{"id":7314,"date":"2015-03-17T10:34:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T15:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buzzfeed.com\/reasonableape\/10-books-guaranteed-to-make-you-smarter-fro4"},"modified":"2015-03-17T10:34:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T15:34:01","slug":"community-post-10-books-guaranteed-to-make-you-smarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themindpowertimes.com\/?p=7314","title":{"rendered":"Community Post: 10 Books Guaranteed To Make You Smarter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1.<\/span> A Short History of Nearly Everything<\/i> by Bill Bryson<\/h2>\n
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Via Broadway Books<\/div>\n

This is Bill Bryson\u2019s quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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2.<\/span> Think<\/i> by Simon Blackburn<\/h2>\n
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Via OUP<\/div>\n

Think is one of the best single-volume introductions to Western philosophy. This book summarizes central themes in philosophy in a thoroughly entertaining and clear manner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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3.<\/span> Thinking, Fast and Slow<\/i> by Daniel Kahneman<\/h2>\n
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Thinking, Fast and Slow makes the recent research in cognitive psychology quite accessible to the layperson. This is a very important book about how we decide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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4.<\/span> The Universe Within<\/i> by Neil Shubin<\/h2>\n
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In The Universe Within, Neil Shubin, the author of \u2018Your Inner Fish\u2019, ambitiously traces the history of the universe and the story of evolution through the bodies and remains of all living things on Earth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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5.<\/span> The Better Angels of Our Nature<\/i> by Steven Pinker<\/h2>\n
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Steven Pinker is one of the world\u2019s leading authorities on language and the mind. In this book he shows that counter-intuitively, violence has been decreasing throughout human history<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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6.<\/span> Guns, Germs, and Steel<\/i> by Jared Diamond<\/h2>\n
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Via W. W. Norton & Company<\/div>\n

Guns, Germs, and Steel is one of the most important and humane works of popular science. It will change the way you think about human culture and history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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7.<\/span> Believing Bullshit<\/i> by Stephen Law<\/h2>\n
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Believing Bullshit is a witty and insightful critique that will help immunize readers against the follies of poor thinking.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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8.<\/span> Intuition Pumps<\/i> by Daniel Dennett<\/h2>\n
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Via W. W. Norton & Company<\/div>\n

In Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, Dennett revealed his favorite thinking tools, or \u2018intuition pumps\u2019, addressing life\u2019s most fundamental questions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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9.<\/span> The Demon-Haunted World<\/i> by Carl Sagan<\/h2>\n
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The Demon-Haunted world is one of Sagan\u2019s last works to be published before he died. It\u2019s extremely informative and thought provoking.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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10.<\/span> The Selfish Gene<\/i> by Richard Dawkins<\/h2>\n
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The Selfish Gene revolutionized the way we think of natural selection. If you are only going to read one book on evolution\/natural selection, it should be this one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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1. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson View this image \u203a Via Broadway Books This is Bill Bryson\u2019s quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. 2. 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