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Steal the Show

Steal the Show: From Speeches to Job Interviews to Deal-Closing Pitches, How to Guarantee a Standing Ovation for All the Performances in Your Life

ByMichael Port

7 Readers • 3.8

Can a Bee Sting a Bee?: And Other Big Questions from Little People

#1 of 2 in Big Questions from Little People

Can a Bee Sting a Bee?: And Other Big Questions from Little People

ByGemma Elwin Harris

2012 • 1 Reader • 319 pages

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The Dreams of Reason

The Dreams of Reason: The Computer and the Rise of the Sciences of Complexity

ByHeinz R. Pagels

1988 • 3 Readers • 352 pages • 4

Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun

Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun

ByDavid Goodstein,Judith R. Goodstein,+1 more

1996 • 17 Readers • 4.5

The Book of Internal Exercises

The Book of Internal Exercises

ByStephen Thomas Chang

1978 • 1 Reader • 138 pages

Escape from Freedom

Escape from Freedom

ByErich Fromm

1941 • 43 Readers • 324 pages • 4.4

The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

ByR.F.C. Hull(Translator),Carl Gustav Jung

1990 • 4 Readers

Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature

Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature

ByConnie Zweig(Editor),Jeremiah Abrams(Editor)

1991 • 10 Readers • 368 pages • 4

Neti-Neti Meditation

Neti-Neti Meditation

ByAndre Doshim Halaw

2013 • 1 Reader • 52 pages

I Am That

ByNisargadatta Maharaj,Maurice Frydman(Translator)

1973 • 22 Readers • 475 pages

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

The Demon-haunted World

ByCarl Sagan

1996 • 401 Readers • 457 pages • 4.2

Something Deeply Hidden

Something Deeply Hidden

BySean Carroll

85 Readers • 3.8

Light on Life

ByB.K.S. Iyengar,John J. Evans,+1 more

2006 • 2 Readers • 304 pages

The web that has no weaver

The web that has no weaver

ByTed Kaptchuk

1983 • 4 Readers • 528 pages • 4

Grasping the Wind

Grasping the Wind

ByAndrew Ellis,Nigel Wiseman,+1 more

1989 • 476 pages

Your Body Speaks Your Mind

Your Body Speaks Your Mind

ByDebbie Shapiro

1996 • 1 Reader

The Book of Human Emotions

The Book of Human Emotions

ByTiffany Watt Smith

2016 • 3 Readers • 320 pages

Original Wisdom

Original Wisdom

ByRobert Wolff

2001 • 1 Reader • 208 pages

Chess Story

ByStefan Zweig,Joel Rotenberg(Translator)

1942 • 194 Readers • 106 pages • 4.3

The Feynman Lectures on Physics

The Feynman Lectures on Physics

ByRichard P. Feynman

1964 • 5 Readers • 516 pages

Confessions of an Advertising Man

Confessions of an Advertising Man

ByDavid Ogilvy,Sir Alan Parker

2011 • 27 Readers • 190 pages • 3.8

Anatomy of the Spirit

Anatomy of the Spirit

ByCaroline Myss

1996 • 20 Readers • 302 pages • 4

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Biomimicry - An Ecological Revolution. Using biomimicry as a tool, could it be possible for our modern day cities to perform like forests?

Biomimicry - An Ecological Revolution. Using biomimicry as a tool, could it be possible for our modern day cities to perform like forests?

ByJed C. Davies

2012 • 1 Reader

Feral

ByGeorge Monbiot

2014 • 31 Readers • 319 pages • 4.3

Biomimicry in Architecture

Biomimicry in Architecture

ByMichael Pawlyn

2011 • 2 Readers • 130 pages

The Architecture of Emergence: The Evolution of Form in Nature and Civilisation

The Architecture of Emergence: The Evolution of Form in Nature and Civilisation

ByMichael Weinstock

2008 • 1 Reader

The Self Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature

The Self Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature

ByPhilip Ball

1999 • 2 Readers • 312 pages

The Life of a Leaf

The Life of a Leaf

BySteven Vogel

2012 • 2 Readers

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

Beautiful Boy A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

ByDavid Sheff

2007 • 104 Readers • 464 pages • 3.9

Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach

Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach

ByDurk Pearson,Sandy Shaw

1983 • 1 Reader • 858 pages

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Jed McKenna's Notebook

Jed McKenna's Notebook

ByJed McKenna

2009 • 2 Readers

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Spiritual Warfare

#3 of 3 in Enlightenment Trilogy

Spiritual Warfare

ByJed McKenna

2007 • 4 Readers • 328 pages

Mathematics for the Nonmathematician

Mathematics for the Nonmathematician

ByMorris Kline

1967 • 8 Readers • 672 pages

Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty

Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty

ByMorris Kline

1962 • 2 Readers • 384 pages

What Is Mathematics?

