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The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths by Michael Shermer

The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths

Michael Shermer

400 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0pashtet31's review
nonfiction psychology religion science adventurous slow-paced
The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris

The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us

Christopher Chabris

320 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0pashtet31's review
nonfiction business psychology science reflective slow-paced
Who's in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain by Michael S. Gazzaniga

Who's in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain

Michael S. Gazzaniga

260 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

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nonfiction psychology science informative reflective slow-paced
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

Stumbling on Happiness

Daniel Gilbert

310 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

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nonfiction psychology science self help informative reflective slow-paced
Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein

Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein

293 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

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nonfiction business psychology informative reflective slow-paced
Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are by Sebastian Seung

Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are

Sebastian Seung

359 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

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nonfiction psychology science informative slow-paced
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

Charles Duhigg

371 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0pashtet31's review
nonfiction psychology self help informative inspiring medium-paced
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson

529 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

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nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative slow-paced
Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-Year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation: A Story of Genius and Discovery by George G. Szpiro

Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-Year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation: A Story of Genius and Discovery

George G. Szpiro

298 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0pashtet31's review
nonfiction business economics history mathematics science
My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance by Emanuel Derman

My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance

Emanuel Derman

292 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

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nonfiction biography business challenging informative slow-paced