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Discarded Science: Ideas That Seemed Good at the Time... by John Grant

Discarded Science: Ideas That Seemed Good at the Time...

John Grant's Science

John Grant

336 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

3.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction history reference science challenging informative slow-paced
On the Psychology of Military Incompetence by Norman F. Dixon

On the Psychology of Military Incompetence

Norman F. Dixon

528 pages • first pub 1976 (editions)

2.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction history psychology informative slow-paced
This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society by Kathleen McAuliffe

This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society

Kathleen McAuliffe

288 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

2.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction psychology science challenging dark informative medium-paced
The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage

The Victorian Internet

Tom Standage

240 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

4.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction history science technology informative slow-paced
Freud: A Life for Our Time by Peter Gay

Freud: A Life for Our Time

Peter Gay

810 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

3.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction biography history psychology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Algorithms to Live by: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Tom Griffiths, Brian Christian

Algorithms to Live by: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

Tom Griffiths, Brian Christian

368 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

3.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction computer science psychology science technology informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

David Eagleman

290 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science informative reflective slow-paced
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are by Frans de Waal

Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are

Frans de Waal

288 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction science informative reflective slow-paced
The Lost Art of Real Cooking: Rediscovering the Pleasures of Traditional Food One Recipe at a Time by Ken Albala

The Lost Art of Real Cooking: Rediscovering the Pleasures of Traditional Food One Recipe at a Time

Ken Albala

233 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

3.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction informative medium-paced
Walden Two by B.F. Skinner

Walden Two

B.F. Skinner

320 pages • first pub 1948 (editions)

3.0ryanboyd's review
fiction philosophy psychology science fiction reflective slow-paced