What Is Mathematics?

ByRichard Courant,Herbert Robbins,+1 more

1941 • 18 Readers • 592 pages • 4

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

BySimon Singh

1996 • 218 Readers • 434 pages • 4.2

Men of Mathematics

Men of Mathematics

ByEric Temple Bell

1937 • 5 Readers • 590 pages • 2

Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

Our Mathematical Universe My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

ByMax Tegmark

2012 • 99 Readers • 421 pages • 4.1

The Orphan Master's Son

The Orphan Master's Son

ByAdam Johnson

2012 • 178 Readers • 465 pages • 4.3

The Laws of Human Nature

The Laws of Human Nature

ByRobert Greene

101 • 168 Readers • 4.4

Invisible Lines of Connection: Sacred Stories of the Ordinary

Invisible Lines of Connection: Sacred Stories of the Ordinary

ByLawrence Kushner

1996 • 1 Reader • 160 pages

Eyes Remade for Wonder: A Lawrence Kushner Reader

Eyes Remade for Wonder: A Lawrence Kushner Reader

ByLawrence Kushner

1998 • 1 Reader • 223 pages

God Is a Verb: Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism

God Is a Verb: Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism

ByDavid A. Cooper

1997 • 2 Readers • 353 pages

A Guide to the Zohar

A Guide to the Zohar

ByArthur Green

2003 • 1 Reader • 212 pages

Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Creation

ByAryeh Kaplan

200 • 6 Readers • 388 pages • 4

Brave New World

Brave New World

ByAldous Huxley

1900 • 3,193 Readers • 332 pages • 3.9

On the Move: A Life

#2 of 2 in Oliver Sacks' memoirs

On the Move: A Life

ByOliver Sacks

2015 • 90 Readers • 4

Hallucinations

ByOliver Sacks

2012 • 119 Readers • 3.5

The Mind's Eye

ByOliver Sacks

2010 • 51 Readers • 256 pages • 4

The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell

The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

ByAldous Huxley

1956 • 110 Readers • 144 pages • 3.6

The Perennial Philosophy

The Perennial Philosophy

ByAldous Huxley

1945 • 44 Readers • 343 pages • 5

Seeing Voices

ByOliver Sacks

1989 • 29 Readers • 204 pages • 3.5

Thinking physics

Thinking Physics

ByLewis Carroll Epstein

1981 • 11 Readers • 561 pages • 4.5

The Moon by Whale Light and Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians and Whales

The Moon by Whale Light and Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians and Whales

ByDiane Ackerman

1991 • 5 Readers • 249 pages

Remarkable Trees of the World

Remarkable Trees of the World

ByThomas Pakenham

2002 • 2 Readers • 192 pages • 3.5

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Planet Earth

Planet Earth: As You've Never Seen It Before

ByAlastair Fothergill,Vanessa Berlowitz,+3 more

2006 • 2 Readers

Voyage of the turtle

Voyage of the turtle

ByCarl Safina

5 Readers

The Malay Archipelago

#1 of 1 in The Malay Archipelago

The Malay Archipelago

ByAlfred Russel Wallace

1869 • 6 Readers • 736 pages

Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

ByRobin Wall Kimmerer

2003 • 151 Readers • 7h 47m • 4.6

Explorer's Guide to Wildlife Adventures

Explorer's Guide to Wildlife Adventures

ByJ.Z. Hunt

2017 • 1 Reader • 138 pages

Vaster Than Sky, Greater Than Space: What You Are Before You Became

Vaster Than Sky, Greater Than Space: What You Are Before You Became

ByMooji

2016 • 2 Readers • 260 pages

The Birds of Pandemonium

The Birds of Pandemonium

ByMichele Raffin

2014 • 3 Readers • 240 pages

The Blue Planet: A Natural History of the Oceans

The Blue Planet: A Natural History of the Oceans

ByAlastair Fothergill

2001 • 1 Reader • 384 pages

Earth Prayers: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations from Around the World

Earth Prayers: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations from Around the World

