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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
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
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
The Future
Al Gore
BOOK REPORT
Our Choice
Al Gore
BOOK REPORT
Moral Tribes
Joshua Greene
BOOK REPORT
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The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
BOOK REPORT
The Righteous Mind
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
Rescuing the Plant by Tony Hiss
Rescuing the Planet
Tony Hiss
BOOK REPORT
The True Believer
Eric Hoffer
BOOK REPORT
The First Word
Christine Kenneally
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
1493
Charles C. Mann
BOOK REPORT
1491
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
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
Healthy Pleasures
Robert Ornstein, Ph.D. and David Sobel, M.D.
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
The Mountain People
Colin M. Turnbull
BOOK REPORT
Before the Dawn
Nicholas Wade
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: The Riddles of Culture
Marvin Harris
The Roots of the Self: Unraveling the Mystery of Who We Are
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
The Age of Empathy
Frans de Waal
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
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

The Evolution of Language

7,000 Universes
Lera Boroditsky
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: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims
Mustafa Akyol
The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
Jim Al-Khalili
Pathfinders: The Golden Age Of Arabic Science
Jim Al-Khalili
Sacred Nature
Karen Armstrong
BOOK REPORT
The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
Karen Armstrong
Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time
Karen Armstrong
The Case for God
Karen Armstrong
No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
Reza Aslan
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art
Paul G. Bahn
Social Origins Of Islam: Mind, Economy, Discourse
Mohammed A. Bamyeh
Louder than Words
Benjamin K. Bergen
Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods
Jean Bottéro
Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia
Jean Bottéro
Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices
Mary Boyce
Jesus and the Zealots: A Study of the Political Factor in Primitive Christianity
S.G.F. Brandon
The Keys of Saint Peter; Or, the House of Rechab: Connected with the History of Symbolism and Idolatry
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.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
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: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
Stephanie Dalley
Secret Societies
Arkon Daraul
Bible Myths And Their Parallels In Other Religions
Thomas Doane
Narratives of Islamic Origins: The Beginnings of Islamic Historical Writing
Fred Donner
Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam
Fred McGraw Donner
Birth of a Worldview: Early Christianity in its Jewish and Pagan Context
Robert Doran
The End of the Bronze Age
Robert Drews
How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures
Robin Dunbar
Philosophical Foundations of Education: Connecting Philosophy to Theory and Practice
Sheila G. Dunn
The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
Bart D. Ehrman
How Jesus Became God : the Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
Bart D. Ehrman
How Language Began
Daniel L. Everett
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman
Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology
John Fiske
Wonderworks
Angus Fletcher
The Life of Muhammad
A. Guillaume
Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early Abbasaid Society
Dimitri Gutas
The Qur’an
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem
The Pagan Background of Early Christianity
W.R. Halliday
The Wind Is My Mother: The Life and Teachings of a Native American Shaman
Bear Heart
The Babylonian Genesis: The Story of Creation
Alexander Heidel
The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
Arthur Herman
Four Views on Salvation in a Pluralistic World (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology)
John Hick et al.
The Upanishads
Hindu Texts
The Leopard’s Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of Çatalhöyük
Ian Hodder
The Odyssey
Homer
Pagan Saviours: Pagan Elements in Christian Ritual and Doctrine
Institute for Cultural Research
The Marketing of Christianity: The Evolution of Early Christian Doctrine
Institute for Cultural Research
The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion
Thorkild Jacobsen
The Origin and Goal of History
Karl Jaspers
Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus: From The Great Philosophers, Vol. 1
Karl Jaspers
Muhammad, the World-Changer
Mohamad Jebara
Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus
Babylonian Wisdom Literature
W. G. Lambert
Saint Irenaeus of Lyons: 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: A History of the Human Community; with a Retrospective Essay
