brain + society + science list| philosophy | create + lead | story | my books |latest read - November 2023 - listed at the top left Poverty, by America By Desmond, Matthew The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture By Maté MD, Gabor Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life By Rory Sutherland The Nineties: A Book By Chuck Klosterman Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again By Hari, Johann Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are By Lieberman PhD, David J. Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them By Phillips, Tom, Elledge, Jonn Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals By Burkeman, Oliver The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology By Wright, Robert Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong By Barker, Eric Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters By Pinker, Steven Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us By Klaas, Brian The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward By Pink, Daniel H. Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America By Press, Eyal We Need New Stories: The Myths That Subvert Freedom By Nesrine Malik Upside: Profiting from the Profound Demographic Shifts Ahead By Gronbach, Kenneth The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity--and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race By Lieberman, Daniel Z., Long, Michael E. Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (Or Don't) By Alex Bezzerides Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution By Rovelli, Carlo Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy By Martin Lindstrom Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World By Epstein, David The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking By Burkeman, Oliver Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents By Wilkerson, Isabel Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts' (Bloomsbury Revelations) By Fromm, Erich, Marx, Karl Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t By Phillips, Tom Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up By Phillips, Tom The Communist Manifesto By Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich Angrynomics By Lonergan, Eric, Blyth, Mark Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care? By Emanuel, Ezekiel J. Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939 By Allen, Frederick L Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong By Barker, Eric The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity By Murray, Douglas Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity By Orenstein, Peggy Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know By Malcolm Gladwell Hit Makers: How to Succeed in an Age of Distraction By Thompson, Derek Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape By Orenstein, Peggy Team Human By Rushkoff, Douglas Jung: A Very Short Introduction By Stevens, Anthony Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind By Harari, Yuval Noah The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die By Payne, Keith Lost Connections: Why You’re Depressed and How to Find Hope By Hari, Johann Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think By Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth, the Illusion of Consent, and the Fight for Our Future By Martinez, Raoul On Color By David Kastan, Stephen Farthing The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact By Chip Heath, Dan Heath Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History By Kurt Andersen Eat the Apple By Matt Young Why Liberalism Failed (Politics and Culture) By Patrick J. Deneen A Second Chance: For You, For Me, And For The Rest Of Us By Catherine Hoke When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing By Daniel H. Pink Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator By Ryan Holiday The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu By Dan Jurafsky You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, an d 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself By McRaney, David On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century By Timothy Snyder Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter By Scott Adams Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions By Russell Brand Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar By Cheryl Strayed Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It By Chris Voss, Tahl Raz All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood By Jennifer Senior Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked By Adam Alter The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country By Helen Russell Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It's Killing Us By Shane Claiborne Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging By Sebastian Junger How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World By Steven Johnson The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself By Sean Carroll Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption By Bryan Stevenson Seven Brief Lessons on Physics By Carlo Rovelli Revolution By Russell Brand Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years By David Graeber Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain By Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation By Joseph Campbell American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics By Dan Savage The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (Hinges of History) By Thomas Cahill Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs By Johann Hari Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space By Carl Sagan Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind By Al Ries, Jack Trout Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe By Mario Livio Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt By Chris Hedges, Joe Sacco Contagious: Why Things Catch On By Jonah Berger The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women By Jessica Valenti The Medium is the Massage By McLuhan, Marshall, Fiore, Quentin That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion By Rachel Herz PhD PhD The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains By Nicholas Carr The Science of Fear: How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your Brain By Daniel Gardner The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger By Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard By Chip Heath, Dan Heath The Age Curve: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Storm By Kenneth W. Gronbach The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, Revised Edition By Barry Schwartz How We Decide By Jonah Lehrer Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition By Robert B. Cialdini
