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Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson, Eleanor Rosch -- The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (amazon)
Richard L. Gregory -- Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing (amazon)
Susana Martinez-Conde, Stephen Macknik, Sandra Blakeslee -- Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (amazon)
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Reginald A. Ray -- The Awakening Body:: Somatic Meditation for Discovering Our Deepest Life (amazon)
James Kingsland -- Am I Dreaming?: The Science of Altered States, from Psychedelics to Virtual Reality and Beyond (amazon)
Andrea Rock -- The Mind at Night: The New Science of How and Why We Dream (amazon)
Evan Thompson -- Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy (amazon) (*)
Chet Raymo -- The Soul of the Night: An Astronomical Pilgrimage (amazon)
Michael Pollan -- How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics (amazon)
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Barbara Brown Taylor -- Learning to Walk in the Dark: Because Sometimes God Shows Up at Night (amazon)

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Pedro De Bruyckere, Paul A. Kirschner, Casper D. Hulshof -- Urban Myths about Learning and Education (amazon)

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Michael Maliszewski -- Spiritual Dimensions of the Martial Arts (amazon)
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Antonio Zadra, Robert Stickgold -- When Brains Dream: Understanding the Science and Mystery of Our Dreaming Minds: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep (amazon)
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Oscar Wilde -- A Woman of No Importance (amazon)
Maggie Nelson -- On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (amazon)
Maggie Nelson -- The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (amazon)
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Andrew Holecek -- Dreams of Light: The Profound Daytime Practice of Lucid Dreaming (amazon)
Jennifer Dumpert -- Liminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep (amazon)
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E. H. Gombrich -- Shadows: The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western (amazon)
J. Huizinga -- Homo Ludens (amazon)
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Anna Della Subin -- Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine (amazon)
Salman Rushdie -- Midnight's Children (amazon)
Sudhir Kakar -- Shamans, Mystics, and Doctors: A Psychological Inquiry into India and Its Healing Traditions (amazon)

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Pierre Mabille -- Mirror of the Marvelous: The Surrealist Reimagining of Myth (amazon)
Gertrude Stein -- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (amazon)
Steve Coutinho -- An Introduction to Daoist Philosophies (amazon)
Steve Coutinho -- Zhuangzi and Early Chinese Philosophy: Vagueness, Transformation and Paradox (amazon)
Olivier Roland -- The Way of the Intelligent Rebel: Succeed Outside the System, Teach Yourself Anything, and Achieve Ultimate Freedom (amazon)
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Judith Viorst -- Necessary Losses: The Loves, Illusions, Dependencies, and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Grow (amazon)

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Richard Miller -- Yoga Nidra: Awaken to Unqualified Presence Through Traditional Mind-Body Practices (amazon)
Sigmund Freud -- Civilization and Its Discontents (amazon)
Deirdre Barrett -- The Committee of Sleep: How Artists, Scientists, and Athletes Use Dreams for Creative Problem Solving--and How You Can Too (amazon)
Blake Butler -- Nothing: A Memoir of Insomnia (amazon)
Andrea Tone -- The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers (amazon)
Edward Shorter -- A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac (amazon) (*)
Timothy D. Wilson -- Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious (amazon) (*)
Rosalind D. Cartwright -- The Twenty-four Hour Mind: The Role of Sleep and Dreaming in Our Emotional Lives (amazon)
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Drew Leder -- The Distressed Body: Rethinking Illness, Imprisonment, and Healing (amazon)
Edward Blakely -- A Dream Run (amazon)
Heather Sutherland -- A Beginners Guide to Spiritual Dreams (amazon)
Bryan D. Palmer -- Cultures of Darkness: Night Travels in the Histories of Transgression (amazon)
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Thomas Metzinger -- Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity (amazon)
Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty -- Dreams, Illusion, and Other Realities (amazon)
Andrew Harvey -- The Direct Path: Creating a Journey to the Divine Using the World's Mystical Traditions (amazon)
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Sam Harris -- Waking Up: Searching for Spirituality Without Religion (amazon)
Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty -- Dreams, Illusion, and Other Realities (amazon)
Arthur Zajonc -- Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry (amazon)
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Robert Waggoner -- Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self (amazon)
David K. Randall -- Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep (amazon) (*)
Kat Duff -- Secret Life of Sleep (amazon)
Fariba Bogzaran, Daniel Deslauriers -- Integral Dreaming: A Holistic Approach to Dreams (amazon)
Daniel J. Boorstin -- The Discoverers (amazon)
Stephen LaBerge -- Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life (amazon)

