Good Reads - Nonfiction
What Makes Us Tick?
Acting Out: Behavior
152.4 KEL
Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life by Dacher Keltner - 2009
153 HAL
Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way above Average by Joseph T. Hallinan 2009
153 TAV
Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris - 2007
153 VAN
Blind Spots: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things by Madeleine L. Van Hecke - 2007
153.1534 PIN
DRiVE: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink - 2009
153.42 KAP
Bozo Sapiens: Why to Err Is Human by Michael Kaplan - 2009
153.752 ELL
You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon but Get Lost in the Mall by Colin Ellard - 2009
155.3 PIN
Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?: Bodies, Behavior and Brains: The Science behind Sex, Love, and Attraction by J. Pincott - 2008
155.7 MIL
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire: Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What We Do by Alan S. Miller - 2007
155.92 BRA
Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori Brafman - 2008
158.1 RUF
Stuck: Why We Can’t (or Won’t) Move On by Anneli S. Rufus - 2008
303.49 BAR
Bursts: The Hidden Pattern behind Everything We Do by Albert-László Barabási – 2010
612.82 AAM
Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life by Sandra Aamodt - 2008
629.283 VAN
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says about Us) by Tom Vanderbilt - 2008
658.834 LIN
Buy•ology: Truth and Lies about Why We Buy by Martin Lindstrom - 2008
Emotions
152.42
How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like by Paul Bloom - 2010
152.42 WAL
The Pleasure Instinct: Why We Crave Adventure, Chocolate, Pheromones, and Music by Gene Wallenstein - 2009
152.46 GAR
The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn’t—and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger by Dan Gardner - 2008
155.92 CAC
Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection by John T. Cacioppo - 2008
158 GIL
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Todd Gilbert - 2006
Intuition and Belief
133 SHE
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer - 2002
153.4 BUR
On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not by Robert Alan Burton - 2008
153.4 HOO
SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable by Bruce Hood - 2008
153.44 GIG
Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer - 2007
215 HAG
Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality by Barbara Bradley Hagerty - 2009
Decisions, Decisions
153.83 LEH
How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer - 2009
153.83 SHO
Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions by Zachary Shore - 2008
153.83 TAS
The Impulse Factor: Why Some of Us Play It Safe and Others Risk It All by Nick Tasler - 2008
330 ARI
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely - 2008
Survival Skills
153.9 BEI
Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal about Getting It Right When You Have To by Sian Beilock - 2010
155.9 RIP
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why by Amanda Ripley - 2008
155.9 SUL
Clutch: Why Some People Excel under Pressure and Others Don’t by Paul Sullivan – 2010
613.69 SHE
The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science That Could Save Your Life by Ben Sherwood - 2009
Thinking and Knowing
121.6 RIN
When Good Thinking Goes Bad: How Your Brain Can Have a Mind of Its Own by Todd C. Riniolo - 2008
133.8 MAY
Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind by Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer - 2007
150 FIN
A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives by Cordelia Fine - 2006
153 KLI
The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory by Torkel Klingberg - 2009
153.42 KID
Don’t Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking by Thomas E. Kida - 2006
In the Company of Others
150.72 WIS
Quirkology: How We Discover the Big Truths in Small Things by Richard Wiseman - 2007
302.24 NIE
The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors by Hal Niedzviecki - 2009
303.38 SUR
The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki - 2005
339 HAR
The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World by Tim Harford - 2008
519.2 MLO
The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow - 2008
599.938 CLE
Upgrade Me: Our Amazing Journey to Human 2.0 by Brian Clegg - 2008
612.82 GAZ
Human: The Science behind What Makes Us Unique by Michael S. Gazzaniga - 2008
Prepared by Marty Krause, February 2011 |
