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The Science of Good Cooking Summary
The Science of Good Cooking
Master 50 Simple Concepts to Enjoy a Lifetime of Success in the Kitchen
by Cook's Illustrated 2012 486 pages
4.44
3k+ ratings
Cookbooks
Cooking
Food
The Carnivore Diet Summary
The Carnivore Diet
by Shawn Baker 2019 224 pages
4.44
2k+ ratings
Health
Nutrition
Diets
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Summary
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume's Philosophical Inquiry into Human Knowledge and Reasoning
by David Hume 1748 91 pages
3.94
22k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience Summary
Cognitive Neuroscience
A Very Short Introduction
by Richard Passingham 2016 160 pages
3.71
318 ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
Sugar Summary
Sugar
The World Corrupted: From Slavery to Obesity
by James Walvin 2017 352 pages
3.46
500+ ratings
History
Food
Science
Losing Our Minds Summary
Losing Our Minds
The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness
by Lucy Foulkes 2022 272 pages
4.07
500+ ratings
Psychology
Mental Health
Science
The Machinery of Life Summary
The Machinery of Life
by David S. Goodsell 1992 179 pages
4.43
500+ ratings
Science
Biology
Art
The Robots Are Coming! Summary
The Robots Are Coming!
The Future of Jobs in the Age of Automation
by Andrés Oppenheimer 2018 416 pages
4.19
2k+ ratings
Business
Technology
Science
Luminous Life Summary
Luminous Life
How the Science of Light Unlocks the Art of Living
by Jacob Israel Liberman 2018 232 pages
4.10
155 ratings
Health
Science
Spirituality
Always Hungry? Summary
Always Hungry?
Conquer Cravings, Retrain Your Fat Cells, and Lose Weight Permanently
by David Ludwig 2015 384 pages
3.70
3k+ ratings
Health
Food
Nutrition
The Autoimmune Solution Summary
The Autoimmune Solution
Prevent and Reverse the Full Spectrum of Inflammatory Symptoms and Diseases
by Amy Myers 2015 400 pages
3.82
2k+ ratings
Health
Nutrition
Food
Chemistry for Breakfast Summary
Chemistry for Breakfast
The Amazing Science of Everyday Life
by Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim 2019 236 pages
4.22
4k+ ratings
Science
Chemistry
German Literature
A Mind of Its Own Summary
A Mind of Its Own
How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives
by Cordelia Fine 2005 224 pages
3.86
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Neuroscience
Smoke Signals Summary
Smoke Signals
A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational and Scientific
by Martin A. Lee 2012 528 pages
4.29
500+ ratings
History
Drugs
Science
The Enlightenment Summary
The Enlightenment
A Very Short Introduction
by John Robertson 2015 147 pages
3.56
302 ratings
History
Philosophy
Religion
The Day We Found the Universe Summary
The Day We Found the Universe
by Marcia Bartusiak 2009 368 pages
4.14
1k+ ratings
Science
History
Astronomy
The Way of The Iceman Summary
The Way of The Iceman
How The Wim Hof Method Creates Radiant, Longterm Health―Using The Science and Secrets of Breath Control, Cold-Training and Commitment
by Wim Hof 2015 168 pages
3.71
2k+ ratings
Health
Self Help
Biography
Gray Matters Summary
Gray Matters
A Biography of Brain Surgery
by Theodore H. Schwartz 2024 512 pages
4.36
1k+ ratings
Science
Medicine
Medical
A Lab of One's Own Summary
A Lab of One's Own
One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science
by Rita Colwell 2020 288 pages
4.24
500+ ratings
Science
Feminism
Memoir
Weathering Summary
Weathering
The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society
by Arline T. Geronimus 2023 368 pages
4.22
500+ ratings
Politics
Race
Health
Everything in Its Place Summary
Everything in Its Place
First Loves and Last Tales
by Oliver Sacks 2019 288 pages
4.14
3k+ ratings
Science
Essays
Memoir
The Mummy at the Dining Room Table Summary
The Mummy at the Dining Room Table
Eminent Therapists Reveal Their Most Unusual Cases and What They Teach Us About Human Behavior
by Jeffrey A. Kottler 2003 325 pages
3.88
500+ ratings
Psychology
Mental Health
Book Club
How the Mind Changed Summary
How the Mind Changed
A Human History of Our Evolving Brain
by Joseph Jebelli 2022 320 pages
4.06
348 ratings
Science
Neuroscience
Psychology
Altered Inheritance Summary
Altered Inheritance
CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing
by Françoise Baylis 2019 304 pages
3.53
94 ratings
Science
Philosophy
Biology
The End of Illness Summary
The End of Illness
by David B. Agus 2011 288 pages
3.48
2k+ ratings
Health
Science
Medicine
Spontaneous Evolution Summary
Spontaneous Evolution
Our Positive Future
by Bruce H. Lipton 2008 6 pages