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Paulo Coelho -- The Alchemis (amazon)
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Niklaus Largier -- Figures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the Senses (amazon)
Luc Boltanski -- Distant Suffering: Morality, Media and Politics (amazon)
Adam Smith -- The Theory of Moral Sentiments (amazon)
Ian Hacking -- The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference (amazon)
Eric Hayot -- The Hypothetical Mandarin: Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain (amazon)
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Gilles Deleuze -- Difference and Repetition (amazon)
Havelock Ellis -- Love and Pain and The Play-Function of Sex (amazon)
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch -- Venus in Furs (amazon)
Arthur Kleinman -- The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, And The Human Condition (amazon)
Edward Shorter -- From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era (amazon)
Veena Das -- Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary (amazon)
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Kipling D. Williams -- Ostracism: The Power of Silence (amazon)
Calvin Thomas -- Ten Lessons in Theory: An Introduction to Theoretical Writing (amazon)

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Michael Katz -- Tibetan Dream Yoga- The Royal Road to Enlightenment (amazon)
Alan Wallace, Brian Hodel -- Dreaming Yourself Awake: Lucid Dreaming and Tibetan Dream Yoga for Insight and Transformation (amazon)
Sogyal Rinpoche -- The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (amazon)
Joseph Campbell -- The Power of Myth (amazon)
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Marina Warner -- No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock (amazon)
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Stanley R. Cohen -- My Time with Einstein (amazon)
Albert Einstein -- The World as I See It (amazon)
George Dyson -- Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe (amazon)
John Dewey -- Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education (amazon)
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Peter Hall -- Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design Since 1880 (amazon)

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Elaine Scarry -- The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (amazon)
Joanna Bourke -- The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers (amazon)
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Joanna Bourke -- Fear: A Cultural History (amazon)
Martin Jay -- The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research (amazon)
Victor Turner -- The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure (amazon)
Victor Turner -- Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society (amazon)
Tracy Kidder -- The Soul of A New Machine (amazon)
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J. Moscoso -- Pain: A Cultural History (amazon)
C. Norman Shealy -- The Pain Game (amazon)
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Maurice Blanchot -- The Writing of the Disaster (amazon)
Angela Belli (ed) -- Bodies and Barriers: Dramas of Dis-Ease (amazon)
Mark Johnson -- The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason (amazon)
Donna Haraway -- Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (amazon)
Charles Bell -- The Hand: Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments, as Evincing Design, and Illustrating the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God (amazon)
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Gary Zukav -- The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics (amazon)
Merry White -- Coffee Life in Japan (amazon)
Iain Gately -- Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization (amazon)
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Stewart Allen -- The Devil's Cup: Coffee, the Driving Force in History (amazon)
Mark Pendergrast -- Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World (amazon)
Ray Oldenburg -- Celebrating the Third Place: Inspiring Stories About the Great Good Places at the Heart of Our Communities (amazon)
Michael Idov -- Ground Up: A Novel (amazon)
Michael Idov -- Dressed Up for a Riot: Misadventures in Putin's Moscow (amazon)
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William H. Ukers -- ALL ABOUT COFFEE: FOREWARD BY JOMO (amazon)
Donald Richie -- A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics (amazon)
Miriam Silverberg -- Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times (amazon)
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The Yellow Wallpaper (amazon)
Marguerite Duras -- La Douleur (amazon)
Yukio Mishima -- Sun and Steel (amazon)
Gustavo Gutierrez -- On Job: God-Talk and the Suffering of the Innocent (amazon)
Leo Tolstoy -- The Death of Ivan Ilych (amazon)
Viktor E. Frankl -- Man's Search for Meaning (amazon)
Viktor E. Frankl -- The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy (amazon)
Samuel Beckett -- Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts (amazon)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- The Sorrows of Young Werther (amazon)
Edmund Burke -- A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (amazon)

