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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsA grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive the world --from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of I Contain Multitudes. The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields... -
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhy do we do the things we do?More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle... -
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Human Behavioral Biology by Robert M. Sapolsky
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMultidisciplinary. How to approach complex normal and abnormal behaviors through biology. How to integrate disciplines including sociobiology, ethology, neuroscience, and endocrinology to examine behaviors such as aggression, sexual behavior, language use, and mental illness...Categorized as:
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![Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees by Roger Fouts]()
Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees by Roger Fouts
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFor 30 years Roger Fouts has pioneered communication with chimpanzees through sign language--beginning with a mischievous baby chimp named Washoe. This remarkable book describes Fout's odyssey from novice researcher to celebrity scientist to impassioned crusader for the rights of animals... -
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![The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich, Jonathan Yen]()
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich, Jonathan Yen
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHumans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators...Categorized as:
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One Day at a Time in Al-Anon by Al-Anon Family Groups
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne Day at a Time in Al-AnonAl-Anon Family Group... -
![The Great Partnership: Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning by Jonathan Sacks]()
The Great Partnership: Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning by Jonathan Sacks
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn impassioned, erudite, thoroughly researched, and beautifully reasoned book from one of the most admired religious thinkers of our time that argues not only that science and religion are compatible, but that they complement each other—and that the world needs both...Categorized as:
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![Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape by Henry Dimbleby, Jemima Lewis]()
Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape by Henry Dimbleby, Jemima Lewis
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Brilliant - a must read' Tim SpectorYou may not be aware of this - not consciously, at least - but you do not control what you eat. Every mouthful you take is informed by the subtle tweaking and nudging of a vast, complex, global one so intimately woven into everyday life that you hardly even know it's there.The food system is no longer simply a means of sustenance... -
![Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon]()
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTHE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, and how this evolution still shapes all our lives todayHow did the female body drive 200 million years of human evolution? • Why do women live longer than men? • Why are women more likely to get... -
![The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible by Charles Eisenstein]()
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible by Charles Eisenstein
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn a time of social and ecological crisis, what can we as individuals do to make the world a better place? This inspirational and thought-provoking book serves as an empowering antidote to the cynicism, frustration, paralysis, and overwhelm so many of us are feeling, replacing it with a grounding reminder of what’s true: we are all connected, and our small, personal choices bear unsuspected...Categorized as:
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![The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications by Christian Rätsch]()
The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications by Christian Rätsch
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe most comprehensive guide to the botany, history, distribution, and cultivation of all known psychoactive plants• Examines 414 psychoactive plants and related substances• Explores how using psychoactive plants in a culturally sanctioned context can produce important insights into the nature of reality• Contains 797 color photographs and 645 black-and-white illustrationsIn the traditions of...Categorized as:
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![Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama]()
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern stateWriting in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition...Categorized as:
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![Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World by Katharine Hayhoe]()
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World by Katharine Hayhoe
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsUnited Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe changes the debate on how we can save our future in this nationally bestselling “optimistic view on why collective action is still possible—and how it can be realized” (The New York Times)... -
![Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan]()
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 19 ratings"Dazzling...A feast. Absorbing and elegantly written, it tells of the origins of life on earth, describes its variety and character, and culminates in a discussion of human nature and the complex traces of humankind's evolutionary past... It is an amazing story masterfully told... -
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![The Pocket Book of Stones by Robert Simmons]()
The Pocket Book of Stones by Robert Simmons
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis edition of The Pocket Book of Stones, featuring a handy lay-flat binding, was created in response to demand from readers for a more portable metaphysical crystals guide than the author’s Book of Stones . It is an ideal introduction to stones and their energies for those who are new to the field, as well as being an invaluable reference for well-versed readers... -
![At Home in the World: Stories and Essential Teachings from a Monk's Life by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis]()
