 236,601 ratings — published 2003
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 242,419 ratings — published 1985
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 793,910 ratings — published 2010
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 449,794 ratings — published 1997
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 30,946 ratings — published 2016
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 79,228 ratings — published 1995
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 40 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 282,482 ratings — published 2015
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 59,799 ratings — published 2010
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 44,590 ratings — published 2008
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 96,904 ratings — published 2019
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 51,022 ratings — published 2013
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 469,396 ratings — published 2012
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 37 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.92 — 55,520 ratings — published 2010
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 59,826 ratings — published 2008
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 101,575 ratings — published 1999
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 55,753 ratings — published 2009
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 280,881 ratings — published 2006
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 76,892 ratings — published 2010
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.03 — 40,541 ratings — published 1987
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 215,199 ratings — published 1985
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 54,693 ratings — published 2016
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 554,205 ratings — published 2012
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 130,121 ratings — published 2008
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.99 — 65,274 ratings — published 2014
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.60 — 40,356 ratings — published 2005
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 190,333 ratings — published 2013
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 30,432 ratings — published 1994
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,806 ratings — published 1999
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 41,220 ratings — published 2008
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 — 28,391 ratings — published 2008
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.26 — 85,516 ratings — published 2018
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.38 — 30,455 ratings — published 2017
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 112,405 ratings — published 2010
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 33,042 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 — 209,483 ratings — published 2006
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,685 ratings — published 1999
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 44,957 ratings — published 2001
“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)
