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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 482,879 ratings — published 1988
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,278,870 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 425,904 ratings — published 2003
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 193,932 ratings — published 1976
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 901,148 ratings — published 2005
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 873,177 ratings — published 2008
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 858,771 ratings — published 2000
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 197,139 ratings — published 2014
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 624,636 ratings — published 2005
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 595,670 ratings — published 2011
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 160,059 ratings — published 1980
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 209,393 ratings — published 2017
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 242,262 ratings — published 2003
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 229,831 ratings — published 2017
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 248,326 ratings — published 1985
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 461,409 ratings — published 1997
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 810,781 ratings — published 2010
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 32,135 ratings — published 2016
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,620 ratings — published 2010
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 40 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 289,869 ratings — published 2015
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 44,995 ratings — published 2008
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 80,960 ratings — published 1995
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.92 — 56,631 ratings — published 2010
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 60,544 ratings — published 2008
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 52,023 ratings — published 2013
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 477,898 ratings — published 2012
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 102,668 ratings — published 1999
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 100,787 ratings — published 2019
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 284,522 ratings — published 2006
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,207 ratings — published 1987
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 56,324 ratings — published 2016
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.98 — 67,547 ratings — published 2014
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 77,666 ratings — published 2010
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,309 ratings — published 2009
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 131,714 ratings — published 2008
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.26 — 219,077 ratings — published 1985
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 566,409 ratings — published 2012
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.60 — 40,939 ratings — published 2005
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 192,522 ratings — published 2013
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 31,185 ratings — published 1994
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 115,340 ratings — published 2010
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,130 ratings — published 2008
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.26 — 88,545 ratings — published 2018
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,154 ratings — published 1999
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 39,760 ratings — published 1994
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 33,625 ratings — published 1997
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 122,647 ratings — published 2007
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 39,112 ratings — published 2017
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.00 — 339,006 ratings — published 2019
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.38 — 32,501 ratings — published 2017
“What worries me is the acceptance of the importance of feelings without any effort to understand their complex biological and sociocultural machinery. The best example of this attitude can be found in the attempt to explain bruised feelings or irrational behavior by appealing to surface social causes or the action of neurotransmitters, two explanations that pervade the social discourse as presented in the visual and printed media; and in the attempt to correct personal and social problems with medical and nonmedical drugs. It is precisely this lack of understanding of the nature of feelings and reason (one of the hallmarks of the "culture of complaint") that is cause for alarm.”
― Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
― Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
“This awesome world isn't just a spectator sport. It's symbiotic; it influences us, and we influence it." from A Walk Around the Block (Harper One)”
― A Walk Around the Block: Stoplight Secrets, Mischievous Squirrels, Manhole Mysteries & Other Stuff You See Every Day
― A Walk Around the Block: Stoplight Secrets, Mischievous Squirrels, Manhole Mysteries & Other Stuff You See Every Day