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Alex Korb -- The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time (amazon)
Srinivasan S. Pillay -- Tinker Dabble Doodle Try: Unlock the Power of the Unfocused Mind (amazon)
Andrew Newberg, Mark Robert Waldman -- Words Can Change Your Brain: 12 Conversation Strategies to Build Trust, Resolve Conflict, and Increase Intimacy (amazon)
Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool -- Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise (amazon)

habit

Antonio R. Damasio -- The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures (amazon)
Gary A. Klein -- Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions (amazon)
Timothy D. Wilson -- Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious (amazon) (*)
Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd -- Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution (amazon)
David Bayles, Ted Orland -- Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking (amazon)
Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter -- The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life (amazon)
David McKeown, Greg Allen -- Time Management: Ultimate Self Help Guide To Increase Productivity And Stop Procrastinating (amazon)
Greg McKeown -- Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most (amazon)

grit

Robert D. Putnam -- Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis (amazon)
Daniel T. Willingham -- Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom (amazon)
Daniel T. Willingham -- The Reading Mind: A Cognitive Approach to Understanding How the Mind Reads (amazon)
Lee Ross, Richard E. Nisbett -- The Person and the Situation (amazon)
Scott Barry Kaufman -- Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization (amazon)
Glenn Geher, Scott Barry Kaufman -- Mating Intelligence Unleashed: The Role of the Mind in Sex, Dating, and Love (amazon)
Adam Alter -- Irresistible: Why We Can’t Stop Checking, Scrolling, Clicking and Watching (amazon)

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John Connell -- The Running Book: A Journey through Memory, Landscape and History (amazon)
Darrin M. McMahon -- Divine Fury: A History of Genius (amazon)
Mason Currey -- Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (amazon)
Pete Carroll, Yogi Roth, Kristoffer A. Garin -- Win Forever: Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion (amazon)
Mark Franko -- Martha Graham in Love and War: The Life in the Work (amazon)
Emily Fletcher -- Stress Less, Accomplish More: Meditation for Extraordinary Performance (amazon)

