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Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity by Brian Hare Review + Free Download | EPUB, MOBI
0Hare and Woods show friendliness left marks on our bones, then prescribe contact as a cure with evidence that only shows it working as prevention.
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Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results by Shane Parrish Review + Free Download | EPUB, MOBI
0Parrish builds a careful system for distrusting yourself, then hands the question he calls most important back to the self he spent four parts discrediting.
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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Eric Jorgenson Review + Free Download | EPUB, MOBI
0Ravikant says his maxims are useless without the experience behind them; Jorgenson then prints three hundred pages of maxims and doesn’t notice.
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The Great Mental Models, Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts by Shane Parrish Review + Free Download | EPUB, MOBI
0Parrish’s nine thinking tools hold up alone, but a book promising a latticework never once shows two of its models working the same problem.
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2084 and the AI Revolution, Updated and Expanded Edition: How Artificial Intelligence Informs Our Future by John C. Lennox Review + Free Download | EPUB, MOBI
0Lennox reports AI’s harms with force, then hands them to a prophecy that settles the outcome, quietly draining urgency from his own warnings.
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Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are by Rebecca Boyle Review + Free Download | EPUB, MOBI
0Boyle grants the Moon an agency her own evidence keeps demoting; her book is truest where the Moon is not our maker but our mirror.
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North Woods: A Novel by Daniel Mason Review + Free Download | EPUB, MOBI
0Mason’s four-century tour of one New England house preaches that loss is only change — yet its lingering ghosts confess the heart refuses that consolation.
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How To Hold a Cockroach: A book for those who are free and don’t know it by Matthew Maxwell Review + Free Download | EPUB, MOBI
0A fable diagnosing suffering as a story repeated into fact, then curing it by that same repetition — returning the certainty it meant to dissolve.
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Inner Excellence: Train Your Mind for Extraordinary Performance and the Best Possible Life by Jim Murphy Review + Free Download | EPUB, MOBI
0Inner Excellence is sold as universal performance training; its actual mechanism is Christian theology that Murphy foregrounds throughout and then disowns in the FAQ.
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Strong Ground: The Lessons of Daring Leadership, the Tenacity of Paradox, and the Wisdom of the Human Spirit by Brené Brown Review + Free Download | EPUB, MOBI
0Brown preaches negative capability and patient tolerance of paradox, then resolves every tension into a named framework within the paragraph that raised it.
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The Greatest Sentence Ever Written by Walter Isaacson Review + Free Download | EPUB, MOBI
0Isaacson’s word-by-word reading of Jefferson’s sentence thins precisely at “pursuit of happiness,” then expands into a civic homily about concepts the sentence never contains.
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Built to Move: The Ten Essential Habits to Help You Move Freely and Live Fully by Kelly Starrett Review + Free Download | EPUB, MOBI
0Sensible move-more advice dressed in clinical “Vital Signs” language it cannot support — and a “no exercise” promise the book’s own afterword quietly takes back.
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Believing Is Seeing: A Physicist Explains How Science Shattered His Atheism and Revealed the Necessity of Faith by Michael Guillen PhD Review + Free Download | EPUB, MOBI
0Guillen argues science and Christian belief share one kind of faith; his own test for it quietly separates the two rather than joining them.
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Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future by Yung Pueblo Review + Free Download | EPUB, MOBI
0Yung Pueblo argues healed minds will heal society, yet his own parents’ story shows material security producing inner calm — the book’s causal arrow runs backward.
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith Review + Free Download | EPUB, MOBI
0Smith condemns Confederate fantasy but is moved by Gorée’s, exposing that his fact-versus-nostalgia line is drawn by sympathy, not by facts.
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A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters by Andrew H. Knoll Review + Free Download | EPUB, MOBI
0Knoll’s deep-time mastery is real, but seven chapters of planetary calm leave the urgent finale arguing against the perspective the book so carefully built.
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Raising Mentally Strong Kids: How to Combine the Power of Neuroscience with Love and Logic to Grow Confident, Kind, Responsible, and Resilient Children and Young Adults by Daniel G. Amen, MD Review + Free Download | EPUB, MOBI
0Amen and Fay’s brain-imaging apparatus mostly credentials a sound Love and Logic parenting method; the neuroscience markets the advice more than it changes it.
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Weightless: A Doctor’s Guide to GLP-1 Medications, Sustainable Weight Loss, and the Health You Deserve by Rocio Salas-Whalen MD Review + Free Download | EPUB, MOBI
0Salas-Whalen absolves patients of willpower, then asks for it back in maintenance, reframing lifelong, costly medication as a freedom the book can’t fully guarantee.
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Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind by Gad Saad Review + Free Download | EPUB, MOBI
0Saad arms readers with Popper, trade-offs, and distrust of anecdote, then builds his case by breaking every rule—a polemic undone by its own standards.
