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Sacred Nature
Karen Armstrong
BOOK REPORT
The Axemaker’s Gift
James Burke & Robert Ornstein
BOOK REPORT
The Big Ratchet
Ruth DeFries
BOOK REPORT
The Age of Empathy
Frans de Waal
BOOK REPORT
The Bonobo and the Atheist
Frans de Waal
BOOK REPORT
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
BOOK REPORT
How Religion Evolved
Robin Dunbar
BOOK REPORT
Humanity on a Tightrope
Paul R. Ehrlich & Robert E. Ornstein
BOOK REPORT
Numbers and the Making of Us
Caleb Everett
BOOK REPORT
Thinking Big
Clive Gamble et al.
BOOK REPORT
Our Choice
Al Gore
BOOK REPORT
The Future
Al Gore
BOOK REPORT
Moral Tribes
Joshua Greene
BOOK REPORT
The Righteous Mind
Jonathan Haidt
BOOK REPORT
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The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
BOOK REPORT
Beyond Culture
Edward T. Hall
BOOK REPORT
Natural Capitalism
Paul Hawken & Amory B. Lovins
BOOK REPORT
The Weirdest People in the World
Joseph Henrich
BOOK REPORT
The book cover of Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy's 'Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin', with an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Mr. Putin
Fiona Hill, Clifford G. Gaddy
BOOK REPORT
Rescuing the Plant by Tony Hiss
Rescuing the Planet
Tony Hiss
BOOK REPORT
The True Believer
Eric Hoffer
BOOK REPORT
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
BOOK REPORT
The First Word
Christine Kenneally
BOOK REPORT
One World Schoolhouse
Salman Khan
BOOK REPORT
Improbable Scholars
David L. Kirp
BOOK REPORT
The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert
BOOK REPORT
The Business of Changing the World
Raj Kumar
BOOK REPORT
Social
Matthew D. Lieberman
BOOK REPORT
1491
Charles C. Mann
BOOK REPORT
1493
Charles C. Mann
BOOK REPORT
The Matter with Things
Iain McGilchrist
BOOK REPORT
Beyond the Hole in the Wall
Sugata Mitra
BOOK REPORT
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
Ian Morris
BOOK REPORT
Healthy Pleasures
Robert Ornstein, Ph.D. and David Sobel, M.D.
BOOK REPORT
The cover of Robert Ornstein's book, 'Multimind: A New Way of Looking at Human Behaviour'.
Multimind
Robert Ornstein
BOOK REPORT
God 4.0
Robert Ornstein with Sally M. Ornstein
BOOK REPORT
New World New Mind
Robert Ornstein & Paul Ehrlich
BOOK REPORT
Neanderthal Man
Svante Pääbo
BOOK REPORT
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
BOOK REPORT
Doughnut Economics
Kate Raworth
BOOK REPORT
Religious Evolution and the Axial Age
Stephen K. Sanderson
BOOK REPORT
Against the Grain
James C. Scott
BOOK REPORT
On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder
BOOK REPORT
Creating a Learning Society
Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald
BOOK REPORT
The Gap
Thomas Suddendorf
BOOK REPORT
End Times
Peter Turchin; John Zada
BOOK REPORT
The Mountain People
Colin M. Turnbull
BOOK REPORT
Before the Dawn
Nicholas Wade
BOOK REPORT
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh
Carl Zimmer
BOOK REPORT
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
BOOK REPORT

Journey of the Human Mind

The Silent Language
Edward T. Hall
The Hidden Dimension
Edward T. Hall
Beyond Culture
Edward T. Hall
BOOK REPORT
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches
Marvin Harris
The Roots of the Self
Robert Ornstein
Reflections
Idries Shah
Knowing How To Know
Idries Shah
The Forest People
Colin M. Turnbull

