Abdullah's bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 23 Apr 2025 07:00:16 -0700 60 Abdullah's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression]]> 25330528
The Noonday Demon examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. Drawing on his own struggles with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, doctors and scientists, policy makers and politicians, drug designers, and philosophers, Andrew Solomon reveals the subtle complexities and sheer agony of the disease as well as the reasons for hope. He confronts the challenge of defining the illness and describes the vast range of available medications and treatments, and the impact the malady has on various demographic populations—around the world and throughout history. He also explores the thorny patch of moral and ethical questions posed by biological explanations for mental illness. With uncommon humanity, candor, wit and erudition, award-winning author Solomon takes readers on a journey of incomparable range and resonance into the most pervasive of family secrets. His contribution to our understanding not only of mental illness but also of the human condition is truly stunning.]]> 688 Andrew Solomon 1501123882 Abdullah 0 currently-reading 4.31 2000 The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
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]]> <![CDATA[The Myth of Mental Illness � Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct]]> 6619268 Science]]> 368 Thomas Szasz 0061771228 Abdullah 1
]]> 3.72 1961 The Myth of Mental Illness – Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
author: Thomas Szasz
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average rating: 3.72
book published: 1961
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Outdated. Did not go through the neurochemical theory of mental illness and the efficacy of anti psychotics in schizophrenia patients.


]]> Men without Women 6434561 Men Without Women was a milestone in Hemingway's career. Fiesta had already established him as a novelist of exceptional power, but with these short stories, his second collection, he showed that it is possible, within the space of a few pages, to recreate a scene with absolute truth, bringing to life details observed only by the eye of a uniquely gifted artist.

Hemingway's men are bullfighters and boxers, hired hands and hard drinkers, gangsters and gumen. Each of their stories deals with masculine toughness unsoftened by woman's hand. Incisive, hard-edged, pared down to the bare minimum, they are classic Hemingway territory.]]> 132 Ernest Hemingway Abdullah 1 3.45 1927 Men without Women
author: Ernest Hemingway
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average rating: 3.45
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]]> Territory of Light 43894695 Territory of Light is the luminous story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her three-year-old daughter. Its twelve, stand-alone fragments follow the first year of her separation from her husband. The novel is full of light, sometimes comforting and sometimes dangerous: sunlight streaming through windows, dappled light in the park, distant fireworks, dazzling floodwater, desaturated streetlamps and earth-shaking explosions. The seemingly artless prose is beautifully patterned: the cumulative effect is disarmingly powerful and images remain seared into your retina for a long time afterwards.]]> 128 Yūko Tsushima Abdullah 1 I did not like the book 3.59 1978 Territory of Light
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average rating: 3.59
book published: 1978
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I did not like the book
]]> <![CDATA[The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths]]> 11567506 401 Michael Shermer Abdullah 5 currently-reading كيف نستطيع ان نقول ان هذا الشي حقيقي ام لا. كيف لنا ان نعلم ان العامل أ يؤدي الى النتيجة ب .
ماهو العلم وماهو الوهم

يتناول الكتاب مواضيع مختلفة مثل الاشباح المخلوقات الفضائية نظريات المؤامرة ووجود الالة.

انصح بهذا الكتاب وبقوة]]> 4.14 2011 The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
author: Michael Shermer
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average rating: 4.14
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كتاب مميز لمايكل شيرمر. يتحدث عن المعتقدات وكيف يعتقد الانسان باي شي.
كيف نستطيع ان نقول ان هذا الشي حقيقي ام لا. كيف لنا ان نعلم ان العامل أ يؤدي الى النتيجة ب .
ماهو العلم وماهو الوهم

يتناول الكتاب مواضيع مختلفة مثل الاشباح المخلوقات الفضائية نظريات المؤامرة ووجود الالة.

انصح بهذا الكتاب وبقوة
]]> <![CDATA[كيف تعاش الحياة أو حياة مونتاني]]> 50749064 كتب مونتاني تأملات حرة لأفكاره وتجاربه كما لم يكتب أحد من قبل.. بعد أكثر من أربعمئة عام لا تزال الناس منجذبة إلى قراءته بفعل سحره وصدقه.. القراء يسعون إليه طلبًا للرفقة والحكمة والتسلية، وأيضًا كي يتواصلوا مع أنفسهم، وهذا ما سنجده في هذه السيرة الملهمة..
إنه كتاب عن الفقدان، وعدم القلق من الموت، وعن الحب، فـ "الحب عظيم لأنه سر يصعب فهمه.. إذا دق قلبك بعاطفة عصية عن الوصف.. ادخل" وعن الصحبة: " وُلدت للصحبة والصداقة، وعن المودة: "المودة، كلمة صغيرة لكنها ذات كثافة لا نهائية.. تسهم في تحسين عيش الناس أكثر من الشفقة، والأعمال الخيرية والتضحية بالنفس". وعن بهجة المعرفة: "إذا لقيت صعوبة في القراءة، لا أقضهم أظافري، بل أضع ما أقرأه جانبًا. لا أفعل شيئًا من دون بهجة"

إنه كتاب حاضر في كل زمان ومكان، هكذا قيل عنه دائمًا وعلى مدى قرون. واليوم، ونحن نعيش جنون القطعان التي تندفع خلف تعصباتها، نراه حاضرًا أيضًا: "كم يلزم من الشجاعة والإصرار، للحفاظ على الذات في زمن يسوده جنون القطيع؟".


"في هذه السيرة المذهلة، تسرد بكويل باستمتاع الحكايات الأنثروبولوجية التي أثرت أعمال مونتاني وتقدم لنا ببراعة تأثيرة الفلسفي"

The New York

"كتاب "كيف تعاش الحياة" عبارة عن سيرة مقدمة في صيغة حوار ممتع بين الأزمنة"

The New York Times

"كتاب منعش ومذهل، الكتاب الأكثر إمتاعًا للتعرف إلى مونتاني"
The Times Literary Supplement

"تقديم عاطفي مؤثر.. تخبرنا بكويل أنه بعيدًا عن كونه فيلسوفًا، فإن مونتاني لا يمكن أن يكون أكثر ارتباطًا بواقعنا الحالي.. مدون من القرن السادس عشر، بحسب تعبير المؤلفة، كتاب واجب القراءة، بسيط ومفهوم.. تقدم لنا بكويل دليلًا ذكيًا ساخرًا من أجل أن نعيش"
The Daily Beast]]> 352 Sarah Bakewell 6144720855 Abdullah 2 3.79 2010 كيف تعاش الحياة أو حياة مونتاني
author: Sarah Bakewell
name: Abdullah
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2010
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العنوان خادع. هذا الكتاب لن يعلمك "كيف تعاش الحياة" لكنه سيعلمك عن سيرة مونتاني
]]> <![CDATA[The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating]]> 33613855 A “drop-dead shocker� (Washington Post Book World) that uses evolutionary psychology to explain human mating and the mysteries of loveIf we all want love, why is there so much conflict in our most cherished relationships? To answer this question, we must look into our evolutionary past, argues prominent psychologist David M. Buss. Based one of the largest studies of human mating ever undertaken, encompassing more than 10,000 people of all ages from thirty-seven cultures worldwide, The Evolution of Desire is the first work to present a unified theory of human mating behavior. Drawing on a wide range of examples of mating behavior � from lovebugs to elephant seals, from the Yanomamö tribe of Venezuela to online dating apps —Buss reveals what women want, what men want, and why their desires radically differ. Love has a central place in human sexual psychology, but conflict, competition, and manipulation also pervade human mating —something we must confront in order to control our own mating destiny.Updated to reflect the very latest scientific research on human mating, this definitive edition of this classic work of evolutionary psychology explains the powerful forces that shape our most intimate desires.]]> 450 David M. Buss 0465093302 Abdullah 5 4.37 1994 The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating
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average rating: 4.37
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]]> The Anxious Generation 222533742
A must-read for all parents: the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media, and big tech—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.

“With tenacity and candor, Haidt lays out the consequences that have come with allowing kids to drift further into the virtual world . . . While also offering suggestions and solutions that could help protect a new generation of kids.� —Shannon Carlin, ,i>TIME, 100 Must-Read Books of 2024

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why?

In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood� began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood� in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood� has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.

Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective action problems� that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood.

Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes—communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children—and ourselves—from the psychological damage of a phone-based life.]]> 385 Jonathan Haidt 1802063277 Abdullah 5 4.34 2024 The Anxious Generation
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I can recommend this book enough. It’s about how social media is affecting children and adolescents.
]]> <![CDATA[The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves]]> 7776209
Yet Matt Ridley does more than describe how things are getting better. He explains why. Prosperity comes from everybody working for everybody else. The habit of exchange and specialization—which started more than 100,000 years ago—has created a collective brain that sets human living standards on a rising trend. The mutual dependence, trust, and sharing that result are causes for hope, not despair.

This bold book covers the entire sweep of human history, from the Stone Age to the Internet, from the stagnation of the Ming empire to the invention of the steam engine, from the population explosion to the likely consequences of climate change. It ends with a confident assertion that thanks to the ceaseless capacity of the human race for innovative change, and despite inevitable disasters along the way, the twenty-first century will see both human prosperity and natural biodiversity enhanced. Acute, refreshing, and revelatory, The Rational Optimist will change your way of thinking about the world for the better.]]> 448 Matt Ridley 006145205X Abdullah 3 3.94 2010 The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
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name: Abdullah
average rating: 3.94
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]]> <![CDATA[The Meaning of Human Existence]]> 20665570
In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist Edward O. Wilson grapples with these and other existential questions, examining what makes human beings supremely different from all other species. Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche once called "the rainbow colors" around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Wilson takes his readers on a journey, in the process bridging science and philosophy to create a twenty-first-century treatise on human existence—from our earliest inception to a provocative look at what the future of mankind portends.

Continuing his groundbreaking examination of our "Anthropocene Epoch," which he began with The Social Conquest of Earth, described by the New York Times as "a sweeping account of the human rise to domination of the biosphere," here Wilson posits that we, as a species, now know enough about the universe and ourselves that we can begin to approach questions about our place in the cosmos and the meaning of intelligent life in a systematic, indeed, in a testable way.

Once criticized for a purely mechanistic view of human life and an overreliance on genetic predetermination, Wilson presents in The Meaning of Human Existence his most expansive and advanced theories on the sovereignty of human life, recognizing that, even though the human and the spider evolved similarly, the poet's sonnet is wholly different from the spider's web. Whether attempting to explicate "The Riddle of the Human Species," "Free Will," or "Religion"; warning of "The Collapse of Biodiversity"; or even creating a plausible "Portrait of E.T.," Wilson does indeed believe that humanity holds a special position in the known universe.

The human epoch that began in biological evolution and passed into pre-, then recorded, history is now more than ever before in our hands. Yet alarmed that we are about to abandon natural selection by redesigning biology and human nature as we wish them, Wilson soberly concludes that advances in science and technology bring us our greatest moral dilemma since God stayed the hand of Abraham.]]> 207 Edward O. Wilson 0871401002 Abdullah 3 3.84 2014 The Meaning of Human Existence
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average rating: 3.84
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]]> <![CDATA[An Introduction to Ethics (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy)]]> 205353432 318 Deigh 1009060961 Abdullah 5 5.00 2010 An Introduction to Ethics (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy)
author: Deigh
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average rating: 5.00
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]]> <![CDATA[The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion]]> 15992204 The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding.

