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The Axemaker’s Gift: Technology’s Capture and Control of Our Minds and CultureJames Burke & Robert Ornstein
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Humanity on a Tightrope: Thoughts on Empathy, Family, and Big Changes for a Viable FuturePaul R. Ehrlich & Robert E. Ornstein
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God 4.0: On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God“Robert Ornstein with Sally M. Ornstein
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Religious Evolution and the Axial Age: From Shamans to Priests to ProphetsStephen K. Sanderson
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Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social ProgressJoseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of PowerShoshana Zuboff
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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global PovertyAbhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo
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Jesus and the Zealots: A Study of the Political Factor in Primitive ChristianityS.G.F. Brandon
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The Axemaker’s Gift: Technology’s Capture and Control of Our Minds and CultureJames Burke & Robert Ornstein
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The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and CivilizationMichael C. Corballis
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Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and CognitionMerlin Donald
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The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little GoodWilliam Easterly
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The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the PoorWilliam Easterly
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Humanity on a Tightrope: Thoughts on Empathy, Family, and Big Changes for a Viable FuturePaul R. Ehrlich & Robert E. Ornstein
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The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of ViolenceGary A. Haugen & Victor Boutros
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American RightArlie Russell Hochschild
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Emotions, Learning, and the Brain: Exploring the Educational Implications of Affective NeuroscienceMary Helen Immordino-Yang
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The Marketing of Christianity: The Evolution of Early Christian DoctrineInstitute for Cultural Research
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Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain’s Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the OceansCapt. Charles Moore
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The Great Courses: Religions of the Axial Age: An Approach to the World’s ReligionsProf. Mark W. Muesse
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God 4.0: On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God“Robert Ornstein with Sally M. Ornstein
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Religious Evolution and the Axial Age: From Shamans to Priests to ProphetsStephen K. Sanderson
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Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social ProgressJoseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and HappinessRichard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein
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Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of the GodsDavid Lewis-Williams & David Pearce
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Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of the GodsDavid Lewis-Williams & David Pearce
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of PowerShoshana Zuboff
Journey of the Human Mind
Discovering Our Distant Ancestors
The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture
Jerome H. Barkow et al.
How Humans Evolved
Robert Boyd & Joan B. Silk
Human Universals
Donald E. Brown
The Great Human Diasporas: The History Of Diversity and Evolution
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: A Modern Synthesis
Glenn C. Conroy & Herman Pontzer
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
Blueprints: Solving the Mystery of Evolution
Maitland A. Edey and Donald C. Johanson
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
Stephen Jay Gould
The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins
Richard G. Klein
The Origin Of Humankind
Richard Leakey
Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology
David Levinson & Melvin Ember
Origins of Anatomically Modern Humans
Matthew H. Nitecki & Doris V. Nitecki
The Real Eve: Modern Man’s Journey Out of Africa
Stephen Oppenheimer
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Steven Pinker
African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Humanity
Chris Stringer and Robin McKie
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
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: How Cooking Made Us Human
Richard Wrangham
The Evolution of Language
Syntactic Structures
Noam Chomsky
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The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and CivilizationMichael C. Corballis
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Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and CognitionMerlin Donald
Language: The Cultural Tool
Daniell Everett
Phylogenetic Methods and the Prehistory of Languages
Peter Forster & Colin Renfrew
The Story of My Life
Helen Keller
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Steven Pinker
The Swastika: Constructing the Symbol
Malcolm Quinn
Ideas that Shaped Our Modern World
Pathfinders: The Golden Age Of Arabic Science
Jim Al-Khalili
Social Origins Of Islam: Mind, Economy, Discourse
Mohammed A. Bamyeh
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Jesus and the Zealots: A Study of the Political Factor in Primitive ChristianityS.G.F. Brandon
The Civilization of the Middle Ages
Norman F. Cantor
The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture
Jacques Cauvin
Myth, Magic, and Morals
Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare
Secret Societies
Arkon Daraul
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman
The Life of Muhammad