William H. McNeill
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
María Rosa Menocal
The Gnostic Gospels of Jesus: The Definitive Collection of Mystical Gospels and Secret Books about Jesus of Nazareth
Marvin Meyer
The Secret Teachings of Jesus: Four Gnostic Gospels
Marvin Meyer
Research in Anthropological Topics
Alicia Meza
Art and Human Development
Constance Milbrath and Cynthis Lightfoot
Thoughtful Foragers: A Study of Prehistoric Decision Making
Steven J. Mithen
The Great Courses: Religions of the Axial Age: An Approach to the World’s Religions
Prof. Mark W. Muesse
Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God
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: The Origins of the Way We Think
Robert Ornstein
The Gnostic Gospels
Elaine Pagels
Ancient Indian Historical Tradition
F. E. Pargiter
Ancient China Simplified
Edward Harper Parker
Stonehenge: Making Sense of a Prehistoric Mystery
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: A Biography
Barnaby Rogerson
Aristotle’s Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages
Richard E. Rubenstein
Religious Evolution and the Axial Age
Stephen K. Sanderson
BOOK REPORT
Judaism and Christian Beginnings
Samuel Sandmel
Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brainwashing – How Evangelists, Psychiatrists, Politicians, and Medicine Men Can Change Your Beliefs and Behavior
William Sargant
Jewish Christianity: Factional disputes in the early church
Hans Joachim Schoeps
The Passover Plot
Hugh J. Schonfield
Plato Prehistorian: 10,000 to 5000 B.C. Myth, Religion, Archaeology
Mary Settegast
Caravan of Dreams
Idries Shah
The Sufis
Idries Shah
Tales of the Dervishes
Idries Shah
World Tales
Idries Shah
Selections from the Koran
Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah
The Commanding Self
Idries Shah
The Way of the Sufi
Idries Shah
Man and his Gods
Homer W. Smith
The Principles of Sociology (Volume I)
Herbert Spencer
The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic
John Shelby Spong
The Triumph of Christianity: How the Jesus Movement Became the World’s Largest Religion
Rodney Stark
The Science of Storytelling
Will Storr
Divine Harmony
John Strohmeier & Peter Westbrook
The Oxford Study Bible: Revised English Bible with the Apocrypha
M. Jack Suggs et al., eds.
Affluence Without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen
James Suzman
Annals of Imperial Rome
Tacitus
Secrets of the Sands: The Revelations of Egypt
Harry Thurston
Jesus: Nativity-Passion-Resurrection
Geza Vermes
Jesus the Jew
Geza Vermes
The Nativity: History and Legend
Geza Vermes
The Influence of Islam on Medieval Europe
W. Montgomery Watt
Ancient Judaism
Max Weber
The Places Where Men Pray Together: Cities in Islamic Lands, Seventh through the Tenth Centuries
Paul Wheatley
Modes of Religiosity: A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission
Harvey Whitehouse
Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of the Gods
David Lewis-Williams & David Pearce
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
David Lewis Williams
Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of the Gods
David Lewis-Williams & David Pearce
Jesus: A Life
A.N. Wilson
How Jesus Became Christian
Barrie Wilson, Ph.D.
Shamanism: The Neural Ecology of Consciousness and Healing
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
City of God
Saint Augustine
It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
Danah Boyd
The Axemaker’s Gift
James Burke & Robert Ornstein
BOOK REPORT
The Day The Universe Changed
James Burke
Connections 1
James Burke
The Alignment Problem
Brian Christian
Atlas of AI
Kate Crawford
Discourse on Method
René Descartes
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition
Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
BOOK REPORT
The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power
Niall Ferguson
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
Hannah Fry
The True Believer
Eric Hoffer
BOOK REPORT
Nomads of the Long Bow: The Siriono of Eastern Bolivia
Allan R. Holmberg
The Imitation of Christ
Thomas à Kempis
Superminds
Thomas W. Malone
1493
Charles C. Mann
BOOK REPORT
1491
Charles C. Mann
BOOK REPORT
Memes to Movements
An Xiao Mina
Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
Melanie Mitchell
Social Media and the Public Interest: Media Regulation in the Disinformation Age
Philip M. Napoli
Sir Dudley North on Discourses Upon Trade, 1691
Sir Dudley North
The Right Mind: Making Sense of the Hemispheres
Robert Ornstein
Human Compatible
Stuart Russell
Against the Grain
James C. Scott
BOOK REPORT
Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Idries Shah
LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
P.W. Singer & Emerson T. Brooking
On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder
BOOK REPORT
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Timothy Snyder
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
James D. Watson
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Tim Wu
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
BOOK REPORT