His starting point is moral intuition—the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do. These intuitions feel like self-evident truths, making us righteously certain that those who see things differently are wrong. Haidt shows us how these intuitions differ across cultures, including the cultures of the political left and right. He blends his own research findings with those of anthropologists, historians, and other psychologists to draw a map of the moral domain, and he explains why conservatives can navigate that map more skillfully than can liberals. He then examines the origins of morality, overturning the view that evolution made us fundamentally selfish creatures. But rather than arguing that we are innately altruistic, he makes a more subtle claim—that we are fundamentally groupish. It is our groupishness, he explains, that leads to our greatest joys, our religious divisions, and our political affiliations. In a stunning final chapter on ideology and civility, Haidt shows what each side is right about, and why we need the insights of liberals, conservatives, and libertarians to flourish as a nation.]]> 530 Jonathan Haidt 0307907031 Abdullah 3 4.34 2012 The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
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name: Abdullah
average rating: 4.34
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics, 33rd Edition]]> 7266051 1048 1608310035 Abdullah 5 4.36 2004 The Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics, 33rd Edition
author: Washington University School of Medicine
name: Abdullah
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2004
rating: 5
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]]> The Gene: An Intimate History 28248444 ** NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER **

The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history from the author of The Emperor of All Maladies.

The story begins in an Augustinian abbey in 1856, and takes the reader from Darwin’s groundbreaking theory of evolution, to the horrors of Nazi eugenics, to present day and beyond - as we learn to “read� and “write� the human genome that unleashes the potential to change the fates and identities of our children.

Majestic in its scope and ambition, The Gene provides us with a definitive account of the epic history of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans � and paints a fascinating vision of both humanity’s past and future.

For fans of Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari, A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking and Being Mortal by Atul Gwande.

]]> 608 Siddhartha Mukherjee 144818116X Abdullah 5 ]]> 4.50 2016 The Gene: An Intimate History
author: Siddhartha Mukherjee
name: Abdullah
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2016
rating: 5
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كتاب لطيف عن قصة الجينات. وكيف تطور علم الوراثة من علم يسوده الخرافات الى العلم الحديث.

]]> The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 17157814 609 Haruki Murakami Abdullah 5 currently-reading 4.01 1994 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Abdullah
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1994
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Master the Boards USMLE Step 2 CK 6th Ed.]]> 55859825 High-yield USMLE Step 2 CK review using the Fischer Method!

From USMLE expert Dr. Conrad Fischer, Master the Boards USMLE Step 2 CK delivers the targeted review you need to excel on the exam and match into the residency program you want.

Exam-like focus, using the Fischer Method: best initial test, most accurate test, and most likely diagnosis
Step-by-step approach to patient care
Hundreds of full-color diagnostic images
Flow charts, decision trees, and comparison tables condense broad topics at a glance
Expert tips for recognizing incorrect answers
]]> 744 Conrad Fischer MD 1506254586 Abdullah 0 4.50 2010 Master the Boards USMLE Step 2 CK 6th Ed.
author: Conrad Fischer MD
name: Abdullah
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2010
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World]]> 12187787 In this groundbreaking book, award-winning physicist David Deutsch argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe--and that improving them is the basic regulating principle of all successful human endeavor. Taking us on a journey through every fundamental field of science, as well as the history of civilization, art, moral values, and the theory of political institutions, Deutsch tracks how we form new explanations and drop bad ones, explaining the conditions under which progress--which he argues is potentially boundless--can and cannot happen. Hugely ambitious and highly original, "The Beginning of Infinity" explores and establishes deep connections between the laws of nature, the human condition, knowledge, and the possibility for progress.]]> 498 David Deutsch 1101549823 Abdullah 3 4.27 2011 The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
author: David Deutsch
name: Abdullah
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2011
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[An Introduction to Metaphysics (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy)]]> 9335303 274 John W. Carroll 0521533686 Abdullah 5 3.82 2010 An Introduction to Metaphysics (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy)
author: John W. Carroll
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average rating: 3.82
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rating: 5
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]]> الكتاب والقرآن 25409188 هذه القراءة قادته للبحث عن مفاتيح فهم التنزيل الحكيم التي هي بالضرورة داخله، وقادتهلإعادة النظر في مفاهيم السلف في ضوء النظم المعرفية الحديثة التي بين يديه، ليس تشكيكاً قي ذكائهم أو في تقواهم أو حسن نواياهم، بل لإيمانه بأنهم تفاعلوا مع التنزيل الحكيم واجتهدوا ضمن إمكاناتهم وأرضيتهم المعرفية، واليوم لدينا أرضية معرفية مغايرة تسمح بقراءة جديدة مغايرة.
لقد توصّل الدكتور شحرور في قراءته المعاصرة إلى أن التنزيل الحكيم يضمّ بين دفّتيه نبوة محمد (ص) كنبي، ورسالته كرسول. وآياته من هذهالزاوية تضمّ آيات النبوة التي تشرح نواميس الكون وقوانينه وقوانين التاريخ وأحداثالرسالات والنبوات (القصص) وتحتمل التصديق والتكذيب، وآيات الرسالة التي تشرحالأحكام والأوامر والنواهي وتحتمل الطاعة والمعصية.]]> 711 محمد شحرور 1855166496 Abdullah 5 ١- لا ترادف فالقران ، بمعنى ان الانزال غبر التزيل، واقامة الصلاة غير الصلاة .. وغيرها
٢- انتهى وقت الفقة القديم (الائمة الاربعة ، وفقة السلف) وحان وقت فقة جديد معاصر يواكب تطور القرن الواحد والعشرون
٣- تفسير القران بالقران واخذ من السنة ما يوافق القران.

محمد شحرور وصل الى نتائج مهمة وكثيرة اختلف معه في بعضها. وانصح الجميع بقراءة هذا الكتاب. ]]> 4.15 1990 الكتاب والقرآن
author: محمد شحرور
name: Abdullah
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1990
rating: 5
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قبل ان تقرا الكتاب عليك ان تمسح كل ما تعلمته من الدين الاسلامي. الكتاب مبني على :
١- لا ترادف فالقران ، بمعنى ان الانزال غبر التزيل، واقامة الصلاة غير الصلاة .. وغيرها
٢- انتهى وقت الفقة القديم (الائمة الاربعة ، وفقة السلف) وحان وقت فقة جديد معاصر يواكب تطور القرن الواحد والعشرون
٣- تفسير القران بالقران واخذ من السنة ما يوافق القران.

محمد شحرور وصل الى نتائج مهمة وكثيرة اختلف معه في بعضها. وانصح الجميع بقراءة هذا الكتاب.
]]> <![CDATA[The Art of Living a Meaningless Existence: Ideas from Philosophy That Change the Way You Think]]> 61739751 A collection of essays that journey through philosophy and grapple with the increasingly relevant problem of finding meaning in what appears, for many of us, to be an inherently meaningless existence.

Without any of the sugarcoating often found in the modern hyper-positive self-help genres, Robert Pantano attempts to provide the value of motivation and personal development through unwavering philosophical honesty. Studying and pulling from ideas in Stoicism, Existentialism, Nihilism, Absurdism, Buddhism, Taoism, and more, he combines his own thoughts with concepts from philosophy to create accessible, thought-provoking, and beautiful takeaways that will change the way you think about yourself, existence, and how to appreciate the absurdity of it all.

Most of the essays contained in this book were originally published as videos seen by tens of millions of people on Pantano’s popular YouTube channel, Pursuit of Wonder. Because of their popularity, he has created an organized collection of revised essays gathered in the form of this book. Not only have the essays been improved and revised, but Pantano has also added additional essays containing deeper insights about the overarching subjects covered and why he has personally found them valuable.

Driven by a sense of doubt, skepticism, fascination, and a yearning for awe, The Art of Living a Meaningless Existence inspires readers to embark on their own pursuit of wonder.]]> 236 Robert Pantano Abdullah 3 4.37 The Art of Living a Meaningless Existence: Ideas from Philosophy That Change the Way You Think
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]]> <![CDATA[Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind]]> 23692271 512 Yuval Noah Harari Abdullah 5 4.33 2011 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
author: Yuval Noah Harari
name: Abdullah
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2011
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]]> <![CDATA[Philosophy in the Modern World (New History of Western Philosophy, vol. 4)]]> 166556 In this volume, Kenny tells the fascinating story of the development of philosophy in the modern world, from the early nineteenth century to the end of the millennium. Alongside (and intertwined with) extraordinary scientific advances, cultural changes, and political upheavals, the last two
centuries have seen some of the most intriguing and original developments in philosophical thinking, which have transformed our understanding of ourselves and our world. In the first part of the book, Kenny offers a lively narrative introducing the major thinkers in their historical context. Among
those we meet are the great figures of continental European philosophy, from Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche to Heidegger, Sartre, and Derrida; the Pragmatists such as C.S. Pierce and William James, who first developed a distinctively American philosophical tradition; Marx, Darwin, and
Freud, the non-philosophers whose influence on philosophy was immense; and Wittgenstein and Russell, friends and colleagues who set the agenda for analytic philosophy in the twentieth century. Kenny then proceeds to guide the reader lucidly through the nine main areas of philosophical work in the
period, offering a serious engagement with ideas and arguments about logic, language, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, politics, and the existence of God.
Graced with many beautiful illustrations, Philosophy in the Modern World concludes Kenny's stimulating history of the intellectual development of Western civilization, allowing readers to trace the birth and growth of philosophy from antiquity to the present day.]]> 368 Anthony Kenny 0198752792 Abdullah 5 3.74 2007 Philosophy in the Modern World (New History of Western Philosophy, vol. 4)
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]]> <![CDATA[Cardiac Pacemakers and Resynchronization Step by Step: An Illustrated Guide]]> 8405265 480 S. Serge Barold 1405186364 Abdullah 0 to-read 3.50 2010 Cardiac Pacemakers and Resynchronization Step by Step: An Illustrated Guide
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]]> <![CDATA[The Rise of Modern Philosophy (New History of Western Philosophy, vol. 3)]]> 166838
Kenny introduces us to some of the world's most original and influential thinkers and helps us gain an understanding of their famous works. The great minds we meet include Rene Descartes, traditionally seen as the founder of modern philosophy; the great British philosophers Hobbes, Locke, and Hume; continental thinkers such as Spinoza, Liebniz, and Hegel; and the towering figure of Immanuel Kant, who perhaps more than any other made philosophy what it is today. Kenny first tells the story of modern philosophy chronologically: his lively, accessible narrative brings the philosophers to life and fills in the historical and intellectual background to their work. It is ideal as the first thing to read for someone new to this wonderfully creative period. Kenny then backtracks to look closely at each of the main areas of philosophical exploration in this period: knowledge and understanding; the nature of the physical universe; metaphysics (the most fundamental questions there are about existence); mind and soul; the nature and content of morality; political philosophy; and God.

