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The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Religion offers a comprehensive and compelling review of research in religious beliefs and practices from an evolutionary perspective on human psychology. The chapters, written by renowned experts on human behavior and religion, explore a number of subtopics within one of three themes: (1) the psyc...
Geoffrey Miller
2023-01-11T18:27:11.000ZAn exposé of "the systematic attempt of business to make us wasteful, debt-ridden, permanently discontented individuals," The Waste Makers is Vance Packard's pioneering 1960 work on how the rapid growth of disposable consumer goods was degrading the environmental, financial, and spiritual character of American society.The Waste Makers was the first...
Geoffrey Miller
2023-01-08T20:18:01.000Z
The Conquest of Cool
Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
While the youth counterculture remains the most evocative and best-remembered symbol of the cultural ferment of the 1960s, the revolution that shook American business during those boom years has gone largely unremarked. In this fascinating and revealing study, Thomas Frank shows how the youthful revolutionaries were joined—and even anticipated —by ...
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2022-12-03T17:52:21.000ZAn English professor starts training in mixed martial arts, exploring the science and history behind the violence of men When a mixed martial arts (MMA) gym opens across the street from his office, Jonathan Gottschall sees a challenge. Pushing forty, out of shape, and disenchanted with his job as an adjunct English professor, he works up his nerve...
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2022-11-27T01:25:21.000ZAlso recommended by
Ben ShapiroIn this profound and profoundly controversial work, a landmark of 20th-century thought originally published in 1971, B. F. Skinner makes his definitive statement about humankind and society.Insisting that the problems of the world today can be solved only by dealing much more effectively with human behavior, Skinner argues that our traditional conc...
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2022-11-25T21:34:51.000ZAlso recommended by
Diana FleischmanThe New York Times bestselling Culture novel... The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization.An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies,...
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2022-11-22T16:49:50.000ZAlso recommended by
Elon MuskIn The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins crystallized the gene's eye view of evolution developed by W.D. Hamilton and others. The book provoked widespread and heated debate. Written in part as a response, The Extended Phenotype gave a deeper clarification of the central concept of the gene as the unit of selection; but it did much more besides. In it, ...
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2022-11-13T19:36:12.000ZAlso recommended by
Steve Stewart-WilliamsFirst published in 1967, Writing and Difference, a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics. The book's first half, which includes the celebrated essay on Descartes and Foucault, sh...
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2022-11-11T03:15:50.000Z"In this densely imbricated volume Derrida pursues his devoted, relentless dismantling of the philosophical tradition, the tradition of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger—each dealt with in one or more of the essays. There are essays too on linguistics (Saussure, Benveniste, Austin) and on the nature of metaphor ("White Mythology"), ...
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2022-11-11T03:15:50.000Z"The English version of Dissemination [is] an able translation by Barbara Johnson . . . . Derrida's central contention is that language is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, the risk of unmeaning, a risk which is starkly embodied in all writing. The distinction between philosophy and literature therefore becomes of secondary importance. Philosoph...
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2022-11-11T03:15:50.000ZThe Pattern Seekers by Simon Baron-Cohen
The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian
Male, Female by David C. Geary
Breath by James Nestor
How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley
The Cheating Cell by Athena Aktipis
Human Compatible by Stuart Russell
The Case against Education by Bryan Caplan
The Algebra of Happiness by Scott Galloway
Alchemy by Rory Sutherland
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings by Randolph M. Nesse
The All-or-Nothing Marriage by Eli J Finkel
The Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg
The End of Animal Farming by Jacy Reese
The Aesthetic Animal by Henrik Hogh-Olesen
Bronze Age Mindset by Bronze Age Pervert
The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous
Against Empathy by Paul Bloom
Principles of Microeconomics by Frank
The Economic Singularity by Calum Chace
Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Swarm Troopers by David Hambling
Surviving AI by Calum Chace
Becoming a Supple Leopard by Kelly Starrett
Science Ink by Carl Zimmer
On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids by Bryan Caplan
Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks
The 10,000 Year Explosion by Gregory Cochran
Do Fish Feel Pain? by Victoria Braithwaite
Bonk by Mary Roach
The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky
The Prize by Daniel Yergin
World War Z by Max Brooks
Intellectuals by Paul Johnson
The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks
Affective Neuroscience by Jaak Panksepp
Apollo by Charles Murray
Iron John by Robert Bly
The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
No More Mr Nice Guy by Robert A. Glover
Venus in Exile by Wendy Steiner
Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman
Art and Illusion by E. H. Gombrich
Nisa by Marjorie Shostak
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
Winner-Take-All Society by Robert H. Frank
Out of Control by Kevin Kelly
The Sense of Order (Wrightsman Lectures 9) by Leonie Gombrich, EH Gombrich, New York University
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia
Sexual Selection And Animal Genitalia by William G. Eberhard