A. Guillaume
The Pagan Background of Early Christianity
W.R. Halliday
The Babylonian Genesis: The Story of Creation
Alexander Heidel
The Upanishads
Hindu Texts
Pagan Saviours: Pagan Elements in Christian Ritual and Doctrine
Institute for Cultural Research
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The Marketing of Christianity: The Evolution of Early Christian DoctrineInstitute for Cultural Research
The Origin and Goal of History
Karl Jaspers
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
Research in Anthropological Topics
Alicia Meza
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The Great Courses: Religions of the Axial Age: An Approach to the World’s ReligionsProf. Mark W. Muesse
The Study Quran
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God
Steven Nightingale
The Gospel of Thomas
Dr. A. Nyland
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God 4.0: On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God“Robert Ornstein with Sally M. Ornstein
The Psychology of Consciousness
Robert Ornstein
Ancient Indian Historical Tradition
F. E. Pargiter
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
The World’s Last Mysteries
Reader's Digest
Christ in Islam and Christianity
Neal Robinson
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Religious Evolution and the Axial Age: From Shamans to Priests to ProphetsStephen K. Sanderson
Jewish Christianity: Factional disputes in the early church
Hans Joachim Schoeps
Selections from the Koran
Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah
Man and his Gods
Homer W. Smith
The Principles of Sociology (Volume I)
Herbert Spencer
Divine Harmony: The Life and Teachings of Pythagoras
John Strohmeier & Peter Westbrook
The Oxford Study Bible: Revised English Bible with the Apocrypha
M. Jack Suggs et al., eds.
Annals of Imperial Rome
Tacitus
Secrets of the Sands: The Revelations of Egypt
Harry Thurston
The Influence of Islam on Medieval Europe
W. Montgomery Watt
Ancient Judaism
Max Weber
Modes of Religiosity: A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission
Harvey Whitehouse
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Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of the GodsDavid Lewis-Williams & David Pearce
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Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of the GodsDavid 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 Dawn And Twilight Of Zoroastrianism
R.C. Zaehner
Tools and the Development of Contemporary Society
City of God
Saint Augustine
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The Axemaker’s Gift: Technology’s Capture and Control of Our Minds and CultureJames Burke & Robert Ornstein
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
Nomads of the Long Bow: The Siriono of Eastern Bolivia
Allan R. Holmberg
The Imitation of Christ
Thomas à Kempis
Superminds
Thomas W. Malone
Memes to Movements
An Xiao Mina
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
LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
P.W. Singer & Emerson T. Brooking
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of PowerShoshana Zuboff
A Sustainable Planet
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
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Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain’s Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the OceansCapt. Charles Moore
The Measure of Civilization
Ian Morris
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 View from the Center of the Universe
Joel R. Primack & Nancy Ellen Abrams
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: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson
The End of Finance
Massimo Amato & Luca Fantacci
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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global PovertyAbhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo
What Works in Development?: Thinking Big and Thinking Small
Jessica Cohen & William Easterly
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The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little GoodWilliam Easterly
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The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the PoorWilliam Easterly
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The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of ViolenceGary A. Haugen & Victor Boutros
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
John Maynard Keynes
Rethinking Money: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity into Prosperity
Bernard Lietaer & Jacqui Dunne
Money and Sustainability: The Missing Link
Bernard Lietaer et al.
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.
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Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social ProgressJoseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and HappinessRichard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein
Health and Education in the Modern World
Parkland
Dave Cullen
“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
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Emotions, Learning, and the Brain: Exploring the Educational Implications of Affective NeuroscienceMary Helen Immordino-Yang
Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Pain
Sandra M. LeFort, Ph.D. et al.
The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want
Sonja Lyubomirsky
The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It
Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D.
Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project
Robert P. Moses & Charles E. Cobb, Jr.
The Healing Brain: Breakthrough Discoveries About How the Brain Keeps Us Healthy
Robert Ornstein & David Sobel
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
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.
Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook
David Werner et al.
Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover
Our Mind in the Modern World
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Humanity on a Tightrope: Thoughts on Empathy, Family, and Big Changes for a Viable FuturePaul R. Ehrlich & Robert E. Ornstein
The Dance of Life: The Other Dimension of Time
Edward T. Hall
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American RightArlie Russell Hochschild
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