The book also features many intriguing and beautiful illustrations which evoke the human and social side of philosophy. Anyone who is interested in the evolution of modern thought will find this a book a treasure.]]> 356 Anthony Kenny 0198752776 Abdullah 5 3.78 2006 The Rise of Modern Philosophy (New History of Western Philosophy, vol. 3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Medieval Philosophy (New History of Western Philosophy, vol. 2)]]> 31896 history of philosophy to appear in decades.
In this volume, Kenny takes us on a fascinating tour through more than a millennium of thought from 400 AD onwards, charting the story of philosophy from the founders of Christian and Islamic thought through to the Renaissance. The Middle Ages saw a great flourishing of philosophy, and the
intellectual endeavor of the era reaches its climax in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, with the systems of the great schoolmen such as Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus. With Kenny as guide, we see these major philosophers through the eyes of a man who has spent a lifetime contemplating
their work. Thus we do not simply get an overview of philosophy, but also a penetrating and insightful critique of it. Kenny offers an illuminating account of various thinkers and schools of thought, from Augustine to Maimonides and from Grosseteste to Pomponazzi. And he offers much insight into
medieval thinking about logic and language, knowledge, physics, metaphysics, the mind, the soul, and God.
Vividly written, but serious and deep enough to offer a genuine understanding of the great philosophers, Kenny's lucid and stimulating history will become the definitive work for anyone interested in the people and ideas that shaped the course of Western thought.]]> 352 Anthony Kenny 019875275X Abdullah 5 3.75 2005 Medieval Philosophy (New History of Western Philosophy, vol. 2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Ancient Philosophy: A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 1]]> 19544166 and ideas that shaped the course of Western thought.]]> 364 Anthony Kenny Abdullah 5 4.16 2004 Ancient Philosophy: A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 1
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]]> <![CDATA[Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness]]> 3450744 From the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a revelatory look at how we make decisions

New York Times bestseller
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist and the Financial Times

Every day we make choices—about what to buy or eat, about financial investments or our children’s health and education, even about the causes we champion or the planet itself. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. Nudge is about how we make these choices and how we can make better ones. Using dozens of eye-opening examples and drawing on decades of behavioral science research, Nobel Prize winner Richard H. Thaler and Harvard Law School professor Cass R. Sunstein show that no choice is ever presented to us in a neutral way, and that we are all susceptible to biases that can lead us to make bad decisions. But by knowing how people think, we can use sensible “choice architecture� to nudge people toward the best decisions for ourselves, our families, and our society, without restricting our freedom of choice.]]> 260 Richard H. Thaler 014311526X Abdullah 3 3.86 2008 Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
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]]> <![CDATA[Conceptual Approaches to Elementary Particle Physics]]> 203989256 113 Stephen Melton Abdullah 3 3.00 Conceptual Approaches to Elementary Particle Physics
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]]> Hume and Kant on Causality 21283486 8 Jesse Braun Abdullah 3 4.00 2011 Hume and Kant on Causality
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]]> <![CDATA[Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion]]> 56419468 The foundational and wildly popular go-to resource for influence and persuasion—a renowned international bestseller, with over 5 million copies sold—now revised adding: new research, new insights, new examples, and online applications.

In the new edition of this highly acclaimed bestseller, Robert Cialdini�New York Times bestselling author of Pre-Suasion and the seminal expert in the fields of influence and persuasion—explains the psychology of why people say yes and how to apply these insights ethically in business and everyday settings. Using memorable stories and relatable examples, Cialdini makes this crucially important subject surprisingly easy. With Cialdini as a guide, you don’t have to be a scientist to learn how to use this science.


You’ll learn Cialdini’s Universal Principles of Influence, including new research and new uses so you can become an even more skilled persuader—and just as importantly, you’ll learn how to defend yourself against unethical influence attempts. You may think you know these principles, but without understanding their intricacies, you may be ceding their power to someone else.


Cialdini’s Principles of Persuasion:



Reciprocation
Commitment and Consistency
Social Proof
Liking
Authority
Scarcity
Unity, the newest principle for this edition
Understanding and applying the principles ethically is cost-free and deceptively easy. Backed by Dr. Cialdini’s 35 years of evidence-based, peer-reviewed scientific research—including a three-year field study on what leads people to change�Influence is a comprehensive guide to using these principles to move others in your direction.
]]> 592 Robert B. Cialdini 0062937677 Abdullah 4 4.40 1984 Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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]]> Why the Universe Exists 59568590 Peer deep into the heart of existence and find out why particle chaos was the making of matter.
WHY IS THERE ALWAYS SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING?

As you read this, billions of neutrinos from the sun are passing through your body, antimatter is sprouting from your dinner and the core of your being is a chaotic mess of particles known only as quarks and gluons.

Following the recent discovery of the Higgs Boson, WhyThe Universe Exists takes you deeper into the world of particle physics, exploring how the universe functions at the smallest scales.

Find out about the hunt for dark matter, discover how accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider are rewinding time to the first moments after the big bang, and learn how ghostly neutrino particles may hold the answers to the greatest mysteries of the universe.]]> 224 New Scientist 1529381932 Abdullah 5 4.00 2017 Why the Universe Exists
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]]> <![CDATA[The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications]]> 12767994 A penetrating exploration of the new physics, including time travel, quantum computers, and the multiverse from an award-winning physicist

For David Deutsch, a physicist of unusual originality, quantum theory contains our most fundamental knowledge of the physical world. Taken literally, it implies that there are many universes “parallel� to the one we see around us. This multiplicity of universes, according to Deutsch, turns out to be the key to achieving a new worldview based on four main

� Quantum physics and its many-universes interpretation
� The theory of evolution (Darwin/Dawkins)
� The theory of computation (quantum computation)
� The theory of knowledge (Karl Popper), explanation and understanding

The Fabric of Reality explains and connects many topics at the leading edge of current research and thinking, such as quantum computers (which work by effectively collaborating with their counterparts in other universes), the physics of time travel, the comprehensibility of nature and the physical limits of virtual reality, the significance of human life, and the ultimate fate of the universe.

Here—for scientist and layperson alike, for philosopher, science-fiction reader, biologist, and computer expert—is a startlingly complete and rational synthesis of disciplines, and a new, optimistic message about existence.]]> 401 David Deutsch Abdullah 5 4.38 1996 The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications
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]]> <![CDATA[The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science]]> 6338310 books 448 Norman Doidge 014103887X Abdullah 5 Highly recommended to anyone interested in neuroscience ]]> 4.24 2007 The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
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An eye opening book about neuroplasticity and how can the brain change over time.
Highly recommended to anyone interested in neuroscience
]]> <![CDATA[Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals]]> 55742688 AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Provocative and appealing . . . well worth your extremely limited time." —Barbara Spindel, The Wall Street Journal

The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks.

Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and “life hacks� to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks.

Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern fixation on “getting everything done,� Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing how many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society—and that we could do things differently.]]> 290 Oliver Burkeman 0374715246 Abdullah 1 4.33 2021 Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
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]]> To Kill a Mockingbird 29757622 New cover edition of the same ISBN can be found here

'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.'

Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel - a black man charged with attacking a white girl. Through the eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Lee explores the issues of race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s with compassion and humor. She also creates one of the great heroes of literature in their father, whose lone struggle for justice pricks the conscience of a town steeped in prejudice and hypocrisy.]]> 307 Harper Lee Abdullah 2 4.25 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird
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]]> <![CDATA[The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man]]> 162759 228 Ernest Becker 0029021901 Abdullah 3 4.34 1962 The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man
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]]> <![CDATA[Modern Man in Search of a Soul]]> 646175 A provocative and enlightening look at spiritual unease and its contribution to the void in modern civilization

Considered by many to be one of the most important books in the field of psychology, Modern Man in Search of a Soul is a comprehensive introduction to the thought of Carl Gustav Jung. In this book, Jung examines some of the most contested and crucial areas in the field of analytical psychology, including dream analysis, the primitive unconscious, and the relationship between psychology and religion. Additionally, Jung looks at the differences between his theories and those of Sigmund Freud, providing a valuable basis for anyone interested in the fundamentals of psychoanalysis.
]]> 244 C.G. Jung 0156612062 Abdullah 0 to-read 4.20 1931 Modern Man in Search of a Soul
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]]> <![CDATA[Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved (The University Center for Human Values Series)]]> 26597374

In this provocative book, renowned primatologist Frans de Waal argues that modern-day evolutionary biology takes far too dim a view of the natural world, emphasizing our "selfish" genes and reinforcing our habit of labeling ethical behavior as humane and the less civilized as animalistic. Seeking the origin of human morality not in evolution but in human culture, science insists that we are moral by choice, not by nature.


Citing remarkable evidence based on his extensive research of primate behavior, de Waal attacks "Veneer Theory," which posits morality as a thin overlay on an otherwise nasty nature. He explains how we evolved from a long line of animals that care for the weak and build cooperation with reciprocal transactions. Drawing on Darwin, recent scientific advances, and his extensive research of primate behavior, de Waal demonstrates a strong continuity between human and animal behavior. He probes issues such as anthropomorphism and human responsibilities toward animals. His compelling account of how human morality evolved out of mammalian society will fascinate anyone who has ever wondered about the origins and reach of human goodness.


Based on the Tanner Lectures de Waal delivered at Princeton University's Center for Human Values in 2004, Primates and Philosophers includes responses by the philosophers Peter Singer, Christine M. Korsgaard, and Philip Kitcher and the science writer Robert Wright. They press de Waal to clarify the differences between humans and other animals, yielding a lively debate that will fascinate all those who wonder about the origins and reach of human goodness.]]> 232 Frans de Waal 0691169160 Abdullah 3 4.12 2006 Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved (The University Center for Human Values Series)
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]]> <![CDATA[Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life]]> 44595007
What would be possible if you followed through on your best intentions? What could you accomplish if you could stay focused and overcome distractions? What if you had the power to become "indistractable"?

International best-selling author, former Stanford lecturer, and behavioral design expert, Nir Eyal, wrote Silicon Valley's handbook for making technology habit-forming. Five years after publishing Hooked, Eyal reveals distraction's Achilles' heel in his groundbreaking new book.

In Indistractable, Eyal reveals the hidden psychology driving us to distraction. He describes why solving the problem is not as simple as swearing off our devices: Abstinence is impractical and often makes us want more.

Eyal lays bare the secret of finally doing what you say you will do with a four-step, research-backed model. Indistractable reveals the key to getting the best out of technology, without letting it get the best of us.