4.28
500+ ratings
Science
Spirituality
Philosophy
The Agile Mind Summary
The Agile Mind
How Your Brain Makes Creativity Happen
by Estanislao Bachrach 2012 256 pages
3.71
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Neuroscience
Self Help
Lifehouse Summary
Lifehouse
Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire
by Adam Greenfield 2024 272 pages
3.84
80 ratings
Politics
Social Justice
Science
Pillars of Creation Summary
Pillars of Creation
How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos
by Richard Panek 2024 256 pages
4.02
500+ ratings
Science
Astronomy
Space
Escaping the Rabbit Hole Summary
Escaping the Rabbit Hole
How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect
by Mick West 2018 304 pages
3.74
500+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Politics
The Girl With a Mind for Math Summary
The Girl With a Mind for Math
The Story of Raye Montague
by Julia Finley Mosca 2018 40 pages
4.41
500+ ratings
Picture Books
Biography
Mathematics
Materials Science and Engineering Summary
Materials Science and Engineering
An Introduction
by William D. Callister Jr. 1985 848 pages
4.08
500+ ratings
Engineering
Science
Textbooks
The Rough Guide to Psychology Summary
The Rough Guide to Psychology
An Introduction to Human Behaviour and the Mind
by Christian Jarrett 2011 376 pages
3.98
153 ratings
Psychology
Science
Reference
We Are Electric Summary
We Are Electric
Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds
by Sally Adee 2023 352 pages
4.10
500+ ratings
Science
Biology
Health
The Collapse of Complex Societies Summary
The Collapse of Complex Societies
by Joseph A. Tainter 1988 264 pages
4.15
1k+ ratings
History
Politics
Anthropology
Pain Free Summary
Pain Free
A Revolutionary Method for Stopping Chronic Pain
by Pete Egoscue 2009 296 pages
4.17
2k+ ratings
Health
Fitness
Self Help
Healthy Buildings Summary
Healthy Buildings
How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity
by Joseph G. Allen 2020 304 pages
3.91
170 ratings
Architecture
Health
Design
Last Breath Summary
Last Breath
Cautionary Tales from the Limits of Human Endurance
by Peter Stark 2001 320 pages
4.01
500+ ratings
Science
Adventure
Survival
The Lost City of the Monkey God Summary
The Lost City of the Monkey God
by Douglas Preston 2017 326 pages
3.93
63k+ ratings
History
Adventure
Travel
Farmacology Summary
Farmacology
Total Health from the Ground Up
by Daphne Miller 2013 304 pages
4.28
1k+ ratings
Health
Food
Gardening
The Truth Machine Summary
The Truth Machine
The Blockchain and the Future of Everything
by Michael J. Casey 2018 320 pages
3.67
1k+ ratings
Economics
Technology
Business
Math for Grownups Summary
Math for Grownups
Re-Learn the Arithmetic You Forgot From School So You Can, Calculate how much that raise will really amount to (after taxes) Figure ... homework Convert calories into cardio time
by Laura Laing 2011 256 pages
3.80
149 ratings
Reference
School
Mathematics
The End of Alzheimer's Program Summary
The End of Alzheimer's Program
The First Protocol to Enhance Cognition and Reverse Decline at Any Age
by Dale E. Bredesen 2020 352 pages
4.21
500+ ratings
Health
Science
Medical
The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology Summary
The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology
by David M. Buss 2005 1028 pages
4.25
111 ratings
Psychology
Science
Evolution
Learn or Die Summary
Learn or Die
Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization
by Edward D. Hess 2014 280 pages
3.83
265 ratings
Business
Leadership
Management
Super Consciousness Summary
Super Consciousness
The Quest for the Peak Experience
by Colin Wilson 2007 224 pages
3.90
259 ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
British Literature
A Brief History of Intelligence Summary
A Brief History of Intelligence
Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
by Max Solomon Bennett 2023 432 pages
4.46
4k+ ratings
Science
Artificial Intelligence
History
What to Think About Machines That Think Summary
What to Think About Machines That Think
Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence – Essays on Artificial Intelligence and Human Destiny
by John Brockman 2015 576 pages
3.37
500+ ratings
Science
Artificial Intelligence
Technology
Science and Religion Summary
Science and Religion
A Very Short Introduction
by Thomas Dixon 1903 168 pages
3.68
500+ ratings
Religion
Science
Philosophy
How the Internet Happened Summary
How the Internet Happened
From Netscape to the iPhone
by Brian McCullough 2018 386 pages
4.27
2k+ ratings
History
Technology
Business
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