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Paul Bloom
The Origins of Good and Evil. Crown Publishers, 2013.
Daniel J. Siegel
12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive. Delacorte Press, 2011.
Scott Page
Princeton University Press, 2010.
Benjamin Yoskovitz
Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster. O’Reilly, 2013.
David Heinemeier Hansson
The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application. 37signals, 2006.
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David Leavitt
Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. Atlas Books, 2006.
Deborah Blum
Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York. Penguin Books, 2010.
Kate Moore
The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women. Sourcebooks, 2017.
Nate Pedersen
A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything. Workman Publishing, 2017.
Sam Kean
And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements. Little, Brown and Company, 2010.
Jasmine Brown
The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century. Beacon Press, 2023.
Olivia Campbell
How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine. Park Row Books, 2021.
Mark Miodownik
Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Man-Made World. Mariner Books, 2015.
Tom Vanderbilt
Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us). Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Rahul Jandial
Practical Strategies for Peak Health and Performance. Penguin, 2019.
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Adam Rutherford
The Stories in Our Genes. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2016.
Will Storr
Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better. Collins, 2019.
Tom Griffiths
The Computer Science of Human Decisions. Henry Holt, 2016.
Scott Page
Princeton University Press, 2010.
Victoria Finlay
A Natural History of the Palette. Random House, 2003.
Daniel H. Pink
The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Riverhead Books, 2011.
David Heinemeier Hansson
The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application. 37signals, 2006.
Brian Grazer
The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. William Morrow, 2016.
Lou Aronica
The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education. Penguin Publishing Group, 2015.
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Al Ramadan, et al.
How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets. Harper, 2016.
Paul Bloom
The Origins of Good and Evil. Crown Publishers, 2013.
Mark Buchanan
What Physics, Meteorology, and the Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About Economics. Bloomsbury, 2013.
Rob Knight
The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes. Simon and Schuster, 2015.
Gretchen McCulloch
Understanding the New Rules of Language. Riverhead Book, 2019.
Daniel J. Siegel
12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive. Delacorte Press, 2011.
Fred Vogelstein
How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution. Sarah Crichton Books, 2013.
Scott Page
Princeton University Press, 2010.
Alistair Croll
Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster. O’Reilly, 2013.
Jason Fried
The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application. 37signals, 2006.
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