Inside, Eyal overturns conventional wisdom and reveals:


Why distraction at work is a symptom of a dysfunctional company culture - and how to fix it
What really drives human behavior and why "time management is pain management"
Why your relationships (and your sex life) depend on you becoming indistractable
How to raise indistractable children in an increasingly distracting world
Empowering and optimistic, Indistractable provides practical, novel techniques to control your time and attention - helping you live the life you really want.]]> 290 Nir Eyal 194883653X Abdullah 0 to-read 3.71 2019 Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
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]]> <![CDATA[How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone]]> 38212134 384 Brian McCullough 1631493078 Abdullah 0 to-read 4.26 2018 How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
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]]> <![CDATA[Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past]]> 35749414 335 David Reich 110187032X Abdullah 0 to-read 4.11 2018 Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
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]]> <![CDATA[Human: The Science Behind What Makes Your Brain Unique]]> 8264291 466 Michael S. Gazzaniga 0061829714 Abdullah 5 4.08 2008 Human: The Science Behind What Makes Your Brain Unique
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]]> 1Q84 الكتاب الأول 28801171 Віра і релігія, кохання й секс, зброя і домашнє насилля, вбивство за переконанням і суїцид, втрата себе й духовна прірва між поколіннями батьків і дітей - усе це майстерно переплетено у детективному сюжеті роману, де події відбуваються у двох паралельних реальностях: Токіо 1984-го і Токіо, за висловлюванням головної героїні Аомаме, "незрозуміло якого (1Q84)" року.
До видання увійшла перша книга роману Харукі Муракамі "1Q84".]]> 557 Haruki Murakami 9953687870 Abdullah 5 راوية عميقة... حوارات جذابة... مواضيع شائكة

واسئلة... اسئلة... اسئلة لا تنتهي. ]]> 4.06 2009 1Q84 الكتاب الأول
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عالمان... قمران.. احداث غريبة. وروح 1984 موجودة في عمق الرواية
راوية عميقة... حوارات جذابة... مواضيع شائكة

واسئلة... اسئلة... اسئلة لا تنتهي.
]]> Player Piano 9597
Alternate cover edition here]]> 341 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 0385333781 Abdullah 2 3.90 1952 Player Piano
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]]> The Essential Schopenhauer 9822676
“Schopenhauer’s philosophy has had a special attraction for those who wonder about life’s meaning, along with those engaged in music, literature, and the visual arts.� —Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

The Essential Schopenhauer delivers the first comprehensive English anthology of the seminal philosopher’s writings. Edited by Wolfgang Schirmacher, president of the International Schopenhauer Association, this indispensible collection affords readers a uniquely accessible gateway into the monolithic thinker’s prodigious body of work. Just as the Harper Perennial Basic Writings series renders the work of Heidegger and Nietzsche accessible for English readers, The Essential Schopenhauer gives us unprecedented access to the complex ideas of this profound and influential thinker.]]> 371 Arthur Schopenhauer Abdullah 0 to-read 4.04 1818 The Essential Schopenhauer
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]]> <![CDATA[Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe]]> 61042729 By the star physicist and author of multiple #1 Sunday Times bestsellers, a major and definitive narrative work on black holes and how they can help us understand the universe.

Of all the many scientific marvels occurring in our universe, perhaps none have been more consistently intriguing and mysterious than black holes. What are they, exactly? How do they form? And what can they tell us about the nature and future of our universe?

Renowned physicist Brian Cox has dedicated his career to presenting complicated scientific ideas in an engaging way, from his popular BBC podcast "The Infinite Monkey Cage," to his frequently sold-out speaking events, to his bestselling books written with fellow physicist Jeff Forshaw. Now the two team up once again with Horizons, an exploration of these amazing objects--and why they continue to confirm that Einstein's theory of general relativity is such a brilliant explanation of the universe around us.]]> 289 Brian Cox 0062936700 Abdullah 3 ]]> 4.27 2022 Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
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Amazing introduction to the physics of black holes. It’s very detailed and requires some knowledge of physics.

]]> ‫ميرامار� (Arabic Edition) 210702427 158 Naguib Mahfouz 9778639728 Abdullah 0 to-read 3.75 1967 ‫ميرامار‬ (Arabic Edition)
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]]> Brave New World 61403176
Against this backdrop, a young man known as John the Savage is brought to London from the remote desert of New Mexico. What he sees in the new civilization a "brave new world" (quoting Shakespeare’s The Tempest). However, ultimately, John challenges the basic premise of this society in an act that threatens and fascinates its citizens.

Huxley uses his entire prowess to throw the idea of utopia into reverse, presenting us what is known as the "dystopian" novel. When Brave New World was written (1931), neither Hitler nor Stalin had risen to power. Huxley saw the enduring threat to society from the dark side of scientific and social progress, and mankind's increasing appetite for simple amusement. Brave New World is a work that indicts the idea of progress for progress sake and is backed up with force and reason.]]> 236 Aldous Huxley 0795311257 Abdullah 1 3.89 1932 Brave New World
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]]> <![CDATA[Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything]]> 6346975 The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory

An instant bestseller that is poised to become a classic, Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foer's yearlong quest to improve his memory under the tutelage of top "mental athletes." He draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of remembering, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human memory. From the United States Memory Championship to deep within the author's own mind, this is an electrifying work of journalism that reminds us that, in every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories.]]> 307 Joshua Foer 159420229X Abdullah 3 3.86 2011 Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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A good book about memory and how to remember anything you want
]]> <![CDATA[Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think]]> 36185940 Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.

When asked simple questions about global trends�what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school—we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.

In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective—from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse).

Our problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases.

It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most.

Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future. ]]> 341 Hans Rosling 125012381X Abdullah 5 This book targets the fallacies of our thinking when it comes to the world in general. A highly recommended ]]> 4.48 2018 Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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How we tend to see world is different that what the world actually is. This book talks about how our lives are much better today than ever. From most if not all aspects.
This book targets the fallacies of our thinking when it comes to the world in general. A highly recommended
]]> <![CDATA[How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need]]> 52908942 Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions.

Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can prevent the worst impacts of the climate crisis. Gates says, "we can work on a local, national, and global level to build the technologies, businesses, and industries to avoid the worst impacts of climate change." His interest in climate change is a natural outgrowth of the efforts by his foundation to reduce poverty and disease. Climate change, according to Gates, will have the biggest impact on the people who have done the least to cause it. As a technologist, he has seen first-hand how innovation can change the world. By investing in research, inventing new technologies, and by deploying them quickly at large scale, Gates believes climate change can be addressed in meaningful ways. According to Gates, "to prevent the worst effects of climate change, we have to get to net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases. This problem is urgent, and the debate is complex, but I believe we can come together to invent new carbon-zero technologies, deploy the ones we have, and ultimately avoid a climate catastrophe."]]> 288 Bill Gates 0385546130 Abdullah 5 An eye opener. A must read]]> 4.08 2021 How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
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This book is about climate change. Why this issue needs to be tackled. What makes it an emergency. How we are contributing to climate change and how to reach zero carbon emissions.
An eye opener. A must read
]]> <![CDATA[Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?]]> 59231588 Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith provides the skills you need to navigate common life challenges and take charge of your emotional and mental health in her debut book.

Filled with secrets from a therapist's toolkit, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? teaches you how to fortify and maintain your mental health, even in the most trying of times. Dr Julie Smith's expert advice and powerful coping techniques will help you stay resilient, whether you want to manage anxiety, deal with criticism, cope with depression, build self-confidence, find motivation, or learn to forgive yourself. The book tackles everyday issues and offers practical solutions in bite-sized, easy-to-digest entries which make it easy to quickly find specific information and guidance.

Your mental well-being is just as important as your physical well-being. Packed with proven strategies, Dr Smith's empathetic guide offers a deeper understanding of how your mind works and gives you the insights and help you need to nurture your mental health every day. Wise and practical, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? might just change your life.]]> 363 Julie Smith 0063227959 Abdullah 5 I learned alot reading this boom ]]> 4.04 2022 Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
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A simple yet powerful book about everyday challenges. Written by a psychologist, this book tackles wide important topic such as depression, stress, anxiety, relationships and the meaning of life.
I learned alot reading this boom
]]> <![CDATA[How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going]]> 58784471 An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible--a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish.

We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works offers a much-needed reality check--because before we can tackle problems effectively, we must understand the facts.

In this ambitious and thought-provoking book we see, for example, that globalization isn't inevitable--the foolishness of allowing 70 per cent of the world's rubber gloves to be made in just one factory became glaringly obvious in 2020--and that our societies have been steadily increasing their dependence on fossil fuels, such that any promises of decarbonization by 2050 are a fairy tale. For example, each greenhouse-grown supermarket-bought tomato has the equivalent of five tablespoons of diesel embedded in its production, and we have no way of producing steel, cement or plastics at required scales without huge carbon emissions.

Ultimately, Smil answers the most profound question of our age: are we irrevocably doomed or is a brighter utopia ahead? Compelling, data-rich and revisionist, this wonderfully broad, interdisciplinary guide finds faults with both extremes. Looking at the world through this quantitative lens reveals hidden truths that change the way we see our past, present and uncertain future.]]> 336 Vaclav Smil 0593297067 Abdullah 5 An eye opener on climate change and the processes by which we affect the environment ]]> 3.92 2022 How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
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This book is about energy. How the energy is utilized and proceed to make our lives easy. How food is processed and how steel and cement are made. And how do they affect the environment.
An eye opener on climate change and the processes by which we affect the environment
]]> <![CDATA[Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty]]> 12158480 Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?

Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?

Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence?

Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it). Korea, to take just one of their fascinating examples, is a remarkably homogeneous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The south forged a society that created incentives, rewarded innovation, and allowed everyone to participate in economic opportunities. The economic success thus spurred was sustained because the government became accountable and responsive to citizens and the great mass of people. Sadly, the people of the north have endured decades of famine, political repression, and very different economic institutions—with no end in sight. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created these completely different institutional trajectories.

Based on fifteen years of original research Acemoglu and Robinson marshall extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, including:

- China has built an authoritarian growth machine. Will it continue to grow at such high speed andoverwhelm the West?
- Are America’s best days behind it? Are we moving from a virtuous circle in which efforts by elites to aggrandize power are resisted to a vicious one that enriches and empowers a small minority?
- What is the most effective way to help move billions of people from the rut of poverty to prosperity? More
philanthropy from the wealthy nations of the West? Or learning the hard-won lessons of Acemoglu and Robinson’s breakthrough ideas on the interplay between inclusive political and economic institutions?

Why Nations Fail will change the way you look at—and understand—the world.]]> 529 Daron Acemoğlu 0307719219 Abdullah 3 4.06 2012 Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
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The more libral the country is. The less likely for it to fail.
]]> The Art of Thinking Clearly 21901765
Despite the best of intentions, humans are notoriously bad—that is, irrational—when it comes to making decisions and assessing risks and tradeoffs. Psychologists and neuroscientists refer to these distinctly human foibles, biases, and thinking traps as “cognitive errors.� Cognitive errors are systematic deviances from rationality, from optimized, logical, rational thinking and behavior. We make these errors all the time, in all sorts of situations, for problems big and whether to choose the apple or the cupcake; whether to keep retirement funds in the stock market when the Dow tanks, or whether to take the advice of a friend over a stranger.

The “behavioral turn� in neuroscience and economics in the past twenty years has increased our understanding of how we think and how we make decisions. It shows how systematic errors mar our thinking and under which conditions our thought processes work best and worst. Evolutionary psychology delivers convincing theories about why our thinking is, in fact, marred. The neurosciences can pinpoint with increasing precision what exactly happens when we think clearly and when we don’t.