Discovering Our Distant Ancestors

The Adapted Mind
Jerome H. Barkow et al.
How Humans Evolved
Robert Boyd & Joan B. Silk
Human Universals
Donald E. Brown
The Great Human Diasporas
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza & Francesco Cavalli-Sforza
Genes, Peoples, and Languages
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Storza
Conceptual Issues in Modern Human Origins Research
G.A. Clark and C.M. Willermet
Reconstructing Human Origins
Glenn C. Conroy & Herman Pontzer
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
The Bonobo and the Atheist
Frans de Waal
BOOK REPORT
The Age of Empathy
Frans de Waal
BOOK REPORT
Our Inner Ape
Frans de Waal
The Third Chimpanzee
Jared Diamond
Blueprints
Maitland A. Edey and Donald C. Johanson
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
Stephen Jay Gould
The Human Career
Richard G. Klein
The Origin Of Humankind
Richard Leakey
Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology
David Levinson & Melvin Ember
Social
Matthew D. Lieberman
BOOK REPORT
Origins of Anatomically Modern Humans
Matthew H. Nitecki & Doris V. Nitecki
The Real Eve
Stephen Oppenheimer
Neanderthal Man
Svante Pääbo
BOOK REPORT
The Blank Slate
Steven Pinker
Who We Are and How We Got Here
David Reich
Being Humans
Neil Roughley, Ed.
Race and Ethnicity
Raymond Scupin
The Principles of Sociology
Herbert Spencer
African Exodus
Chris Stringer and Robin McKie
Lone Survivors
Chris Stringer
The Gap
Thomas Suddendorf
BOOK REPORT
Before the Dawn
Nicholas Wade
BOOK REPORT
The Faith Instinct
Nicholas Wade
The Journey of Man
Spencer Wells
The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences
Robert A. Wilson & Frank C. Keil
Race and Human Evolution
Milford Wolpoff & Rachel Caspari
Catching Fire
Richard Wrangham
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh
Carl Zimmer
BOOK REPORT

The Evolution of Language

Syntactic Structures
Noam Chomsky
The Recursive Mind
Michael C. Corballis
Origins of the Modern Mind
Merlin Donald
How Language Began
Daniel L. Everett
Language: The Cultural Tool
Daniell Everett
Numbers and the Making of Us
Caleb Everett
BOOK REPORT
Phylogenetic Methods and the Prehistory of Languages
Peter Forster & Colin Renfrew
Thinking Big
Clive Gamble et al.
BOOK REPORT
Our Kind
Marvin Harris
The Story of My Life
Helen Keller
The First Word
Christine Kenneally
BOOK REPORT
Social
Matthew D. Lieberman
BOOK REPORT
The Ohlone Way
Malcolm Margolin
The Language Instinct
Steven Pinker
The Swastika
Malcolm Quinn
The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin
Idries Shah
Whistling Vivaldi
Claude M. Steele
The Gap
Thomas Suddendorf
BOOK REPORT

