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Science And Human Behavior

B.F Skinner

The psychology classic—a detailed study of scientific theories of human nature

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4.7 | (477 reviews)
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Sapiens

A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

The Sunday Times Bestseller

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4.6 | (143K reviews)
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Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu

'Have little thought of self and as few desires as possible'

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4.3 | (1,244 reviews)
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Letters from a Stoic

Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium

Seneca

Illuminating writings by Stoicism's most eloquent advocate

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4.7 | (5,667 reviews)
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The Analects

Confucius

A collection of Confucius's sayings to express a moral code by which Confucius believed everyone should live

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4.3 | (1,297 reviews)
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The Prince

Niccolo Machiavelli

Machiavelli's highly influential treatise on political power

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4.4 | (6,463 reviews)
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Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

One of the greatest of all works of philosophy

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4.7 | (10,683 reviews)
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The Republic

Plato

The classic translation of the cornerstone work of western philosophy

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4.7 | (2,453 reviews)
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The Black Swan

The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

From the critically acclaimed author of Fooled by Randomness.

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4.3 | (7,700 reviews)
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The Art of War

Sun-tzu

A touchstone for all; whether in battle, in business or in relationships

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4.5 | (386 reviews)
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Self-help

Samuel Smiles

The precursor of today's motivational and self-help literature. Its vision is significantly more cosmopolitan than that of most books in a still-expanding genre.

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4.1 | (167 reviews)
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Superintelligence

Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Nick Bostrom

Profoundly ambitious and original

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4.4 | (4,618 reviews)
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Civil Disobedience

And Other Essays

Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau has inspired generations of readers to think for themselves and to find meaning and beauty in nature

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4.5 | (978 reviews)
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Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 6

Psychological Types

C. G. Jung

One of the most important of Jung's longer works, and probably the most famous of his books

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4.8 | (274 reviews)
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On the Future

Prospects for Humanity

Martin Rees

Climate change, nuclear war, space exploration, robotics, AI and more.... understand the critical issues that will define the future of humanity on Earth and beyond.

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4.3 | (296 reviews)
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Man's Search for Meaning

The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust

Viktor Emil Frankl

This outstanding work offers us all a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the art of living

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4.6 | (93,400 reviews)
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Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint

Franz Brentano

Brentano's most important and brilliant work ... (done) in a highly original and distinctive manner by arguing for a form of introspectionism

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4.9 | (9 reviews)
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The Dawn of Everything

A New History of Humanity

David Graeber and David Wengrow

** Instant New York Times Bestseller **

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4.5 | (4,673 reviews)
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Walden

Henry David Thoreau

Without doubt the most influential book of one of the leading figures in early American literature

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4.1 | (6,770 reviews)
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A Human Algorithm

How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Who We Are

Flynn Coleman

Examining the immense impact intelligent technology will have on humanity

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4 | (79 reviews)
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The Interpretation of Dreams

Sigmund Freud

A translation of Sigmund Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams" - based on the original text published in 1899

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4.6 | (746 reviews)
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Homo Deus

A Brief History of Tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harari

From the author of the global phenomenon Sapiens - Winner of multiple 'Book of the Year' awards

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4.5 | (37,070 reviews)

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