Drawing on this wide body of research, The Art of Thinking Clearly is an entertaining presentation of these known systematic thinking errors--offering guidance and insight into everything why you shouldn’t accept a free drink to why you SHOULD walk out of a movie you don’t like it to why it’s so hard to predict the future to why shouldn’t watch the news. The book is organized into 100 short chapters, each covering a single cognitive error, bias, or heuristic. Examples of these concepts Reciprocity, Confirmation Bias, The It-Gets-Better-Before-It-Gets-Worse Trap, and the Man-With-A-Hammer Tendency. In engaging prose and with real-world examples and anecdotes, The Art of Thinking Clearly helps solve the puzzle of human reasoning.]]> 389 Rolf Dobelli 0062359800 Abdullah 4 100 fallacies explained 4.11 2011 The Art of Thinking Clearly
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100 fallacies explained
]]> A Little Life 29408433 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER � A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship� (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST � MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST � WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE �

A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.]]> 723 Hanya Yanagihara 1447294831 Abdullah 5 4.36 2015 A Little Life
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A tear jerker. One of the few books that describes depression very well.
]]> <![CDATA[The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us]]> 60637598 New from the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs ("A masterpiece of science writing." --Washington Post) and "one of the stars of modern paleontology" (National Geographic), a sweeping and revelatory history of mammals, illuminating the lost story of the extraordinary family tree that led to us.

National Bestseller - Top 10 Nonfiction of 2022: Kirkus - Best Science Books of 2022: The Times UK

We humans are the inheritors of a dynasty that has reigned over the planet for nearly 66 million years, through fiery cataclysm and ice the mammals. Our lineage includes saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths, armadillos the size of a car, cave bears three times the weight of a grizzly, clever scurriers that outlasted Tyrannosaurus rex, and even other types of humans, like Neanderthals. Indeed humankind and many of the beloved fellow mammals we share the planet with today--lions, whales, dogs--represent only the few survivors of a sprawling and astonishing family tree that has been pruned by time and mass extinctions. How did we get here?

In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs--hailed as "the ultimate dinosaur biography" by Scientific American--American paleontologist Steve Brusatte enchanted readers with his definitive history of the dinosaurs. Now, picking up the narrative in the ashes of the extinction event that doomed T-rex and its kind, Brusatte explores the remarkable story of the family of animals that inherited the Earth--mammals-- and brilliantly reveals that their story is every bit as fascinating and complex as that of the dinosaurs.

Beginning with the earliest days of our lineage some 325 million years ago, Brusatte charts how mammals survived the asteroid that claimed the dinosaurs and made the world their own, becoming the astonishingly diverse range of animals that dominate today's Earth. Brusatte also brings alive the lost worlds mammals inhabited through time, from ice ages to volcanic catastrophes. Entwined in this story is the detective work he and other scientists have done to piece together our understanding using fossil clues and cutting-edge technology.

A sterling example of scientific storytelling by one of our finest young researchers, The Rise and Reign of the Mammals illustrates how this incredible history laid the foundation for today's world, for us, and our future.]]> 528 Steve Brusatte 0062951521 Abdullah 4 4.50 2022 The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
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This book is one of the most amazing books I read in 2024. It tells the story of us. How we and our mammals cousins reigned the earth after dinosaurs became extinct.
]]> <![CDATA[Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe]]> 40382500 New York Times bestselling author of Warped Passages and Knocking on Heaven’s Door uses her research into dark matter to illuminate the startling connections between the furthest reaches of space and life here on Earth.

Sixty-six million years ago, an object the size of a city descended from space to crash into Earth, creating a devastating cataclysm that killed off the dinosaurs, along with three-quarters of the other species on the planet. What was its origin? In Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, Lisa Randall proposes it was a comet that was dislodged from its orbit as the Solar System passed through a disk of dark matter embedded in the Milky Way. In a sense, it might have been dark matter that killed the dinosaurs.

Working through the background and consequences of this proposal, Randall shares with us the latest findings—established and speculative—regarding the nature and role of dark matter and the origin of the Universe, our galaxy, our Solar System, and life, along with the process by which scientists explore new concepts. In Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, Randall tells a breathtaking story that weaves together the cosmos� history and our own, illuminating the deep relationships that are critical to our world and the astonishing beauty inherent in the most familiar things.]]> 437 Lisa Randall Abdullah 3 3.80 2015 Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
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An amazing, beauty’s written book connecting the extinction of dinosaurs with dark matter, the central idea of the book that the dark matter was responsible for the asteroid that caused dinosaurs extinction
]]> <![CDATA[The Genealogy of Morals: Understanding Nietzsche]]> 206054938 **Contains the complete work of Nietzsche's "The Genealogy of Morals".**
Introduction to "Understanding The Genealogy of "

Embarking on the journey through Friedrich Nietzsche's "Genealogy of Morals" is akin to setting sail into the vast and tumultuous ocean of moral philosophy. This book, a beacon of Nietzsche's profound and often provocative thoughts, serves as a guide to navigate the complex waters of ethics and morality. The purpose of this introduction is not just to acquaint readers with Nietzsche's seminal work but to invigorate a deep, personal engagement with his ideas.

Chapter 1: Why a Genealogy of Morals? In the first chapter, we delve into the genesis of Nietzsche's "Genealogy of Morality," situating it in the context of his other works. This exploration is crucial in understanding Nietzsche's purpose in writing a "genealogy" and its significance in the realm of his philosophical thought. We dissect the genealogical method employed by Nietzsche, illuminating how he traces the origin and evolution of moral values. This method is not just a tool for historical analysis; it's a critical lens through which Nietzsche scrutinizes traditional morality. The chapter also contextualizes the work in the philosophical and cultural landscape of the late 19th century, revealing how Nietzsche's ideas conversed and contrasted with the social and philosophical currents of his time.

Chapter 2: Master Morality vs. Slave Morality delves into Nietzsche's fundamental dichotomy between master and slave moralities. It examines the historical and psychological origins of these moralities and their development over time. The chapter also reflects on the impact of these moralities on European cultural and social identity, challenging readers to consider how these contrasting values manifest in contemporary culture and society.

Chapter 3: Guilt, Bad Conscience, and Asceticism offers an insightful analysis of Nietzsche's concepts of guilt and bad conscience. It discusses the relationship between the internalization of instincts and the development of guilt and self-repression. This chapter invites readers to reflect on personal experiences of guilt and how these relate to Nietzsche's critique of asceticism.

Chapter 4: Current Influence and Relevance assesses the impact of "Genealogy of Morality" on contemporary moral philosophy. It explores how Nietzsche's criticisms apply to current ethical and social dilemmas and encourages readers to reexamine and reinterpret moral values in light of Nietzschean thought.

Chapter 5: Questions for Personal Analysis is designed to encourage readers to apply Nietzsche's ideas to their own lives and social contexts. This chapter is a call for introspection, posing questions about personal morality, the origins of values, and the experience of guilt. It challenges readers to consider reevaluating their values and beliefs to better align with their understanding of the world.

In conclusion, "Understanding The Genealogy of Morals" is more than just a book; it's a journey into the heart of Nietzsche's philosophical world. It's an invitation to challenge, question, and redefine one's understanding of morality. This book is a must-read for anyone eager to embark on a profound journey of self-discovery and intellectual exploration.

Dive into this exploration and allow Nietzsche's revolutionary ideas to transform your understanding of morality and ethics.]]> 223 Friedrich Nietzsche Abdullah 5 4.00 The Genealogy of Morals: Understanding Nietzsche
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A good start for nietzsche’s philosphy.
]]> The Book of Disquiet 8388793
„Cine este Fernando Pessoa?" se întreba Octavio Paz, adeverind încă o dată că opera unuia dintre cei mai importanţi, prolifici şi proteiformi autori ai secolului XX, „investigatorul solemn al lucrurilor futile", declină personalităţile virtuale coexistând în sine şi revelate graţie scriiturii ce atribuie fiecăreia o realitate fictivă. Scrisă între 1913 şi 1935 sub formă de panseuri, maxime, aforisme, Cartea neliniştirii, pseudojurnalul pessoan, este o cronică a deziluziei şi a deriziunii izvorâte din convingerea că viaţa e lipsită de noimă, iar arta nu-i conferă nici un sens. Ferit de privirile contemporanilor, cultivându-şi sistematic forţa imaginaţiei, Pessoa îşi construieşte un dublu - Bernando Soares - pe care-l aşază într-un univers personal ireal şi cu toate astea mai adevărat, pentru el, decât lumea reală. Soares, un umil funcţionar în costume cenuşii, alege să-şi petreacă viaţa într-o izolare aproape monahală, mai degrabă visând-o decât trăind-o, privind-o fără pretenţia de a o descifra şi proiectând asupra ei propriile emoţii pe care le încearcă închis între pereţii camerei unde îşi aşterne pe hârtie disperarea. Soares scrie cu luciditate, îndârjire şi furie, împingând introspecţia până la limita incomunicabilului. Dar dincolo de zidurile care-l împrejmuiesc se zăreşte urbea. Peisajul citadin este atât de prezent în toată cartea, încât fragmentele de însemnări încheagă un roman al oraşului cu care, de fapt, Pessoa are o legătură profundă, în genul aceleia pe care Baudelaire o are cu Parisul, Joyce, cu Dublinul şi Kafka, cu Praga. Şi poate tocmai aceste privelişti din fascinanta Lisabonă, cu străduţele ei întortocheate pulsând de viaţă, poartă cu ele speranţa unei posibile evadări.]]> 510 Fernando Pessoa Abdullah 0 4.18 1982 The Book of Disquiet
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]]> <![CDATA[Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience]]> 24816421
In the mid-twentieth century, Michael S. Gazzaniga, “the father of cognitive neuroscience,� was part of a team of pioneering neuroscientists who developed the now foundational split-brain brain the notion that the right and left hemispheres of the brain can act independently from one another and have different strengths.

In Tales from Both Sides of the Brain, Gazzaniga tells the impassioned story of his life in science and his decades-long journey to understand how the separate spheres of our brains communicate and miscommunicate with their separate agendas. By turns humorous and moving, Tales from Both Sides of the Brain interweaves Gazzaniga’s scientific achievements with his reflections on the challenges and thrills of working as a scientist. In his engaging and accessible style, he paints a vivid portrait not only of his discovery of split-brain theory, but also of his comrades in arms—the many patients, friends, and family who have accompanied him on this wild ride of intellectual discovery.]]> 453 Michael S. Gazzaniga 0062228811 Abdullah 1 3.73 2015 Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience
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]]> <![CDATA[CROCODILES: Fun Facts and Amazing Photos of Animals in Nature (Amazing Animal Kingdom Book 13)]]> 23624963
Did you know that...
- a crocodile has its own built-in suit of armor?
- that it sweats through its mouth instead of its skin?
- that a mother crocodile can lay up to 95 eggs at a time?

These are only a few of the incredible findings you will make as you explore along with us.

Watch up-close as the mighty croc hunts down its prey. Discover the scary thrill of seeing these large reptiles cover great distances, on both land and water, in a matter of seconds. Look on as a mama croc builds her nest, lays her eggs, and helps her babies hatch.