Ideas that Shaped Our Modern World

The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy
Peter Adamson & Richard C. Taylor
The Islamic Jesus
Mustafa Akyol
The House of Wisdom
Jim Al-Khalili
Pathfinders
Jim Al-Khalili
Sacred Nature
Karen Armstrong
BOOK REPORT
The Great Transformation
Karen Armstrong
Muhammad
Karen Armstrong
The Case for God
Karen Armstrong
No god but God
Reza Aslan
City of God
Saint Augustine
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art
Paul G. Bahn
The Social Origins of Islam
Mohammed A. Bamyeh
Louder than Words
Benjamin K. Bergen
Mesopotamia
Jean Bottéro
Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia
Jean Bottéro
Zoroastrians
Mary Boyce
Jesus and the Zealots
S.G.F. Brandon
The Keys of Saint Peter
Ernest de Bunsen
The Civilization of the Middle Ages
Norman F. Cantor
The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture
Jacques Cauvin
1177 B.C.
Eric H. Cline
The Shamans of Prehistory
Jean Clottes & David Lewis-Williams
Our Pagan Christmas
R.J. Condon
Myth, Magic, and Morals
Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare
Myths from Mesopotamia
Stephanie Dalley
Secret Societies
Arkon Daraul
Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions
Thomas Doane
Narratives of Islamic Origins
Fred Donner
Muhammad and the Believers
Fred McGraw Donner
Birth of a Worldview
Robert Doran
The End of the Bronze Age
Robert Drews
How Religion Evolved
Robin Dunbar
BOOK REPORT
Philosophical Foundations of Education
Sheila G. Dunn
The Triumph of Christianity
Bart D. Ehrman
How Jesus Became God
Bart D. Ehrman
How Language Began
Daniel L. Everett
The Bible Unearthed
Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman
Myths and Myth-Makers
John Fiske
Wonderworks
Angus Fletcher
The Life of Muhammad
A. Guillaume
Greek Thought, Arabic Culture
Dimitri Gutas
The Qur’an
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem
The Pagan Background of Early Christianity
W.R. Halliday
The Wind Is My Mother
Bear Heart
The Babylonian Genesis
Alexander Heidel
The Cave and the Light
Arthur Herman
Four Views on Salvation in a Pluralistic World
John Hick et al.
The Upanishads
Hindu Texts
The Leopard’s Tale
Ian Hodder
The Odyssey
Homer
Pagan Saviours
Institute for Cultural Research
The Marketing of Christianity
Institute for Cultural Research
The Treasures of Darkness
Thorkild Jacobsen
Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus
Karl Jaspers
The Origin and Goal of History
Karl Jaspers
Muhammad, the World-Changer
Mohamad Jebara
Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus
The Imitation of Christ
Thomas à Kempis
Babylonian Wisdom Literature
W. G. Lambert
Against Heresies
Saint Irenaeus of Lyons
The Guide for the Perplexed
Moses Maimonides
Nyae Nyae !Kung Beliefs and Rites
Lorna J. Marshall
The Rise of the West
William H. McNeill
The Ornament of the World
María Rosa Menocal
The Gnostic Gospels of Jesus
Marvin Meyer
The Secret Teachings of Jesus
Marvin Meyer
Research in Anthropological Topics
Alicia Meza
Art and Human Development
Constance Milbrath and Cynthis Lightfoot
Thoughtful Foragers
Steven J. Mithen
Religions of the Axial Age
Prof. Mark W. Muesse
Granada
Steven Nightingale
The Gospel of Thomas
Dr. A. Nyland
God 4.0
Robert Ornstein with Sally M. Ornstein
BOOK REPORT
The Psychology of Consciousness
Robert Ornstein
The Evolution of Consciousness
Robert Ornstein
The Gnostic Gospels
Elaine Pagels
Ancient Indian Historical Tradition
F. E. Pargiter
Ancient China Simplified
Edward Harper Parker
Stonehenge
Mike Parker Pearson et al.
The Letters of the Younger Pliny
Younger Pliny
Harappan Civilization
Gregory L. Possehl
Dawn and Devolution of the Indus Civilization
S. R. Rao
The World’s Last Mysteries
Reader's Digest
Christ in Islam and Christianity
Neal Robinson
The Prophet Muhammad
Barnaby Rogerson
Aristotle’s Children
Richard E. Rubenstein
Religious Evolution and the Axial Age
Stephen K. Sanderson
BOOK REPORT
Judaism and Christian Beginnings
Samuel Sandmel
Battle for the Mind
William Sargant
Jewish Christianity: Factional Disputes in the Early Church
Hans Joachim Schoeps
The Passover Plot
Hugh J. Schonfield
Plato Prehistorian
Mary Settegast
Caravan of Dreams
Idries Shah
The Sufis
Idries Shah
Tales of the Dervishes
Idries Shah
World Tales
Idries Shah
The Commanding Self
Idries Shah
Selections from the Koran
Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah
The Way of the Sufi
Idries Shah
Man and His Gods
Homer W. Smith
The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic
John Shelby Spong
The Triumph of Christianity
Rodney Stark
The Science of Storytelling
Will Storr
Divine Harmony
John Strohmeier & Peter Westbrook
The Oxford Study Bible
M. Jack Suggs et al., eds.
Affluence Without Abundance
James Suzman
Annals of Imperial Rome
Tacitus
Secrets of the Sands
Harry Thurston
Jesus
Geza Vermes
Jesus the Jew
Geza Vermes
The Nativity
Geza Vermes
The Influence of Islam on Medieval Europe
W. Montgomery Watt
Ancient Judaism
Max Weber
The Places Where Men Pray Together
Paul Wheatley
Modes of Religiosity
Harvey Whitehouse
Inside the Neolithic Mind
David Lewis-Williams & David Pearce
The Mind in the Cave
David Lewis Williams
Jesus: A Life
A.N. Wilson
How Jesus Became Christian
Barrie Wilson, Ph.D.
Shamanism
Michael Winkelman
The Evolution of God
Robert Wright
The Dawn and Twilight of Zoroastrianism
R.C. Zaehner

