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Philip Ball -- The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It (amazon)
Osamu Dazai -- No Longer Human (amazon)
Joshua Greene -- Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason and the Gap Between Us and Them (amazon)
Richard Haight, Nathanial Dasco -- Unshakable Awareness: Meditation in the Heart of Chaos (amazon)
Kelly Lambert -- Lifting Depression: A Neuroscientist's Hands-On Approach to Activating Your Brain's Healing Power (amazon)
David Lewis-Williams -- The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art (amazon)
Anders Olsson -- Conscious Breathing: Discover The Power of Your Breath (amazon)
Jaak Panksepp -- Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotion (amazon)
David Rothenberg -- Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science, and Evolution (amazon)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Reveries of the Solitary Walker (amazon)
Andrew Solomon -- The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression (amazon)
David Toop -- Ocean of Sound: Ambient sound and radical listening in the age of communication (amazon)
Robert Wright -- The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (amazon)
Fareed Zakaria -- Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World (amazon)