Perhaps you're one of those people who's always wondered whether there's an easy way to tell crocodiles and alligators apart? Well, that's in here, too! Whatever you want to know about crocs, you will discover it in the pages of this riveting, just-for-kids, fun-filled, information-loaded eBook CROCODILES: Fun Facts and Amazing Photos of Animals in Nature!]]> 26 Emma Child Abdullah 0 4.77 2014 CROCODILES: Fun Facts and Amazing Photos of Animals in Nature (Amazing Animal Kingdom Book 13)
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]]> <![CDATA[Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity]]> 53638111 From the bestselling author ofWaking UpandThe End of Faith, an adaptation of his wildly popular, often controversial podcast

“Civilization rests on a series of successful conversations.� —Sam Harris

Sam Harris—neuroscientist, philosopher, and bestselling author—has been exploring some of the most important questions about the human mind, society, and current events on his podcast,Making Sense. With over one million downloads per episode, these discussions have clearly hit a nerve, frequently walking a tightrope where either host or guest—and sometimes both—lose their footing, but always in search of a greater understanding of the world in which we live. For Harris, honest conversation, no matter how difficult or controversial, represents the only path to moral and intellectual progress.

This book includes a dozen of the best conversations from Making Sense, including talks with Daniel Kahneman, Timothy Snyder, Nick Bostrom, and Glenn Loury, on topics that range from the nature of consciousness and free will, to politics and extremism, to living ethically. Together they shine a light on what it means to “make sense� in the modern world.

]]> 421 Sam Harris Abdullah 0 to-read 4.09 2020 Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity
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]]> <![CDATA[It's a Numberful World: How Math Is Hiding Everywhere]]> 45892066 318 Eddie Woo Abdullah 0 to-read 4.14 2018 It's a Numberful World: How Math Is Hiding Everywhere
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]]> <![CDATA[Quantum Physics for Beginners: The Non-Scientist’s Guide to the Big Ideas of Quantum Mechanics, with Key Principles, Major Theories, and Experiments Simplified]]> 221229286 Quantum Physics, Made Simple and Accessible

Are you curious about the quantum world but overwhelmed by tough words and complex equations? Make this your first book on quantum—your guide to understanding the universe’s most mysterious topics, from waves and light to space, nature, and even consciousness!

I promise to break down quantum physics into bite-sized, engaging explanations that make learning feel natural. Through real-life analogies, stories of the great physicists who paved the way, and simplified terms, you’ll soon unlock the secrets of light, entanglement, waves, and much more.

Inside the Book, You’ll FindThe Giants of Science � Meet the icons of modern physics, from Einstein to Bohr, and dive into the fierce debates, groundbreaking discoveries, and unique perspectives that shaped the field.Key Principles � Unlock five basics of quantum physics, from the mind-bending wave-particle duality to the intrigue of the uncertainty principle.Major Theories � Explore the biggest concepts in quantum, including entanglement, Schrödinger’s Cat, superposition, and more.Experiments � Discover the pivotal experiments that shaped quantum theory, such as the famous double-slit experiment and the eye-opening photoelectric effect.Everyday Items � Watch quantum physics in action—from GPS navigation and X-ray machines to lasers and smartphones—explore emerging applications in quantum computing and cryptography.
I cover all this and more, without the intimidating equations or engineering blueprints—just clear, easy-to-understand descriptions. Get your copy now and leap into the possibilities of quantum mechanics, from nuclear fusion to bending time, teleporting data, and even quantum supremacy.

If the Law of Attraction really works for me, you’ll scroll up and click the BUY NOW button—and then tell every school to make this book mandatory reading! But if you’re still on the fence, check out the exclusive extras that come with your book purchase.

Includes 7 Exclusive Downloads
Including but not limited The Theory of Relativity by Albert Einstein Eight Lectures delivered at Columbia by Max Planck The Nature of the Physical World by Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington Expanded Quantum Glossary with hundreds of beginner-friendly definitionsAND MORE!
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So, whether you're an aspiring scientist, a tech enthusiast ready for the next big thing, or a curious mind eager to explore nature and philosophy, this book is your best non-scientist introduction to quantum mechanics. Order your copy now and join the ranks of modern science!]]> 236 Pantheon Space Academy Abdullah 0 to-read 3.87 Quantum Physics for Beginners: The Non-Scientist’s Guide to the Big Ideas of Quantum Mechanics, with Key Principles, Major Theories, and Experiments Simplified
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]]> <![CDATA[The House at Pooh Corner (Winnie-the-Pooh, #2)]]> 776407 180 A.A. Milne 0525444440 Abdullah 0 to-read 4.37 1928 The House at Pooh Corner (Winnie-the-Pooh, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Skeptics' Guide to the Future: What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow]]> 60862617 From the bestselling authors and hosts of "The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe," a high-tech roadmap of the future in their beloved voice, cracking open the follies of futurists past and how technology will profoundly change our world, redefining what it means to be human.

Our predictions of the future are a wild fantasy, inextricably linked to our present hopes and fears, biases and ignorance. Whether they be the outlandish leaps predicted in the 1920s, like multi-purpose utility belts with climate control capabilities and planes the size of luxury cruise ships, or the forecasts of the �60s, which didn’t anticipate the sexual revolution or women’s liberation, the path to the present is littered with failed predictions and incorrect estimations. The best we can do is try to absorb the lessons from futurism's checkered past, perhaps learning to do a little better.

In THE SKEPTICS' GUIDE TO THE FUTURE, Steven Novella and his co-authors build upon the work of futurists of the past by examining what they got right, what they got wrong, and how they came to those conclusions. By exploring the pitfalls of each era, they give their own speculations about the distant future, transformed by unbelievable technology ranging from genetic manipulation to artificial intelligence and quantum computing. Applying their trademark skepticism, they carefully extrapolate upon each scientific development, leaving no stone unturned as they lay out a vision for the future.

]]> 433 Steven Novella 1538709562 Abdullah 5 4.33 2022 The Skeptics' Guide to the Future: What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow
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Amazing book about futurism and what advancements we might expect in the future
]]> <![CDATA[Nothing: From absolute zero to cosmic oblivion -- amazing insights into nothingness]]> 31833202
With chapters by 22 science writers, including top names such as Ian Stewart, Marcus Chown, Helen Pilcher, Nigel Henbest, Michael Brooks, Linda Geddes, Paul Davies, Jo Marchant and David Fisher, this fascinating and intriguing book revels in a subject that has tantalised the finest minds for centuries, and shows there's more to nothing than meets the eye.]]> 256 New Scientist Abdullah 2 3.89 2013 Nothing: From absolute zero to cosmic oblivion -- amazing insights into nothingness
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I didn’t like the book much. It contains several essays that are not always related to nothingness. The essays themselves however are interesting.
]]> <![CDATA[Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine]]> 41104130
​Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,� which has been used for 10,000 years, Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, the first antibiotic, which saved countless lives, the first antipsychotic, which helped empty public mental hospitals, Viagra, statins, and the new frontier of monoclonal antibodies. This is a deep, wide-ranging, and wildly entertaining book.]]> 304 Thomas Hager 1419734407 Abdullah 4 - opioids
- antibiotics
- vaccines
- methadone
- oral contraception and viagra
- statin
- monoclonal antibodies
- anasthesia
- antipsychotics]]> 4.17 2019 Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
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This gem is highly recommended to anyone interested in medicine / heath in general. It talks about 10 drugs that changed the history of mankind, those 10 drugs are:
- opioids
- antibiotics
- vaccines
- methadone
- oral contraception and viagra
- statin
- monoclonal antibodies
- anasthesia
- antipsychotics
]]> <![CDATA[13.8: The Quest to Find the True Age of the Universe and the Theory of Everything]]> 29420441 The bestselling author of The Scientists presents “alively and accessible look at how astronomers determined the age of our universe� (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The twentieth century gave us two great theories of physics. The general theory of relativity describes the behavior of very large things, and quantum theory the behavior of very small things. In this landmark book, John Gribbin—one of the best-known science writers of the past thirty years—presents his own version of the Holy Grail of physics, the search that has been going on for decades to find a unified “Theory of Everything� that combines these ideas into one mathematical package, a single equation that could be printed on a T-shirt, containing the answer to life, the Universe, and everything. With his inimitable mixture of science, history, and biography, Gribbin shows how—despite skepticism among many physicists—these two great theories are very compatible, and point to a deep truth about the nature of our existence. The answer lies, intriguingly, with the age of the 13.8 billion years. “Gribbin is a confident, engaging guide . . . a lovingly rendered history.”—TheWall Street Journal “An exciting chronicle of a monumental scientific accomplishment by a scientist who participated in the measuring of the age of the universe.”—Kirkus Reviews “A book that hits readers with unrelenting detail. And with a story as grand as this one, that’s exactly the way a good science book should have it. Nothing will be lost here, and everything—a clear understanding—will be gained.”—Astronomy “A welcome and relatively quick read for cosmology buffs, students, and amateur astronomers.”—Booklist]]> 261 John Gribbin 030022317X Abdullah 4 4.38 2015 13.8: The Quest to Find the True Age of the Universe and the Theory of Everything
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An amazing story of how scientists reached to the age of the universe.
]]> Mrs Dalloway 52842962
Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Smith's day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax. Virginia Woolf's masterly novel, in which she perfected the interior monologue, brings past, present and future together on one momentous day in June 1923.

Edited by Stella McNichol with an Introduction and Notes by Elaine Showalter]]> 180 Virginia Woolf 0241436273 Abdullah 0 to-read 3.81 1925 Mrs Dalloway
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]]> <![CDATA[The Manual: A Philosopher's Guide to Life]]> 34946912 Life's Missing Instruction ManualEpictetus (c. 50-135 CE) was brought as a slave to Rome, where he became a great teacher, deeply influencing the future emperor Marcus Aurelius among many others. His philosophy, Stoicism, was practical, not theoretical--aimed at relieving human suffering here and now.And Epictetus knew suffering. Besides being a former slave, he was lame in one leg and walked with a crutch. After a decade of teaching in Rome, he was banished by Emperor Domitian; undaunted, he established a school in Greece. The Manual is a collection of Epictetus' essential teachings and pithy sayings, compiled by his closet student. It is the most accessible and actionable guide to Stoic philosophy, as relevant today as it was in the Roman Empire.This new edition is rendered in contemporary English, with a foreword, by Sam Torode (based on a translation by Thomas Wentworth Higginson). A companion volume, The An Emperor's Guide to Mastery by Marcus Aurelius, is also available from Ancient Renewal. A revised and further simplified edition of this book is now available, The 21st Century Edition (ASIN B09HP7C1M6). Read the sample pages of each translation to see which you prefer. ]]> 70 Epictetus Abdullah 0 to-read 4.38 1978 The Manual: A Philosopher's Guide to Life
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]]> The Joke 397281 The Unbearable Lightness of Being. A great novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried, in a completely revised translation that is nothing less than the restoration of a classic.

