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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 486,202 ratings — published 1988
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,294,152 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 429,076 ratings — published 2003
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,273 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 — 904,421 ratings — published 2005
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 878,605 ratings — published 2008
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 861,644 ratings — published 2000
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 198,418 ratings — published 2014
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 626,633 ratings — published 2005
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 602,179 ratings — published 2011
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 161,266 ratings — published 1980
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 211,849 ratings — published 2017
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 244,313 ratings — published 2003
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 232,812 ratings — published 2017
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 465,008 ratings — published 1997
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 250,251 ratings — published 1985
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 816,821 ratings — published 2010
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 32,702 ratings — published 2016
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 40 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 291,916 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 — 60,925 ratings — published 2010
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,130 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 39 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.92 — 57,126 ratings — published 2010
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 81,708 ratings — published 1995
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 60,790 ratings — published 2008
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 52,334 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 — 480,381 ratings — published 2012
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 102,197 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 — 103,201 ratings — published 1999
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 285,796 ratings — published 2006
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,572 ratings — published 1987
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 56,972 ratings — published 2016
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.98 — 68,431 ratings — published 2014
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,084 ratings — published 2010
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,649 ratings — published 2009
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 132,194 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 — 220,567 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 — 569,943 ratings — published 2012
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.60 — 41,113 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 — 193,233 ratings — published 2013
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 31,441 ratings — published 1994
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 116,408 ratings — published 2010
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 — 29,430 ratings — published 2008
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.26 — 89,531 ratings — published 2018
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 — 340,739 ratings — published 2019
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,292 ratings — published 1999
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,168 ratings — published 1994
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,258 ratings — published 1979
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 33,812 ratings — published 1997
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 123,386 ratings — published 2007
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 39,847 ratings — published 2017
“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
“This awesome world isn't just a spectator sport. It's symbiotic; it influences us, and we influence it." from A Walk Around the Block (Harper One)”
― A Walk Around the Block: Stoplight Secrets, Mischievous Squirrels, Manhole Mysteries & Other Stuff You See Every Day
― A Walk Around the Block: Stoplight Secrets, Mischievous Squirrels, Manhole Mysteries & Other Stuff You See Every Day