ByElizabeth Roberts,Elias Amidon

1991 • 3 Readers • 480 pages • 3

The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds

The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds

ByDiane Ackerman

1995 • 2 Readers • 208 pages

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Forest Bathing Retreat

Forest Bathing Retreat

ByHannah Fries

2 Readers • 4.5

The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One

The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One

BySylvia A. Earle

2009 • 3 Readers

Second Nature

ByMichael Pollan

1991 • 40 Readers • 258 pages • 4.1

The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea

The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea

ByCallum Roberts

4 Readers

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

BySy Montgomery

2015 • 186 Readers • 273 pages • 3.8

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

ByRobin Wall Kimmerer

2013 • 614 Readers • 391 pages • 4.6

Natural Acts : A Sidelong View of Science and Nature

Natural Acts : A Sidelong View of Science and Nature

ByDavid Quammen

1985 • 2 Readers

The Secret Life of Water

The secret life of water

ByMasaru Emoto

1 Reader

Biotensegrity: The Structural Basis of Life

Biotensegrity: The Structural Basis of Life

ByGraham Scarr

2014 • 1 Reader • 138 pages

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The Hidden Life of Trees

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate

ByPeter Wohlleben,Jane Billinghurst(Translator)

7 Readers • 4

The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion―Surprising Observations of a Hidden World

#2 of 3 in The Mysteries of Nature

The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion―Surprising Observations of a Hidden World

ByPeter Wohlleben,Jane Billinghurst(Translator)

2016 • 6 Readers • 4

Genius

ByJames Gleick

1992 • 107 Readers • 531 pages • 4

Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior

Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior

ByLeonard Mlodinow

2012 • 66 Readers • 260 pages • 3.9

The Fantasy Bond

The Fantasy Bond

ByRobert W. Firestone,Richard Seiden,+1 more

1987 • 1 Reader • 408 pages

The Meaning of Human Existence

#2 of 3 in The Anthropocene Epoch

The Meaning of Human Existence

ByEdward O. Wilson

2014 • 10 Readers • 207 pages

Beyond Religion

Beyond Religion

ByDalai Lama XIV

2011 • 9 Readers • 208 pages • 3.8

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

ByWalter Isaacson

2003 • 197 Readers • 4

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

#1 of 7 in Maya Angelou's Autobiography

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

ByMaya Angelou

1969 • 651 Readers • 309 pages • 4.1

Into Thin Air

ByJon Krakauer

1997 • 580 Readers • 368 pages • 4.3

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

ByMalcolm X

1966 • 453 Readers • 460 pages • 4.5

Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

#1 of 2 in Maus

Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

ByArt Spiegelman

1980 • 552 Readers • 295 pages • 4.5

The Last Lion

#2 of 3 in The Last Lion

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932

ByWilliam Manchester

1988 • 30 Readers • 800 pages • 4.6

Churchill

Churchill: A Life

ByMartin Gilbert

1974 • 15 Readers • 300 pages • 4

The Wives of Henry VIII

The Wives of Henry VIII

ByAntonia Fraser

1992 • 18 Readers • 482 pages • 4.3

Mountains Beyond Mountains

Mountains Beyond Mountains

ByTracy Kidder

2003 • 120 Readers • 3.9

Virginia Woolf: A Biography

Virginia Woolf: A Biography

ByQuentin Bell

5 Readers • 4

Punished by Rewards

Punished by Rewards

ByAlfie Kohn

1993 • 24 Readers • 398 pages • 4.3

How to Make Yourself Miserable

How to Make Yourself Miserable

ByDan Greenburg

1966 • 1 Reader • 132 pages

Long Walk To Freedom

#1-2 of 1 in Long Walk to Freedom

Long Walk to Freedom

ByNelson Mandela

1994 • 173 Readers • 4.4

The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium

The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium

ByWalter Wink

1998 • 2 Readers

Quantum psychology

Quantum psychology

ByRobert Anton Wilson

1990 • 20 Readers • 210 pages • 4

Prometheus Rising

Prometheus Rising

ByRobert Anton Wilson

1983 • 39 Readers • 322 pages • 4.3

Born to walk

ByDan Rubinstein

4 Readers • 4

The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

The compound effect

ByDarren Hardy

2010 • 155 Readers • 195 pages • 3.7

Hagakure

ByYamamoto Tsunetomo

1716 • 62 Readers • 101 pages • 3.4