In this new English-language version of Kundera's classic first novel, completely revised by the author to incorporate the most accurate portions of two previous translations plus his own corrections, the narrator Ludvik wonders, "What if History plays jokes?" This politically charged question, coupled with Ludvik's fate as an unintentional dissident, struck a chord in Czech readers; the novel's 1967 publication was a key literary event of the Prague Spring. Looking back on the tense, McCarthy-like atmosphere of the late 1940s, it chronicles the disastrous results of Ludvik's prankish postcard to a girlfriend criticizing the Czech communist regime. He is expelled from the Communist Party, forced to leave the university and join a special army unit with other enemies of the state. Years later, after he has resumed his studies and become a successful scientist, his lingering anger at the man who engineered his expulsion culminates in an act of destructive sexual revenge that serves only to show Ludvik he has never really understood any woman and is indeed the butt of one of history's many cruel jokes. The fresh descriptions and masterful employment of several narrators testify to Kundera's power as a novelist, unmistakable even in this early work.]]> 323 Milan Kundera 006099505X Abdullah 5 3.97 1967 The Joke
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]]> <![CDATA[Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions]]> 34921573 From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, a startling challenge to our thinking about depression and anxiety.

Award-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child and started taking antidepressants when he was a teenager. He was told—like his entire generation—that his problem was caused by a chemical imbalance in his brain. As an adult, trained in the social sciences, he began to investigate this question—and he learned that almost everything we have been told about depression and anxiety is wrong.

Across the world, Hari discovered social scientists who were uncovering the real causes—and they are mostly not in our brains, but in the way we live today. Hari’s journey took him from the people living in the tunnels beneath Las Vegas, to an Amish community in Indiana, to an uprising in Berlin—all showing in vivid and dramatic detail these new insights. They lead to solutions radically different from the ones we have been offered up until now.

Just as Chasing the Scream transformed the global debate about addiction, with over twenty million views for his TED talk and the animation based on it, Lost Connections will lead us to a very different debate about depression and anxiety—one that shows how, together, we can end this epidemic.]]> 322 Johann Hari 163286830X Abdullah 0 to-read 4.26 2018 Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
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]]> <![CDATA[An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness]]> 361459 NATIONAL BESTSELLER � A deeply powerful memoir about bipolar illness that has both transformed and saved lives—with a new preface by the author.

Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, Jamison found herself succumbing to the same exhilarating highs and catastrophic depressions that afflicted many of her patients, as her disorder launched her into ruinous spending sprees, episodes of violence, and an attempted suicide.

Here Jamison examines bipolar illness from the dual perspectives of the healer and the healed, revealing both its terrors and the cruel allure that at times prompted her to resist taking medication.]]> 240 Kay Redfield Jamison 0679763309 Abdullah 0 to-read 4.06 1995 An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
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]]> <![CDATA[The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery]]> 53642699 250 Brianna Wiest Abdullah 0 to-read 4.08 2020 The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
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]]> <![CDATA[The Art of Living an Absurd Existence: Paradoxes and Thought Experiments That Change the Way You Think]]> 209484798 A collection of essays that dive headfirst into the absurdity of life and remind us of who we really are and what’s important—from the author of the bestseller The Art of Living a Meaningless Existence.

We are all living an existence that none of us chose and none of us truly understand. Naturally, everything can—at times—feel strange, chaotic, and overwhelming. The Art of Living an Absurd Existence helps us find peace with this; it instructs us on how to embrace and appreciate the mystery; and it breaks us free from reductive ways of thinking so that we can embark on our own absurd journey with openness and wonder.

With his usual candid tone and poignant sincerity, Robert Pantano explores paradoxes, thought experiments, and big ideas of philosophy in order to uncover insights about knowledge, selfhood, existence, and the universe. Taking you on a journey to the edge of thought, Pantano pushes the boundaries of your perspective while simultaneously providing immense comfort and peace.

Most of the essays contained in this book were originally published as videos seen by tens of millions of people on Pantano’s popular YouTube channel, Pursuit of Wonder. Because of their popularity, he created a well-organized collection of updated and revised essays gathered in the form of this book.]]> 176 Robert Pantano Abdullah 3 4.36 The Art of Living an Absurd Existence: Paradoxes and Thought Experiments That Change the Way You Think
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]]> The Silent Patient 43902303 The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.

Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word.

Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London.

Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....]]> 325 Alex Michaelides Abdullah 5 4.15 2019 The Silent Patient
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]]> <![CDATA[The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity]]> 203180173
Do you constantly feel unmotivated to work on your dreams?

If the answer is yes, then this book is for you. Laziness stops us from enjoying the little time we have. It doesn't help you accomplish your goals. It stops you from starting anything new. It makes your life miserable.

This book will teach to overcome lazinesshow to stop procrastinationhow to improve your productivity]]> 141 Library Mindset Abdullah 4 simple book on how to avoid procrastination

I learned alot of new techniques to avoid procrastination such as the 20-80 rule, avoiding perfection in unimportant things. I liked the the dots sheet where each dot represents a month, the the sheet have enough dots for 80 years. If you looked at this sheet that you can appreciate the shortness of life.

I recommend this book to everyone who is a procrastinator
]]> 4.25 The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity
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simple book on how to avoid procrastination

I learned alot of new techniques to avoid procrastination such as the 20-80 rule, avoiding perfection in unimportant things. I liked the the dots sheet where each dot represents a month, the the sheet have enough dots for 80 years. If you looked at this sheet that you can appreciate the shortness of life.

I recommend this book to everyone who is a procrastinator

]]> <![CDATA[The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History]]> 19665685 A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes

Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us.

In The Sixth Extinction, two-time winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines, accompanying many of them into the field: geologists who study deep ocean cores, botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes, marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. She introduces us to a dozen species, some already gone, others facing extinction, including the Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino.

Through these stories, Kolbert provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy; as Kolbert observes, it compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.]]> 326 Elizabeth Kolbert 0805099794 Abdullah 4 4.33 2014 The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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A book about the history of extinction. And the factors leading to extinction
]]> <![CDATA[The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy � and Why They Matter]]> 6602951 242 Marc Bekoff 1577313488 Abdullah 4 3.85 2007 The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy — and Why They Matter
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This book prove that animals have feelings primarily via anecdotes. The book is short and very easy to read. I recommend this book to everyone interested in animal wellbeing.
]]> صدى الأرواح 40524467 يكتب حامد , المريض النفسي, في دفاتره الصغيرة ما يسميه "تدوينات" ليعبر عن رأيه في الحياة والموسيقا والفلسفة .. وليحكي لنا حكاية الحب الذي هو محور حياته..
لكنه يدفع حياته ثمناً لذلك الحب الذي يتمرد على المقاييس الاجتماعية التي يتمسك بها المجتمع... وتُنسى تلك الحياة لسنوات طويلة إلى أن يعثر طبيب نفسي على هذه الدفاتر وتجذبه حكاية حامد, فبيدأ البحث عن الأسباب الحقيقية لمقتل ذلك المريض الغريب وهو في ريعان شبابه.
الناشرձ> 288 عبدالخالق كلاليب 6144720243 Abdullah 4 القصة تحتوي على طبيب نفسي وجريمة قتل ليس هناك أفضل من ذلك!!

الرواية أخّاذة. مكتوبة بأسلوب رائع جاذب يكاد يصعب أن تترك الكتاب معه.
هناك عدة امور اعجبتني في الرواية. اولها الطابع الفلسفي الذي يحيط بالرواية خصوصاً فلسفة شوبنهاور التي تتمحور حولها إحدى الشخصيات الرئيسية. كذلك اعجبتني الذائقة الموسيقية الجميلة للكاتب فجميع المقطوعات المذكورة في الكتاب تستحق ان تُسمع.
اعجبني كذلك الامور الدقيقة مثل الامراض النفسية في هذا الكتاب واختلاف الاطباء في تشخيص بعض الحالات. كذلك اسقاط الضوء على عدة من الاحداث التاريخية في ذلك الزمان.
اضافة لما سبق، حاولت الرواية بطريقة استثنائية محاولة تغيير الصورة المجتمعية للمرضى النفسيين باعتبارهم مرضى عوضاً عن مجانين. واعتبار العصفورية مكان يتم فيه انقاذ حياة البشر عوضاً عن احتواء جنونهم.

]]> 3.90 2018 صدى الأرواح
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الحقيقة بأنني بحثت كثيراً عن الكتاب في اغلب دور النشر قبل أن اجده في معرض الكتاب في هذه السنة.
القصة تحتوي على طبيب نفسي وجريمة قتل ليس هناك أفضل من ذلك!!

الرواية أخّاذة. مكتوبة بأسلوب رائع جاذب يكاد يصعب أن تترك الكتاب معه.
هناك عدة امور اعجبتني في الرواية. اولها الطابع الفلسفي الذي يحيط بالرواية خصوصاً فلسفة شوبنهاور التي تتمحور حولها إحدى الشخصيات الرئيسية. كذلك اعجبتني الذائقة الموسيقية الجميلة للكاتب فجميع المقطوعات المذكورة في الكتاب تستحق ان تُسمع.
اعجبني كذلك الامور الدقيقة مثل الامراض النفسية في هذا الكتاب واختلاف الاطباء في تشخيص بعض الحالات. كذلك اسقاط الضوء على عدة من الاحداث التاريخية في ذلك الزمان.
اضافة لما سبق، حاولت الرواية بطريقة استثنائية محاولة تغيير الصورة المجتمعية للمرضى النفسيين باعتبارهم مرضى عوضاً عن مجانين. واعتبار العصفورية مكان يتم فيه انقاذ حياة البشر عوضاً عن احتواء جنونهم.


]]> <![CDATA[Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time]]> 19216454 "This sparkling book romps over the range of science and anti-science." --Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel Revised and Expanded Edition.In this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, many people still believe in mind reading, past-life regression theory, New Age hokum, and alien abduction. A no-holds-barred assault on popular superstitions and prejudices, with more than 80,000 copies in print, Why People Believe Weird Things debunks these nonsensical claims and explores the very human reasons people find otherworldly phenomena, conspiracy theories, and cults so appealing. In an entirely new chapter, "Why Smart People Believe in Weird Things," Michael Shermer takes on science luminaries like physicist Frank Tippler and others, who hide their spiritual beliefs behind the trappings of science.Shermer, science historian and true crusader, also reveals the more dangerous side of such illogical thinking, including Holocaust denial, the recovered-memory movement, the satanic ritual abuse scare, and other modern crazes. Why People Believe Strange Things is an eye-opening resource for the most gullible among us and those who want to protect them.]]> 380 Michael Shermer Abdullah 4 ]]> 3.87 1997 Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
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This book is amazing. The book answers the question beautifully. Starting from aliens abduction, creationism and finally answering why smart people believe weird things.