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Joseph Campbell -- Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation (amazon)
Laurence Gonzales -- Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why (amazon)
Jim Collins -- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't (amazon)
M. P. Lynch -- 100 WAYS TO DEFEND YOURSELF IN THE STREET: by Émile André (amazon)
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Chuck Huckaby -- Strength Endurance: Reflections on the Legacy of Dr. Leonard Schwartz – creator of “Heavy Hands”, “Panaerobics”, “Longstrength” and “IsoTonOMetrics” (amazon)
Martin Seligman -- Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life (amazon)
Angela Duckworth -- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance (amazon)
Ben Sherwood -- The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life (amazon)
Alex Osborn -- Your Creative Power (amazon)
Emile Coué -- Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion (amazon)
Emily Fletcher -- Stress Less, Accomplish More: Meditation for Extraordinary Performanc (amazon)
Micah Coulter -- The Barehanded Survival Guide: Survival without any gear (amazon)
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Robert M. Sapolsky -- Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping (amazon)
Charles Duhigg -- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change (amazon)
James Clear -- Atomic Habits (amazon)
Mike Bond -- Freedom (amazon)
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Russell Shorto -- Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City (amazon)
Charles Perrow -- Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies (amazon)
M. Mitchell Waldrop -- Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos (amazon)
Al Siebert -- Survivor Personality: Why Some People Are Stronger, Smarter, and More Skillful at Handling Life's Difficulties...and How You Can Be, Too (amazon)
Robin Morgan -- Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology (amazon
Tom Dotz, Tom Hoobyar, Susan Sanders -- NLP: The Essential Guide to Neuro-Linguistic Programming (amazon)
Yaa Gyasi -- Transcendent Kingdom (amazon)
John Moran -- The Anatomy of Courage: The Classic WWI Study of the Psychological Effects of War (amazon)
Kevin Hogan, James Speakman -- Covert Persuasion: Psychological Tactics and Tricks to Win the Game (amazon)
Carolyn Handler Miller -- Digital Storytelling 4e: A creator's guide to interactive entertainment (amazon)
Clay Shirky -- Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age (amazon)
Maxine Baker -- Documentary in the Digital Age (amazon)
John Fiske -- Television Culture (amazon)
James W. Heisig -- Remembering the Kanji: A Complete Course on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters (amazon)
Mark Bowden -- Worm: The First Digital World War (amazon)
Jared Diamond -- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (amazon)
John Beaulieu -- Human Tuning (amazon)
Mark Johnson -- The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason (amazon)
Mark Johnson -- The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding (amazon)
Mark Johnson -- Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason: How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding (amazon)
Arthur M.D. Kleinman -- What Really Matters: Living a Moral Life amidst Uncertainty and Danger (amazon)
Arthur Kleinman -- Rethinking Psychiatry (amazon)
Paul Tillich -- The Courage to Be (amazon)
Schalk Holloway, Gavin Coleman -- The Maul: Preparing for the Chaos of Close Combatives (amazon)
Tom Peters, Robert H. Waterman -- In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies (amazon)
Ian Stewart -- Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos (amazon)
James L. Adams -- Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas (amazon)
Sue Stuart-Smith -- The Well Gardened Mind: Rediscovering Nature in the Modern World (amazon)
Brian Lima -- Heart to Beat: A Cardiac Surgeon's Inspiring Story of Success and Overcoming Adversity (amazon)
David Graeber -- Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (amazon)
Hugh Howey -- Wool (amazon)
Abraham Lee -- Dark Psychology: The Ultimate Guide to Learn How to Analyze People, Read Body Language and Stop Being Manipulated. With Secret Techniques Against Deception, Brainwashing, Mind Control and Covert NLP (amazon)
Dale Carnegie -- How to Win Friends and Influence People (amazon)
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Robert Humphrey -- Values For A New Millennium: Activating the Natural Law to: Reduce Violence, Revitalize Our Schools, and Promote Cross-Cultural Harmony (amazon)
Jack Hoban -- The Ethical Protector: Police Ethics, Tactics and Techniques (amazon)
Harry Lorayne, Jerry Lucas -- The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play (amazon)
Arthur Benjamin, Michael Shermer -- Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks (amazon)
Frans de Waal -- The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society (amazon)
Steven Pinker -- The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence In History And Its Causes (amazon)
Steven Pinker -- Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (amazon)
Steven Pinker -- How the Mind Works (amazon)
Eric Hoffer -- The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (amazon)
Edward Bernays -- Propaganda (amazon)
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John Mueller -- The Remnants of War (amazon)
Constantin Stanislavski -- My Life In Art (amazon)
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Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own (amazon)
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Claudia Hammond -- The Art of Rest: How to Find Respite in the Modern Age (amazon)
Yvette Cooper -- She Speaks: Women's Speeches That Changed the World (amazon)
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Arther Ferrill -- The Origins Of War (amazon)
Robert L. O'Connell -- Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression (amazon)
Lawrence LeShan -- Landscapes of the Mind: The Faces of Reality (amazon)
Martin Van Creveld -- Transformation of War (amazon)
Shing-Tung Yau, Steve Nadis -- The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions (amazon)
Yoko Ogawa -- The Housekeeper and the Professor: A Novel (amazon)
