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Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow (2013)
In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think.
Michael Pollan – How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics (2018)
Diving deep into this extraordinary world and putting himself forward as a guinea-pig, Michael Pollan has written a remarkable history of psychedelics and a compelling portrait of the new generation of scientists fascinatedby the implications of these drugs. How to Change Your Mind is a report from what could very well be the future of human consciousness.
Jordan Peterson – 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (2018)
The #1 Sunday Times and International Bestseller from ‘the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now’ (New York Times)
Peter Godfrey-Smith – Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life (2017)
In Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of science and a skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself
Roger Penrose – The Emperor’s New Mind (1989)
Perhaps the most engaging and creative tour of modern physics that has ever been written (Sunday Times)
Michael Pollan – The Omnivore’s Dilemma (2006)
The startling truth behind the food we consume in the twenty-first century
Ray Kurzweil – The Singularity is Near (2005)
Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil examines the next step in the evolutionary process of the union of human and machine.
Rick Strassman M.D. – DMT: The Spirit Molecule (2000)
Dr. Rick Strassman conducted U.S. Government-approved and funded clinical research at the University of New Mexico in which he injected sixty volunteers with DMT, one of the most powerful psychedelics known.
Chuck Palahniuk – Fight Club (1996)
Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to.