]]> Infinite Resignation 40672783
Comprised of aphorisms, fragments, and observations both philosophical and personal, Thacker’s new book traces the contours of pessimism, caught as it often is between a philosophical position and a bad attitude. Reflecting on the universe’s “looming abyss of indifference,� Thacker explores the pessimism of a range of philosophers, from the well-known (Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Camus), to the lesser-known (E.M. Cioran, Lev Shestov, Miguel de Unamuno). Readers will find food for thought in Thacker’s handling of a range of themes in Christianity and Buddhism, as well as his engagement with literary figures (from Dostoevsky to Thomas Bernhard, Osamu Dazai, and Fernando Pessoa), whose pessimism about the world both inspires and depresses Thacker. By turns melancholic, misanthropic, and darkly funny, (“Birth is a metaphysical injury � healing takes time � the span of one's life�), many will find Infinite Resignation a welcome antidote to the exuberant imbecility of our times.]]> 400 Eugene Thacker 1912248190 Abdullah 4 I liked the last part of the book where it talks about the saints of pessimism. ]]> 4.18 2018 Infinite Resignation
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Very good text about pessimism written In aphorisms
I liked the last part of the book where it talks about the saints of pessimism.
]]> Salt: A World History 2715 484 Mark Kurlansky 0142001619 Abdullah 0 to-read 3.75 2002 Salt: A World History
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]]> <![CDATA[The Silk Roads: A New History of the World]]> 25812847
Frankopan realigns our understanding of the world, pointing us eastward. It was on the Silk Roads that East and West first encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas, cultures and religions. From the rise and fall of empires to the spread of Buddhism and the advent of Christianity and Islam, right up to the great wars of the twentieth century—this book shows how the fate of the West has always been inextricably linked to the East.]]> 636 Peter Frankopan 1408839970 Abdullah 0 to-read 4.16 2015 The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
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]]> <![CDATA[Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World]]> 40718726
Fighting his way to power on the remote steppes of Mongolia, Genghis Khan developed revolutionary military strategies and weaponry that emphasized rapid attack and siege warfare, which he then brilliantly used to overwhelm opposing armies in Asia, break the back of the Islamic world, and render the armored knights of Europe obsolete. Under Genghis Khan, the Mongol army never numbered more than 100,000 warriors, yet it subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans conquered in four hundred. With an empire that stretched from Siberia to India, from Vietnam to Hungary, and from Korea to the Balkans, the Mongols dramatically redrew the map of the globe, connecting disparate kingdoms into a new world order.

But contrary to popular wisdom, Weatherford reveals that the Mongols were not just masters of conquest, but possessed a genius for progressive and benevolent rule. On every level and from any perspective, the scale and scope
of Genghis Khan’s accomplishments challenge the limits of imagination. Genghis Khan was an innovative leader, the first ruler in many conquered countries to put the power of law above his own power, encourage religious freedom, create public schools, grant diplomatic immunity, abolish torture, and institute free trade. The trade routes he created became lucrative pathways for commerce, but also for ideas, technologies, and expertise that transformed the way people lived. The Mongols introduced the first international paper currency and postal system and developed and spread revolutionary technologies like printing, the cannon, compass, and abacus. They took local foods and products like lemons, carrots, noodles, tea, rugs, playing cards, and pants and turned them into staples of life around the world. The Mongols were the architects of a new way of life at a pivotal time in history.

In Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford resurrects the true history of Genghis Khan, from the story of his relentless rise through Mongol tribal culture to the waging of his devastatingly successful wars and the explosion of civilization that the Mongol Empire unleashed. This dazzling work of revisionist history doesn’t just paint an unprecedented portrait of a great leader and his legacy, but challenges us to reconsider how the modern world was made.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 352 Jack Weatherford Abdullah 0 to-read 4.08 2004 Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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]]> <![CDATA[A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy]]> 867247 - Miyamoto Musashi, Book of Five Rings

Shortly before his death in 1645, the undefeated swordsman Miyamoto Musashi retreated to a cave to live as a hermit. There he wrote five scrolls describing the "true principles" required for victory in the martial arts and on the battlefield. Instead of relying on religion or theory, Musashi based his writings on his own experience, observation, and reason.]]> 192 Miyamoto Musashi 0517415283 Abdullah 0 to-read 4.02 1645 A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
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]]> <![CDATA[Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief]]> 2218102 Maps of Meaning presents a rich theory that makes the wisdom and meaning of myth accessible to the critical modern mind.]]> 564 Jordan B. Peterson 0415922224 Abdullah 0 to-read 4.04 1999 Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
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]]> <![CDATA[Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy]]> 21027 304 Irvin D. Yalom 0060958340 Abdullah 0 to-read 4.25 1989 Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
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]]> The Psychology of Money 41881472 242 Morgan Housel 0857197681 Abdullah 0 to-read 4.28 2020 The Psychology of Money
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]]> <![CDATA[The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil]]> 359194
Renowned social psychologist and creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment Philip Zimbardo explores the mechanisms that make good people do bad things, how moral people can be seduced into acting immorally, and what this says about the line separating good from evil.

The Lucifer Effect explains how—and the myriad reasons why—we are all susceptible to the lure of “the dark side.� Drawing on examples from history as well as his own trailblazing research, Zimbardo details how situational forces and group dynamics can work in concert to make monsters out of decent men and women.

Here, for the first time and in detail, Zimbardo tells the full story of the Stanford Prison Experiment, the landmark study in which a group of college-student volunteers was randomly divided into “guards� and “inmates� and then placed in a mock prison environment. Within a week the study was abandoned, as ordinary college students were transformed into either brutal, sadistic guards or emotionally broken prisoners.

By illuminating the psychological causes behind such disturbing metamorphoses, Zimbardo enables us to better understand a variety of harrowing phenomena, from corporate malfeasance to organized genocide to how once upstanding American soldiers came to abuse and torture Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib. He replaces the long-held notion of the “bad apple� with that of the “bad barrel”—the idea that the social setting and the system contaminate the individual, rather than the other way around.

This is a book that dares to hold a mirror up to mankind, showing us that we might not be who we think we are. While forcing us to reexamine what we are capable of doing when caught up in the crucible of behavioral dynamics, though, Zimbardo also offers hope. We are capable of resisting evil, he argues, and can even teach ourselves to act heroically. Like Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem and Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate, The Lucifer Effect is a shocking, engrossing study that will change the way we view human behavior.]]> 551 Philip G. Zimbardo 1400064112 Abdullah 0 to-read 3.91 2007 The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
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]]> The 48 Laws of Power 1303 Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control � from the author of The Laws of Human Nature.

In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling� and “fascinating,� Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum.

Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master�), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness�), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally�). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.]]> 452 Robert Greene 0140280197 Abdullah 0 to-read 4.11 1998 The 48 Laws of Power
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]]> I Hope This Finds You Well 200987323 In this wildly funny and heartwarming office comedy, an admin worker accidentally gains access to her colleagues� private emails and DMs and decides to use this intel to save her job—a laugh-till-you-cry debut novel you’ll be eager to share with your entire list of contacts, perfect for fans of Anxious People and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine.

As far as Jolene is concerned, her interactions with her colleagues should start and end with her official duties as an admin for Supershops, Inc. Unfortunately, her irritating, incompetent coworkers don’t seem to understand the importance of boundaries. Her secret to survival? She vents her grievances in petty email postscripts, then changes the text colour to white so no one can see. That is, until one of her secret messages is exposed. Her punishment: sensitivity training (led by the suspiciously friendly HR guy, Cliff) and rigorous email restrictions.

When an IT mix-up grants her access to her entire department’s private emails and DMs, Jolene knows she should report it, but who could resist reading what their coworkers are really saying? And when she discovers layoffs are coming, she realizes this might just be the key to saving her job. The plan is simple: gain her boss’s favour, convince HR she’s Supershops material and beat out the competition.

But as Jolene is drawn further into her coworker’s private worlds and secrets, her carefully constructed walls begin to crumble—especially around Cliff, who she definitely cannot have feelings for. Soon she will need to decide if she’s ready to leave the comfort of her cubicle, even if it means coming clean to her colleagues.

Crackling with laugh-out-loud dialogue and relatable observations, I Hope This Finds You Well is a fresh and surprisingly tender comedy about loneliness and love beyond our computer screens. This sparkling debut novel will open your heart to the everyday eccentricities of work culture and the undeniable human connection that comes with it.]]> 338 Natalie Sue 0063320363 Abdullah 0 to-read 3.74 2024 I Hope This Finds You Well
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]]> <![CDATA[What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology]]> 53404245 160 Paul Nurse 0393541150 Abdullah 0 to-read 3.89 2020 What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology
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]]> <![CDATA[Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story]]> 8854815
“The pleasure of this book is watching the match: the staggeringly inventive human mind slamming its fantastic conjectures over the net, the universe coolly returning every serve.... Holt traffics in wonder, a word whose dual meanings—the absence of answers; the experience of awe—strike me as profoundly related. His book is not utilitarian. You can’t profit from it, at least not in the narrow sense.... And yet it does what real science writing should: It helps us feel the fullness of the problem.� (Kathryn Schulz, New York Magazine)

" Jim Holt leaves us with the question Stephen Hawking once asked but couldn't answer, ‘Why does the universe go through all the bother of existing?’� (Ron Rosenbaum, Slate )]]> 279 Jim Holt 0871404095 Abdullah 0 to-read 3.80 2011 Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
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]]> <![CDATA[Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World]]> 52300107 Listening time = 2h 2m

Pollan takes us on a journey through the history of the drug, which was first discovered in a small part of East Africa and within a century became an addiction affecting most of the human species. Caffeine, it turns out, has changed the course of human history - won and lost wars, changed politics, dominated economies. What's more, the author shows that the Industrial Revolution would have been impossible without it. The science of how the drug has evolved to addict us is no less fascinating.]]> 2 Michael Pollan Abdullah 0 to-read 3.72 2020 Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
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]]> The Case Against Sugar 29874881 From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening expose that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick.

Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever; obesity is at epidemic proportions; nearly 10% of children are thought to have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. And sugar is at the root of these, and other, critical society-wide, health-related problems. With his signature command of both science and straight talk, Gary Taubes delves into Americans' history with sugar: its uses as a preservative, as an additive in cigarettes, the contemporary overuse of high-fructose corn syrup. He explains what research has shown about our addiction to sweets. He clarifies the arguments against sugar, corrects misconceptions about the relationship between sugar and weight loss; and provides the perspective necessary to make informed decisions about sugar as individuals and as a society.]]> 384 Gary Taubes 1524709077 Abdullah 0 to-read 3.80 2016 The Case Against Sugar
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]]> <![CDATA[A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters]]> 54390506
The story of our home planet and the organisms spread across its surface is far more spectacular than any Hollywood blockbuster, filled with enough plot twists to rival a bestselling thriller. But only recently have we begun to piece together the whole mystery into a coherent narrative. Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story. Placing twenty first-century climate change in deep context, A Brief History of Earth is an indispensable look at where we’ve been and where we’re going.

Features original illustrations depicting Earth history and nearly 50 figures (maps, tables, photographs, graphs).]]> 272 Andrew H. Knoll 0062853910 Abdullah 0 to-read 3.84 2021 A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
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]]> <![CDATA[Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics]]> 13531540
Throughout history, scientists have come up with theories and ideas that just don't seem to make sense. These we call paradoxes. The paradoxes Al-Khalili offers are drawn chiefly from physics and astronomy and represent those that have stumped some of the finest minds. For example, how can a cat be both dead and alive at the same time? Why will Achilles never beat a tortoise in a race, no matter how fast he runs? And how can a person be ten years older than his twin?

With elegant explanations that bring the reader inside the mind of those who've developed them, Al-Khalili helps us to see that, in fact, paradoxes can be solved if seen from the right angle. Just as surely as Al-Khalili narrates the enduring fascination of these classic paradoxes, he reveals their underlying logic. In doing so, he brings to life a select group of the most exciting concepts in human knowledge. Paradox is mind-expanding fun.]]> 256 Jim Al-Khalili 0307986799 Abdullah 0 to-read 3.97 2012 Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics
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