Laura Teixeira Motta

16 books

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Steven Pinker

806 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology challenging informative slow-paced
Everything in Its Place by Oliver Sacks

Everything in Its Place

Oliver Sacks

288 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir science challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Gene: An Intimate History

Siddhartha Mukherjee

608 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

Lawrence Wright

430 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging dark slow-paced
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

Richard Dawkins

470 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction science adventurous reflective slow-paced
The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks

The Island of the Colorblind

Oliver Sacks

311 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science adventurous informative reflective slow-paced
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True by Richard Dawkins

The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True

Richard Dawkins

271 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy religion science adventurous informative reflective slow-paced
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

Oliver Sacks

256 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science informative reflective slow-paced
The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive by Brian Christian

The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive

Brian Christian

320 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy psychology science reflective slow-paced
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are by Frans de Waal

Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are

Frans de Waal

288 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction science informative reflective slow-paced