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Born to Run Summary
Born to Run
A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
by Christopher McDougall 2009 306 pages
4.30
200k+ ratings
Sports
Health
Fitness
Nurture Shock Summary
Nurture Shock
New Thinking About Children
by Po Bronson 2008 336 pages
4.03
26k+ ratings
Parenting
Psychology
Education
Invisible Women Summary
Invisible Women
Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
by Caroline Criado Pérez 2019 448 pages
4.34
100k+ ratings
Feminism
Science
Politics
A Culture of Growth Summary
A Culture of Growth
The Origins of the Modern Economy
by Joel Mokyr 2016 403 pages
3.94
427 ratings
Economics
History
Business
Happiness by Design Summary
Happiness by Design
Change What You Do, Not How You Think
by Paul Dolan 2014 258 pages
3.59
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Personal Development
An Anatomy of Pain Summary
An Anatomy of Pain
How the Body and the Mind Experience and Endure Physical Suffering
by Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen 2021 256 pages
3.59
500+ ratings
Science
Health
Medicine
The Tiger That Isn't Summary
The Tiger That Isn't
Seeing Through a World of Numbers
by Michael Blastland 2007 184 pages
3.91
500+ ratings
Science
Economics
Mathematics
Chancing It Summary
Chancing It
The Laws of Chance and How They Can Work for You
by Robert Matthews 2017 304 pages
3.81
227 ratings
Science
Mathematics
Machine Learning Summary
Machine Learning
by Ethem Alpaydin 2016 230 pages
3.62
1k+ ratings
Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence
Science
Understanding and Using C Pointers Summary
Understanding and Using C Pointers
Core Techniques for Memory Management
by Richard Reese 2013 223 pages
4.15
183 ratings
Programming
Computer Science
Computers
God and Stephen Hawking Summary
God and Stephen Hawking
Whose design is it anyway?
by John C. Lennox 2011 96 pages
4.12
1k+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Christian
Entanglement Summary
Entanglement
by Amir D. Aczel 2002 304 pages
4.01
1k+ ratings
Science
Physics
History
Rethink Your Position Summary
Rethink Your Position
Reshape Your Exercise, Yoga, and Everyday Movement, One Part at a Time
by Katy Bowman 2023 296 pages
4.25
286 ratings
Health
Fitness
Self Help
The Universe Within Summary
The Universe Within
Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
by Neil Shubin 2013 240 pages
3.88
2k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Evolution
The Green New Deal Summary
The Green New Deal
Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth
by Jeremy Rifkin 2019 304 pages
3.68
500+ ratings
Politics
Economics
Environment
The Invisible Landscape Summary
The Invisible Landscape
Mind, Hallucinogens & the I Ching
by Terence McKenna 1975 256 pages
3.99
1k+ ratings
Spirituality
Philosophy
Psychology
Teaming with Nutrients Summary
Teaming with Nutrients
The Organic Gardener’s Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition
by Jeff Lowenfels 2013 250 pages
4.30
399 ratings
Gardening
Agriculture
Science
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee Summary
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee
Evolution and Human Life [Import] [Hardcover]
by Jared Diamond 1991 360 pages
4.09
28k+ ratings
Science
History
Anthropology
12 Weeks to a Sharper You Summary
12 Weeks to a Sharper You
A Guided Program
by Sanjay Gupta 2022 198 pages
3.93
317 ratings
Health
Self Help
Adult
Everything You Need to Ace Science in One Big Fat Notebook Summary
Everything You Need to Ace Science in One Big Fat Notebook
The Complete Middle School Study Guide
by Michael Geisen 2016 544 pages
4.45
500+ ratings
Science
Education
Reference
Food Fix Summary
Food Fix
How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet--One Bite at a Time
by Mark Hyman 2020 400 pages
4.07
2k+ ratings
Health
Food
Nutrition
Introducing NLP Summary
Introducing NLP
Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People
by Joseph O'Connor 1990 245 pages
3.75
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Business
Quantum Enigma Summary
Quantum Enigma
Physics Encounters Consciousness
by Bruce Rosenblum 2006 211 pages
4.13
2k+ ratings
Science
Physics
Philosophy
Freakonomics Rev Ed Summary
Freakonomics Rev Ed
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven D. Levitt 2005 352 pages
4.01
900k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Science
Darwin's Doubt Summary
Darwin's Doubt
The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design
by Stephen C. Meyer 2013 512 pages
4.19
1k+ ratings
Science
Evolution
Religion
