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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 491,533 ratings — published 1988
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,318,944 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 433,832 ratings — published 2003
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 197,092 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 — 909,516 ratings — published 2005
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 887,219 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 — 866,079 ratings — published 2000
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 200,390 ratings — published 2014
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 629,773 ratings — published 2005
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 612,472 ratings — published 2011
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 162,995 ratings — published 1980
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 215,419 ratings — published 2017
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 247,578 ratings — published 2003
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 236,893 ratings — published 2017
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 470,656 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 4.04 — 253,197 ratings — published 1985
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 825,321 ratings — published 2010
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,298 ratings — published 2008
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 — 33,409 ratings — published 2016
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 40 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 294,730 ratings — published 2015
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 — 57,800 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 — 61,323 ratings — published 2010
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.28 — 82,760 ratings — published 1995
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 61,145 ratings — published 2008
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 52,842 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 — 484,217 ratings — published 2012
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 104,107 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 — 103,862 ratings — published 1999
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 57,809 ratings — published 2016
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 287,556 ratings — published 2006
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,946 ratings — published 2009
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,997 ratings — published 1987
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.98 — 69,690 ratings — published 2014
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,498 ratings — published 2010
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 132,884 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 — 222,551 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 — 575,041 ratings — published 2012
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.60 — 41,348 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 — 194,152 ratings — published 2013
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,772 ratings — published 1979
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 31,811 ratings — published 1994
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 90,864 ratings — published 2018
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 117,897 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 — 29,780 ratings — published 2008
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 — 343,466 ratings — published 2019
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,488 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 — 34,025 ratings — published 2017
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,706 ratings — published 1994
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 34,097 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 — 212,092 ratings — published 2006
“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)
“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