Tools and the Development of Contemporary Society

The Hype Machine
Sinan Aral
It’s Complicated
Danah Boyd
Connections 1
James Burke
The Day the Universe Changed
James Burke
The Axemaker’s Gift
James Burke & Robert Ornstein
BOOK REPORT
The Alignment Problem
Brian Christian
Atlas of AI
Kate Crawford
Discourse on Method
René Descartes
Collapse
Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
BOOK REPORT
The Square and the Tower
Niall Ferguson
Hello World
Hannah Fry
The book cover of Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy's 'Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin', with an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Mr. Putin
Fiona Hill, Clifford G. Gaddy
BOOK REPORT
The True Believer
Eric Hoffer
BOOK REPORT
Nomads of the Long Bow
Allan R. Holmberg
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
BOOK REPORT
Superminds
Thomas W. Malone
1493
Charles C. Mann
BOOK REPORT
1491
Charles C. Mann
BOOK REPORT
Memes to Movements
An Xiao Mina
Artificial Intelligence
Melanie Mitchell
Social Media and the Public Interest
Philip M. Napoli
Sir Dudley North on Discourses Upon Trade, 1691
Sir Dudley North
The Right Mind
Robert Ornstein
Human Compatible
Stuart Russell
Against the Grain
James C. Scott
BOOK REPORT
Learning How to Learn
Idries Shah
LikeWar
P.W. Singer & Emerson T. Brooking
On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder
BOOK REPORT
Bloodlands
Timothy Snyder
The Double Helix
James D. Watson
The Attention Merchants
Tim Wu
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
BOOK REPORT

A Sustainable Planet

Predictably Irrational
Dan Ariely
The Great Transition
Lester R. Brown
The Big Ratchet
Ruth DeFries
BOOK REPORT
An Inconvenient Truth
Al Gore
Our Choice
Al Gore
BOOK REPORT
The Future
Al Gore
BOOK REPORT
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Natural Capitalism
Paul Hawken & Amory B. Lovins
BOOK REPORT
Rescuing the Plant by Tony Hiss
Rescuing the Planet
Tony Hiss
BOOK REPORT
The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert
BOOK REPORT
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
Michael E. Mann
The Marshmallow Test
Walter Mischel
Plastic Ocean
Capt. Charles Moore
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
Ian Morris
BOOK REPORT
The Measure of Civilization
Ian Morris
Why the West Rules—for Now
Ian Morris
Scarcity
Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir
The View from the Center of the Universe
Joel R. Primack & Nancy Ellen Abrams
Losing Earth: A Recent History
Nathaniel Rich
The Age of Sustainable Development
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Climate Shock
Gernot Wagner and Martin L. Weitzman
The Uninhabitable Earth
David Wallace-Wells
Half-Earth
Edward O. Wilson

The Changing World Economy

Why Nations Fail
Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson
The End of Finance
Massimo Amato & Luca Fantacci
Poor Economics
Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo
What Works in Development?
Jessica Cohen & William Easterly
The Bottom Billion
Paul Collier
The Great Escape
Angus Deaton
The Econocracy
Joe Earle et al.
The White Man’s Burden
William Easterly
The Tyranny of Experts
William Easterly
Progress and Poverty
Henry George
The Locust Effect
Gary A. Haugen & Victor Boutros
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
John Maynard Keynes
The End of Alchemy
Mervyn King
The Business of Changing the World
Raj Kumar
BOOK REPORT
How to Speak Money
John Lanchester
Rethinking Money
Bernard Lietaer & Jacqui Dunne
Money and Sustainability
Bernard Lietaer et al.
Money
Felix Martin
The Value of Everything
Mariana Mazzucato
The Limits to Growth
Donella H. Meadows et al.
The Production of Money
Ann Pettifor
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
BOOK REPORT
The Great Transformation
Karl Polanyi
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
C.K. Prahalad
Doughnut Economics
Kate Raworth
BOOK REPORT
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith
Creating a Learning Society
Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald
BOOK REPORT
The Price of Inequality
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Nudge
Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein
Misbehaving
Richard H. Thaler
Deceit and Self-Deception
Robert Trivers
End Times
Peter Turchin; John Zada
BOOK REPORT
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
Yanis Varoufakis
Banker to the Poor
Muhammad Yunus

