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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

Steven Pinker

448 pages • paperback • 1994

4.0oatila's review
nonfiction psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease by Marc Lewis

The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease

Marc Lewis

256 pages • hardcover • 2015

4.0oatila's review
nonfiction psychology science informative slow-paced
Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Germ Laboratory by Michael C. Carroll

Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Germ Laboratory

Michael C. Carroll

301 pages • paperback • 2004

3.0oatila's review
nonfiction history science challenging dark informative slow-paced
Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli

Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity

Carlo Rovelli

255 pages • paperback • 2014

4.0oatila's review
nonfiction philosophy science adventurous slow-paced
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Robert M. Sapolsky

790 pages • hardcover • 2017

5.0oatila's review
nonfiction psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked by Adam Alter

Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked

Adam Alter

368 pages • hardcover • 2017

4.0oatila's review
nonfiction psychology science technology adventurous reflective slow-paced
Robots by John M. Jordan

Robots

The MIT Press Essential Knowledge

John M. Jordan

271 pages • digital • 2016

3.0oatila's review
nonfiction science technology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science by Dave Levitan

Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science

Dave Levitan

272 pages • paperback • 2017

4.0oatila's review
nonfiction history politics science informative reflective medium-paced
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us about Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us about Who We Really Are

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

352 pages • hardcover • 2017

5.0oatila's review
nonfiction business psychology science informative medium-paced
What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing by Ed Finn

What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing

Ed Finn

missing duration info • audio • 2017

4.0oatila's review
nonfiction computer science philosophy technology challenging informative medium-paced