Brian Greene -- The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (amazon)
Brian Greene -- Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe (amazon)
E.T. Bell -- Men of Mathematics (amazon)
Roger Penrose -- The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe (amazon)
Roger Penrose -- Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe (amazon)
Stephen Jay Gould -- The Mismeasure of Man (amazon)
James William Gibson -- A Reenchanted World: The Quest for a New Kinship with Nature (amazon)
Sam Keen -- Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man (amazon)
Christopher Duffy -- Military Experience in the Age of Reason (amazon)
William H. McNeill -- The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000 (amazon)
Modris Eksteins -- Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (amazon)
Michael Walzer -- Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations (amazon)
Michael Walzer -- Arguing About War (amazon)
Mark Katz -- Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music (amazon)
Greg Milner -- Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music (amazon)
Veit Erlmann -- Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound, Listening and Modernity (amazon)
Marjorie Garber -- Patronizing the Arts (amazon)
Oliver Sacks -- Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (amazon)
George Orwell -- Nineteen Eighty-Four (amazon)
John Tusa -- Making a Noise: Getting It Right, Getting It Wrong in Life, Arts and Broadcasting (amazon)
E. O. Wilson -- Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (amazon)
Carol Duncan -- Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums (amazon)
Bill Buford -- Among The Thugs (amazon)
Neil Postman -- Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (amazon)
Richard Sennett -- Respect in a World of Inequality (amazon)
James Beniger -- The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society (amazon)
Christopher Lasch -- The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics (amazon)
Jay David Bolter -- Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print (amazon)
Daniel J. Boorstin -- The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (amazon)
Gary Marcus -- Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind (amazon)
Willard Huntington Wright -- The Creative Will: Studies in the Philosophy and the Syntax of Æsthetics (amazon)
Semir Zeki -- Splendors and Miseries of the Brain: Love, Creativity, and the Quest for Human Happiness (amazon)
V. S. Ramachandran -- The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human (amazon)
Philip Ball -- Flow: Nature's patterns: a tapestry in three parts (amazon)
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Hermann Hesse -- The Glass Bead Game (amazon)
George Orwell -- 1984 (amazon)
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George Johnson -- Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order (amazon)
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Donald E. Brown -- Human Universals (amazon)
Jeremy Campbell -- Grammatical Man : Information, Entropy, Language and Life (amazon)
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Anthony Storr -- Music and the Mind (amazon)
William Gibson -- Neuromancer (amazon)
Maria Konnikova -- The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time (amazon)
Richard Alexander -- The Biology of Moral Systems (amazon)
Helen Pluckrose, James A. Lindsay -- Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity.and Why This Harms Everybody (amazon)
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Alexander Bogomolny -- Cut the Knot: Probability Riddles (amazon)
Robert Greene -- The 48 Laws of Power (amazon)
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Ben Carson -- Gifted Hands (amazon)
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Umberto Eco -- The Open Work (amazon)
Victor Turner -- Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society (amazon)
Robert Burton -- The Anatomy of Melancholy (amazon)
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Peter D. Kramer -- Against Depression (amazon)
Thomas C. Caramagno -- The Flight of the Mind: Virginia Woolf's Art and Manic-Depressive Illness (amazon)
Peter C. Whybrow -- American Mania: When More is Not Enough (amazon)
Eric R. Kandel -- The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present (amazon)
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James H. Fallon -- The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain (amazon)
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Robert L. Fried -- Breathe Well, Be Well: A Program to Relieve Stress, Anxiety, Asthma, Hypertension, Migraine, and Other Disorders for Better Health (amazon)
Belinda Gore -- Ecstatic Body Postures: An Alternate Reality Workbook (amazon)
Marnia Robinson -- Cupid's Poisoned Arrow: From Habit to Harmony in Sexual Relationships (amazon)
Robert Ornstein -- MindReal: How the Mind Creates Its Own Virtual Reality (amazon)
Robert Ornstein -- The Mind Field (amazon)
Li Yu-ning -- Chinese Women Through Chinese Eyes (amazon)
Stephen M. Barr -- Modern Physics and Ancient Faith (amazon)
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Victor Wooten -- The Spirit of Music: The Lesson Continues (amazon)
Maggie Nelson -- The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (amazon)
Louis Theroux -- The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures (amazon)
Robert Galbraith -- Troubled Blood (amazon)
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Sylvia Plath -- Ariel (amazon)
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Charles Bell -- The Hand: Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments (amazon)
Charles Bell -- The Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression: As Connected with the Fine Arts (amazon)
Ha-Joon Chang -- 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism (amazon)
Gerald Holton -- Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein (amazon)
Raymond Tallis -- Aping Mankind (amazon)
David Eagleman -- Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (amazon)
Christopher Kennedy Lawford -- Moments of Clarity: Voices from the Front Lines of Addiction and Recovery (amazon)
Sam Harris -- The Moral Landscape (amazon)
Michael S. Gazzaniga -- The Ethical Brain (amazon)
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