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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 496,203 ratings — published 1988
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,342,041 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 438,677 ratings — published 2003
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 198,957 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 — 914,075 ratings — published 2005
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 895,366 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 — 870,553 ratings — published 2000
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 202,351 ratings — published 2014
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 633,080 ratings — published 2005
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 622,428 ratings — published 2011
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 164,750 ratings — published 1980
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 241,506 ratings — published 2017
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 218,784 ratings — published 2017
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 476,185 ratings — published 1997
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 — 256,323 ratings — published 1985
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 250,971 ratings — published 2003
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 834,765 ratings — published 2010
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 42 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 297,648 ratings — published 2015
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,710 ratings — published 2008
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 41 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.92 — 58,409 ratings — published 2010
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 34,006 ratings — published 2016
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.28 — 83,775 ratings — published 1995
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,650 ratings — published 2010
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 53,255 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 — 487,968 ratings — published 2012
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.86 — 61,446 ratings — published 2008
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 105,936 ratings — published 2019
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 289,241 ratings — published 2006
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 57,216 ratings — published 2009
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 104,571 ratings — published 1999
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.03 — 42,489 ratings — published 1987
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 58,658 ratings — published 2016
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.98 — 71,014 ratings — published 2014
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,887 ratings — published 2010
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.26 — 224,837 ratings — published 1985
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 133,758 ratings — published 2008
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 — 580,702 ratings — published 2012
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.60 — 41,608 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 — 195,094 ratings — published 2013
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.28 — 54,369 ratings — published 1979
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 92,148 ratings — published 2018
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,743 ratings — published 1999
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 32,263 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 — 30,323 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 — 39,849 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 — 346,162 ratings — published 2019
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 35,016 ratings — published 2017
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 119,340 ratings — published 2010
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 34,365 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 — 212,822 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)
