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Just Babies
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Paul Bloom

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The Origins of Good and Evil. Crown Publishers, 2013.

The Whole-Brain Child
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Daniel J. Siegel

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12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive. Delacorte Press, 2011.

Diversity and Complexity
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Scott Page

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Princeton University Press, 2010.

Lean Analytics
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Benjamin Yoskovitz

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Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster. O’Reilly, 2013.

Getting Real
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David Heinemeier Hansson

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The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application. 37signals, 2006.

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The Man Who Knew Too Much
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David Leavitt

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Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. Atlas Books, 2006.

The Poisoner's Handbook
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Deborah Blum

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Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York. Penguin Books, 2010.

The Radium Girls
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Kate Moore

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The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women. Sourcebooks, 2017.

Quackery
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Nate Pedersen

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A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything. Workman Publishing, 2017.

The Disappearing Spoon
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Sam Kean

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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.

Twice as Hard
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Jasmine Brown

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The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century. Beacon Press, 2023.

Women in White Coats
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Olivia Campbell

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How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine. Park Row Books, 2021.

Stuff Matters
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Mark Miodownik

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Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Man-Made World. Mariner Books, 2015.

Traffic
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Tom Vanderbilt

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Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us). Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.

Life Lessons from a Brain Surgeon
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Rahul Jandial

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Practical Strategies for Peak Health and Performance. Penguin, 2019.

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A Planet of Viruses
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Carl Zimmer

19 min read

University of Chicago Press, 2011.

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
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Adam Rutherford

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The Stories in Our Genes. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2016.

The Science of Storytelling
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Will Storr

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Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better. Collins, 2019.

Algorithms to Live By
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Tom Griffiths

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The Computer Science of Human Decisions. Henry Holt, 2016.

Diversity and Complexity
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Scott Page

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Princeton University Press, 2010.

Color
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Victoria Finlay

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A Natural History of the Palette. Random House, 2003.

Drive
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Daniel H. Pink

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The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Riverhead Books, 2011.

Getting Real
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David Heinemeier Hansson

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The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application. 37signals, 2006.

Hidden Figures
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Brian Grazer

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The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. William Morrow, 2016.

Creative Schools
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Lou Aronica

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The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education. Penguin Publishing Group, 2015.

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Play Bigger
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Al Ramadan, et al.

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How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets. Harper, 2016.

Just Babies
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Paul Bloom

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The Origins of Good and Evil. Crown Publishers, 2013.

Forecast
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Mark Buchanan

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What Physics, Meteorology, and the Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About Economics. Bloomsbury, 2013.

Follow Your Gut
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Rob Knight

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The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes. Simon and Schuster, 2015.

Because Internet
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Gretchen McCulloch

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Understanding the New Rules of Language. Riverhead Book, 2019.

The Whole-Brain Child
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Daniel J. Siegel

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12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive. Delacorte Press, 2011.

Dogfight
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Fred Vogelstein

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How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution. Sarah Crichton Books, 2013.

Diversity and Complexity
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Scott Page

19 min read·
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Princeton University Press, 2010.

Lean Analytics
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Alistair Croll

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Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster. O’Reilly, 2013.

Getting Real
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Jason Fried

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The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application. 37signals, 2006.

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Rejection Proof

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A fascinating look at rejection from every angle, from understanding and overcoming the fear of rejection to learning how to increase your chances of a yes while becoming perfectly okay with a no.

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