| General TOK - Knowledge, Belief, etc. |
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Rating |
Difficulty |
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcom Gladwell |
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Average |
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
by Edward O. Wilson |
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Challenging |
The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World
by Owen R. Flanagan |
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Challenging |
The Tyranny of Dead Ideas
by Matt Miller |
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Average |
Think
by Simon Blackburn |
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Average |
This I Believe
by Jay Allison |
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Easy Reading |
Why We Believe What We Believe
by Andrew Newberg & Mark Robert Waldman |
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Challenging |
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| Methods - Natural Sciences |
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Rating |
Difficulty |
A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson |
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Average |
At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organizatio and Complexity
by Stuart Kauffman |
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Challenging |
Chaos
by James Gleick |
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Challenging |
From Certainty to Uncertainty: The Story of Science and Ideas in the Twentieth Century
by F. David Peat |
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Average |
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
by Carl Sagan |
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Average |
The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century
by John Brockman |
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Average |
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| Arguments - Math & Logic |
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Rating |
Difficulty |
E=mc2: A Biography of the Word's Most Famous Equation
by David Bodanis |
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Average |
Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical
by Simon Singh |
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Challenging |
Poetry of the Universe: A Mathematical Exploration of the Cosmos
by Robert Osserman |
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Average |
The Mathematical Experience
by Reuben Hirsch |
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Challenging |
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| Stories - Arts & History |
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Rating |
Difficulty |
But Is It Art?
by Cynthia Freeland |
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Average |
Practicing History
by Barbara Tuchmann |
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Average |
The Return of History and the End of Dreams
by Roberyt Kagan |
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Average |
The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien |
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Average |
This is Your Brain On Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
by Daniel J. Levintin |
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Average |
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| Purposes - Human Sciences & Ethics |
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Rating |
Difficulty |
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
by Oliver Sacks |
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Average |
Flow
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi |
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Average |
Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are
by Robert Wright |
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Challenging |
Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong
by Marc Hauser |
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Challenging |
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
by Jonathan Haidt |
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Average |
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| Paradigms |
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Rating |
Difficulty |
A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science, and Sprituality
by Ken Wilber |
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Average |
Finding Darwin's God
by Kenneth R. Miller |
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Average |
How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God
by Michael Shermer |
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Average |
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by Steven Pinker |
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Average |
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
by Sam Harris |
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Average |
The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why
by Richard Nisbett |
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Average |
The Quantum and the Lotus
by Matthieu Ricard & Trinh Xuan Thuan |
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Average |
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