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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 475,861 ratings — published 1988
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,243,724 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 419,668 ratings — published 2003
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 191,733 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 — 893,873 ratings — published 2005
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 859,910 ratings — published 2008
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 851,647 ratings — published 2000
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 194,514 ratings — published 2014
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 620,004 ratings — published 2005
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 581,507 ratings — published 2011
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 158,036 ratings — published 1980
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 204,966 ratings — published 2017
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 223,578 ratings — published 2017
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 238,653 ratings — published 2003
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 453,905 ratings — published 1997
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 244,535 ratings — published 1985
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 799,498 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 — 31,405 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 — 60,110 ratings — published 2010
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 79,860 ratings — published 1995
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 40 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 285,393 ratings — published 2015
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 44,731 ratings — published 2008
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 — 55,943 ratings — published 2010
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 51,321 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 4.08 — 472,373 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 — 101,982 ratings — published 1999
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 60,082 ratings — published 2008
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 98,372 ratings — published 2019
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 55,955 ratings — published 2009
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 282,139 ratings — published 2006
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 77,174 ratings — published 2010
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.03 — 40,804 ratings — published 1987
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.26 — 216,566 ratings — published 1985
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 55,296 ratings — published 2016
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 130,675 ratings — published 2008
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.98 — 66,134 ratings — published 2014
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 — 558,407 ratings — published 2012
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.60 — 40,567 ratings — published 2005
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 30,718 ratings — published 1994
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 191,065 ratings — published 2013
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,946 ratings — published 1999
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 — 28,659 ratings — published 2008
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.26 — 86,585 ratings — published 2018
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 39,275 ratings — published 1994
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,293 ratings — published 1979
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 113,481 ratings — published 2010
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 33,280 ratings — published 1997
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 209,972 ratings — published 2006
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,834 ratings — published 1999
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 45,177 ratings — published 2001
“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
“Des résultats qui apparaissent pour la première fois dans des rapports ou des livres, même à gros tirage, n'ont aucune fiabilité. Tout simplement parce que ces publications n'ont pas passé le filtre du contrôle par les pairs. Les éditeurs n'ont évidemment pas la capacité d'expertise du monde académique et leur premier souci est plus de s'assurer du potentiel de vente d'un livre que de la parfaite légitimité scientifique des arguments que l'on y trouve. Par ailleurs, un livre qui se glorifie de présenter des résultats s'opposant au consensus, ou à la pensée unique ou à l'idéologie dominante, a toutes les chances d'être une imposture scientifique.”
― Le Négationnisme économique. Et comment s'en débarrasser (ESSAIS)
― Le Négationnisme économique. Et comment s'en débarrasser (ESSAIS)
