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This Will Make You Smarter

By
John Brockman
John Brockman
2012 • 399 pages

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65 books

Building A Better World

Indyrey
Indy
Outliers: The Story of Success
Surviving the Extremes
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Life of Pi

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29 books

Famous People Memoirs

Indyrey
Indy
Earth (The Book)
Tap Dancing to Work
Then Again
If You Ask Me
Autobiography
My First Summer in the Sierra
Speaking of Faith: Why Religion Matters--And How to Talk about It

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441 books

Dot

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Boson
The America's Test Kitchen Cooking School Cookbook: Everything You Need to Know to Become a Great Cook
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
The Intelligent Investor
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Hacking The Art Of Exploitation
Autobiography of a yogi
The Annotated Turing

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154 books

Tsundoko

Wodan
Ray
Age of Wonder How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Almost Like A Whale
Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
The Seven Basic Plots
Truth: A History and a Guide for the Perplexed

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172 books

Science

Wodan
Ray
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
The Science of Discworld
The Globe
Darwin's Watch
The Hidden Reality
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are
The canon

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60 books

Science

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Ali
The Selfish Gene
The Great Ideas of Psychology
Games People Play: Game Theory in Life, Business, and Beyond
The Study of Language
Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language
Understanding the Secrets of Human Perception
Science Fiction: The Literature Of The Technological Imagination

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23 books

Non Fiction

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Kevin H Souza
The Botany of Desire
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Blink
First, Break All The Rules
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Made to Stick
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

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621 books

Owned

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Eva
High Fidelity
Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
Near to the Wild Heart
La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes
H is for Hawk
My Absolute Darling
Coders

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20 books

2013

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Eva
Tokyo Doesn't Love Us Anymore
Incognito
Hidden Minds: A History of the Unconscious
What Technology Wants
This Will Make You Smarter
The Ravenous Brain
Hallucinations

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30 books

Science

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The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse
Unscientific America
An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural
The Republican War on Science
Space Chronicles
Nobel Prize Women in Science
Think

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147 books

Non Fiction

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Matti
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Consciousness Explained
Freedom Evolves

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197 books

Maybe

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Emil
Critique of Pure Reason
The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
This Will Make You Smarter
The Wealth of Nations
The Gormenghast Novels
Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

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264 books

Non Fiction Explorative

Indyrey
Indy
Leadership and the new science
Stories: How Mennonites Came to Be
What is an Anabaptist Christian?
Blind Spots
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
The Naked Anabaptist: The Bare Essentials of a Radical Faith

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9 books

High Value

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Sandy
Thinking Strategically: Competitive Edge in Business, Politics and Everyday life
The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit
This Will Make You Smarter
I Will Teach You to Be Rich
How to Lie with Statistics