A Sustainable Planet

Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Dan Ariely
The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy
Lester R. Brown
The Big Ratchet
Ruth DeFries
BOOK REPORT
An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming
Al Gore
The Future
Al Gore
BOOK REPORT
Our Choice
Al Gore
BOOK REPORT
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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 Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity
Bruce Hood
The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert
BOOK REPORT
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
Michael E. Mann
The Marshmallow Test: Why Self-Control Is the Engine of Success
Walter Mischel
Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain’s Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans
Capt. Charles Moore
The Measure of Civilization
Ian Morris
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
Ian Morris
BOOK REPORT
Why the West Rules—for Now
Ian Morris
Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less and How It Defines Our Lives
Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir
The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of Bankers
Ann Pettifor
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: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet
Gernot Wagner and Martin L. Weitzman
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
David Wallace-Wells
Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life
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: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo
What Works in Development?: Thinking Big and Thinking Small
Jessica Cohen & William Easterly
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
Paul Collier
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
Angus Deaton
The Econocracy: The Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts
Joe Earle et al.
The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
William Easterly
The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
William Easterly
Progress and Poverty
Henry George
The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
Gary A. Haugen & Victor Boutros
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
John Maynard Keynes
The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy
Mervyn King
The Business of Changing the World
Raj Kumar
BOOK REPORT
How to Speak Money: What the Money People Say – and What It Really Means
John Lanchester
Rethinking Money: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity into Prosperity
Bernard Lietaer & Jacqui Dunne
Money and Sustainability: The Missing Link
Bernard Lietaer et al.
Money: The Unauthorized Biography–From Coinage to Cryptocurrencies
Felix Martin
The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
Mariana Mazzucato
The Limits to growth: A report for the Club of Rome’s Project on the Predicament of Mankind
Donella H. Meadows et al.
The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of Bankers
Ann Pettifor
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
BOOK REPORT
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
Karl Polanyi
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits
C.K. Prahalad
Doughnut Economics
Kate Raworth
BOOK REPORT
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Creating a Learning Society
Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald
BOOK REPORT
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
Richard H. Thaler
Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others
Robert Trivers
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
Yanis Varoufakis
Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Muhammad Yunus

Health and Education in the Modern World

The Most Important Year: Pre-Kindergarten and the Future of Our Children
Suzanne Bouffard
Parkland
Dave Cullen
“Multiplication Is for White People:“ Raising Expectations for Other People’s Children
Lisa Delpit
“Why We Drop Out“
Deborah L. Feldman et al.
Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell
What We See and Don’t See
Robert Guarino
Me and My Feelings: What Emotions Are and How We Can Manage Them
Robert Guarino
Me and My Memory: Why We Forget Some Things and Remember Others
Robert Guarino
Emotions, Learning, and the Brain: Exploring the Educational Implications of Affective Neuroscience
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined
Salman Khan
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: Self-Management of Heart Disease, Arthritis, Diabetes, Depression, Asthma, Bronchitis, Emphysema and Other Physical and Mental Health Conditions
Kate Lorig et al.
The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want
Sonja Lyubomirsky
The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity
Michael Marmot
The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It
Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D.
Beyond the Hole in the Wall
Sugata Mitra
BOOK REPORT
Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project
Robert P. Moses & Charles E. Cobb, Jr.
Healthy Pleasures
Robert Ornstein, Ph.D. and David Sobel, M.D.
BOOK REPORT
The Healing Brain: Breakthrough Discoveries About How the Brain Keeps Us Healthy
Robert Ornstein & David Sobel
Quality Education as a Constitutional Right: Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools
Theresa Perry et al.
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
Diane Ravitch
Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education
Ken Robinson, Ph.D. and Lou Aronica
The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools?
Dale Russakoff
Hard Questions on Global Educational Change: Policies, Practices, and the Future of Education
Pasi Sahlberg et al.
What’s the Catch?: How to Avoid Getting Hooked and Manipulated
David Sobel, MD
Mind & Body Health Handbook: How to Use Your Mind & Body to Relieve Stress, Overcome Illness, and Enjoy Healthy Pleasures
David S. Sobel, M.D., & Robert Ornstein, Ph.D.
Age of Opportunity: Lessons from The New Science of Adolescence
Laurence Steinberg, Ph.D.
Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook
David Werner et al.
Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover
Counting What Counts: Reframing Education Outcomes
Yong Zhao
Reach for Greatness: Personalizable Education for All Children
Yong Zhao
What Works May Hurt―Side Effects in Education
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: Attachment and Loss Volume One
John Bowlby
Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
Robert Cialdini
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D.
The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
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: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
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: The Other Dimension of Time
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: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Arlie Russell Hochschild
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: Unraveling the Mystery of Who We Are
Robert Ornstein
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Steven Pinker