Health and Education in the Modern World

The Most Important Year
Suzanne Bouffard
Parkland
Dave Cullen
“Multiplication Is for White People”
Lisa Delpit
“Why We Drop Out”
Deborah L. Feldman et al.
Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
Me and My Memory
Robert Guarino
Me and My Feelings
Robert Guarino
What We See and Don’t See
Robert Guarino
Emotions, Learning, and the Brain
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
One World Schoolhouse
Salman Khan
BOOK REPORT
Improbable Scholars
David L. Kirp
BOOK REPORT
Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Pain
Sandra M. LeFort, Ph.D. et al.
Social
Matthew D. Lieberman
BOOK REPORT
Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions
Kate Lorig et al.
The How of Happiness
Sonja Lyubomirsky
The Status Syndrome
Michael Marmot
The Upside of Stress
Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D.
Beyond the Hole in the Wall
Sugata Mitra
BOOK REPORT
Radical Equations
Robert P. Moses & Charles E. Cobb, Jr.
Healthy Pleasures
Robert Ornstein, Ph.D. and David Sobel, M.D.
BOOK REPORT
The Healing Brain
Robert Ornstein & David Sobel
Quality Education as a Constitutional Right
Theresa Perry et al.
The Death and Life of the Great American School System
Diane Ravitch
Creative Schools
Ken Robinson, Ph.D. and Lou Aronica
The Prize
Dale Russakoff
Hard Questions on Global Educational Change
Pasi Sahlberg et al.
Mind & Body Health Handbook
David S. Sobel, M.D., & Robert Ornstein, Ph.D.
What’s the Catch?
David Sobel, MD
The Principles of Sociology
Herbert Spencer
Age of Opportunity
Laurence Steinberg, Ph.D.
Where There Is No Doctor
David Werner et al.
Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover
Reach for Greatness
Yong Zhao
Counting What Counts
Yong Zhao
What Works May Hurt
Yong Zhao

Our Mind in the Modern World

Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil
Paul Bloom
Attachment
John Bowlby
Pre-Suasion
Robert Cialdini
Influence
Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D.
The Experience Machine
Andy Clark
The Descent of Man
Charles Darwin
Humanity on a Tightrope
Paul R. Ehrlich & Robert E. Ornstein
BOOK REPORT
Thinking Big
Clive Gamble et al.
BOOK REPORT
Remember
Lisa Genova
Moral Tribes
Joshua Greene
BOOK REPORT
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The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
BOOK REPORT
The Righteous Mind
Jonathan Haidt
BOOK REPORT
The Dance of Life
Edward T. Hall
Beyond Culture
Edward T. Hall
BOOK REPORT
The Weirdest People in the World
Joseph Henrich
BOOK REPORT
Strangers in Their Own Land
Arlie Russell Hochschild
The Self Illusion
Bruce Hood
The First Word
Christine Kenneally
BOOK REPORT
Social
Matthew D. Lieberman
BOOK REPORT
Coddling the American Mind book
The Coddling of the American Mind
Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt
The Matter with Things
Iain McGilchrist
BOOK REPORT
New World New Mind
Robert Ornstein & Paul Ehrlich
BOOK REPORT
The cover of Robert Ornstein's book, 'Multimind: A New Way of Looking at Human Behaviour'.
Multimind
Robert Ornstein
BOOK REPORT
The Roots of the Self
Robert Ornstein
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Steven Pinker
The Manipulated Mind
Denise Winn