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Glucose Revolution
Jessie Inchauspé · 2022
Another road into metabolic health, taken at steady pacing.
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In Defense of Food
Michael Pollan · 2008
A forensic yet accessible critique of reductionist nutritionism grounded in cultural and scientific analysis, balanced with wry observations and a pragmatic ethical call to return to unprocessed food.
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The First 20 Hours
Josh Kaufman · 2013
A pragmatic, step-by-step guide that demystifies skill acquisition, showing readers how to get reasonably good at almost anything with 20 hours of deliberate practice.
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The Emotion Code
Bradley B. Nelson · 2007
Matches the accessible mood, carried on steady pacing.
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Remember
Lisa Genova · 2021
Genova draws on her neuroscience background to explain in warm, accessible terms how memory works, why forgetting is normal, and when memory loss signals something more serious.
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He Comes Next
Ian Kerner · 2006
Matches the informative mood, carried on steady pacing.
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Yes!
Noah J. Goldstein · 2008
Matches the accessible mood, carried on steady pacing.
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Indistractable
Nir Eyal · 2019
A practical, plainly written guide offering a four-step framework to master attention and beat distraction, framed as an urgent personal-effectiveness skill.
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The business of the 21st century
Robert T. Kiyosaki · 2009
A persuasive business manifesto arguing that network marketing offers ordinary people a realistic path to financial freedom, delivered in Kiyosaki's familiar plainspoken, mentor-style voice.
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Poor Economics
Abhijit Banerjee · 2011
A close nonfiction relative — matched on how it reads, with steady pacing.
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The Brain That Changes Itself
Norman Doidge · 2007
An episodic tour of neuroplasticity told through vivid case studies of patients and maverick scientists, delivered in accessible journalistic prose that leaves you awed by the brain's capacity to rewire itself.
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Social Intelligence
Daniel Goleman · 2006
An accessible synthesis of neuroscience and social psychology arguing humans are wired to connect, threaded through research summaries and everyday examples.
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