At Home in the World: Stories and Essential Teachings from a Monk's Life by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis collection of autobiographical and teaching stories from peace activist and Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is thought provoking, inspiring, and enjoyable to read. Collected here for the first time, these stories span the author’s life. There are stories from Thich Nhat Hanh’s childhood and the traditions of rural Vietnam...Categorized as:
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سیطره کمیت و علائم آخرالزمان by René Guénon
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Reign of Quantity gives a concise but comprehensive view of the present state of affairs in the world, as it appears from the point of view of the 'ancient wisdom', formerly common both to the East and to the West, but now almost entirely lost sight of...Categorized as:
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![The Seven Mysteries Of Life: An Exploration of Science and Philosophy by Guy Murchie]()
The Seven Mysteries Of Life: An Exploration of Science and Philosophy by Guy Murchie
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn American Book Award finalist, Guy Murchie's The Seven Mysteries of Life "embraces all the important information about everything humanity needs to know for continuance aboard planet Earth, or anywhere else in the universe" (Buckminster Fuller)."All life in all worlds"—this was the object of the author's seventeen-year quest for knowledge and discovery, culminating in this book... -
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Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWeaving together and explaining the latest discoveries and ideas from many disparate areas of modern science, this succinct and important book explains the truth about, and the beauty of, evolution... -
![The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century by Peter Watson]()
The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century by Peter Watson
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind is encyclopedic, covering the major writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers who produced the ideas by which we live...Categorized as:
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![Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson]()
Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. With a new foreword by his daughter Mary Katherine Bateson, this classic anthology of his major work will continue to delight and inform generations of readers. "This collection amounts to a retrospective exhibition of a working life. . .Categorized as:
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![Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes by Frans de Waal]()
Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes by Frans de Waal
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe first edition of Frans de Waal's Chimpanzee Politics was acclaimed not only by primatologists for its scientific achievement but also by politicians, business leaders, and social psychologists for its remarkable insights into the most basic human needs and behaviors. Twenty-five years later, this book is considered a classic... -
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Escape from Reason (IVP Classics) by Francis A. Schaeffer, J.P. Moreland
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDespite our obsession with the emotive and the experiential, we still face perennial existential problems anxiety, despair, purposelessness... -
![Sociobiology: The New Synthesis by Edward O. Wilson]()
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis by Edward O. Wilson
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsView a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities"Harvard University Press is proud to announce the re-release of the complete original version of Sociobiology: The New Synthesis--now available in paperback for the first time... -
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![Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals by Robert M. Sapolsky]()
Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals by Robert M. Sapolsky
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHow do imperceptibly small differences in the environment change one's behavior? What is the anatomy of a bad mood? Does stress shrink our brains? What does People magazine's list of America's "50 Most Beautiful People" teach us about nature and nurture? What makes one organism sexy to another? What makes one orgasm different from another? Who will be the winner in the genetic war between the... -
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The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves by J.B. MacKinnon
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsConsuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet—but can we do it? In this thoughtful and surprisingly optimistic book, journalist J. B. MacKinnon investigates how we may achieve a world without shopping.We can’t stop shopping. And yet we must. This is the consumer dilemma... -
![Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin, Iain Mckay]()
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin, Iain Mckay
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHis most influential work. A challenge to classical Darwinism, Kropotkin argues that in nature, co-operation is as important as competition... -
![The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins]()
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe renowned biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins presents his most expansive work yet: a comprehensive look at evolution, ranging from the latest developments in the field to his own provocative views. Loosely based on the form of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Dawkins's Tale takes us modern humans back through four billion years of life on our planet... -
![The Dim Hypothesis: Why the Lights of the West Are Going Out by Leonard Peikoff, Robin Field]()
The Dim Hypothesis: Why the Lights of the West Are Going Out by Leonard Peikoff, Robin Field
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn his groundbreaking and controversial book "The DIM Hypothesis," Dr. Leonard Peikoff casts a penetrating new light on the process of human thought and thereby on Western culture and history... -
![Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat by Philip Lymbery, Isabel Oakeshott]()
Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat by Philip Lymbery, Isabel Oakeshott
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFarm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating – as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens our countryside, health and the quality of our food wherever we live in the world...Categorized as:
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