How to Stay Smart in a Smart World Summary
How to Stay Smart in a Smart World
Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms
by Gerd Gigerenzer 2022 307 pages
3.82
500+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Business
Thinking and Deciding Summary
Thinking and Deciding
by Jonathan Baron 1988 604 pages
4.06
320 ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Science
The Clever Guts Diet Summary
The Clever Guts Diet
How to revolutionise your body from the inside out
by Michael Mosley 2017 275 pages
3.98
5k+ ratings
Health
Food
Self Help
From Darwin to Derrida Summary
From Darwin to Derrida
Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life
by David Haig 2020 512 pages
3.69
80 ratings
Philosophy
Science
Evolution
The Language Puzzle Summary
The Language Puzzle
Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
by Steven Mithen 2024 544 pages
3.88
451 ratings
History
Science
Linguistics
Mismeasure of Woman Summary
Mismeasure of Woman
Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex
by Carol Tavris 1992 400 pages
4.07
431 ratings
Feminism
Psychology
Gender
The Proof is in the Plants Summary
The Proof is in the Plants
by Simon Hill 2021 416 pages
4.56
1k+ ratings
Health
Food
Nutrition
Tomatoland Summary
Tomatoland
How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
by Barry Estabrook 2011 240 pages
3.96
4k+ ratings
Food
Science
History
Feyman's Tips on Physics Summary
Feyman's Tips on Physics
A Problem-Solving Supplement to The Feynman Lectures on Physics
by Richard P. Feynman 2005 182 pages
4.24
495 ratings
Physics
Science
Textbooks
Moonshot Summary
Moonshot
What Landing a Man on the Moon Teaches Us about Collaboration, Creativity, and the Mind-Set for Success
by Professor Richard Wiseman 2019 272 pages
3.87
409 ratings
Space
History
Self Help
The Hand Summary
The Hand
How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture
by Frank R. Wilson 1998 416 pages
3.82
217 ratings
Science
Psychology
Design
Dr Cuterus Summary
Dr Cuterus
by Tanaya Narendra 2022 262 pages
4.47
496 ratings
Self Help
Medical
Health
Introducing Game Theory Summary
Introducing Game Theory
A Graphic Guide
by Ivan Pastine 2017 279 pages
3.89
2k+ ratings
Science
Economics
Business
Why You Love Music Summary
Why You Love Music
From Mozart to Metallica--The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds
by John Powell 2016 310 pages
3.76
500+ ratings
Music
Psychology
Science
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Summary
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
by Richard P. Feynman 1988 256 pages
4.19
30k+ ratings
Science
Biography
Physics
Evolution Summary
Evolution
The Triumph of an Idea – From Darwin's Natural Selection to Modern Genetics: A Compelling Science Guide
by Carl Zimmer 2001 528 pages
4.11
5k+ ratings
Science
Evolution
Biology
How Everything Can Collapse Summary
How Everything Can Collapse
A Manual for our Times
by Pablo Servigne 2015 250 pages
4.16
1k+ ratings
Science
Ecology
Politics
The Compass of Pleasure Summary
The Compass of Pleasure
How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good
by David J. Linden 2010 240 pages
3.89
5k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Neuroscience
When It All Burns Summary
When It All Burns
Fighting Fire in a Transformed World
by Jordan Thomas 2025 361 pages
4.36
1k+ ratings
Nature
Memoir
Science
The Social Leap Summary
The Social Leap
The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy – Why Humans Lie, Exaggerate, and Feel Jealous
by William Von Hippel 2018 304 pages
4.23
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Evolution
If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal Summary
If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal
What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
by Justin Gregg 2022 320 pages
3.89
2k+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Animals
Whole Summary
Whole
Rethinking the Science of Nutrition
by T. Colin Campbell 2013 352 pages
3.90
6k+ ratings
Health
Nutrition
Food
The Cosmic Hologram Summary
The Cosmic Hologram
In-formation at the Center of Creation
by Jude Currivan 2017 272 pages
4.03
113 ratings
Science
Spirituality
Physics
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference Summary
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
by Greta Thunberg 2019 112 pages
3.85
27k+ ratings
Politics
Environment
Science
Gut Health Hacks Summary
Gut Health Hacks
200 Ways to Balance Your Gut Microbiome and Improve Your Health!
by Lindsay Boyers 2021 224 pages
3.85
500+ ratings
Health
Self Help
Science
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